Author Topic: Teensy tiny pirates, yarrrr! P17. Another ship, by thunder! (Read 58956 times)

Eric the Shed · « **Reply #45 on:** 13 November 2013, 08:35:22 AM »

Amazon - its a toy...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Safari-277829-Giant-Animal-Figure/dp/B000H6FI4U/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1384331691&sr=8-6&keywords=Squid

Mason · « **Reply #46 on:** 13 November 2013, 08:45:32 AM »

Cheers, Giles.

I think that will make the basis for an excellent Watcher in the Water

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcher_in_the_Water

Mason · « **Reply #47 on:** 13 November 2013, 08:47:12 AM »

Sorry for derailing the thread again, Richard.

Back to the lovely likkal pirates.....

Quote from: Captain Blood on 11 November 2013, 10:04:06 AM

And with a (tall!) 28mm Black Scorpion pirate for scale...

(I still think that you are mad, though....).

Captain Blood · « **Reply #48 on:** 13 November 2013, 09:20:36 AM »

Quote from: Mason on 13 November 2013, 08:47:12 AM

Sorry for derailing the thread again, Richard.

No problem Paul

Quote from: jamii on 13 November 2013, 07:47:34 AM

i like the little cannons.

what would you use for the little piles of cannon balls.

Tiny ball bearings maybe?

I've made piles of cannon balls from Milliput or you could use Green Stuff. Very easy to do, and doesn't take very long.

There again, whilst gunners may have made neat pyramids of cannon balls on the battlefield, I can't imagine thy'd have done this on board sailing ships - they would surely have rolled about all over the place... I imagine cannon balls on ships must have been stored in barrels or chests.

former user · « **Reply #49 on:** 13 November 2013, 09:32:13 AM »

Indeed

I remember in the Patrick O'Brian books some fuss was made about crew who had to fetch the ammo from the armoury. I think there is even a specialization for that duty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_monkey

not my field of knowledge these things, but I can imagine it would include the explosive shot as well?

Eric the Shed · « **Reply #50 on:** 13 November 2013, 02:58:12 PM »

cannon balls were stored on wooden trays - imagine a movement tray strip with the base

jamii · « **Reply #51 on:** 13 November 2013, 11:27:35 PM »

POWDER MONKEY!

thats what you need, a little powder monkey fetching ammunition.

"Its a fine gentleman you're going to make, Jim."

jamii · « **Reply #52 on:** 13 November 2013, 11:31:40 PM »

"What a splendid thing it is to be young and have ten toes. "

Arrrr!

Sorry, couldnt help myself.

FifteensAway · « **Reply #53 on:** 16 November 2013, 07:04:29 AM »

What, ho?! A stalwart of LAF going into a smaller scale!

And even smaller than my chosen scale of 15 mm. Shocking, good sirs, shocking. And delightful.

Damas · « **Reply #54 on:** 16 November 2013, 10:10:27 AM »

The rack of cannon balls ready for action is called a monkey. They would be made of two rods of brass with ends and the balls racked along them. When in extremely cold climates, they could contract to the point that they would spill the balls onto the deck, hence "freezing the balls off a brass monkey."

Captain Blood · « **Reply #55 on:** 16 November 2013, 11:05:51 AM »

Quote from: jamii on 13 November 2013, 11:27:35 PM

POWDER MONKEY!

thats what you need, a little powder monkey fetching ammunition.

Hmmm. So a small boy in 10mm scale would be what, about 6mm?
Off to look at 6mm figures from 1675 - 1700 then!

Quote from: Damas on 16 November 2013, 10:10:27 AM

The rack of cannon balls ready for action is called a monkey. They would be made of two rods of brass with ends and the balls racked along them. When in extremely cold climates, they could contract to the point that they would spill the balls onto the deck, hence "freezing the balls off a brass monkey."

Knowledgeable swine. That, Kev, is a good one... (although having just googled it, there is quite a popular alternative theory... )

jamii · « **Reply #56 on:** 20 November 2013, 01:42:15 AM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on 16 November 2013, 11:05:51 AM

Hmmm. So a small boy in 10mm scale would be what, about 6mm?
Off to look at 6mm figures from 1675 - 1700 then!

Knowledgeable swine. That, Kev, is a good one... (although having just googled it, there is quite a popular alternative theory... )

6mm...Aaaaaag, that might be a bit beyond my eyesight.

But all joking aside, those are some awesome minis, and an even awesomer (is that even a word) paintjob. I dont know if i could paint something that small, and do a good job. I think thats a bit beyond my skill level.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 April 2025, 04:43:28 PM »

Well, a mere 12 years on (is that a threadomancy record?

), I'm back on this project.
I've had a few false starts with it over the intervening years, but I think the time has finally come to bring it to fruition. So watch this space over the next few weeks / months.

It is, of course, ridiculous at my advanced age to start painting 10mm figures. But even though the teeny tiny figures are a wee bit sketchy in some cases, they're still fun and interesting to paint and to create a setting and game with.

I'm using all Pendraken figures - they only do one pack of actual pirates (which are even tinier and sketchier than the rest of their ranges for some reason), but I'm using figures drawn from all their ranges, from ECW through to AWI, on the basis that a/ nobody's going to be able to tell from more than six inches away, and b/ 'Pirates' as a cinematic / gaming genre, is pretty fast and loose in terms of era. Almost anything from 1650 - 1780 will pass muster, especially when all mixed up together and painted in lairy colours.

The project will encompass pirates, civilians, colonial forces, terrain boards, ships, boats, islands, sea and a pirate town! I'll chart progress here.

(Unless I go blind first).

Anyway, here are the pirate crews thus far - with many more on the way and nearing shore

I'm adopting a 3:2:1 basing approach, and will probably end up using The Pikeman's Lament (or some variant of it) by way of rules.

The guns were modelled (12 years ago!) by Silent Invader. I hope and believe he has some more for me!