Bob Murch's Huron/Iroquois War

[former user]

Contact Period you could have copper or brass points cut out of trade kettles though.

such things exist?

[marianas_gamer]

I would have to find my copy of Bradley's Evolution of the Onondaga to be positive about the breakdown of trade kettles for spear points but the use for knives and projectile points was common. Bradley does a great job of showing Native Americans re-imagining of European goods to create what they valued. There is an excellent discussion of recrafting European trade axes into smaller tomahawk heads.

[former user]

this I knew about, knife blades and axe heads, but reforging broken kettles is a different cup of tea. I would like to read about this.

btw, I would not expect the exact reproduction of lithic industries on 28mm miniatures 

[Bob Murch]

I recently visited three museums in Ontario with large native Iroquoian exhibits and was interested to find significant numbers of bifaced flint projectile points which were much too large for arrowheads. If it had been one exhibit only I would have considered it an anomaly but each exhibit had them as well as numerous pre-contact copper tools and weapon points including spear points. I'm of the opinion that the spear was in much wider use before European contact and it was possibly the introduction of Metal (which would have begun arriving by trade decades ahead of the first Europeans themselves, that made the stone tipped spear obsolete.

Here are some pictures I took at the Ontario museum of archeology:

[Bob Murch]

Another painted warrior.

[rumacara]

Wow...
Lovelly indians.
Keep it coming mr. Murch.

[elysium64]

  Still no answer as to whether we poor brits will get a chance to buy the advance Convention figure.

[Bob Murch]

  Still no answer as to whether we poor brits will get a chance to buy the advance Convention figure

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I'll offer the special Indian fig for free with any orders made from now until Monday, roughly paralleling the convention.

[Timbor]

Sounds like a fair offer to me    I will have a look through your catalogue.  Though perhaps an ideal deal would be to offer all of the sculpts for sale this weekend.  Just sayin' 

[elysium64]

Just ordered the film crew as I can use this, but primarily to get the indian

[Romark]

These sculpts just keep getting better and better !

[Bob Murch]

A few more Iroquoian warriors almost finished painting.

[Timbor]

Spectacular!  I am looking forward to my promo figure from the order I placed over the weekend.  These sculpts are great.

Any rough ballpark on when we might see this range put into production with the proposed rules and such? (as in, could it be expected before the new year, sometime next year, etc?)

[Bob Murch]

Sometime next year. The rule book will be the big challenge.

[former user]

really great sculpts

I wished there were some legionnaires of this character