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.
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.
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.