Saturday, December 5, 2009

Everything is better with space pirates!

Okay, I'm exhausted and have to go back to work in a few hours (that's what I get for staying up building minis), so I'm just going to let the pics speak for themselves, mostly.

Here's Green Platoon's Command Squad. The officer and basecoated trooper (armed with a hakapik and skinning knife) are not new, but the rest are.
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New Platoon Sergeant Major:
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Very WIP piper:
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Their Commissar, the legendarily unkillable Bryn "the Blessed" Hakes-Exeter, sole survivor of numerous charges and artillery strikes and who once destroyed an enemy Titan by shouting at it (according to regimental legend). Internet Points to whoever can guess what two people he's based on.
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According to the army list, he's got a power weapon, but I can't bring myself to carve off his power fist. Ideas, anyone? Right now I'm contemplating either having him holding a big power mace or turning the fist into a power claw.


And now, a little side project where I give into one of my life-long obsessions (not, not kilts): pirates! In this case, space pirates, as so unsubtly foreshadowed by the entry title. The 40k universe is perfect for piracy, and it's much mentioned in the fluff. However, the prime examples, Dark Eldar and the Red Corsairs, just aren't pirate-y enough for me. The Dark Eldar are space elves, and I have an unreasoning prejudice against elves of all types, and the Red Corsairs, especially in their new look, strike me as just another renegade Marine warband. I've wanted to do 40k pirates for a long time (I even wrote some background), but I could never figure out how, mainly because I was thinking about Pirate Marines, which probably would've either had the same problem as the Red Corsairs or descended into cartoonish-ness quite quickly. However, I think I found a way. You be the judge.

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5 comments:

  1. I just love those space pirates. Can't wait to see them painted.

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  2. Sounds like a fun sidetrack, and the minis look great. Not sure where you got the parts, but they fit well.
    Can't help but think it's one heck of a sniper who can site in with a patch on his shooting eye ;)

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  3. Thanks, guys! I'm pretty happy with the pirates, and I think I'll keep building them very slowly as a reward to myself for working on the Yukoni.

    All three pirates are made of a combination of Cadian, Catachan and Empire Militia/Free Company. The latter is where the eye-patch/pirate hat head comes from. And yes, I know he has a patch over his shooting eye. They don't call him "Dead-Eye" for nothing. ;)

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  4. Surely not Sgt Hakeswill and Brian Blessed? Surely...

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  5. That's them! You and one guy on Warseer are the only to guess that.

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