Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band (Wars of Ozz)

Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band (Wars of Ozz)

Admiral Jinjur is a female pirate who has gathered females from all of the various main factions of Ozz. As I wrote in my post on my two Admiral Jinjur regiments that I painted up:

In the world of the Wars of Ozz, Pirate-General (Admiral) Jinjur is said to:

…sail on the (Great Nonastic Ocean). She commands a flotilla of ships big and small, all crewed by female pirates. Her pirates board ships and raid seaports, ruthlessly overwhelming any resistance.Wars of Ozz, Section2.6.6, The Lands Beyond Ozz, pages 45-46

Her pirate forces are composed of females from all over Ozz – so her troops are made up of Gillikins, Munchkins, Winkies, and Quadlings – all the main races of Ozz. 

There is, however, one other unit that is affiliated with her – Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band. It is SKU#OZZ-517, and is composed of 7 figures. The unit has no combat capability and can take 4 hits before it is removed. Otherwise it has no Melee, Marksmandship, Resolve, or Elan values. The unit costs 3 points. It has this ability:

The Band may play a rousing tune when it activates instead of moving. All units, friendly or enemy, within 9″ of the band increase their Elan by 1 during its next actvation.

Wars of Ozz unit stats

This ability would be very helpful to get either timid troops or those that have been previously routed to get up the gumption to get into Melee (or at least to stop routing away).

I built out mine as follows:

  1. Band Leader (Quadling)
  2. Trumpeter (Gillikin)
  3. French Horn player (Quadling)
  4. Drummer (Munchkin)
  5. Flautist (Quadling)
  6. Fiddler (Winkie)
  7. Concertina player (Quadling)

Let’s get into the build and painting. First, some:

WIP Shots and Discussion

I started working on the unit on April 9th in conjunction with more stuff (units and individuals that I’ll post about soon). In my collection of potential bases, I had a leftover hexagonal 4″ basswood base that I had made when I painted my Minifig “The World Of Greyhawk 9 Cavemen” waaaay back on April of 2015. I’m glad I saved it, as I did not want to use an artillery MDF base for the band. As this unit only takes 4 hits, having 7 figures on a single base would not make any sense to use (as the artillery bases allow for figure removal to equal hits).

Then, it was on to filing off the flash, mold lines, and giving the figures a quick wash before priming. The figures are great and have a lot of character. No assembly was required.

Instead of using my airbrush to prime the band, I mixed some old grey and white primer that was no longer airbrush-suitable – but that was certainly fine for hand brushwork.

Cleaned up and awaiting priming.

I did (and do still) have other issues and projects going on as I stated earlier. As you may have noticed, I also am part of a committee that runs the monthly Tour of the Brookfields golf tournament here in Central Massachusetts (the latest one is here). So, in between that, attending and running games at MAYHEM in New Hampshire (which went from April 19-20 for me and for which I still need to do a blog post), other golf, and other units/individuals, I worked on the band with the hope of having the unit done for HUZZAH Goes Hollywood in May. Yeah, retirement is busy!

Back to the band – by April 22nd, I had made some progress.

April 22nd progress.

And by the 28th of April, I had the figures painted and ready for varnishing, basing, and flocking. Chris Palmer’s Pi-Rats that he had painted had inspired me to go back and paint a few of these band member’s pants with stripes. As I did this before with my Conquistadores, it was a nice flashback to many of my previous fond projects.

By April 30th, I had finished the band for April as you can see below!

Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band Eye Candy

Photographing the unit was a bit difficult given the configuraton that I chose. First some close ups – these ladies of Ozz are all in fine form:

And here is the entire base flocked and done:

I also decided that with my new WordPress plan that I should try to add a video – as that might be of interest as I get to describe more and rotate the unit:

A brief video of the Admiral Jinjur’s Personal Band

I’m probably going to add this unit to a brigade that already has the other Jinjur pirates. We’ll see how I can work that into HUZZAH!

