Hi Doug, Go back to the pictures on the post, the square beads showing squadron letters are 1cm cubes. The models are very nice and, even better, easy to...
What is the actual length of these ships? The models are from my growing collection of 1:600 ships by Xyston. -- Doug --...
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... A : Yes. Judging from laws about the length of imported spearshafts, these had reached the length of the Rennaissance pike by the late 15th. century but...
Thanks to all those who responded. Border foot who join my host will carry bills I think. A couple of loose ends though - Presumably there's no doubt that...
... The cover they're displaying on both Osprey and Amazon websites is a new painting, not a recycle, and - as far as I can tell in a reduced size shot - looks...
Since McBride died a couple years back I wonder if all the art will be recycled form other Ospreys? That would be a bit of a pity. ... [Non-text portions of...
Like buses, wait for ever then two come by at once! "Dear Customer, Greetings from Amazon.co.uk. Please be advised that we have a revised delivery date for the...
... I beleive by that date pikemen are usually specifically stated to be such or as "corslets" or similar. Spears, bills, etc. are used for old fashioned...
... You undercoat sand. Then you paint flesh and metal and things like tunics and shield backgrounds. Then you put the ink wash on This brings out the face and...
MINIFIGS has changed hands and Dave Ryan is keen to destroy the old Minifigs owners piss poor service reputation Check out their site for their new contact...
You are not entirely wrong Dave - Roy, Rodger, Mark Craddock & myself ran a big 15mm Dyrrachion re-run at the SoA AGM one year (couple of years back now) using...
Wouldn't the whole figure look like "wood" that way? The reason for white primer and a wood color is so that the rest of the figure looks like dingy "linen"...
Had an accident with my book 'The Macedonian and Punic Wars' by Crusader. Fortunately the book is still readable, but the 2-page colour artwork at the back of...
Hi In wargaming we often assign different capabilities to a weapon based on a gaming name. It isn't weather the spear is long enough to be used as a pike,...
... It's definitely a thought. Medieval/Early Renaissance weapon terminology was notoriously imprecise. Take all those "staves" that turn up in 15th. Century...
... I do remember wondering at the time if "spears" and "bills" might have only reflected different terminology - one lot of inspectors grouped all shafted...
... Thanks Duncan. Very interesting. There may then have been a continued tradition of spear use up on the borders (although it is mildly worrying that the...
Sorry, I was thinking of Froissart's description of the battle.... and even that mentions spears as well as axes. Roy It was shewed me by such as had been at...
... Right, I've found the Arquebusier article I was thinking of. It's by - ta-rahhh! - our very own Jim Webster. In Arquebusier VI/2 (1977), in a brief piece...
... Given the probable 15th. century date of the poem, I'd read that as splintered lances, rather than infantry spears, though. The Tudor muster rolls might...
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