Warhammer Fantasy Revisited
Pirates Starter Force
Today I managed to finish the bases on the starter cohort for a Pirates of Sartosa army. Two units of 20 Crew and 2 units of 10 Deck Gunners. Figures used were Warlord Pike & Shotte infantry and the Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago Crew set. Character to lead is still on my paint desk. Still to add for this force is a unit of 10 swashbucklers, another 10 Grog Lubbers (pirates drunk on rum who have a penchant for molotov cocktails) and a unit of 10 Powder monkeys (pirates obsessed with pistols and black powder weapons). Will then drop in the standard issue caster and BSB and should have the bones of a force to use. Has been good fun and I think I’ll be a little more relaxed now in my approach to painting up historicals.
Recipe – primed in AP skeleton bone, Vallejo paints basic skin tone, ivory, cavalry brown and black grey used for base colours, leather brown and oily steel added where appropriate, the Game Air colour Mahogany used on musket stocks, Desert Yellow used on wooden weapons, then given a coat of AP Soft Tone Varnish and a matt airbrush varnish.
Under Jolly Roger…arggggggg!
Yeah I missed having these guys rolled out for International Talk Like A Pirate Day last Thursday… opportunity missed. The nice thing about doing pirates is there are plenty of banners on the interwebs to print, and for many of the (non-historically accurate ones) you can get away with just a black and white printer, as per the photos 🙂