Ghost Cowboys

[Ironworker]

Well I have these figures and a powerful need for some Ghost Cowboys for my American pulp game.  I've considered several ways to paint them including painting them up as pale gray ghost with glowing greens eyes but then I came across Evilcartoonist nicely done Black and White pulp figs and I was struck with an idea.  What If I panted my ghost Cowboys like and old and faded sepiatone photo with glowing green eyes.  For some reason this strikes me as being a bit more cool than typical "ghost".  What do you think?

[Malamute]

An interesting idea, sounds like it could work, do a test one and post a picture. I am sure you will get honest feedback

[Rhoderic]

What a cool idea! Sounds like the kind of thing Hollywood should have thought of. You must do this and show off the results.

[Mr. White]

That would be a neat trick.

Personally, I'm fond of the greenish glow the army of the dead had in RotK. Easy to paint to. Prime white, green ink wash, lighter green drybrush, a few yellowish highlights, done.

I'm really eager to see your result though!

Curiously, why the need for ghost cowboys?

[Ironworker]

That would be a neat trick.

Personally, I'm fond of the greenish glow the army of the dead had in RotK. Easy to paint to. Prime white, green ink wash, lighter green drybrush, a few yellowish highlights, done.

I'm really eager to see your result though!

Curiously, why the need for ghost cowboys?

Ah Jack your a Texan and your asking me why I need ghost cowboys?  What's more Wild West than a good ghost story?  

I'll be using these for my American pulp game set in the southwest.  They are a band of cursed stagecoach robbers.

[Ironworker]

An interesting idea, sounds like it could work, do a test one and post a picture. I am sure you will get honest feedback

Ok I'll do that.

[Mr. White]

Ah Jack your a Texan and your asking me why I need ghost cowboys? What's more Wild West than a good ghost story? Smile

I'll be using these for my American pulp game set in the southwest. They are a band of cursed stagecoach robbers.

I plan on having a group myself in LotOW. I guess I didn't ask the right question. What game are you using them for? Got any details on how they'll work?

[Ironworker]

Ah Jack your a Texan and your asking me why I need ghost cowboys? What's more Wild West than a good ghost story? Smile

I'll be using these for my American pulp game set in the southwest. They are a band of cursed stagecoach robbers.

I plan on having a group myself in LotOW. I guess I didn't ask the right question. What game are you using them for? Got any details on how they'll work?

I've been using some generic sci-fi rules with a very good system for creating just about any type of troop, character, creature, vehicle, or weapon you can think up.  Check my blog I have a line there.  Also I figure Ghost Cowboys will be a good thing to have if I ever do Wild West.

[JollyBob]

I'll be interested to see how this works out too, sounds like a cool effect.

[JollyBob]

You might be interested to see this:
http://www.thecourtjestersstudio.com/WPM/download.html#issue3

The new issue of Wargames Painting and Modelling is out (free to download) and features an article on painting minis in black and white.

Not exactly what you were planning, I know, but the technique should be more or less the same.

[Ironworker]

Well I started with a sepia paintjob over white that looked ok.  Then I gave it a wash and I wasnt liking it.  Then I drybrushed some highlights which looked ok but did'nt look ghostly enough so I decided to just drybrush some glowing green like Jack suggested.  I thought it looked pretty good but my pics look kinda crappy.

 

[grubman]

Check my blog

Tangent:

Very interesting stuff there. I'm glad I found this site; it's nice to see that there are so many people like me out there.  

It wasn't so long ago that I realized that the best parts of a RPG were the action scenes when I whipped out the minis.  It takes so long to work up a good RPG session, only to be played out in a few hours and forgotten, with half the stuff you worked on never coming to light.  

By hybriding the RPG action into a wargame, to the point of forgetting most of the fiddly RPG stuff you certainly get a lot more bang for your buck.  The un-fun prep time is cut down to practically nothing, and all the fun prep time (assembling the scenario, painting terrain and minis, and such) gets much more attention and use.  Everyone has more fun with none of those dry RPG moments that pop up.  It’s much better to have every session be memorable instead of just a few.

Just a few weeks ago this site turned me on to Song of Blades and Heroes and I finally found the system I've been wanting for decades.  It is fantasy, but much like your sci-fi game you can really do anything with it.  I was pretty impressed with LotOW, but I like SoBaH much better and actually feel it can do western better (at least for my style of play) and quicker.

[Aaron]

Looks good. Now you need some mounted ones riding the devil's herd

[Ironworker]

Oh I've got those planned as well for later and also the American Southwest version of The Headless Horseman based on  a Texas legend.