Wire Spear off-cuts

[Jamanicus]

Hey everyone,

Think this is the first time I've started a topic/thread!! Exciting

Having really embraced replacing plastic spears with wire/metal ones in my new painting projects, I now have quite a large amount of decent sized lengths of off-cuts.

I tend to cut down the 100mm ones to maybe 40 or 50mm, meaning I now have lots...but without the spear ends

I can't bring myself to use then in their 'blunted' state, as they just don't look right to me.

What do you do with the off-cuts and/or how do you add a blade to them?

Thanks,
Jamie

[Jeremy]

I use mine to stir glue, etc. Life is too short to make spears

[goat major]

Whack the end with a hammer
Then use a dremel to grind a pointed spearhead from the tip

You need hammer, hard surface to whack against (i've got a mini anvil thing on my table vice) and a dremel with a metal grinding bit (usually the pink ones). Once you've done it a couple of times you'll find it really easy and in an hour you'll have loadsa spears

[Jamanicus]

Ooow, right....I'll have a go!! Perfect opportunity to be a great neighbour

[ochoin]

I follow GM's method.

I now have a mini-arms factory in the garden shed which, I believe, the AP are watching.

donald

[Norman D. Landings]

Sharpen them then place them point up in small holes in the back garden and smear them with faeces to create a Vietnam War Experience theme park for hedgehogs.

Watch the action from your kitchen window with Fortunate Son blasting through headphones.

[Jamanicus]

Thanks for the input....even Norm...as always

[Buff Redux]

Sharpen both ends and insert them into the coping on your fence. Then just wait for the local cats to find out.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

A while back, I bought a load of Hearth Maidens for an Irish army to oppose my SAGA Normans (all over 55, guv, promise....). The HMs had 100mm spears, which I had a friend cut down and re-grind (as per Goat Major's method) into three 33mm javelins for each figure.

Now I just need to grid my lions for the painting of random tartans.....