The Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts Painting Club (COMPLETED AND CLOSED)

[Captain Blood]

No 27. The Man with the 'box'??

Oppo of the Trabanten No 24 and part of Elspeth Von Trinkenessen's command group.

What a great figure. Love that moustache 
Artizan again, do you think? He has the look of a Mike Owen sculpt...

Great work on the preacher and the reiver too, gentlemen... We're getting all sorts in this club 

[OSHIROmodels]

Last one from me for a little while.

#028 Royalist dragoon, ECW - Bicorne Miniatures




cheers

James

[Romark]

No.29 , conquistador artilleryman,Eureaka miniature.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

#30 - Anne Bonny - a renowned female Caribbean pirate.

A lovely Foundry miniature from the Cutthroats range.

In October 1720, [Calico Jack] Rackham and his crew were attacked by a "King's ship", a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. Most of Rackham's pirates put up little resistance as many of them were too drunk to fight. However, [Mary] Read and [Anne] Bonny fought fiercely and managed to hold off Barnet's troops for a short time. Rackham and his crew were taken to Jamaica, where they were convicted and sentenced by Governor Lawes to be hanged. According to Johnson, Bonny's last words to the imprisoned Rackham were: "Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog."


After being sentenced, Read and Bonny both "pleaded their bellies": asking for mercy because they were pregnant. In accordance with English common law, both women received a temporary stay of execution until they gave birth. (Source – Wikipedia)




I think Anne liked her drink so I had to give her rosy red cheeks and a big red conk!    Enjoying all the entries so far, great painting by everybody.

[Captain Blood]

You have an impressive medal ribbon of LAF painting clubs there, Mad Lord Snapcase! (Is that the full set?)
Looks like Anne has been marooned.
Quite a different looking girl from the Anne Bonny in Black Sails  

Very nice Eureka conquistador there, Keith


And next...

#031 Crisis 2012 miniature by Paul Hicks for the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp.
(Thanks Johan and WillieB!)

The figure represents Peter Minuit, a Walloon from Wesel - then in the Duchy of Cleves, now part of Germany.
Mynheer ‘Midnight’ served the Dutch West India Company as Director of the New Netherlands in North America, and reputedly bought Manhattan Island from the Canarsee Indians for 60 Guilders (US$24) in 1626.
(Seyseys, chief of the Canarsees, was only too happy to accept valuable merchandise for an island that was actually mostly controlled by a different tribe, the Weckquaesgeeks).

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Oooh... what a great figure and the paintwork is so lovely well done, Richard!

Ooo, I like that 

What did you use for the sea backdrop?

cheers

James

James, it's the sea blanket from GW Dreadfleet, very useful piece

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

You have an impressive medal ribbon of LAF painting clubs there, Mad Lord Snapcase! (Is that the full set?)

No, I missed the Ancients Painting Club and also the Medieval Painting Order. I wonder if anyone has entered a miniature in every club?

Looks like Anne has been marooned

Probably been dumped by Calico Jack on a desert island somewhere!    She'll be alright as long as they left some grog behind for her! She prefers a liquid diet!

I love Peter Minuit, superb painting. Is that the receipt for Manhattan Island he's holding in his hand?

[Prof.Witchheimer]

#032 Bohemian officer, TYW (Horcata Miniatures)

[The Gray Ghost]

an alter ego of mine
#033 Sir Milton Keynes

Foundry pirate

[Orctrader]

Wow, some great figures appearing.

[Hu Rhu]

# 34 Italian Wars Captain (Perry Miniatures)

[OSHIROmodels]

Some cracking entries chaps 

Cheers for the reply Alex, it does look rather useful.

cheers

James

[Von Trinkenessen]

35 The Spaniard- GW - Adviser to Von Trinkenessen's spanish ally Don Francisco de Mendoza

[Malamute]

Great stuff so far chaps. I'd better get mine finished this weekend, I can't see this club lasting much longer than another week before hitting the 100.

[Admiral Benbow]

Great painting all around! Lovely paintjob on an impressive figure, Richard. And I think I need some of those Horcata minis for myself - very nice, Alex!

No, I missed the Ancients Painting Club and also the Medieval Painting Order. I wonder if anyone has entered a miniature in every club?

I think I managed to get involved in all the clubs up till now ...