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Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Pirates of the Dread Sea
« on: January 10, 2019, 01:15:05 PM »
Heyhey, hope everybody had a nice start into 2019.

I'm currently working on some figures from Dead Earth Games' figure range to accompany their recently kickstartered Pirates of the Dread Sea skirmish game.

Here's a first WIP shot of some Dwarves:




Hope you like them so far!

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2019, 02:37:15 PM »
certainly do - looks an interestin range I hadn't heard of too.

Offline gibby64

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2019, 04:55:35 PM »
I love the cook... great looking characters.
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Offline GDonk

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2019, 06:51:47 PM »
Very nice  :-*- off to have a look at that range  :)

Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2019, 05:09:45 PM »
@Bloggard: Do check it out. I'll paint each of the released figures (Elf, Orc and two Mermaids coming up as well).

@gibby64: Cheers, I'll pass the praise of the sculpts on. ;)

@GDonk: :D Thanks!


Another WIP shot:


Slowly slogging through these figures. But tonight I'm allowed to go out and play a game. That'll be fun.

Offline OSHIROmodels

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2019, 05:15:09 PM »
Lovely work mate  :-*
cheers

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Offline Malamute

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2019, 05:40:21 PM »
They are great figures! :-*
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Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2019, 12:32:37 AM »
@OSHIROmodels: Thanks very much!

@Malamute: I'm sure to pass it on to the people who made them come to be. :D

Right, I'm back. Currently I'm working on some promo figures for Dead Earth Games (again!). These is the initial release wave of miniatures from their first kickstarter for the Fantasy pirate skirmish game Pirates of the Dread Sea.


They're still WIP at this point. The Dwarves are almost done now, the Elf is done, the Mermaids require a bit more work.



There's an Orc as well; I'll paint him once everything else is finished.

Hope you like the figures so far! KS pledges will be shipped over the next weeks, the figures will be available through DEG's online store in about 2 weeks. And there's another KS in the pipeline for more human pirates and more. I think that'll start in February.

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2019, 01:54:36 PM »
top stuff in all respects.

Offline Papierschnitzel

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2019, 04:26:36 PM »
Awesome sculpt and paint job!

Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2019, 11:27:20 AM »
@Bloggard: Thanks very much! :)

@Papierschnitzel: Cheers! I'm just the paintmonkey, but I'll pass the compliments on.

Righty, yesterday the last two figures of the first batch of Pirates of the Dread Sea minis finally arrived. To help get over time time it would take me to get these done I threw together some improvised terrain for some scenic shots of the existing minis:



Problem is that I own zero maritime terrain, apart from that little rowing boat. So I had to improvise. First I laid out my Dreadfleet sea blanket and a land mat, then I cobbled together a simple landing stage and looked for some other bits and pieces to have in the scene.



Of course the shoreline is always a tricky thing to depict on a tabletop unless you have specific scenic item for that. So I boldly went with slightly exaggerated ocean spray. Quick, easy, improvised. And the minis are meant to be the focus of things anyway. ;)




An Elven pirate, mesmerised by mermaids.


Mesmerized-face close-up.










Right, I hope you like the minis! Currently working on getting the last two done swiftly.

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2019, 11:49:49 AM »
well, not just a fantastic painter, but can knock-out publication-worthy (and better than many one sees in this niche market) photos at the drop of a hat...

thought it was the dreadfleet 'mat' - which has worked out a treat.

Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2019, 12:15:19 PM »
@Bloggard: Cheers. Over the past year I've been really trying to improve on my scenic shots and little diorama photos of minis rather than my purist approach of white-background. This also resulted in the funny thing that when ever I got time to work on my own stuff for a change I now tend to make terrain pieces (and mostly small bits of scatter terrain) instead of painting my own figures.

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2019, 03:22:04 PM »
is it available light (please don't tell me it is!  lol) or a 'proper' lighting set-up?

just looks so 'natural' and yet balanced at the same time.

Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Re: Pirates of the Dread Sea
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2019, 08:02:59 PM »
Entirely improper set-up. :D It's basically my dining table light (I shot the photos at night) and my camera's flash at a weird angle.