ECW project - For King and Parliament

[Ithoriel]

'I' faith,' quo' Johnnie, 'I got sic flegs
Wi' their claymores an' philabegs;
If I face them again, deil break my legs!
Sae I wish you a' gude morning'.

[d_Guy]

One of the great pipe tunes. 

[pierre the shy]

OK so here a some pictures of the 5 lancer units that I took first thing this morning before going to work:









I had to look up what a philabeg was Mike 

[fsn]

A Phil-a-beg is when you really, really, really want Techno to sculpt something.

[mmcv]

Pure class! As our Scots brethren may say.

[sunjester]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top work

[d_Guy]

Looking great, Peter. Bravo!

[d_Guy]

A Phil-a-beg is when you really, really, really want Techno to sculpt something.

Nice   
And when you what him to add to them (drumroll) Phil-a-mor

[fred.]

They look rather good!!

I have some on these in progress, I think I need to improve the painting on them.

[Techno]

Those are top notch !! 

A Phil-a-beg is when you really, really, really want Techno to sculpt something.

OIK !!

Cheers - Phil 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Phil, you should know by now - Nobby cant help it !!!

[Techno]

 

Very true, Ian.

Cheers - Phil 

[pierre the shy]

Solved the issue of where to find about 200 30mm long pikes for my Scots Covenanter pikemen today (I got most of my pike figures from a different manufacturer and they are cast with an open handed pose). Mrs Shy wished to show me something she wanted in Spotlight, a chain of fabric/craft shops in NZ.

Spotted a pack of 200 30mm x 0.5mm pins for 7 bucks so threw them on the counter with the stuff Mrs Shy had selected.....she even paid for them  

Will have to remind people to pick up the pike units by their bases.....

And yes the heads are even the correct shape - according to Reid the Scots used narrow square headed pike tips rather than the older broadleaf blade style.

Now i just need to paint 200 pikes and super glue them to the figures once they are painted....that should be fun frustrating      

[paulr]

That's a good solution

If you want to super glue them to the figures when you clean them up I'll paint the pikes when I paint the rest of the figures
That should avoid damaging the paint work on the pikes or the figures

After a busy work week I finally made some more progress on the Irish
Scabbards and belts done

[Techno]

Now i just need to paint 200 pikes and super glue them to the figures once they are painted....that should be fun frustrating      

Enjoy !!

As an aside to that....But still 'on topic'.
I've always found sculpting open handed figures a right pain in the bum...especially at the 10mm 'scale'.

If the pike is going to be made as an integral part of the model....I can fix the pike into the base and then 'attach' the arm, plus hand, to that....very straightforward, as the arm's 'armature/former' can be made from a very thin sausage of green stuff, which, once set, can be sculpted over....Usually with a very 'soft' putty, made up of a 50/50 mix of green stuff and Magic Sculp.

This saves all the hassle of using a piece of ultra fine brass thread as the arm's floating 'former'....Then sculpting over that......THAT is really, really fiddly.

Recently, Dave wanted a couple of open handed pikemen for his Elizabethan project.
I experimented, by using a thin piece plastic rod as a replacement for the brass,  which I would have been using, if the pike was intended to be an integral part of the model.
This was very much like making a (for me) 'normal' "Man holding pike."

To my delight....Once the arm had set..I was able to carefully pull out the plastic rod, leaving the pike man with a ready made open hand. The green stuff hadn't stuck firmly to the plastic rod....Just as I hoped !

No swearing, at all !!

I hope that makes sense....and just maybe some of you just might find that a useful tip.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Fab

[FierceKitty]

He hasn't mentioned that as he withdrew the plastic rod, he jabbed the other end into his nostril.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

What AGAIN !!!!! 

[Techno]

It wasn't my nostril.....It would have been my eye, if the Optivisor hadn't got in the way.

(That was a complete lie.....I didn't even have to 'force' the plastic rod out.....You wait...next time I try this I'll be over confident, and it'll all go tots up. )

Cheers - Phil