Skaven Gutter Runner Units

Just after New Year a package arrived from GWUK (via James Milner, due to GW's new repressive postage) which contained six of the metal assasins. I really dislike the Night Runner plastics and am not two fussed on the Gutter Runner metals so I decided all my Gutter Runners would be the more imposing Assassin figures. Unfortunately there is only two poses - with daggers or with weeping blades and they do no lend themselves to potential conversions. To introduce some variety I decided to include the old and new Deathmaster Snitch figures as "psuedo" leaders.



I really enjoyed painting the figures and though I wish there was greater potential for variety I'm happy with how they came up.



Being skirmishers I need to make special movement trays for them. Unfortunately most manufacturers do them in ranks of five and I wanted mine for the unit of six. In the end I bought a 15 (5x3) skirmish tray from Litko and cut it longitudinally into two 3x2 and one 3x1 (useful for a small units of Wraiths).




In keeping with the rest of my army I used some of the old Lord of the Rings building walls on the edges. This means I can pick up the tray easily and move it where I need it to rain poisoned death. This is especially important for these models as they are metal figures and constant handling is not good for the paintwork.