Lastly, Jinjurs in the Jungle:

With apologies to Jethro Tull – Jinjurs in the Jungle, that’s all right by me!

So why the jungle shot? Well, first, pirates are known for hiding out on jungle-infested islands, no? Second. well, this is a tease for my next unit post. Though my next post will likely be a MAYHEM wrap up. To my fellow bloggers, I look forward to more of your stuff too – I have been remiss in commenting, but not in reading. WordPress is intermittenly still not allowing me to “like” your comments on my PC! Grrr…

As always, much thanks for looking!

And yes, I still have much more Ozz to come…

Miscellaneous details and references for those interested in that sort of thing:

For all of my previous posts on Wars of Ozz games, figures, units, and other related projects – please see this page.

PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON ADMIRAL JINJUR’S PERSONAL BAND:

  1. Homemade 4″ hexagonal base made of 1/8″ basswood
  2. 5/16″ Everbilt steel washers (ACA)
  3. Black Sharpie pen
  4. Green Sharpie pen
  5. Poster Tack
  6. Vallejo Surface Primer “Grey”
  7. Vallejo Mecha Primer “White”
  8. Wargames Accessories FOW #1 (1.25″ X 1″ steel base)
  9. Elmer’s PVA Glue
  10. Army Painter “Dark Tone” (wash)
  11. Vallejo Model Color “White”
  12. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Peachy Flesh 2.0”
  13. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ork Flesh”
  14. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Talassar Blue”
  15. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Baal Red”
  16. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Aggaros Dunes”
  17. Vallejo Mecha Color “Off White”
  18. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Purple Swarm 2.0”
  19. Reaper MSP “Pure Black”
  20. Vallejo Mecha Color “Magenta Fluorescent”
  21. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Imperial Fist”
  22. Vallejo Model Air “Chrome”
  23. Army Painter Speed Paint – Hoplite Gold 1.0
  24. P3 “Midland Flesh”
  25. Vallejo Model Color “Brown Rose”
  26. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Apothecary White”
  27. Citadel “Squid Orange”
  28. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Basilicanum Grey”
  29. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Bad Moon Yellow”
  30. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Shamrock Green 2.0”
  31. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Murder Scene 2.0”
  32. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Snakebite Leather”
  33. Vallejo Model Air “Wood”
  34. Vallejo Model Air “Black ” (metallic)
  35. Citadel “Dryad Bark”
  36. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Garaghak’s Sewer”
  37. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Dusk Red 2.0”
  38. P3 “Blazing Ink”
  39. Citadel “Drakenhof Nightshade” (wash/shade)
  40. Vallejo Model Air “Gun Metal”
  41. Polly Scale WWII “German Armor Dark Olive Green”
  42. Citadel “Agrax Earthshade GLOSS” (wash/shade)
  43. Citadel “Nuln Oil GLOSS” (wash/shade)
  44. Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
  45. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Gloss Varnish”
  46. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
  47. Vallejo “Flow Improver”
  48. Gorilla Glue
  49. Woodland Scenics “Blended Turf”
  50. Army Painter “Moss Green” (flocking)
  51. Army Painter “Grass Green” (flocking)
  52. Army Painter “Brown Battleground” (flocking)
  53. Pendraken 12mm dice frames
  54. Army Painter “Battlefield Field Grass” (flocking)
  55. Pendraken 12mm dice frames
  56. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Wildflowers – Primrose” (flocking)
  57. Gamers Grass “Yellow Flowers” (flocking)
  58. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Blue” (flocking)
  59. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “6mm Dark Forest Purple” (flocking)
  60. Gamers Grass “Wild Shrubs” (flocking)

As you may want to check out the excellent Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them and to get the rules (and I make no money from this btw). The game rules and the figures are available from the following two places:

In the US Old Glory has a site – Wars of Ozz Miniatures.

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

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Author: Mark Morin

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