Water Dragons and Sea Devils

[PeteMurray]

I really like the black. You might try painting officers in red with black trim.  I can suggest this since you can paint both red and black and not have it look like crap.  

[KeyanSark]

Black indeed!!! Looks awesome and makes the guys more sinister and look like a well organized gang.

[Malamute]

They definately look like  a very mean bunch painted that way

[Zoogla]

black, black, black.

 :mrgreen:

Z.

[Westfalia Chris]

Yes, black is very cool, and as Keyan wrote, you could then use them as members of a Triad, as well!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

day two

[TJSKI]

Prof,

Those look awsome   , the black scheme does give them more of an Evil feel to them. now what are you going to do for the Captain??? Have you found a good figure yet??

Keep up the work...

TJSKI

[warrenpeace]

I was going to cast a dissenting vote against black because I think Chinese figures represent a great opportunity to paint in blazing colors.  However, it's too late now, and these figures are fantastically well painted as a mean lot of evil villans.  I've got to bow to that.

[Grimm]

Alex you are a Ace !!! The the black scheme in amazing !!!!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Those look awsome   , the black scheme does give them more of an Evil feel to them. now what are you going to do for the Captain??? Have you found a good figure yet??

the captain...that's the problem...all the Foundry chineses are just regular ones...here some other minis, Brigade and Pulp, all three have moustaches, I think that's important for a chinese captain. The old guy in the middle could be a sort of a chinese crime mastermind leading pirates. Otherwise I like a lot the one on the left, the right one looks sinister but his hat isn't really suitable to a captain, rather for a peasant

What do you think? Other mini suggestions are welcome!

[Hammers]

[quote="Prof.WitchheimerWhat do you think? Other mini suggestions are welcome![/quote]

Excellent color choice, 'heimer. The small embroideries really makes the miniatures.

As for captains I like the old fart you picked up but I also, for a Corto Maltese theme, have this suggestion:

The widow to the right would make an excellent femme fatal captain, I think.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

thought about those, too. But unfortunately they're too modern for my purposes. I think I'm going to paint both, the old chap and the Brigade one (on the left).

And I'm thinking about to give them chap on the right a standard. Any ideas how does a chinese pirate banner look ?

[PeteMurray]

I think you have a good choice of captains there.

If I remember properly, Chinese pirate kings really were older, savvier pirates who left the actual dirty work of raiding to their younger lieutenants. The Chinese pirates were less demanding on the charisma of the captain than their Caribbean and European counterparts. Family ties were pretty strong as well, and there is less incentive to knock off Great Uncle Wang just because you'd like to be in charge now.

No idea what a Chinese standard would look like. The Chinese are big on flags, though, so you could make it just about anything. My personal vote would be a flag for prosperity: A large carp, the Chinese characters for 168, and some suitable trigram from the I Ching.

[artshiraz]

Greetings

And I'm thinking about to give them chap on the right a standard. Any ideas how does a chinese pirate banner look ?

Hum.. perhaps a variation of a warflag? This one is the 'official'  Chinese one from 1872 I think.
The 'Principles of War' website does offer a "Boxer Rebellion Banner and Posters" set I guess its 15mm though. Perhaps it can be expanded to 28mm. The set price is 0,80GBP

I also found a few at Warflag.com.  I especially like Plate number 3

Hope that helps a bit

[Lowtardog]

These chinese are so versatile, (lovely paint job too ), form your figures they can be Tongs/Triads, pirates, boxers, bandits

with the addition of a Kurt Russell figure -big trouble in little china

You can use them to fight gangsters and Victorians (I plan on this once my Gangs of Newyork are done/come out of the paint box).

Dont forget the Tong gang from Westwind range they arent too bad and the Brigade ones form the Gangs range are OK too. :mrgreen: