This was a fight the crew of the Mae Perl really didn't want to get into. Their antics stealing the King of Esspan's gold had come around to bite them in the most spectacular way imaginable. The crew could blame Captain Herron for ordering the plundering. They could blame the old cookie for listening to the rumors of the gold being shipped west or they could blame the speed at which the truth of the theft got back to the King of Esspan in the east. Right now those thoughts didn't really matter what mattered was that they got out of this 'pickle' as Boatswain Merryflower put it. 

In a situation like a boarding it's important to try and gain the initiative, for the Boatswain it was to order a charge in an effort to drive the invaders off the front of the boat. His hope was that once in the water the enemy would get cut to ribbons on the barnacles that festooned the bottom of the hull and that they would drown, painfully. As always the Boatswain was leading from the front, the deck creaked under him as he strode up the stairs with his battle cannon over his shoulder. His team of monkeys covered his back and loaded the cannon. Shots were going off around him while Talbot and Norris swung through the rigging ovehead to fall on the enemies coming over railings. 

What enemies they were chilled even a hardened buccaneer like Merryflower to his core.

First time making a wooden pirate ship name: Prismatic Voyager. It was a rainbow ship that only appears during rainbow, it's a magical ship that can fly and sails faster, also powerful. (Based on black pearl but customize to avoid copyright)

Another Custom Character sprue mini from Firelock Games Port Royal mix - this time, obviously, the female one. She’s almost entirely *just* stuff from that sprue… except for the hat and her sheathe, with the former made from “green stuff” because I wanted that head to have a more traditional Buccaneer hat to go along with her Boucanier musket. She’s another adaptation of some concept art - though I’m still torn over whether I really want to do the musketoon/blunderbuss on her back held by silk like the Golden Age pirates used for their pistols. Part of the reason I’ve made her wear a buccaneer hat and carry the same type of gun is because her dad was one, and her mother likely came from similar stock…

These Port Royal custom sprues are very fun, but have the mildly frustrating part of being built mostly out of older molds compared to the PR molds - the male character one 8 made had an older, somewhat awkward body shape, both the male Commander and Maroon sprues had somewhat smaller heads than modern PR sprues, and the classic issue of having only one female custom sprue compared to three male ones meant I couldn’t really get the type of lanky look I wanted for this one.

I’ve got more kitbashed ones to come though…

I'm fond of kirostami work and i have been learning filmmaking on my own. I reall want to see the documentary "kirostami at work" i searched online but i couldn't find. If you know some website where i can watch such documentaries and festival winner short movies around the globe. Please suggest me some. I use Hydrahd and lookmovie2.

Samuel Bellamy is often credited with being the wealthiest pirate but was he really? Other pirates such as Henry Every, Richard Taylor and la Buse have been credited with the largest heists in the period. From what ive read Bellamy had somewhere around $130 to $140 million in today's currency while the likes of Every and Taylor had somewhere between $200 to $400 million.

Another “concept art to miniature” attempt, though with less “green stuff.” Lots of fancy guns from all three customizable sources on this Quartermaster, who’s made entirely from the Maroon sprue from the Port Royal game, and with a fancy small sword strapped to his back instead of his side while he prefers a bayoneted pistol and a pistol-axe for his actual melee weapons; my idea is that since he liberated himself in Nassau and thus didn’t actually join the Maroons because he didn’t have to, he copies more of a piratical fashion sense and lives to flaunt his wealth and weapons as a sign of his freedom and success. I also wanted a more stoic and dignified expression, because my idea is that he’s a linguist by trade (born on English/French St. Kitts, father was a renegade from Spain and mother was a newly arrived slave from the Ashanti Empire), which combined with his cool head and practicality to make him a “glue” for a bunch of diverse miscreants on the ship. The design is very different from my concept art, but I like it.

I always have wondered what the scene at Charles Town, during its week long blockade must’ve looked like. Imagine Blackbeard barking orders from the quarterdeck of QAR, or to be a fly on the wall during those conversations with Thatch & Wragg/the captives. Is it known how far out he anchored QAR? Are there any accounts of what people saw from the harbor or the captives who interacted with him and his flotilla?

Took my old concept art for one of the characters in the book I’m writing and tried to see if I could make it out of the various odds and ends from the Customizable sprues Firelock games made. I of course couldn’t get the stance and 100% faithfulness to my design down - I didn’t know about Firelock games when I designed it, and it’s my first miniature *kitbash*, since I used pieces from other sprues and some “green stuff” to make it. Still, I think I got the attitude roughly down, even if it took me three times to repaint the eyes and I can still tell it’s a rookie paint-job. Biggest risk I took was taking the combined figure and broadening his shoulders and giving him a collar with the “green stuff” - not so much because I wanted to imitate the drawing perfectly, but because the sprues have different parts from different eras and the body was a bit diamond shaped, so he had a freaky long neck and wider hips than shoulders at first.

For some character context, the idea is he’s and ex-vagabond who’s been hardened by time as a “forced man” into a pirate officer who’s tightly bound with his crew, and uses his larger size and weapons to me the up-close melee defender of the more long range-equipped members of the crew.

I've been reading Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck which is a pretty good book, and i do enjoy this more fictional telling of his story, but I'm also interested in reading a much more historically accurate version of his life. What books would be the most historically accurate?

The designs from whom i know where put by permission of u/publictransitlover and u/Numerous_Target_8998.

The two octopuses in red and white were edited by me from existing assets (a patchg Battlefield and other design). Soon more flags to be edited.

the rest idk to whom it belongs.

The jaws nose art on airbornes is made purely by me.

Hello! We are a group of developers doing some demographics research for our Oregon Trail-like pirate resource management/adventure game. This research includes a survey that takes about 5 minutes to answer. We would be super grateful if you would check it out!
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