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I'm really hoping you've got a wooden leg, a hook, a patch and a Norwegian Blue (Deceased) on your shoulder


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Hang on...Hastings? Why for art thou representing Hastings Graven?

Bloody hell, we didn't get the record. 77 pirates short. I blame rain. damn that rain.

I'm afraid I was an un-crippled pirate sans parrot monkeytroll. I'll try and fish out a picture. I'm fairly sure we took pictures. Rum, there was lots of rum. I had a paisley bandana and a musket.

Right, now dakka has got it's pants back on I will show you the pics:

Clearly, you didn't enlist enough children. We had buggy wrapped in flags and everything (@MT - I am from that neck o' the woods)
Great plague zombies, btw. Was worried they wouldn't look sticky enough, but they really work.

Disappointed weety Figured there'd be rum involved

Plague guys looking fine there...for a certain value of 'fine' obviously. Hounds are pretty cool.

Ahh, so 'tis the mistress of the cakes who hails from bonny Scotland then Graven?

Very nice plaguye-ridden minis. Wouldn't want to face them in a dark alley.

Arr, fine work on those plagued land-lubbers me old matey.

I will point out that means 13,923 pirates showed up.

Think about that for a moment.

apparently the total was 14155 pirates, so hastings must of had 14233. It is basically a lot of pirates. The pubs must have made a mint. I met a street cleaner though who was not at all happy at the prospect of cleaning up.

Glad you all enjoyed the pus-zombies. No commissions lined up till july now so I'd best work on the burgeoning empire army. Lets see I've got:

2x empire captains (mounted and on foot)

1x great cannon with gun captain.

9x halberdiers with a champion

8x crossbowmen

10x handgunners

4x greatsworders

1x Swordsman

1x standard bearer

1x outrider

I think I need more cavalry. But what I really really hanker after is a box of free company militia on their sprues. Really hard to come by. Its tempting to go GW and pay full price because no where else seems to have them. I want them to make a force of pirates. Because pirates are cool. If anyone sees any anywhere on there sprues please let me know.
1x knight

Probably no easier to locate, but the old Morheim plastics have some great parts for piratical pillaging.

I've gone and done it, I actually bought something from games-workshop! Pirates ahoy. I'm not sure exactly what you get in the kit but I should be able to make at least 10 look like pirates. The other 10 can be troops.

ARRRRR! Shiver me timbers...

The Mordheim figures were excellent for making pirates. They even had a head with a tricorner hat. I don't think I have a pic of him in Photobucket, but I can post one later this evening. Heck, I may still have some of those bits left over. I bought like 3 boxes of the Mordheim base set because I wanted cheap buildings and mercenaries.

How much did the pirate pay to get his ears pierced?.......


.... One Buckaneer!


Why are Pirates Pirates?......


.... They just Arrrrrrrrrr

I live in Arrrrrrrrrlington.

You could always use the leftover bits with some undead to make zombie pirates
@MT

These days I live in Glarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsgow.

Ah yes my old boss at Pooooondstreeetcha was from Glaaarrrsgow. She was terrifying till you got to know her.

How Annoying is that, I've got loads of stuff to show you and my card reader is broke so I can't show you. I should probably stop buying them from poundland...

I've kitbashed a mortar, painted a cannon, nearly finished batchpainting the army etc.

I'm surprised to read in other peoples blogs that many of you actually play games with these things. I just pop them in a cabinet and occasionally stare at them through the glass.

For me, miniatures are more of a private pleasure to be horded safely away. Like Faberge eggs or ornate snuffboxes. But that's just me.

The militia arrived yesterday and there's definitely a few pirates in em.

The Mordheim human warband sprue is the same as the sprues in the Empire Free Company. However, you also got two Mordheim equipment sprues in the Mordheim game, which added some cool extra bits to bling out your warbands.

The Free Company are useful for all kinds of units and games. They used to mix and match well with the GW zombies and skeletons so people made undead pirates with them too.

What you may find lacking in the kit are enough suitable weapons: cutlasses and pistols. You might get a few Reaper sprues with swords and pistols. These are pewter. The sprues also include one pirate-y hat on each sprue.

Thanks JB I'll look out for those kits!

Got a new camera card so here's a couple of pics.

Kitbashed mortar, battlemasters carriage, modern barrel.



And the painted battlemasters cannon. I think I made it look good, but perhaps I can do more?

The pirate looks cery cool. Is the shield part of the Empire militia kit? Or did you get it separetly? if so, where did you get if from?

Not my pirate!

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Not my pirate!

Sorry for party crashing then

All of that pirate model came from the Mordheim kit.

I'm going to look up this mordheim kit. I bet they want proper £$ for it though. Probably worth it for pirates!

Because if your going into a sewer full of mutant rat-men you want at least this many henchmen:



I think they look like an ankh-morpork style city guard. Cheap standardized weapons and armour worn by men who don't often get to use it. It also looks a bit like they all painted their own shields! Best I could do without spending hours on them.

The halberdiers are not far behind, they just need finishing touches.

What one is Vimes?

GW should of kept Advanced Heroquest

It was fun wasn't it! And those little plastic doors were brilliant. If I ever see a box at the car-boot sale I will shell out for it. Who doesn't love exploring random dungeons? Claustrophobic people I suppose!

Nice work on the A-M guard.

Nice - and now you mention it I can feel the Ankh-Morpork vibe off them...maybe you should build the force with a Pratchett theme...get your converting mojo on

Ankh Morpork city watch? LOL

They do look appropriate for that. It's too bad that the minis for Pratchett's books are not easily available at a discount.

Maybe you could convert some dwarfs to have battle bread.