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hello all, I finnaly got a digicam and have decided to share a few of my pictures with y'all. This is what remains of my stuff after lots of distasters managed to ruin everything (mother nature ates me, as does fate, destiny and every clestial being I think)

Hero
first up is my hero, he was origonaly going to represent Lord Draski but, well, he dosen't look like a pirate. He ahsdyed his beard purple as a mark of respect.
Front
He's the basicdwarf hero ith a pistol and axe, but I sculpted on scaled over the chainmail, and I cliped of the pistol for a shield. The mask is a maurauder shoulder pad

side
as you can see, it's just a maurauder shield, I love this shield tough, it looks awesome and it's a great item. though my painting dosen't do it justice.

Back
well, as you can see, he has the rune of hashut painted on his back, to show his faith, in gold to show he's rich


Champ
2nd is my champion, he's not that good of a conversion and the beards a bit Cr*p. I'm not that proud but he was my first ever conversion attempt



Design
finnaly, I have my first desgn thingy, it's my first attempt at sculpting, can you guess what it is?

Hi minty. I think that they are good first attempts but IMO you need to limit your palette a little bit, I think there are too many colours going on. Also with the rune on his cape I recommend that you start with a basecoat of black and then build it up to gold as the gold paint doesn't give very good coverage by itself.

Overall I admire your creativity, best of luck with the taurus.


*edit* is that a High Elf dragon in the backround? tut tut!

ummmm, nope, it's a dark elf dragonhigh elves suck (well not realy, I play them, but dark elves are better)

thanks for the comment, I guess I do need to limit my pallete but t's just so hard, I like all those colours

the rune was a lastminute thing, I think, so it dosen't look very good. Ah well, I like my hero

Yeah, there are some really nice colours out there that are sometimes too good to leave at home. I just think that it's a little too busy, that if you concentrated on two complementary colours it would look better. Just my 2 cents.

Ha. I'm really looking forward to the new Dark Elf book, should be a cracker. The new cold one is nice although it still doesn't compare to the Gamezone ones.

hehehe, yeah gSing isn't realmy my strong point. It's gonna be a bull centaur, as if you look at the front veiw (where the camera decided t focus on my hero) it's the samme size as the dwarf. I've actualy bulked out the legs and added hoves now, but since I have torent the camrea gonna do more work before I take more pics

pluss, I have begun work on my admiral, hehehe, plasticard pirate hat

ummm, begun work on him, he's no where near finished yet unfortunatly

also, why would he go to your ship, my oirates have taste

well, A week later than I had hoped due to lack of GS and cameras. I haven't realy done much, just done a bit more on my BC realy, but I did win a miners box last week which are being put to good use

BC side

BC other side

the main thing that has been done is the legs have been bulked out, I'm getting more GS tommorow so progress should speed up a bit

Here are the beginings of my other BCs



a head with the begining of sculpting started, it's not so good and he pic is realy unfocused.


and the begining of a chaos dwarf with great weapon. He is going to have a chainsaw and work as the champ for my GW unit

haha, I finnaly managed to do something right, I have done the command group for my GW unit......the only unit that will be Games workshop plastics (not promosing the metals, they are awesomes)

The beards are stolen from Bass's ogres, or the method since a freind on warhammer world shew me the link to it, so without firther adiue
the champ
This guy I like, alot. His weapon is cool, and he has a nose and gogles on his mask (can't realy be seen on bad pic) he also has a much better beard that the first try before. Oh, and he has a real +2 strength weapon. He also has a piarate bandana, to mark his status as a champion



The musician
After a tragic accident involving a craftknie, the arm I was palanning on suing for the mucican was destroyed from the wrist down, so I stuck on a hook from the maurauder flails. This is the best beard I have done yet


and finnaly:
The standard bearer
This guy had an awesome mask, but I cut of a bit to much head and it ended up covered by a pole. he has a sashimono back banner like the dawi zharr of old

