Napoleonic Boats.

I have two Games of War Boats for my Napoleonic Peninsular War Collection, which I intend using for my Pirates project with just a change in Command figures and Marines. The sailors will work as they are.

The project is just a small scale one as I like the Sharp and Horn Blower books and TV shows and am not really into large scale set piece battles.

I intend to go back and do some more work on the sails as they look too plain.

Another Mega Blocks Black Pearl.

I have had some success bidding on a few items on Trademe (New Zealand only trading site).

I first won Legends of The High Seas in excellent condition for a good price. I have been searching for this a couple of years. Turns out I bought it from a Club mate but did not know until I won.

I then won a Playmobile Pirate ship which I had watched for a few auctions going unsold, but decided to get it even though I thought the price was too high. I was not sure of the scale but had seen one being converted on a Blog post somewhere. Same price as LoTHS actually so I don't know why I held back now.

I have just won a complete Mega Blocks Black Pearl for NZ $35. It seems complete as far as I can tell so am very happy. This will be made into the Black Pearl Pirate Ship.

The cost for the four Ships is about $150 NZ plus the cost of converting them which is much cheaper than buying four resin Ships which would be much smaller vessels.

Furniture for the Castle and Tavern

Most of these items are from Mega Miniatures.  I realized that I could use some of them for my Pirates I changed plans and mounted some items on Renedra plastic bases. Other items were glued into place. I still need to finish the fireplace and then have some items for the treasure room to do.

Mega Bloks Black Pearl

I have just received another Mega Bloks Black Pearl Pirate Ship. This one is about 95% complete but will enable me to use one of the masts for the other one which is less complete. I almost feel like making a start on my Pirates.

I think I will keep an eye out for another one.

Talk like a Pirate Day.

A few years ago a friend of mine organized a club game on "Talk like a Pirate Day" and also ran it again the following year. He has since left the country and it has not happened since as I guess he had the only other Pirates. I made this Pirate ship in a couple of days so please excuse the roughness of it. The Pirates were made from GW plastic figures. Also please excuse the photography as the photos were taken in my spare room which has energy saving lightbulbs.

I have a pile of Foundry Pirates in my Lead pile which I intend to get around to painting soon. I also have a toy Pirate ship which is missing a few parts that I will have to scratch build replacement parts for. Luckily I have a pile of painted Palm trees and some Ngoni which I want to paint as Cannibals.

Maybe I will run a club game on "Talk like a Pirate Day" one day?