Eureka
25mm Pirates!
Last update 1st October 2003
These figures are sculpted and cast in Melbourne, Australia. They are clean,
well animated almost 28mm figures. Most figures come with seperately cast hands.
Figures are not made of the usual pewter mix, and take a little extra effort
to bend. Eureka also produce a small set of rules to complement the figures.
Their web page is : www.eurekamin.com.au
- PS1 Pirate with peg leg, 2 variants
- PS2 Pirate with foot on treasure
chest, 2 variants
- PS3 Pirate carrying barrel, 2
variants
- PS4 Pirate with dagger, 2 variants
- PS5 Well dressed pirate with pistol
advancing, 2 variants
- PS6 Pirate captain with hook & sword,
2 variants
- PS7 Cur with pistol & belaying
pin
- PS8 Cur pointing, right hand figure
- PS9 Cur with blunderbuss firing
from hip
- PS10 Cur ready for action,
left hand figure
- PS11 Pirate laying gun, 2 variants
- PS12 Pirate pulling on ropes
- PS13 Pirate pulling on ropes
- PS14 Pirate with rammer,
- PS15 Powder monkey/cabin boy
- PS16 Swashbuckling hero
- PS17 Cur using 2 handed weapon,
2 variants
- PS18 Cur swinging weapon
2 handed
- PS19 Cur with 2 weapons, 2 variants
- PS20 Dead Pirate, 2 variants
- PS21 Teenage Pirate Lassie - tall
& lean
- PS22 Swivel Gunner
Female
Pirates (sculpted by Neil of Shadowforge)
- FPS1 Classy female pirate with
pistol & cutlas
- FPS2 Pirate wench standing with
cutlass
- FPS3 Pirate wench with fencing
sword
- FPS4 Pirate wench with pistol & cutlass
- FPS5 Pirate wench with captains
jacket, eye patch and fencing sword
- FPS6 Fancy Pirate wench with pistol
& cutlass foot resting on box
- 100club Female
pirate gun crew (4) The girls comprise one 4 person crew, 25mm eye height.
They are gun captain, loader, fuse lighter and swabber. The captain is based
on one of their regular pirate girls, with the arms changed abit. She stands
right leg forward, right arm forward pointing at the target. The left hand
is at her waist clutching the cutlass on her belt. She wears thigh high boots,
breeches, and pirate shirt with heavy cleavage and rolled up sleeves. On her
head is a tricorne. Her hair is just past shoulder length and tied at the
neck. The loader is also based on one of the other regular pirate girls, and
stands body and legs facing forward, feet well apart. Her arms are bent with
the hands at her belly cupping the cannon ball. She wears a short Spanish
senorita type shirt with bare shoulders and ample cleavage, tied at the front.
Her skirt varies in length around knee length generally, but is heavily tattered
at the hem. It is tied about the waist with a ribbon. She also wears shoes
with buckles. Her hair is shoulder length and curly, with a tied hanky type
skull cap. One ear is exposed with a hoop earing. The fuse lighter has an
Indian squaw sort of feel about her. She stands facing forward, feet apart,
and leaning slightly down to the right holding the fuse. Her left arm is held
out from the body to the side. She wears knee length boots with a heavy turn
down, breeches, pirate short tied at the front with heavy cleavage. A thick
ribbon acts as the belt, into which is poked a pistol at her back. Her hair
is straight and long, with a ribbon tie about her crown. Her left hand is
empty, the right holding a short length of fuse. The swabber is a negro, based
on one of the previously released female negro slaves. She stands right leg
forward, body turned slightly left, head turned further left. Her left arm
hangs straight down, the right held out to the side. She holds a short swabbing
sponge say 4 foot long with the swab to the left. She wears a simple shirt
tied at the waist with a length of ribbon. Her skirt is just over knee length,
but split up at each hip. From her right hip hangs a thin dagger. Her hair
is short and curly. There is a large hoop earring in the right ear. Sculpting
on all figures is clean, as is the casting and animation. It is vaguely disappointing
3 of the girls are based on previous figures, but it is not as obvious these
are revised figures. For something as highly irregular as a lady pirate crew,
it would be good to see more variants, but it is such an obscure thing it
is fortunate there are even 4 of them presented here.
