The Loose Association of Wargamers

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

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

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

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

I follow GM's method.

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

donald

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.

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

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

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.....