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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Gutbukkit on September 11, 2014, 03:43:50 PM
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Hi Folks,
This is a project I've been meaning to start for a very very long time. Pirates are a fascination of mine, and have been since a kid as I'm sure they were for a lot of you here. I have pirate themed tattoos and I do pirate reenactment as Mr Edward Teach. So this project is long overdue. Thanks to the recent Northstar releases and rather too much playing Assassins Creed: Black Flag I have finally started.
To start off I have painted up some of the fantastic Games of War resin terrain. A town house and some street tiles. My aim is to build a portion of aN established Spanish settlement on one of the Caribbean Islands, along with a port.
I will use these resin buildings for the most part as I really like them but may make some along the way. Tomorrow I plan to start painting Blackbeard's crew and build a ship.
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So far so good fella - we can encourage each other on!
You scratching your ship then?
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So far so good fella - we can encourage each other on!
You scratching your ship then?
Cheers Digits. Encouragement and inspiration are definitely what I need to keep this going as I'm easily distracted by other projects of mine. Your own thread will definitely help me with inspiration.
I'm going to attempt building the ship, with foam board and lots of balsa. We'll see how that turns out tomorrow. I would eventually love to get some of those Ainsty ships though, but funds don't allow at the moment.
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Another pirate table :-* :-* :-*
Looking good so far
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Thanks. Yours is another great pirate project I'm keeping a very close eye on.
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Great start, looking forward to seeing this develop. :)
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Looking good so far.
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Great start, looking forward to seeing this develop. :)
I am peering over his shoulder for a nose too.
:D
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Cheers fellas.
More resin is on it's way and I've made a start on the ship. I've loosely based it on the Gary Chalk ship but without using the printed templates, instead making my own templates and experimenting and changing things along the way. Not the best way to do it but I hate making plans for builds. I'd rather they formed organically. Hopefully I'll have something to show later on.
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Looking great......my own project stalled......... >:(
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Looking great......my own project stalled......... >:(
Thanks. Shame your project stalled, I was looking forward to seeing the dwelling finished that you were building. I imagine though, that laying those tiles was as tedious as putting coffee stirrer planks on my old west saloon. That part stalled that project for a few months but I came back to it eventually.
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Great stuff! I am just embarking on a bit of a pirate project myself after my good lady got me a gang for On The Seven Seas for my birthday. I will follow this thread with interest!
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Great stuff! I am just embarking on a bit of a pirate project myself after my good lady got me a gang for On The Seven Seas for my birthday. I will follow this thread with interest!
Excellent! I shall keep a weather eye on this forum for your project as well :)
Update: Ship WIP
Today I made some progress on the main shape of the ship's hull, using 5mm foam board. As said above I kind made it up as I went along. Tomorrow I shall plank the decks and the ships sides.
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Update: today's progress on the ship. Decks are now a planked out with balsa and part of the ship's larboard side glued and pinned. Hoping the cheap PVA holds, ideally I'd use a stronger glue but it's all I had to hand.
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So far so great. Will you be strengthening the sides with a few raised planks?
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Yeah, there'll be vertical bits and detailing to make it look fancier and make it a bit stronger.
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I have a couple of the Games of War buildings and they are nice.Alan is working on more ships too for the range.Need to dig mine out and get some paint onto them.
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I have a couple of the Games of War buildings and they are nice.Alan is working on more ships too for the range.Need to dig mine out and get some paint onto them.
That's great news. I missed out on the Sea Prince and the other bigger one they did, I have a Sea Dog though, that I've started to paint.
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Yesterday I painted up Mr Edward Teach from the Blackbeard Crew from North Star. I decided to paint him as close as possible in the colours of my own kit that I wear at pirate shenanigans and when I'm dressed as Blackbeard. He's a fantastic miniature and was a joy to paint, nice detail without being overly complicated. My photography lets the paint job down but I'm happy with how he turned out overall.
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And here's me as a pirate. I've not got my beard in plaits here or burning slow match under my hat which I usually would have.
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That's the gang I have. He is a great figure and you've done a great job!
Excellent outfit, by the way. Needs more pistols! ;)
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That's the gang I have. He is a great figure and you've done a great job!
Excellent outfit, by the way. Needs more pistols! ;)
Thanks very much. I have more pistols I just didn't wear them all for this particular show (I wasn't deliberately doing Blackbeard), a mate of mine from my viking group is custom making me a harness to accommodate six pistols and two swords, Blackbeard's typical armament.
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Damed fine outfit actually. You sure you will be able to carry 6 pistols though.....they ain't exactly light!
I've only done pirates a few times. I'm just sticking to shirt and Monmouth cap. Would be nice to get a pistol though. Saying that, I do however use a rather nice littlecote dragon picket gun!
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The rig I'm having made differs to the six across the breast type harness usually seen on Blackbeard. That type doesn't really work and the baldric keeps turning around the body. The kind I'm having made has two pistols either side at the front and 1 each side at the back, so it'll be two baldrics basically. The pistols will hang at the hip. The pistols I have are only replicas and much much lighter than the blank firers I was using at this show. Definitely wouldn't want to carry six of them!
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I own a few different black powder weapons. This is the one I use pirating though. This image is if a part of the littlecote collection. Albion made me a copy, including the carving. It weighs more than any of my full length muskets but sounds like a small canon. Technically at 9 bore it's a blunderbuss. Great at close range I can imagine, a real pirate gun me thinks.
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Back to the painting...good job. As you know just painted him myself.....can't help notice there is something of Yosemite Sam about his hat though! Lol
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Nice. That'd clear a deck lovely I imagine. Very devastating at close quarters.
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Yeah it's a peach !
Used it a few years ago at the Birmingham NIA (we were a part of a tattoo) and it was damned loud and shot flames 25 foot down the arena. Do you guys use black powder?
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My crew are just starting out with the pirate thing really (we're viking and Saxons usually) so we were using blank firers as were most of the other pirates (my mate borrowed a blunderbuss which he got very attached to). The redcoats we were fighting had black powder. One day I'd love to have my own black powder pistol(s).
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Me too. Everything I own falls under my shotgun licence. Pistols need a firearms licence.....next on the shopping list me thinks ;)