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What will I use for Morgan's Buccaneers? Good question. There are pirate
figures available, but many aren't appropriate for Morgan's era. I can also
pick a few figures from English Civil War and Thirty Years War figures. But,
there are no really perfect figures.
Maybe its time for a good set of "Boucaniers", bring on Morgan
Suggested Reading:
"Empire of Blue Water"
"The Buccaneers of America" eyewitness account.
"Pirates" a general history of robberies and murders of the most notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson, made the subject famous... or infamous...
Most later pirate story's and films start here....
"Life Among the Pirates" the romance and the reality"
"A Pirate of Exquisite mind"
I like the look of pirates and highwaymen in all the movies, so I have a yen to do a scene with them in. But I started to read Osprey's book on the subject and it starts out by saying that they didn't look like that. So I have revised my ideas and started to look for figures that may be more realistic, or sometimes I just disregard history and look for figures that look like Hollywood pirates!
He looks just like any other man of that age, which is what the Osprey book says, pirates wore whatever "normal" people wore. No bandanas, no enormous earrings, no parrots, no zombie monkeys - well, not normally. I suppose I could give one of them a blue tooth.