Toni Ironsides starting to see some paint lovin..

With the distinct lack of painting that's been happening here it's been fun to sit back an make in roads on the trouble shooters starter crew box. At first I wanted to get Toni, Mouse and the Captain finished but the Mages needed to match Ironsides colours...bugger. Oh well, they need painting too so make a start.

First problem was seeing how to actually make them work as Ironsides crew but also how to incorporate them and Ironsides into the Arcanists crew I already had. With Colette and the showgirls there was a ribbon or similar on every model that I could tie them together with as parts of the same crew so used purple as the tie in colour. Works good enough to make the colourful showgirls crew stay together so I'll use the same colour here for this crew.

Ironsides was easy, she had ribbons on the ends of her gloves so they became purple. The mages had no matching items except the capes which at first was an option but I decided this would be too much purple.....so in the end I decided to use the hair of the Mages and the head without any hair it has a big swooping magical thing happening that can be purple. Problem solved.

Well they are mostly done... I don't have any spray sealer left so need to get some more to finish these of. I also want to try water effects on Ironsides base and the swooping Mages base so need to find some water epoxy. Once the matt sealer is on I'll add some static grass and the water effects then they will be finished...until then, here's how they look:

IRONSIDES

OXFORDIAN MAGES
TEerrible lighting reflection in one for some reason...

And then all together

While I was painting the bases I remembered to take mouse and the captain of their bases and paint them at the same time..wish I had thought a bit more as I need to make some base for my gunsmiths and they could of all been painted together