The Pirate City of Brinewind Boxed Set Review

Today we will take a look at The Pirate City of Brinewind terrain box by Reaper Miniatures.

You get quite a lot in this set, with a good variety of items, all themed around a pirate or water adjacent settlement. 

The boat hull is nicely detailed, extra sacks and lengths of ropes really make it look realistic.

The mast and oars, there are slight bends in some of them which can be fixed with hot water - straighten then cold water.

Seat planks and the tiller are the last parts of the boat. Dry fitting the seats to make sure they all fit before gluing is a must.

This cart is large, and nicely detailed though a little bit thick in the planking. 

I do like how open the bed of the cart is, allowing it to be used for many different cargos.

The wheels come already assembled onto the cart but still turn which is a nice feature. I do wonder how easy it will be to paint though.

This makeshift bar is amazing! I really love all the little details like the carved mermaid sign, the cobbled together look and all the different barrels.

Unfortunately, it does have a slight bend to it. I tried straightening it out and it works somewhat, but still isn't perfect.

These dock sections are quite interesting. They allow a decent amount of modularity in the way they are lined up, though putting a small section on the long side of the longer piece does have a slight mismatch with the uneven plank ends. They do have an exaggerated almost cartoonish look to them which might be off-putting for some, however, I think they look really stylised and fit nicely with a pirate town aesthetic.

The mould lines on these could be rough in places where they cross multiple planks and some rope.

A couple of crate sizes, these are very large crates which makes a nice change from others I've bought. They have quite sharp edges which I made a little more uneven by shaving off a little from the edges.

These barrel stacks are large as well, they are one piece and cannot be separated. They are also large enough that I could see myself never gluing them onto a larger terrain piece, but instead keeping them as scatter terrain.

This barrel rack is a change of pace from stand alone stacks of barrels (which I have examples of from many companies) I think it would likely be better to not glue the barrels into the holder as they do also fit inside the cart.

The barrel stacks don't fit together very well, so I put them in some very hot water then pushed them together and held them together under cold water to set them in place.

This is a cool little shrine/burial place of a pirate. It is the piece in this kit with the roughest mould lines, but they didn't take too long to remove. Not sure how I would use this yet, if you have any suggestions let me know!

Neat table and chairs set. I know these will be in my Five Fingers bar for sure!

The chairs and table are a decent size for 28mm minis, a little bit small but could be worse for sure.

They even put wood grain on the underside of the table which was nice but unnecessary. 

I have to assume this is some poor soul off to meet their watery end... the mould lines on this required delicate removable because of all the rope and creases but its a unique piece for sure.

And a small wooden chest which has some tiny padlocks, nicely little addition.

The tiny barrels and the bucket are nice to add onto another terrain piece or use as basing for a mini, I wouldn't want to paint them up purely as scatter terrain as they are too small.

Here are some examples of what the cart can fit in the back. I don't plan to add a horse to this cart to make my life easier its just going to be terrain. 

Overall this is a great terrain kit, though I would offer its not enough by itself to populate a table, it will add a lot of interest to larger terrain pieces as well as basing and dioramas.

Well worth picking up, especially if you can find it discounted!

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Rubble Terrain using Wreck Markers Painted

Here are five patches of rubble terrain for Warmachine and Hordes. These are made with old Mk2 wreck markers which have not had an in game use for many years now, but they make a great 2.5D terrain option as you can remove the Warjack wrecks for easy model placement.

Here with a couple of characterful Warjacks for scale.

All of these pieces are completely interchangeable, so picking which wreck goes on which template is a nice way to add that narrative touch to the tabletop.

This Cryx bonejack was fun to paint. I matched the paint scheme I used for Gurglepox's ride and the Bonejack I painted for the IKRPG (I've included links if you want to have a look)

As you can imagine picking the scheme for the Cygnar Warjacks was a no brainer... I simply painted it like my own army then weather it!

For this Convergence heavy I replicated the colour scheme I've used on other Convergence models in the past like Destructotron and a couple of Convergence light Warjacks I painted for Nemo4 (I've since given these away to a friend. I normally would have photographed them and posted them on here but I was pretty low about the hobby this summer when I finished them)

I added a lot of wreckage and debris to the template area to make them recognisable as "rubble" terrain even with the wreck markers removed. I try to do this kind of thing every time I make 2.5D terrain to make it as easy to play as possible.

These were all really hard to photograph but there are loads of mechanical and warjack parts spread across each of the terrain templates.

I really like how smashed up this Cryx Slayer looks especially in my scheme.

This Mercenary Talon was fun to paint, as with all my Mercs I like to do random colours to reduce the uniformity of an organised army. I let members of my Discord pick the colour scheme for this one and its meant to represent the house colours of a Llaelese noble house linked to one of my IKRPG campaigns.

The Cygnar Ironclad was very easy to pick the colours for...

I've not posted many Menoth models but I have painted a wreck marker before. Though that time it was basing for Nemo4 you can see it here

The Convergence light was easy like I mentioned before. It was fun to add so much weathering to a similar mini that I had recently painted normally.

I've never painted an official Mercenary Nomad, the ones I have made before as private style ones using other Warjacks as the base chassis got converted again to become Toros once it became clear they would be way more worth using...

Again I let my Discord members pick the colour of this one and the yellow was a fun choice!

There is also doubles of the Cygnar Hunter, Ironclad and Convergence light. They are essentially identical.

With Warmachine being finished in my area I find myself sadly unlikely to ever use these... so I've give it some thought and have decided to put these up for sale. I don't know how much is fair to charge for them so will be trying to figure that out, however if you want one or more of these feel free to reach out to me via any of my socials.

I'd rather these actually see the table somewhere rather than sit in a box in my place forever unplayed.

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any finished content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as posting wip projects.

Even if it's just $1 it really helps me out!

See you all next time!