Zombie
Pirates
Eastern
Pirates (Orientals)
- 100PIR30 - 36 Chinese pirate (16)
You will spot the odd figure out here. We have 15 pirates, broken into 4 spear
armed, 4 sword armed, 3 musket armed and four personality figures. The spears
are really two spears and 2 naginata. They all wear eastern 'pajamas' typical
of kung fu type movies. The swordsmen feature a woman in long dress with sword,
and hair formed up into a T shape. One leader stands in long robe and wields
a huge two handed cleaver. He is bald and has a long beard. Leader two is
also bald in a long robe. He stands en garde pose armed with two giant tasselled
maracas. Personality 'set' three is a jehail team, consisting of one musket
guy has a super musket, being longer and thicker than normal. His companion
is a lackey who hunches down abit with both hands held up to his right shoulder
to support the long barrel. I'd think two of these could also go together
with a homemade pole between them with a cargo supported on it. Overall the
figures have the style down pretty good and the faces are ethnically suitable.
Adornment is all very simple
Turkish
Pirates
- Arab pirate (14) There
should be 15 figures here (28mm), one slipped into the chinese pirates by
mistake. At a guess the figures are broken into 4 with cutlass, 4 with rifle,
4 with spear, and 3 command figures. All figures except noted wear baggy pants,
shirt, waist sash, eastern shoes and a turban. The spears are solid and not
as flimsy as some other Eureka spears. The leader is ornate with a plume to
his turban, cape and over coat. He stands looking suitably heroic with one
hand one his hip and the other holding the cutlass in his sash. What I take
to be another leader stands pointing with one hand, the other cocked holding
his rifle vertical. The third leader appears to be firing his musket, wearing
a fur trimmed overcoat looking abit like an eskimo in turban.
- Turkish Bombard and 6 Crew
(28mm) These are to go with the Turkish pirates previously released, and are
stylistically the same. They wear turbans, and loose baggy pants and shirt,
with cloth waist sashes. They all wear eastern shoes. The 'leader' is plainly
adorned, and stands pointing right with a scimitar while looking left. He
is probably looking at the fuse man, who leans down little to the right to
get his fuse onto the touch hole of the mortar. The next two men are loaders
and form a pair. They stand with hands at waist as supporting a length of
timber that runs across the front of their body. Basically they stand side
by side, and they each have and end of the timber. From the timber is a chain
from which hangs a large mortar ball. It would take the two of them to lift
it. There are two swabbers, one stands casually holding his swab horizontal,
though it's not held high enough to fit the mortar mouth. The second holds
what could be a swab, but has no lambswool on the end, so maybe he's an elevator
choc bloke. He stands very casually, leaning on the vertical swab. Each guy
is a different figure. The faces on these guys are great, and the posing very
simple yet realistic. A great set. The mortar comes in 2 pieces, a 23mm square
timbr base with side walls to take the barrel 'axle' and a choc to hold the
barrel upright. The barrel itself is a one piece bronze barrel, 23mm long
with a 10mm bore size. It is fat and dumpy. Detail simple and effective.
Accessories
Also suitable from the 100club is the AWI
ships crew (4 variants)
Pirate
Ship
Pirate Ship - 3 piece resin
cast upper hull only. Comes with 3 dowel main masts and a dowel fore mast. Lead
acccessories are a mermaid figurehead,
ship wheel, and 3
cargo hold tops, plus lengths of hand rails for fore and aft sections. They
come in about 100mm sections, but I only had a cut short piece left for the
scan.
Pirate ship extension - centre piece of above set, used to extend the basic
ship frame.
