Just received a lovely little box! :)

[Fenton]

I seem to get through files like stink; they too clog up.  Anyone know a solution to that?

Yup buy them from the pound shop. I think the last lot I bought were 6 for a £1. I just throw them out and buy more when they become really crap and gunged up

[getagrip]

Yup buy them from the pound shop. I think the last lot I bought were 6 for a £1. I just throw them out and buy more when they become really crap and gunged up

Really must make more use of the pound shop, really must make more use of the pound shop, repeat until it sinks in...

Cheers Steve

[Dunnadd]

Leman wrote

Many years ago Rita was Len's grinder.

That's different from a fluffer? Or kind of similar?

[Dragoon]

I used to work for an engineering company back in late '90's and I 'borrowed' a 8 1/2 inch bastard file. Gets lumps of the bottom of bases like nobody's business, and, if you are not careful it trims fingernails and the end of fingers as well. I would recommend one of these to the general wargaming public as they are quick and much safer than scalpel or craft knife blades.

That's what I normaly use but after digging out some mikes models Hoplites and some Macedonian pike I thought, being as they are the only figures that I need in quantity, I cleaned the lot up.
It just remains to decide, do I use the old cast spear and pike or drill out the hands and fit 30mm.long Pike and 20mm. Long spears.

Those Donnington pikes have sharp business ends, but spectators only catch them once. ;-).