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Title: Not Quite Pirates
Post by: Major Weenie on 27 July 2008, 07:44:36 AM
I warned Rudi that upcoming posts would not be logical, or sensible.  Here's some more.
A while back the local club had a go at ZPR (Zany Pirate Rules, or LotHS)  I was encouraged to 'Paint something useful from the period' and here's what I came up with.

1.) So I tried for a Pirate captain in blue, and came up with a Prussian infantry officer.
(http://thebengalclubla.com/images/pruss02.jpg)

2.) So then I tried for a captian in red, and ended up with something that looked like the Duke of Cumberland from that 1960's BBC documentary on the Battle of Culodden
(http://thebengalclubla.com/images/brit12.jpg)

3.) And finally, I tried to paint up one of the villanous town guard from the Burt Lancaster movie 'The Crimson Pirate' and ended up with a French officer.
(http://thebengalclubla.com/images/fre27.jpg)

Perhaps more to come later.  Should I post piratical additions here, or on a new post.  Still very new to all this.
Title: Re: Not Quite Pirates
Post by: flytime on 27 July 2008, 08:26:02 AM
They would be great in my syw armies ;). Nice Paintjob!
Title: Re: Not Quite Pirates
Post by: Captain Blood on 27 July 2008, 09:49:33 AM
Nice figures. Are they from Foundry's SYW range?
Title: Re: Not Quite Pirates
Post by: Sendak on 27 July 2008, 12:38:25 PM
Interesting concept.

Great paint!

Adding a bit more dash to the period, eh?
Title: Re: Not Quite Pirates
Post by: Major Weenie on 27 July 2008, 07:57:02 PM
They are in fact from the Foundry SYW range.  At least I think so.  I bought them years ago as individual figures, back when they were 'Guernsey Foundry.'  Before they were merged with Wargames Foundry.  The early figures were, I think, designed as opposition to the Foundry Cossacks. So they were mostly second string Prussian types, Friekorps, etc.  Now I believe that the SYW line really is a full line of SYW figures.

Oh, here's a photo of some musketeers, which aren't really pirates either.
(http://thebengalclubla.com/images/pruss01.jpg)
Title: Re: Not Quite Pirates
Post by: Geudens on 27 July 2008, 08:58:31 PM
Good gracious, Dow, you are productive!!!!  :D

Rudi