Blood and Plunder - Dugthefug1644

Another Blood and Plunder mini painted above and I have to say I enjoyed it. I think that the ill formed cutlass is not actually as distracting as I thought it would be. The details are fairly soft, but then I have been spoilt with 40k miniatures this year. The latest highend plastics were always going fair well in comparison. The unveiling on Blood and Plunder week that Firelock Games are headed for multi-part plastics is great news. I just hope they drop the scale compared to the metal miniatures by just a millimetre or two so that the occasional 28mm bigger heroic sized kits might be able to kit bash across ranges. If they become a larger end 32mm kit it will still be cool, but slightly unfortunate for those of us that like our conversions.

One of the reasons I bought the blister of marineros was so I could see how best to merge any conversions I might build into the unit, without them just being bland generic seamen.

The wysiwyg rule required for proxies is a challenge. I bought some spare metal pistols from Essex Miniatures, but the scale is a little off. Slightly larger than the Blood and Plunder guns even when the B&P minis are a large scale. Some of my models so far don’t really have an available sling, holster or bag to rest a spare gun on. Sometimes you even need to represent a brace of pistols and this has been awkward. I am considering just laying smoking pistols or arquebuses on the base, to allow the pose on my conversions to go uncluttered by the extra weapons.