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Wider Wargaming => Painting & Modelling => Topic started by: Aksu on 05 March 2016, 05:41:53 PM

Title: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Aksu on 05 March 2016, 05:41:53 PM
Hullo,
Inspired by the recent discussion on bent spears I made a short video about the way I make wire spears for my figs. Apologies for my accent and for the fiddly method I demonstrate.

https://youtu.be/KAXY7pDdiUE (https://youtu.be/KAXY7pDdiUE)

Cheers,
Aksu
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: d_Guy on 05 March 2016, 06:49:30 PM
Good demonstration, Aksu - thanks!  Also a nice presentation of the LoA pikemen.
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: petercooman on 05 March 2016, 07:14:50 PM
great video, gave you your first like  :D
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: paulr on 05 March 2016, 08:12:58 PM
 :-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Leman on 05 March 2016, 08:46:56 PM
Short, succinct and literally to the point; nice one!
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Techno on 05 March 2016, 08:47:57 PM
Really good stuff Aksu.  :-bd

Your hammer and 'anvil' look far nicer than the ones I use.  ;)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Zippee on 05 March 2016, 09:44:40 PM
Quote from: Techno on 05 March 2016, 08:47:57 PM
Your hammer and 'anvil' look far nicer than the ones I use.  ;)

That's 'cos they ain't blood spattered  :o
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: fsn on 05 March 2016, 10:02:20 PM
This is one of those sneaky videos. It looks easy when Aksu does it, but my efforts weren't quite so successful.

(http://www.crafts-for-all-seasons.com/image-files/60.bent.wire.jpg)
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: petercooman on 05 March 2016, 10:07:38 PM
I can't believe it, you have perfected the technique and made barbed wire!
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Fenton on 05 March 2016, 10:20:45 PM
I just thought his slinky had broken
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: petercooman on 05 March 2016, 10:33:11 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 05 March 2016, 10:20:45 PM
I just thought his slinky had broken

It did, that's why he takes all those pills  :d
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: mollinary on 05 March 2016, 10:50:21 PM
Quote from: Aksu on 05 March 2016, 05:41:53 PM
Apologies for my accent.

Accent?  Accent? What accent?  :-\ Nothing at all when compared to the teensie- weensie (curiously predicted as teenage Wednesday by my wonderful software!)  bit of an accent picked up by Brigadier Sir Bernard Proudfoot-Smith when in Germany, as recorded in Blackadder goes Forth Episode 5!  :D ;)

Mollinary
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Ithoriel on 05 March 2016, 10:54:19 PM
http://imgur.com/a/jLyRa
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: d_Guy on 05 March 2016, 11:43:38 PM
Quote from: fsn on 05 March 2016, 10:02:20 PM
....but my efforts weren't quite so successful.
(http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/43651214/3/stock-photo-43651214-bandage-thumb-accident-isolated-on-white-.jpg)
Yes, I feel your pain!
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Aksu on 06 March 2016, 07:08:21 AM
Thank you chaps for the feedback, much appreciated I'm sure.
I wonder what the next 30 second tip should be... How to make custom shade terrain paste by mixing textured acrylic paste and paint perhaps? Any ideas? How to use super glue as a first aid after unfortunate scalpel accidents might get us sued by grieving relatives, so that one is out, I'm afraid :)
Cheers,
Aksu
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: FierceKitty on 06 March 2016, 10:57:09 AM
What accent? It's just a bit of pepper on the plain flavour of received English.
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Techno on 06 March 2016, 11:32:42 AM
Quote from: Aksu on 06 March 2016, 07:08:21 AM
How to use super glue as a first aid after unfortunate scalpel accidents
Cheers,
Aksu

Been there...Done that....Got the tee-shirt, sweat shirt, baseball cap, coffee mug...Need I go on ?  ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: Aksu on 06 March 2016, 01:07:01 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 06 March 2016, 10:57:09 AM
What accent? It's just a bit of pepper on the plain flavour of received English.
Perhaps it is the torture of hearing one's own voice that makes it very hard to listen to. Anyway after I moved back to the motherland five years ago my English has taken a turn for the Nordic, that's certain. For what it's worth I blame a steady diet of subtitled BBC and Thames TV when I was a bairn for my English.Listening to those while cocooned in a cloud of airfix polysterene cement fumes must have had an effect.
Cheers,
Aksu
Title: Re: Small video about wire spears
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 March 2016, 06:15:49 AM
I was horrified the first time I saw and heard myself recorded. I seemed horribly similar to someone I disliked.