Saint Kristos – Pirate Island – Chapter 13

So the great pandemic of the last couple of years has finally reached my own personal shores with my eldest daughter testing positive on the weekend. As myself, and the rest of the family, are close contacts we are all required to isolate for the next seven days. We are all vaccinated and my daughter seems to have quite mild symptoms. The rest of us have tested negative. 

The bad news is, I can’t work. The good news is can’t work (I do love my job but seven days off is seven days off). The other good news is that I have more time for the beloved hobby. 

As a result I made this. 

I took my inspiration from He-Man’s castle grayskull. 

Here are a couple of WIP shots. 

I haven’t done much in the way of sculpting before so I just took my time and whittled away. 

I’ll be glueing the skull to a foam island and adding moss etc but I just wanted to show you guys what it looks like as is for now. 

I’ve also made a start on my Man o’ War ship I’m calling “The Iron Drake” which is a bit of a nod to a Space Marine Chapter and to Sir Francis Drake who really was a pirate in my opinion. 

This ship came from Ainsty Castings and no instructions were supplied. This usually isn’t a problem for me because I like to cut my own path but as this project has some semblance of historical accuracy to it I was a little frustrated when I opened this bag of metal bits (above).

After scratching my head, having a cup of tea, and watching some YouTube videos on Star Wars I came back to the pile of metal and searched google for reference images. Hallelujah I found some which gave me some indication on where the bits and bobs were meant to go. 

Cheers
IRO