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Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« on: July 29, 2012, 03:17:33 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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But you can make the Bastard work for it.

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2012, 07:01:37 AM »
Pirate Alphabet I (1 of 5)

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2012, 07:41:11 AM »
Hmm... I have two ideas I came up with for the What If Modellers Pirate GB, but I'm still struggling with DIY and caring issues, so might not be able to resume modelling for a while yet. One idea is probably too complicated to try in a compressed timescale, but the other might be okay.

We shall see............
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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2012, 11:54:58 PM »
Pirate Alphabet 2


 Seriously, though, Weaver-I know a bit about caregiving issues m'self. Hope everything sorts itself out.

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2012, 08:55:54 AM »
A baseball themed GB?

Brilliant!



Let's go Bucs!

Oh wait a minute...

Brian da Basher
« Last Edit: July 31, 2012, 09:01:02 AM by Brian da Basher »

Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 03:08:35 AM »
on the bench:
-various models

on the drawing board:
-various 1/72 TinTin aircraft
-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
-various other 1/72 and 1/144 aircraft

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2012, 08:52:41 AM »
Here be a Swashbuckling tale from history, me Heartys ...... afore Pirates, ... thar be Vikings !!
     ridin' afore the breeze, from a land a Ice n' Green, they be companionable maties on a good day out, yarr !  Sailin' the known Seas n' spyin' out the best lands to profit from & have fun with, aarrrr !  Barbarous, fierce n' cruel warriors they be, clothed in animal-skins n' horned helmets .... wealdin' axes n' swords, an' abringin' Death, Rape n' Global Plunder to inspire us future generations o' freebootin' Seafarers !  yeah !

Targeting the peaceful n' unexpectin' be their specialty -- ships a' bein' long n' Black wiv a fearsome Dragon's head on t' prow, savage designs on t' one big sail ... n' jovial, coloured shields hangin' along the sides ....

Crossin' a great rough sea, their gunnl's awash, they plan t' arrive on a fine day, yaarrr !  Jumpin' inta t' water, theys rush up t' sand to the settlement -- yellin' n' screamin' fer maximum fun, grabbin' any wench, comely or not, along t' way.  Smashin' the crops down n' bashin' the house doors in, theys stab, hack n' slash at those inside, takin' what theys fancy .... be it human, animal or shiny treasure o' all sorts .... good clean fun, me Buckos !


Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2012, 05:17:59 PM »
here are some previous pirate builds from the other website's pirate GB.
based uppon the seaplane pirate aircraft from the "Porco Rosso" anime  8)







on the bench:
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on the drawing board:
-various 1/72 TinTin aircraft
-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
-various other 1/72 and 1/144 aircraft

Offline AGRA

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2012, 05:37:13 PM »
Does this kind of thing count as Pirate themed?


Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2012, 10:11:40 PM »
if you seen the movie "Down Periscope", you know it does, YARR  ;D

Think Like A Pirate - From Down Periscope
on the bench:
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on the drawing board:
-various 1/72 TinTin aircraft
-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
-various other 1/72 and 1/144 aircraft

Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2012, 10:21:21 PM »
My favourite pirates......

Tie 'em to the yardarm men!

Er... we ain't got a yardarm, Captain. I ate it last week.

Well what 'av we got then?

We got a comfy sofa.

You can't say "tie 'em to the comfy sofa"!

There's nothing else Captain!

Alrigghht.....

TIE THEM TO THE......COMFY SOFA!

*Dramatic music*




count duckula (the mutinous penguins) part 2

Offline RussC

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2012, 05:16:03 PM »
Arrrrrh, do I got's a dragon pirate scene? Avast! I do !



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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2012, 10:43:13 PM »
Here be a bit o' scribblin' that were done a ways back.
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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2012, 12:26:02 AM »
I ordered some (Pittsburgh) Pirate decals yesterday. These things are very hard to find so I'll be using ones that aren't exactly ideal. Now I just need to figure out what to stick them on...

Yarr!

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2012, 03:25:30 AM »
Now I just need to figure out what to stick them on...


Do you be need'n suggestions me hearty?
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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But you can make the Bastard work for it.

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2012, 03:50:38 AM »
Now I just need to figure out what to stick them on...


Do you be need'n suggestions me hearty?

So long as they're not anatomical, matey!

OK problem is, the closest thing to decals I could get are very small, 7.6 mm to be precise. These are actually fingernail decals. I also ordered some "fake tatoo" decals which I assume are a wet and apply so it prints on type thing. I couldn't find anything else in a workable size.

So my thinking is build small and use the small decals because I don't think those temp tatoos will work. Right now I'm leaning towards putting a Hawker Hart up on floats and adding a Texan canopy, the whole thing in black.

I've attached a picture of the decal courtesy of our friends over on ebay.

Brian da Basher


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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2012, 01:24:25 AM »
yar, here be a piece of one of me favorite anime's from when i was a wee lad  ;D

Asterix and Cleopatra - Pirates
on the bench:
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-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2012, 01:17:56 AM »
Otay, I've had a pirate related notion banging around in my head for a while, so I may take a stab at it for this build.
However, I won't be 'speaking' like bleeding Robert Newton.  ;D
“Conspiracy theory’s got to be simple.
Sense doesn’t come into it. People are
more scared of how complicated shit
actually is than they ever are about
whatever’s supposed to be behind the
conspiracy.”
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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2012, 06:18:15 AM »
The decals arrived in the mail today, mateys!

YAAAAAAAARRRRR!

Brian da Basher

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #20 on: August 09, 2012, 06:53:25 AM »
yar, here be a piece of one of me favorite anime's from when i was a wee lad  ;D

Nice one - I loved the Asterix books when I was a kid - never saw the movies though. After about the third or fourth one, the pirates see the Gauls coming and scuttle their own ship before Asterix and Obelix can get to them. As the pirate captain says "it comes to the same thing in the end and we'll save ourselves a few knocks!"  ;D
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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2012, 08:05:36 PM »
I be 'avin' ideas, mateys.... :icon_twisted: :P :-\

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2012, 09:31:18 AM »
Avast there ya land lubbers,
  Oi 'ave found me some buried interweb tresure, I 'ave. http://gangstaname.com/names/pirate/generate
Does what it says on the tin, me hearties,
have ye some fun & post ya pirate monikers, arrr.
Now I gots to scratch me peg leg, at its got scurvy woodworm, ooh arr.

Ken

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2012, 11:34:48 PM »
More obscure and peculiar inspiration, from the pages of Fantastic Victoriana

 Captain Mors-DER LUFTPIRAT!

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Re: Pirate GB Ideas and Inspiration...and just odd comments...
« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2012, 04:11:32 AM »
Wow, how did you guys miss the best Air Pirates in history?

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This was what I grew up on.  Don Karnage still has some of the best lines of dialogue uttered by a cartoon villain...ever.

Cheers,

Logan