Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 15 - Finished - whole warband)

Thanks to everyone who has shown an interest, commented or +1'd this series of posts.

The mini-project is complete and here is the end result - my warband of Pirates for Frostgrave.

Felstad here we come!

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 14 - Another treasure hunter)

Well, probably another treasure hunter. like most of the rest of these models their role isn't fully settled until I've had a chance to actually play the game and decide.

More importantly though, she's the final member of my warband! Woohoo - it's done!

I'll post a group shot in due course, but for now...

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 13 - Thief)

The penultimate member of my warband is complete. He's another lovely model from Black Scorpion Miniatures Pirates range.

This time I'm using a Cabin Boy miniature to represent a thief - a sort of "Artful Dodger" character if you like

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 12 - Another Thug)

I introduce to you the latest member of my pirate crew, ready (apart from being slightly under-dressed) to head into the ruins of Frostgrave for some treasure hunting.

In actuality, he's supposed to represent a ship's cook, but I'm taking the burly build to represent "Thug" and the soup-pot to be a small treasure find that he's already made.

If you can't imagine things in a Fantasy game, where can you?

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 11 - Crossbowman)

Here we arrr! (sorry) with another pirate for my warband.

This chap due to holding two pistols is going to count as Crossbowman. I want Pirates, but you try finding one with a crossbow (or a bow or shield, for that matter).

Anyway, here he is:

Just three more models to go.

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 10 - The Apprentice)

I'm still struggling to get much done at the moment. I've managed to complete another model for my Warband though. Every good Wizard needs an apprentice, so here is mine:

Another of Black Scorpion's excellent Pirates range - this chap is actually a Ship's Navigator model.

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 9 - The Wizard)

Well, after two weeks of doing NOTHING (due to nothing other than sheer laziness) I decided it was time to pull my finger out and get some work done. I've got other projects waiting in the wings and I promised myself that I'd get these guys finished by the end of March.

I failed.

Work goes on.

Here is my Frostgrave Pirate wizard: part of Black Scorpion's Pirates range. They do a few models that you may find on board a ship who aren't necessarily pirates - a Cabin boy and Navigator (more about them later) and this chap: a Cleric. Makes a good Wizard, I think.

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Frostgrave: Pirates (Part 8 - Even more infantry)

And here is another shipmate for my Frostgrave pirate crew.

Once again I've added a shield to this model which was previously holding a pistol in order to make her into an infantryman model for the game.

I really like these Black Scorpion models - well worth a look!

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 7 - Ranger)

Purely on the basis that this guy is wearing a hood, I'm possibly going to use him as a ranger.

It's pretty thin reasoning, seeing as he has a shield and his only obvious ranged weapon is a holstered pistol.

I'm still musing on the game-application for a few of these models.

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 6 - More Infantry)

And another shipmate joins the ever-growing crew of my pirate-themed Frostgrave warband. This young lady is another Black Scorpion pirate - I've removed her pistol and added a shield to make it a bit less black-powder and a bit more medieval.

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 5 - Infantry)

Here is one of my favourite models from my Pirate Warband. I think the amount of character this sculpt has is brilliant. Hats off to the sculptor - great work!

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 4 - Treasure Hunter)

Another recruit for the warband - I'm probably going to use this model as a Treasure Hunter.

I really like these models - I'm finding them great fun to paint.

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 3 - Thug)

Here is the second pirate for my little Frostgrave warband. This model is a ship's surgeon, but I think he looks more thug-like so I hereby declare him to be a Frostgrave Thug!

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Frostgrave:Pirates! (Part 2 - Archer)

I know what you lot are like so I'll start by saying from the outset that I know that this model isn't a model of an archer. I wanted a warband based on pirates because my lad loves pirates. You can't get pirates with bows so I'm saying that pistols count as bows.

As there are only going to be 13 models in my warband, I decided to depart from my usual method of painting units in a production line style to do one model at a time.  My logic is that as each model is unique that I will treat each as a character in its own right  and give it a bit more attention than a unit member would normally get.

The models in this force are fantastic minis and worthy of a bit of extra attention so it feels like the right way to go. They're resin miniatures from Black Scorpion. I'm still not claiming to be painting to a quality better than Acceptable Tabletop Standard, by the way.

So here's the first of the pirates for my Frostgrave force.

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Frostgrave: Pirates! (Part 1 - the models)

Time for another new venture!

Another non-GW game. More non-GW models.

I'm making a foray into the Frostgrave game - it looks like a blast and will give me loads of room (and some motivation) to work on some scenery pieces too.

My lad loves pirates so I've decided to go with a pirate-themed warband.

After some searching I found these awesome models from Black Scorpion - £2 ($3US) each for high-quality resin models! Incredible!

These will be my apprentice and wizard   (Actually a ship's navigator and a cleric)

And these chaps will be a barbarian and apothecary (actually ship's cook and surgeon)

These lovely ladies will probably be archers (pistols will count as bows)

A ranger, I think

This "Cabin boy" will count as a Thief

I don't know what role she will fill yet.

I'll probably use these shifty-looking characters as basic Soldiers - I'm going to try to replace the guns with shields. Not sure what I'm going to do with the chap in the middle.

These classifications are subject to change as I see which models will accept shields and which I can sensibly trim pistols from and whatnot.

More news as it comes in...

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