Thanks a bunch!
The spiral staff couldn’t be simpler! For those interested I used this method from the roll maker thread with green stuff wrapped around a paperclip.
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ah yes the beautiful rune of the lost directions
very well done man, love the original perry head detail!
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oh hell yes, i’m printing these bastards right away. this is AWESOME 
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Excellent! Please do. Give us a link here when you’ve painted them!
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100% will do! especially that pig-faced dwarf! i’m a fan of pig orcs and pig-anything really when it comes to minis, so this is double-awesome
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This is a tremendous project!
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Ace work on the digital wizardry as always! Excited to see folks with prints of this guy.
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Merowig’s Hellrakers
Nobody had ever seen Prince Merowig wearing spikes on his armour. To anyone’s knowledge, he had never so much as looked twice at an accessory decorated with something as unfashionable as skulls. Yet many an upstanding dwarf would have confidently called him evil, among other, even less flattering epithets. Not a few of Merowig’s more conservative compatriots would have considered his first volume of love poems sufficient reason for disgrace and exile, to say nothing of his non-literary exploits in the circles of high society. The young Prince was, as one had to regretfully admit with a sigh and a shake of the head, a rake if ever there had been one. All anyone could do was thank the ancestors that Merowig was the king’s youngest son of many, with no realistic expectation of inheriting any sort of responsibility; otherwise it would doubtlessly have gone ill with the monarchy.
Still, nobody could deny a certain fascination that emanated from Merowig’s scandalous personality. A rake he may have been, but he was also amiable, entertaining, and generous with his family’s money, a connoisseur and patron of the arts, and the life of every ball in the capital. Especially the younger members of the nobility did not quite share their elders’ outrage over the young Prince’s behaviour: After all, was he not merely a dwarf of descent who knew how to live? And had he not demonstrated a sound understanding of military affairs, too, personally designing new uniforms for the kingdom’s army, even against the malevolent opposition of those old-fashioned generals and their so-called concerns regarding practicality? Was such a dwarf not deserving of friendship and admiration? Was he not, perhaps, a better fit for the crown than any of the old bores he had for brothers?
Whether it was such dangerous talk or simply one broken promise of marriage too many that finally brought banishment upon Merowig is not known for certain. Whatever the truth may be, his popularity at that point was such that when he left his home, he did so accompanied by a flock of ambitious patrician youths as well as a sizeable crowd of fortune-seeking members of the lower classes. There also happened to be a considerable amount of gold in Merowig’s baggage that corresponded exactly to the sum that was reported missing from the royal family’s coffers some days later. Nobody could reasonably expect him to set up as a mercenary commander without some starting capital, after all; and even as he embarked on a life of campaigning, Merowig felt no inclination to change his exquisite and expensive tastes. And who knew? One day, if business went well and the fancy took him, he might choose to return to his estranged family’s lands and lay claim to a good deal more than a few bags of gold.
Some more combinations:
Here, at last, comes Prince Merowig’s entourage! All in all, there are four torsi, four heads, one left arm with optional adarga, and arm/weapon options for musket, polearm, pike (doubling as a flagpole if desired), and hammer. The empty-handed arm came about purely by accident: I actually intended to make each weapon complete with its own arm bit. But while I was working on the pike-wielding hand, the metal rod came loose, so I decided to roll with it and adjusted the thumb so that a variety of weapon bits should fit. In retrospect, I’m very glad this happened because the empty hand lends some opportunity for customisation.
If I ever get around to painting some of these, I would like to make a small KoW Ambush band out of them, using the Imperial Dwarfs list. But that is very theoretical at the moment, as hobby time is scarce, and when given the choice between sculpting and painting, I will usually choose the former. 
In any case, this project was a lot of fun for me, and I hope that some of you will also get some joy out of these sculpts!
Cheers
Antenor
Add-on: Boar Dragoon torso
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True spirit of the bastards here! So many interchangeable pieces and they’ll fit right alongside the prince.
Keep up the great sculpting. You’re keeping this thread alive! Hopefully others will take up the call as well.
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Thank you for the kind words! That honour belongs to yourself and @MichaelX, though.
Aye, with so many talented enthusiasts coming in, I’m sure there will be some great contributions.
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Looking at Merowig’s Hellrakers again after taking a hobby break over the summer, I decided that it would be just plain lazy not to add a quadrupedal torso option. I took the liberty of updating the original post with this modest add-on. 
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haha! I love it. we could always use moar boar.
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@Admiral @Jackswift what ever happened to the sculpt slash plans for this model? This guy would make a lovely bastard. Hope you enjoy this piece of pirate necromancy from my latest cruising of Admiral’s work.
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Damn that’s a sweet design!!!
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Tell me Antenor, didn’t you write somewhere that your models were going to be published by Hagen Miniatures? But when I last visited their website, I couldn’t find any trace of your models again. Am I misremembering the publication, or have your plans changed?
@zanko A while back, I entertained thoughts in that direction and mentioned the possibility to a few people, but in the end decided that commercial sculpting, even on a very small scale, is not for me. I did order some casts from them for my own use, though.
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Thank you! This is still WIP as far as I know. Life and other projects took precedence as happens. Hopefully someday Admiral will return to it and complete the very promising WIP. He did a beautiful job with my priestess sketch.
If not, perhaps one of these days I’ll start sculpting and give it a go. This one and the Blade Maid.
I should do more concept sketches, but always do more and better work when I have a specific project or deadline. Happy to do more concept drawings if anyone has a need and a rough idea. The drawing is easy compared to the sculpting.
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It is great, both art and sculpt! Always need more pirates!
@Admiral if you are ever looking to offload this from your backlog I’d happily try my hand at taking it across the finish line. Not sure I could do it full justice but I would do my best. Looks like a lot of the hard part getting the pose right and that bird are already mostly done!
If you’re ever exchanging packages to @MichaelX there’s an opportunity there to get it passed off. But no worries if you’d prefer to hold onto it of course!
Some of us sculpting inclined folk are working a secret project that may take some time to complete and get posted here. But it will be worth it!
One idea I had that’s next on my sculpting list. A Chaos Dwarf version of uncle Iroh with a fancy tea pot. Could be a peaceful sculpt that would make for a good emissary. Or something more dynamic and fire bendy like the blood bowl fire breather with oil lamp. It would be fun to sculpt from some reference art if you’re interested!
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