Zombie Pirates

[Rorschach]

I thought it would be funny to field a small number of zombie pirates along with the rest of my army so I bought a box of Empire militia and a regiment of zombies to create a few.
Do I just mix 'n match the two or does anyone have some pointers perhaps?

 

[Sanai]

If you are keen on zombie pirates, consider these-

Also, consider greenstuffing big hats for your pirates. Yarrrr.

 

[untitled_musketeer]

Hey there,

Zombie pirates are always great! Theres a member of the forum who has been making an undead pirate crew for quite a while. You might like to check out Klimpen's thread!

Cheers,

u_m

 

[Rorschach]

Thanks guys, this is most helpful.
I didn't even know about those Sartosan vampires, but I did pick up this lovely pirate maneater to use as filler (figured I make some kind of zombie captain out of him).

 

[Von Calyptra]

If you're not concerned about using Citadel miniatures, Privateer Press has a slew of undead pirate models in their Warmachine line:
http://privateerpress.com/files/products/revenant-pirate-crew-unit.png
http://privateerpress.com/files/products/blackbanes-ghost-raiders-unit.png
http://privateerpress.com/files/products/RevenantCannonCrew.png
http://privateerpress.com/files/products/cryx/solos/captain-rengrave.png

 

[spineyrequiem]

One problem is that zombie heads have no neck, and nor do empire militia bodies. There was a white dwarf article a while back (read: several years back) about zombie pirates in general, including an army list. Their advice for this problem was to get some very, very small craft beads then shave them down a little. Hope that helps!

 

[Rorschach]

Created my pirates today.. had some trouble with the hats (I dont use green stuff all that often), but I tried my best.

Thanks for the pointers!

 

[Vampire Ron]

http://www.miniature-giant.com/wereshark-Reaper-sku-65076-c-144-p-11-pr-12013.html
I think you should definitely use this.

 

[Count Homogenised]

Here are some pictures of my Zombie Pirates; I used a mixture of the zombie/free company hybrids and metal miniatures from other compaanies (PP, Reaper, Moonlight).

https://www.vampirecounts.net/Thread-More-Zombie-Pirates

I think you are doing fairly well in getting the basic shape for your greenstuff hats but I would personally recommend going smaller for a lot of them (might even be able to trim them after the greenstuff has dried).

Some of the empire plastic feathers added to the hats would look good too.

 

[Sanai]

I would suggest making the hats much smaller.

 

[Rorschach]

Thanks guys, I took off the old hats (which went quite easily) and made smaller ones.

That wereshark would make a nice varghulf btw, hmm.. =)

 

[Sanai]

Thats alot better, thought for variety I would also add some bandanas and other pirate hat kinda things too, and even some hatless.

 

[Archean]

I agree with Sanai, these are starting to look much better now, GJ on the resculpting, looking forward to seeing them painted up

 

[Johnny-Crass]

http://www.warploqueminiatures.co.uk/catalog/zombie-pirates-black-coast

 

[Unanswered]

LOVE the hats! i think they look uber awesome. the only thing i might add would be to chop off some legs and glue on a toothpick for a peg leg. maybe greenstuff some eyepatches too. keep us all posted

 

[headhunter]

yeps, they look a lot better.

For peg legs you can chop the end off clubs, and other hand weapons..( ogre ones work great).

Then just glue in place.

Undead parrots would lok cool too... and will also strech your sculpting a bit further.

You can make rags for the zombies too... just flatten out a piece of mixed green stuff..and strech it..till it "tears" then just drape on the model.

-looking great already though

-D.

 

[Feast4Crows]

Looking good! For peg legs you can also just shave the mini's leg down to a peg.

I still have around 100 GW zombies that I want to continue making zombie pirates out of. I had bought the kit bashing set that GW put out during their Lustria campaign. As the campaign I am running right now nears the halfway point, I'm looking ahead to the next one and popular vote amongst the group is for the Lustria map. I think I might try re-doing the old Zombie Pirate list from WD to be more in line with the new VC rules and use them as a house rules list. After doing a brief search on the forum, I haven't discovered anyone else having done it yet.