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Under the great minds think alike catagory, I too though of doing this and am also constrained by time.  Either that or a beach background.  For me, it's also deciding which 2 to paint.

It's a race against time, but my Corsairs are almost painted - amazing what the chance of winning a freebie can do for the enthusiasm

I'm not mounting them on a ship, but take a look at the images I sent in on the thread for painted minis and you can see a couple of ships I'm working on. One for the Corsairs the other a Gondorian Warship.

The Venetian Galley is very similar to Heller's La Reale de France which you will see in one of the images. It is a beautiful model even if the instructions are S***e and the vac-form sails are even worse , however it is coming along niceley and the GF Corsair Admiral looks very much at home stood upon the 'bridge'.

Should I ever be able to get enough Corsairs to complement it then it will weigh a ton, plus (as a certain observant Ent noted) it will need a lot of oarsmen (but I think I can sort that!).

I was going for the Lake-town oarsmen option myself, cast in resin they will be lighter in weight.

At the moment I'm working on a new mould. I could work in one of the Lake-town oarsmen recast the guy a few times ready to be converted suitable for his new home (ship)! After whoever wants one ore more to convert, I could send these guys out to. After they are converted, you send them back and I produce a new mould with up to 9 minis (if we get 9 converted) and can produce a small oarsmen series, depending on how fast the ships has to be filled. If I use jewlery alloy the weight will be very low aswell and who wants plastic anyway?
For a run with say 200 minis in up to 9 different poses you would look at aprox AU$ 2,50 per mini. Create your own MMP MX.lol

ok, we get it going.

I'll put the shovel guy M100 in the mould aswell. Nice bend back to cut in half and put on a sitting bottom.
Well master ent, you can contibute to this eighter with converting one or more of this guys, or with good ideas...

I love the idea of everyone coming up with their own conversions and then pooling the minis for production.  I would be true to the Corsairs taking captives from many lands and chaining them to the oars!  Count me in as well!

I'm really looking forward to all these conversions!

That funny looking hat can be easily changed into cap similar to the one one of the Corsairs is wearing. It also can be changed into hair. If these two solutions don't appear to somone, the head can be chopped of completely and replaced with another head. M294's head is my faforite one.

Corsairs finished, photgraphed and submitted!  Images will be posted here soon.  Anyone else entering?

Yes, I've seen yours and very fine work indeed David!  But are we the only ones?  That is what I wanted to know.  I suspect not and I also think there are many good painters out there.  I doubt if Mithril will post anything but the winning entires.  I'm interested in seeing the work of others.

I will finished my corsairs next week.

So we are three!