Empire Engineer

Next from the same Golden Demons my Empire Engineer, again I dug through my collection for something to paint and he looked kind of fun. The mini is stock with a sculpted base following a similar idea as last years pirate girl. I put down a block of plastic and then sculpted over the top for all the stone work then did up some gears and levers copying some old ork gun details.

Empire Noble

Haven't actually done any painting lately, been a bit too busy with house hunting and Rock Band 2 so thought I'd post a fellow from a couple years ago. Sculpted by the very talented Victoria Lamb a group of painters participating in the Golden Demons decided to do this as a Visions in Colour style challenge off the side to be shown at our Golden Camels post Demons awards dinner at Newtown.

Anyway here's my version.









and a few WIPs





he ended up coming second to Sebastion Archer who converted his mini to a pirate captain with buried treasure. How am I supposed to compete with Pirates :D

Some new conversions

Converted these guys just so they wouldn't look the same as the stock one since I have 3 of them.




made a swivel gun for the brief time my pirates visited Mordheim. (GW)


More civies for the town by Reaper and one by Megaminis that needed to be made taller. She was more a 25mm than a 28mm but I find that pretty much all the difference in old minis compared to new is the hunch of the neck and in the height of the legs.

Also some angry pygmy natives in the back from Eureka which I was quickly painting with GW washes.

Black Cat Bases Pirates review

Quick mini review tonight. Got back from seeing Hancock with some friends and saw there was a few packages waiting for me. 1 from Black Scorpion with a chef mini prize from their last competition, the other big heavy box was the mystery box from Black Cat Bases. They recently advertised a random box of 25 minis from their pirates range for about $60 au. The content of the boxes would apparently be 1 of each of the range split over the boxes they were selling. I've been curious for a while about the quality of their minis, to be honest the pics on their website are discouraging but I've seen some really nice painted examples out there. Also there are some minis in their range I just don't like but I thought bugger it, I'll take a chance and buy a box and just hope for the best.

Well here they all are layed out


gotta say the set I got is great, it's got a lot of the ones I was interested from the range like the carpenter, surgeon, navigator, duelists, dancer (well a variant of her), barkeep, voodoo lady, regular crew guys and a sample of a pygmy and savage,. with a few captain types and an odd vampire thrown in. Only a few dud minis for me, thankfully only one of the ugly marines with the silly hats and an odd servant with a cats head (which is at least easily head swappable).

Here's a scale pic of them next to a selection of my other pirates



they are maybe a tad tall but so are Reaper and Black Scorpion. If I was going to be particularly critical I would say the feet across the range are rather clumpy looking and they are rather stocky looking minis. Also they seem to have rather obvious converted versions of the same minis. The characters are nicely quirky though and should be fun to paint up.

Well that was reviews from Rob for tonight, back to painting buildings.

...and with Minis

and here's the town with minis