Perry Plastic Men-At Arms Box Cover Art

[TheCimmerian]

I'm sure you could stick a bit of styrene rod in place of a pole arm and get as many as you want 

Jim is quite correct. I have converted one of the polearm-wielding arm sets in a banner bearer for another command stand I am working on. It works perfectly well and was an easy-breezy conversion. A couple cuts here, a drill there, and bingo!

[Hu Rhu]

I'm sure you could stick a bit of styrene rod in place of a pole arm and get as many as you want  

Jim is quite correct. I have converted one of the polearm-wielding arm sets in a banner bearer for another command stand I am working on. It works perfectly well and was an easy-breezy conversion. A couple cuts here, a drill there, and bingo!

Thanks for the tips.  I will give them a try.

Here are my first attempts at creating standard bearers from the foot knight box.



I used a couple of pikes from the mercenaries set for the banner poles.

[von Lucky]

First ten done

Very nice painting, just got lost in your Flickr feed for a few minutes.

[Captain Blood]

None too shabby Gary 

I have now made a few up myself, and updated my long running Wars of the Roses thread with a commentary:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=40936.1275

Here's a taster...

[Hu Rhu]

None too shabby Gary 

Why thank you.     I'm now going to read your thread and turn green with envy. 

[Phil Portway]

Brilliant paint job 

Hope mine come out half as nice!

[Arthur]

Well, the formidable sculpting machine that is Perry World Domination Enterprises has now added metal standard bearers along with static billmen/halberdiers/pikemen to watch the former strut their stuff and wave their gaudy rags :

[Captain Blood]

I really like those billmen at rest. Great characters.
Unfortunately, I already have about 50 unpainted Perry WOTR metals, plus enough plastic to add a further, oooh - 150 figures? Maybe nearer to 200?
So probably, I shouldn't buy them...
 

Hmmmm....

[Silent Invader]

But Richard, you need to improve your ratio of bill men to MAA..... Go on, you know I'm right ..... 

[Captain Blood]

Yes, but then I'd need to add another 37 longbowmen to improve my ratio of bills to bows 

[Arlequín]

But you'll be doing that anyway once the 'light cavalry' set comes out, you're certainly going to want dismounted versions of all those mounted archers you're bound to make.

 

[Captain Blood]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhh!
I'm going to end up with 500 figures in this collection!
 

[OSHIROmodels]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhh!
I'm going to end up with 500 figures in this collection!
 

But we all knew this. I'm surprised it took you so long 

cheers

James

[Arlequín]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhh!
I'm going to end up with 500 figures in this collection!
 

There are those who might say that's not bad as a 'starter' army. 

[doowopapocalypse]

There are those who might say that's not bad as a 'starter' army. 

 

You can always just put them in nice cases and charge admission.