More Piraty Goodness (First pirate house and grog stand painted!)......

[Aaron]

I'll never look at calamari the same way again. Really beautiful paint job too!

[Powered Armored Stooge]

You do know what you need now. ROCK LOBSTER!

[Andym]

Thanks very much guys. What's a rock lobster? I think after the ships finished I really need to get back to doing stuff for our groups game for BLAM.

[FramFramson]

Thanks very much guys. What's a rock lobster?

[Powered Armored Stooge]

 

[zizi666]

As long as noone posts pics of bikini-whales... 

[phreedh]

Andy, that sea monster!  Very nice! As mentioned in Colin's thread... you're ending up in my basement too. Don't worry, there'll be plenty of people to chat with while you work on my projects. I've got special pink fluffy cuffs for Hammers:

[Andym]

Thanks again for all the nice comments guys!

Just a small update this time. I've made and painted a couple of wee boats for my crew. As well as that I'm nearly finished the big ship too. Just the mast, windows and other details to go.



As for the rock lobsters and whales suggestions, they might make good subs for the 'Battle of the Aquanauts' thread I'm planning to get back into this week. Any other ideas for fish shaped subs welcome.....

[Sangennaru]

amazing Love everything! (just maybe the grass on the bases of the pirates when in the sloop... but that's necessary

[zizi666]

amazing Love everything! (just maybe the grass on the bases of the pirates when in the sloop... but that's necessary

Beg to differ. Pirates are probably most found on ships and in harbours (occasionaly on palmy beaches) I think they would benefit more from basesg like these :


which can easily be made from balsa wood or you can buy 'em here :
http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/wood-c-3_14.html

[Aaron]

I love the painting of the woodwork on the boats. It actually looks like wood grain should at that scale. Most impressive!

[Sangennaru]

Love the concept of those bases, but i really don't like the sculpts! brillian idea, though.

[Dr. The Viking]

I love the painting of the woodwork on the boats. It actually looks like wood grain should at that scale. Most impressive!

You wouldn't happen to be using an airbrush now would you Andy?

I've just gotten hold of one but seem disturbingly unable to put it to good use...

[zizi666]

You wouldn't happen to be using an airbrush now would you Andy?
I've just gotten hold of one but seem disturbingly unable to put it to good use...

Join the club. I've only been using it to paint basecoats and large surfaces on some buildings.
I have been practicing some dot painting : a friend told me to try and spray fine dots to get the feel of the airbrush and to avoid drooling.

[Andym]

You wouldn't happen to be using an airbrush now would you Andy?

I've just gotten hold of one but seem disturbingly unable to put it to good use...

No, I'm afraid all my painting is done by brush. In this case it was one of those cheap ones you get with childrens paint sets. It's got really short rough bristles and all I've done is use a kind of dry brush technique but wipe less of the paint of before applying.

I really like those bases! I wish I had thought about that at the start! My only small quibble would be that those particular ones look more that they belong to a shipwreck because of the bits of grass, but it would have been dead easy and a lot more interesting if I had made more variety in the basing. Maybe some with cobblestones, some with balsa wood on the bases and one or two on sand.