TYW Mounted Arquebusiers and poor Pike and Shot

[DintheDin]

Hi all,
I would like to share with you some pictures from my TYW collection.
Essex 15mm figures, mounted arquebusiers and a motley group of pike and shot.
With their generic appearance they could make it in nearly every army of the period.
Indeed, they appeared in almost any of the FOG-R battle we had in the club.

[DintheDin]

Mounted arquebusiers:

[DintheDin]

...and Pike and Shot.
They could be rebels, or poor recruits of any army of the period.

[mweaver]

Looking good!

Are the pikes on 15mm pikemen as deadly to painters as they are on 25mm pikemen?

-Michael

[DintheDin]

 
These pikes are not from wire, they are from Essex original casting, so they are harmless.
The downside is that they bend whenever they collide with virtually anything harder than butter, usually when you dont close the box lid properly 

For the case you mention, I know an unfortunate colleague, who, frustrated by his bad dice, slammed his hand on the table and raised it immediately with a cry of agony. After this incident, both he and his block of pikes were less ferocious for the rest of the game... 

[miltiades]

 

lolAfter this incident, both he and his block of pikes were less ferocious for the rest of the game...  

I think I know this guy too...

[Von Trinkenessen]

Not just in Greece , saw a similar situation at an event approx 30 years ago a Hinchliffe 25mm pike block was picked up by a gamers arm, resulting in a visit to hospital for a tetnus jab.

[mweaver]

this thread is one of the most painful I have read on LAF...

-Michael

[DintheDin]

 

I think I know this guy too...

Bloke of Pikes? We speak about the same person, Miltiades!
The Chinese say not to sit against pointy things because you' ll get a bad Feng-Shui   

[DintheDin]

this thread is one of the most painful I have read on LAF...

-Michael

Please, look at this picture first. It was taken about thirty years before. (More of these will be a subject of another post).
I had bought my first plastic 1/72 Revell kits for TYW, which had a big musket to pike ratio, so, these pikes are a conversion from musketeers.
Electrician's wire, flattened at the end with a pincer.
I forgot them at the upper shelf to dry.
Next day, without looking, I raised my hand to take a paint bottle.
As you can imagine, the bottle proved to be very well defended!
Adding insult to injury, the bottle was spilled over my living room floor...
For the rest of the week, I wanted to touch only teddy bears, pillows and hamburgers  

[von Lucky]

Lovely painting in the the OP, they do paint up nicely those Essex, don't they? And I add brass pikes to all my 15mm too. they've only managed to catch sleeves flinging them forward into battle.

[mweaver]

Owwwwww.

I have occasionally nicked myself with my hobby knife, but otherwise the hobby has not drawn blood from me.

-Michael

[DintheDin]

There is a legend saying "Whenever your figures are stained by your blood, they inherit part of your spirit and become as invincible as you are" BUT ONLY IF YOU DONT DO IT ON PURPOSE! 
(And, please, dont try it at home)