Diary of a Wargames Sloth: Pirates

Firstly there is an arcane art in getting good photos of miniatures, and one at which I need to do some work. The short answer comes down to getting out the tripod and setting a focal distance to give a good depth of field (and slower shutter speed, which means the tripod is necessary). These are all handheld shots. So apologies for quality but I wanted to post sooner rather than later.

Until a while ago I would never have bought pre-painted figures. A combination of circumstances, time vs money, lack of skill and a need for quality models for demo purposes have altered that. These were all painted by my chum John Csonka in Hungary - some were commissioned and some were presents. The deal is normally modelling goods, figures, paints etc in return for painted figures as John can't just nip out and buy stuff in Hungary, or get much stuff at shows or mail order it easily. As always I understand that Games Workshop is all pervasive. John also has that skill of producing figures that "look good" when viewed - possibly its colour choice, possibly its painting technique.

The story behind these figures is that I wanted Pirate Captains (with a view to running Legend of the High Seas, although Cutlass has now also come onto the market) at the local club and I wanted different colours - so a yellow captain, red captain etc...