Space Pirates !

 

Hey everyone ! Happy new year and best of everything for 2026 to you all !

2025 ended with a little group project with my friends and I decided to make it this particular band I've had in mind for a long time but only just finished now after starting it 2 years ago (see HERE).

Now since I wanted my band to be mostly made of overweight untrustworthy idiots, model selection was pretty fun.

Just below are 2 guys from the Foundry street violence range left and right and in the middle, what I thought was from Hasslefree is actually a copplestone from Grenadier (thanks to the readers who pointed that out).

The camo pants were the way to tie them with their parents and all the colours are echoes of the ones used on the first pair.

Next we have the famous 3 fat pirates from the old Citadel range, the one on the right is a real weird one with plenty of messy bits showing he might have been a quick conversion but the other two are just brilliant.

Now I'm the happy owner of one painted by the ever talented Koltti; I only just remember I wanted to paint the rest in a way that would match until I realised I would probably not be doing it justice and the basing would be off so kept it as a its own thing and it still makes me happy to see it in the cabinet (I really should have weathered mine a lot more lol).

Now the last 3 are an odd bunch, the 2 guys on the left are now OOP and from Black Cat miniatures (who no longer exist if my googling is right). They looked like nuggets with potential in had but once painted I realised they were actually exquisite miniatures and very fun to paint with just the level of details where you want it.

The dog is from the 2nd edition of Necromunda and is honestly not the greatest sculpt ever, it's probably just not meant to be painted as a regular dog so that might be on me. However I like to think the poor doggo is the smartest member of the crew.

So here we are, the full band took quite a while but it turned out pretty much exactly like I meant it to be so I'm quite happy with it so what that's a nice start for 2026 !