Painting Toy Flintlock Pistols – A Nice Side Project :)
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About the Project
Painting toy Flintlock Pistols as a fun side project, when needing a break from painting minis.
Related Game: Blood & Plunder
Related Company: Firelock Games
Related Genre: Historical
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Couldn't Pass Up Grabbing These Toy Flintlock Pistols
Found these toy Flintlock Pistols/Blunderbuss Pistols in Poundland in the UK (it’s a discount shop). After having the guys from Firelock Games in the studio for a week of Blood & Plunder I couldn’t pass these up for the cost of £2.
Going to fill the gaps etc. and maybe make a few changes before doing a re-paint.
No plans for these to be part of a costume but I think they could look great on a shelf and should be a fun side project for a break from mini painting from time to time 🙂
Time For Some Reference and Inspiration
I’m not particular about historical accuracy, after all I got these in a pound shop but I’ve done an image search for reference images to get an idea of how the paint job should look and to see if there’s anything I want to change.
Should I Cut The Ends Off?
Based on the images above I was thinking about cutting the ends off the barrels and I’m guessing that will change theses Blunderbuss Pistols into just pistols.
I think cutting them down at the first bevel will be the best place and this will also open the ends up.
Here's where I'm thinking of cutting back to.Pearls of Wisdom are Welcome ;)
As I haven’t done a project like this before I’d appreciate any pointers the community can throw my way by just dropping me comments here 🙂
In particular stuff like:
- Best way to fill the gaps and screw holes
- Painting the main body to look like wood
Cheers in advance for any help.
