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It's especially tricky with 15/18s so clearly you've done a very good job there.

goat major wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:53 pm

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:43 pm

Actually, she chips in at a respectable 5' 4" - a foot shorter than me, so I can rest my pint on her head when she's standing in front of me.

How shelfish....

A-ledge-edly.....

RMD wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:40 am These were 50mm steel spears that I've cut to 35mm. The blades are a somewhat broad for Napoleonic lance-heads, but they look ok.

And will give those numpties who pick them up wrongly a much nastier stab wound. Good job, Mark.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:41 am

goat major wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:53 pm

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:43 pm

Actually, she chips in at a respectable 5' 4" - a foot shorter than me, so I can rest my pint on her head when she's standing in front of me.

How shelfish....

A-ledge-edly.....

Took you a while to come up with that one?

Thats because he had to rack his brain to think of a pun

RMD wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:32 pm

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:27 pm I like them, a lot.

What are they based on?

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I think he said they're based on Vikings. I'm no expert, but they look great to me!

I even thought to myself 'should I make that clearer, because some git is bound to say 'Vikings''. I'll never learn.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:47 pm The bases are MDF on magentised sheet, from Tiny Tin Troops. I am holding off on finishing the bases till the whole army is done, so they are nice and consistent.

Ta. It was the dark line that threw me.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:35 am I hate respearing figures, but that looks like a good job.

Cheers, yeah I don't normally bother except where I want to replace a flagpole or turn someone into a standard bearer, but the poses on these (allied to the softer metal used by Eureka) made it a necessity. I've got some Russian hussars with lances in charging poses that will probably need a similar treatment, as they've been in bags for around 25 years and are a bit buggered. I'll have to give those lance-pennants, but there are only about four of them per regiment, so no great drama (IIRC it was only the front rank of the 1st Sqn who had lances).

World2dave wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 am It's especially tricky with 15/18s so clearly you've done a very good job there.

Cheers Dave, yeah some of them didn't quite work, so I had to turn the hands into open hands with careful use of the knife rather than drill through.

I don't mind doing it, but I tend to break a lot of drill bits because I score with a knife and drill with a really fine bit, then with the proper sized one. And the really fine ones break very easily.