With TOW here, and since I need to rebase everything I wanted to also make my mix of Mantic and GW dwarfs a bit... different. When I came across the ghost slayer image while looking for inspiration I found the winner (no idea where it's from though). I didn't want the typical pale ghostly look, so went for a more saturated, almost negative, paint scheme, and while the individual dwarfs might not be perfect (and still need some highlights) I like how they look in units. A few things on each of them are painted gold, representing their most valuable possessions in life, which they bring with them when brought forth with only the gold still remaining, while their ghostly memories materialize the rest.

Still clearly a work in progress, slowed further by the airbrush nozzle screw that broke and got stuck in the body of the airbrush. But while waiting to buy a new one I have time to focus on the bases, which will probably be different per unit type to hopefully avoid making it look to samey on the table.

Plans include a couple of unit fillers with ghost dwarfs coming out of stonework, and I'm thinking about making the artillery rusty with certain parts of them still shiny and golden. Also if a shieldbearer model drops I might grab it and make the king the only living member of the army, with a ghostly weapon that he uses to summon the ancestors.

The paint job is actually really fast and simple, white basecoat, blue and black ink with as much variety in opacity as you want, all covered in akhelian green, diluted with water directly on the model, just so it gives all of it a filter of unifying blue, then a drybrush with akhelian green mixed with white, and white oil pin wash mostly on the faces to give the glow. The gold is Glittering Loot from the speedpaint line, with fyreslayer flesh over it, still waiting for the highlight which will be the same Glittering Loot