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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 23, 2006, 04:07:34 PM

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 23, 2006, 04:07:34 PM

first of the cutthroats, the famous Kheir-ed-din, an Ottoman-Turkish admiral and privateer who served in the Ottoman Empire and in the Barbary Coast. Also known as Barbarossa , "Red beard". I think I should repaint his beard :) I should have first read about the guy then paint... :roll:

(http://www.witchhunter.net/blog/images/06_07_23_pirate.jpg)

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Grimm on July 23, 2006, 06:00:50 PM

Hey where is the Base ??
Prof.Witchheimer  are you disregardful  ?
 :twisted:

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 23, 2006, 06:08:23 PM

that's just a WIP pic , no worries, the guy will get his base.

btw, i'm not sure about bases, there are two possible variations on designing. Either the usual "round 5cent + sand" or one like that:
http://www.witchhunter.net/galerie_piraten_20.html

what would you prefer?

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: WitchfinderGeneral on July 23, 2006, 06:35:05 PM

My 'pirates' (and the likes) get all planks under their feet. I mount all my miniatures on plastic bases. To prevent the bases from getting too high I sculpt the planks from a thin layer of green stuff right on the base.

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Grimm on July 23, 2006, 08:29:30 PM

round 5cent +Sand or 5cent +Wood but no Mortheim style GW bases .

PLEASE  :wink:

Grimm

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 23, 2006, 09:17:04 PM

Well, i'll be thinking about  :D

next bad guy  :twisted:

(http://www.witchhunter.net/blog/images/06_07_23_scrounger.jpg)

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Neldoreth on July 25, 2006, 07:35:26 PM

Those figs are great! I love how colourful they are. Some guys around here are putting together a pirate set of rules using Two Hour Wargames' black powder battles game system and it is really tempting...

Tough call on the bases because I could see the pirates on a buried treasure diorama base, so the sand and grass works well...  But I like the wooden characterful bases.  Here is one I did for my corsair captain:

(http://www.blackbirdmedia.org/miniatures/images/armies/greens/completeCorsairCaptain1.jpg)

Neldoreth

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 25, 2006, 07:44:03 PM

wow :o  nice one! did you sculpt him?

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Neldoreth on July 25, 2006, 09:17:21 PM

I did sculpt that :)  Thanks for the positive feedback!

That was my fourth complete sculpt, and although I am not that great with proportions as of yet, I am getting the hang of working and smoothing the greenstuff :)

I actually put that base on there because I liked the idea, but also it made casting a lot easier than the slot style set up I did previously!

Neldoreth

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: WitchfinderGeneral on July 25, 2006, 11:07:19 PM

Quote from: "Neldoreth"

although I am not that great with proportions as of yet,

I see. But the hands look fine, something I still got problems with.

That's the way I'm sculpting my bases too. Looks better than gluing real wood under the mini.

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 26, 2006, 07:50:10 AM

Quote from: "Neldoreth"

That was my fourth complete sculpt, and although I am not that great with proportions as of yet, I am getting the hang of working and smoothing the greenstuff :)

yes, some proportions look a bit wrong but hey, that's just your fourth sculpt  :o  Keep up the great work, i'm looking forward to see more of your sculpts!

Title: Cutthroats
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on July 26, 2006, 07:51:26 AM

Quote from: "WitchfinderGeneral"

That's the way I'm sculpting my bases too. Looks better than gluing real wood under the mini.

I will try it, looks really good and not too difficult to do