Talon Pirate Warjack

My gaming group has recently gotten into MkII Warmachine so I thought I'd go back and try and get some more work on my pirate army. I converted this guy quite a while ago and he's been sitting around half painted for ages. So on a painting day on the weekend I finally got around to finishing him off. Using my older Buccaneer jack as reference I copied the corroded metals and banged up look.

Talon Light Warjack - New Big Daddy

The Big Daddy jacks getting discovered by the video gaming blogs got me worked up to get back onto finishing these guys.



I recently picked up the 40K ork gretchin pack and the tesla style prod thingy got me thinking it would make a great stun lance tip, so ordered a Talon to add to my merc jacks.



I trimmed off the original conicle spear tip then cut down the zappy part to fit. It needed something wider behind it so I tried a wire hoop 1st but didn't like so did it again with a bit of plastic tubing spaced slightly from the spear shaft.



Seems I've added a wheel to all my previous jacks so gave one to the Talon too. It's half of a snap stud with some added rivets.



I was surprised how much shorter the Talon was when he arrived or should I say how tall the Buccaneer is. So I decided to alter his feet a bit to make him a tiny bit taller and to match the aquatic jacks look a bit more.



I trimmed off the sides of the toes 1st, then glued on plastic sheet under neath with an edge all the way around. Then filled the notch between the toes with filler putty then sanded it smooth.



For the new diver face of the jack I trimmed off a bit of the hood and then glued on a left over part from a plastic kit. I dremelled back the front of the dome part to fit on a window.



then I bent up some wire hoops to make a face cage, this time going over his back as well like the proper Big Daddies



I finished off the cage with some nice bolts where the cage joined the shoulders. Then I cut plastic rod and made a heap of rivets to circle the face for that high pressure tank look. Also added a rivetted plate over the top of the head cause every jack needs that collar looking thing up top.



I detailed the inside of the forearms a bit with staggered holes then glued them in place.



Last thing to do was make a decking base from balsa wood and I also added a couple rats on a little barrel from Rackham from one of their scenary details packs i got recently.

Couple more angles:







Here he is with the Buccaneer.





Speaking of detailing the bases I thought it'd look funny to have a drunk passed out under the beer jack (Mule) so slightly modded this passed out monk mini from Shadowforge, just split his robe to look like shorts then added a belt and a mo and filled in the shaved bald spot.





the Mariner gets a little girl packing heat from Freebooter, I think I need to add a face cage to him to match the rest.

Black Scorpion Pirate

Another older model, I really need to finish some of my many work in progress models on my desk. This fellow is a Black Scorpion pirate I did up for one of their online competitions, he earned an honourable mention If I recall correctly. They make some very characterful pirates at Black Scorpion and I've been meaning to get their new fantasy pirates to add to the collection.

Captain Razig, Undead Pirate

Continuing the glowing skeleton theme is Razig a very cool Bob Olley sculpt from Reaper. He's a bit huge to fit with other minis but hey he's a captain. I started this mini in an effort to teach a friend how to paint source lighting so he predates the Bonecaller mini by a year or so. He was a lot of fun to paint. It's a bit hard to see from the WIP but I started with the glowing parts and worked out from there. I basically chose the purple for his coat as a complementary colour to the green glow.

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.

MOAB 2008 on Display

Well here's the town as it appeared at MOAB















A fellow offered to buy the whole town :O

Lighthouse almost finished2

Coffee stirrer vs Paddlepop stick - note the difference , someone asked what was the difference.


got all the railings done, now to stick on dirt and a all the boxes and barrels.

Lighthouse almost finished

Lots of work trying to get the lighthouse done for MOAB. I've painted most of it already then trimmed the railing supports and glued it together. For new railings I used coffee stirrers. Used the same for the upper railings. I've put a heap of random stuff around the base they still need detail painting and glueing on. The thing I'm undecided on so far is what to do with the base, should I do it as decking or just ground with sand and grass.