Well I finnaly managed to get a full unit converted, my great weapon unit here they are, in all there dawi zharr glory. I am very happy with how they turned out.

the champion, musician and one warrior, who have had a bit of painting done. My paint work still needs alot of improvement however

next up is three of the guys

and another three

and finnaly a group shot of the bunch.....


there y'all go

if you must know, i was making a prate army 7 months before Kera shew up, so it's actualy my idea but pirates are awesome

thanks for the compliment, I guess I do need to work on my chainsaw, and will do so soon

It's looking good. I am not sure why I hadn't actually posted in this thread before. I keep checking back, eager to see the progress. The paint scheme seems to be good so far. I think you may need to mix (LITERALLY) a drop or two of water into your paintpots as it seems the paint is a little blotchy or too thick. This will improve the quality greatly. The unit looks great, I especially love the weapons (in particular, the one behind the unit champion and the one on the back right in the last picture). As for the pirate theme, will you be wanting parrots?

HB: thanks alot mate. Painting tip duley noted, and no....i have enough parrots, and powder monkeys

fure+Kera: thanks alot mates

Not a problem, may as well make everybody's miniatures the best they can, eh? Can we see any of these monkeys and parrots?

Right, well, Hi all, i'm back again

I have bearly finished the raiders, just need to get batterys for my camera, and believe me, my painting has improved vastly  (just looked at the old ones next to the new ones...ouch!) so they hopefully won't be so horific

I have a conundrum though, which is what to make the rest of the army look like. The pirate theme is continuing without a doubt, but I need to make up my mind about whether there techno-pirates, with steampunk style weapons and stuff, or more traditional, with simple stuff and cutlases

so, which do you guys think would look best?

Glad to hear you've improved. Get new batteries, mister! I'd say have some with steampunk tech and some "classical". Maybe the unit champions etc have steampunked it up? Steam parrot FTW!

And thus, I have batteries, and more pics

First up is th whole unit of raiders. I tried to arange them so the best where at the front, but the command took up 3 spaces. Also, I forgot to paint the standard... I also changed the champions weapon and dropped the bandana, to make him more fearsome looking

and an overhead view

Next up, it's hammer time! This is my fave dwarf, becuase I think it has the best paintjob even if the conversion isn't as good as others

Next, this is the guy who I forgot to photo with the group

Next up is the other two guys painted in the new method


and thats this update done, so which route do you guys think I should take with the rest of the army, a steam-punk, techo pirate type theme, or a more traditional pirate theme?

Well, minor update now...

I've started on my blunderbuss unit, slightly, as in I've made the champion-type guy of the unit (I won't be having a champion, but a cool looking unit leader is a must). He's not finished yet, as I plan on putting on a breathing mask and some pipes connected to a backpack (sort of like a CD scuba-diver). This is my first attempt at sculpting a hat, so it's not perfect


Here's the front, he's based on the dwarf engineer with handgun, I still need to flare out the barrel, or course. I realy liked the model, though I think the mask is a bit bumpy, looking at pics, and needs to eb redone.

And this is the rear shot of said dude, like I said, he needs a backpack, but he's fine at the moment

and the main reason I like him, I love those shulderpads, and they will be coppied onto all my BBers, which will be there unifrm, because there pirates so shouldn't look to similar

yeah, I use diamonds, they look better to me, and everyone has stacked squares

That looks great Minty!

I agree that the mask should be a bit smoother. Do you let the GS cure a bit before you start sculpting? Un-cured GS has the tendency to move all the time when you sculpt. If you let it cure a bit first, it stays in place a bit better. Probably nothing new I'm telling you now, but maybe it helps others who don't know it...

Also what might look good is that you sculpt a few scale mail rows at the top of the beard. I think that would finish an already cool looking model. :

thanks obsodian, advice duly noted

yerp, I did let it gure, only problem is my GS stuff always fails me in important areas