Husaria - Building a Polish army for the 1620s
Sticks, no stones
I also decided to leave the lances separate to the figures during painting. This would make handling the figures easier, as the lances are a really long 80mm, and it will also make it easier to attach the pennons while the lances are separate. The Foundry and TAG figures come with white metal lances. As mentioned above, I’m not a fan of these as they are very easy to bend during games, and then very difficult to great straight again. Warlord use brass rods with shaped points for their lances and so I copied this for the figures from TAG and Foundry. (Warlord also sell these brass lances separately as “Metal Pikes”.) Warlord have some really nice white metal, shaped ‘balls’ to place on the lances as the hand guards in their box set. For the other manufacturers’ figures I used some tiny beads I found at home. I primed the lances, all stuck in to a piece of cardboard, at the same time as the figures.
Warlord 80mm ‘Pikes’ converted to Polish Lances.
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