A sailor a day...

[Vanvlak]

The cat is still my favourite, but they're all great Hammers. Still, I think it's not fair that Mr. Börje Börjesson, able seaman, of Västervik, has no background. So, if you will allow me....

Börje ‘Buran’ Börjesson enrolled at the age of fourteen as a malevolent cabin boy on a tramp steamer on which he spent most of the following decade. He disappeared with the steamer on a routine trip to Archangel. Crossing Russia in the middle of the civil war did little to improve his character. Rumoured to have amassed a fortune as commander of a White armoured train, he was happy to return to sea five years later as able seaman on a Bosphorus tender before moving on. Börjesson  is happiest in cold weather, snow, and the thick of a fight when he is not drawing elaborate fake maps claiming to show the location of his fortune.

[Hammers]

The cat is still my favourite, but they're all great Hammers. Still, I think it's not fair that Mr. Börje Börjesson, able seaman, of Västervik, has no background. So, if you will allow me....

Börje ‘Buran’ Börjesson enrolled at the age of fourteen as a malevolent cabin boy on a tramp steamer on which he spent most of the following decade. He disappeared with the steamer on a routine trip to Archangel. Crossing Russia in the middle of the civil war did little to improve his character. Rumoured to have amassed a fortune as commander of a White armoured train, he was happy to return to sea five years later as able seaman on a Bosphorus tender before moving on. Börjesson  is happiest in cold weather, snow, and the thick of a fight when he is not drawing elaborate fake maps claiming to show the location of his fortune.

Lovely! Thanks Vanvlak! I had something else in mind (Västervik was a hot spot for a marxist uprising in 1918) but I will keep this as is.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Anyway, todays images: Purser Jack. On popular request I sexed the setting up a bit with some gravel, sand and a dingy.

You're just the best, love that painting, that setting and that fluff, can't wait for the next one.

[Arcticman]

::  Love the back stories. Specially this latest. That's one mean and yet effective purser (I think I  have met his descendant).
Your detailing and all the bits and pieces are excellent.
Is the dingy home made or is it a commercial product?
Great weahtering effect on it by the way.
 

[Hammers]

The dingy is a Zvezda 1/72 medeival life boat. Would be quite large in RL but works quite well in this scale as a dingy.

EDIT:  :roll: I just went back to edit the fluff on Purser Jack as it was quite unreadable. I am a terribly sloppy editing my texts.

[Gluteus Maximus]

The blurbs are great. They really add something extra to the pics and IMO are just the right length, so please keep them as they are.

The last "mini-diorama" was very well done - so again, please continue with this idea if possible  

[Evilcartoonist]

Hammer- I've been away from the workbench threads for a bit: Holy cow! What awesome progress you're making. Your sailors are great, and I love that ship you're building.

I'm thinking of building another ship, but I'll hold off and watch yours come along first and see what I can learn

What source(s) will you use for the ship's fittings and details?

Oh, and Boomin' Donnan is my favorite sailor so far; gotta love plaid pants and dynamite. :mrgreen:

[Malamute]

I go away for the weekend, come back and see all these new figures. Beautiful stuff. :love:      

[Hammers]

I am lagging behind a bit with thepresentation of the crew, bu here's another one:

Alojzy the Pole, with a Smith&Wesson M1917 and a fireaxe:



Alojzy is the younger son of a prominent polish industrialist in the free city of Danzig. While his father built his fortune on an extensive eel fishing and jellied eel canning operation, the son did his uttermost to spend it n cars, parties and women. After Alojzy having impregnated not only one but three daughters of important Danziger burghers, the father used his contacts to discretely send the boy to sea. Alojzy took to his new environment with surprising ease. He is however still an enthusiastic patron of various port establishments of ill repute.

The fire axe is custome made from sheet brass and rod plus solder.

[Malamute]

Very nice. nice axe too

[Aaron]

Yup, pan Alojzy looks great! Nice job on the black.

[TadPortly]

Daft question, but who manufactures the figures?

[PeteMurray]

Daft question, but who manufactures the figures?

Brigade Games.

Hammershield, they're fantastic. I particularly like Purser Jack, but all of your very small scratchbuilds of brass and wire have me tremendously impressed.

Hammershield, forge-man to the elves
The wire-smith, the brass-beater

[Hammers]

Most obliged.

Next man:

Tidung the Bugis, deck hand.



If one is to believe sailors' tales Tidung is a pirate. If one is to believe ones eyes they concurr. The man carries every trait one would attibute to a South China Sea buccaneer. The tales tell the story of how Tidung once was part of a failed pirate attack on a tramper on its way from Makassar to Darwin. The young Tidung was knocked unconscious, chained in the hold and brought along the journey while his brethern of the coast fled back to their lairs on the Sulawesi coast. Due to pox induced manfall on board the tramper Tidung was Shanghaied in to service and was quickly assimilated into the already mixed crew. Tidung now speaks an almost incomprehensible pidgin, generoulsy trufféed with profanities in Dutch, French, German, Latin, Swedish, Maltese, Russian, Portugese, Sinhala and Esperanto, which he for some reason manages to get across with near perfect enounciation. While he has kept much of the traditional warrior ethos of his people, there no longer anything traditional about his choice of arms: the man delights in the use of small arms and grenades.

[Ironworker]

I picked up a pack of tramp steamer sailors in my last pulp order.  This thread is making me want to drop all my other projects, order more sailors, and build a boat.  

Love the figs and the backgrounds.