Charlie's 15th century - Burgundian handgunners (Sep 23)

[Charlie_]

Pray tell what caused your dislike of plastics?

Oh you misunderstand me, I do not dislike plastics at all! This whole collection is a mix of plastic and metal, it just happens that this unit is all metal.

I have found though that the plastic Perry kits don't quite work to my eye for this sort of pose, with the  polearms at 45 degrees or lowered. So I make a lot of use of the comparatively very small range of Perry metals for my pike and polearm units.

[HappyChappy439]

The rebased unit looks great! Agreed that the 'forest of polearms' look is really striking, especially for the formations of proto-landsknecht of the era!

[magyar]

Lovely lineup! A most impressive cold steel forest  .

[bigredbat]

Those are superb!  Love your units.

[Charlie_]

The rebased unit looks great! Agreed that the 'forest of polearms' look is really striking, especially for the formations of proto-landsknecht of the era!

Those are superb!  Love your units.

Lovely lineup! A most impressive cold steel forest  .

Thanks all!

[DalyDR]

That's a wonderful looking group of halberdiers.  They really present the appearance of being just about to make contact with their foe.

[Charlie_]

I've written a brief guide for interchangeable flags on my blog, as several people have asked me how it's done in the past.

I'm certainly not the only person doing flags like this and can't claim credit for the idea. I can't actually remember where I first saw it done...

This is just showing how I do it, and should have a few useful tips in there even if you don't use my method in its entirety.

https://fullharness.blogspot.com/2022/11/guide-for-interchangeable-flags.html

[HappyChappy439]

Thanks for posting this guide! That's really useful information!

I've mostly been in the brass-tube camp for a while, and definitely agree that your method is much more seamless, thanks for sharing!

[whill4]

Thank you for the tutorial.

[Ray Rivers]

Great tutorial, Charlie! 

I could see using a similar technique for gluing flags on staffs which are too short.

[magyar]

Charlie, thanks for sharing, quite useful!

[valleyboy]

Excellent, well done, I might modify my technique then which is to use hollow plastic tube as this seems better

[Pattus Magnus]

That approach is new to me, so thanks for sharing it! I’ll have to give it a try soon.

[Charlie_]

I'm glad you've all found it useful!

Now I've put together three A4 sheets of flags which you are free to download and use.

Full-size images on the blog, plus biographical details of each historical personality featured - https://fullharness.blogspot.com/

[MaleGriffin]

Lovely! Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic flags!