My First Painted Pirate!

I missed the latest Painting Club at the LAF - the Weird War version - as I lost every trace of inspiration after base-coating a mini.

This time though, I got a mini in as #64 in The Pikes, Muskets, and Flouncy Shirts Painting Club

My entry is this Artizan Designs buccaneer miniature, which, in this incarnation, I have named Benn Etton.



I started painting Tuesday, and only finished him this morning - he actually has a lot of details that need attention.

I am OK pleased with the outcome, and thrilled to be getting back into the habit of painting.

I shall be spending some hobby-time on dressing some of the Uruk-Hai and Rohan/Saxon bases, but in between I shall start painting the next Viking for my 'purist' Blood Eagle warband.

Primer: Black

Hat:

• I think it is C Graveyard Earth mixed with successively more C Bleached Bone, but the pots are from before I started logging my own mixes.

Hat Band, Coat Lining and Facings. Garters:

1. V Black Red + Black
2. C Khorne Red + V Black Red
3. C Mephiston Red

Neck Cloth:

1. Light grey
2. Very light grey
3. White

Skin:

• The darker end of my usual recipe, starting with a mix of C Dwarf Flesh and C Bestial Brown

Hair:

1. C Graveyard Earth +++Black
2. C Graveyard Earth ++Black
3. C Graveyard Earth +Black

Coat:

1. C Orkhide Shade + Black
2. C Orkhide Shade
3. C Orkhide Shade + C Knarloc Green
4. C Knarloc Green

Flouncy Shirt:

1. V Khaki Brown
2. C Ushabti Bone
3. C Ushabti Bone + White
4. C Ushabti Bone ++ White

Baldric:

1. V Beasty Brown
2. C Vermin Brown
3. C Vermin Brown + C Vomit Brown
4. C Vomit Brown

Sword Sheath:

1. C Scorched Brown
2. C Scorched Brown + V Beasty Brown
3. V Beasty Brown

White Metal:

1. C Boltgun Metal
2. C Chainmail
3. C Mithril Silver

Yellow Metal:

1. V Polished Gold+ Black
2. V Polished Gold
3. V Polished Gold + C Mithril Silver

Trousers:

1. C Scorched Brown
2. C Scorched Brown + C Codex Grey
3. C Scorched Brown ++ C Codex Grey

Boots and Pistol Handle:

• F Musket Stock Brown Triad (actually Quartet, as I have mixed a pot of some medium and light tone)