"Arrows" Topic

Gentlemen,

Has anyone tried making 25mm arrows? If so, how have you gone about it? I'm finishing off a stack of pavises and also am looking to create a bunch of casualty markers for a large game project and want arrows sticking out all over the place.

Broom bristles work a treat.

Bristles is a good idea. Also avoids the porcupine effect – you can pick them up without risk.

I'd go for black syntetic bristles that you can bend without damaging them.
Adding something that looks like feathers could be a problem, as it's difficult to stick things to them.

I've sometimes made arrows from piano wire and greenstuff, but that was just one or two at a time.

I would also be interested in any "this is what I did" type of info. I was thinking on similar lines, but DID want to attach some flights. I am making a diorama with Samurai and I think their arrow flights were a lot longer/bigger than became common in Europe, so this might be easier. I wondered whether using piano wire and tissue paper would work? Or would the paper be too flimsy? As for gluing, I hoped that UHU or similar would do. Maybe even balsa wood glue?

Interested in any ideas

I've been making them from bristles, crimped flat at the end with pliers. They take about two minutes each to do, and most of the time is drilling the hole in the "target".

There are some in view in the bottom pic:

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Simon

I use mini-paper clips and cut them up for the shafts. Use some greenstuff/milliput for the feathers and point. I use a similar technique for 15mm RPGs.

Simon,

Nicely done. Felt sorry for the poor elephants though!

David

I used pins and strip epoxy for flights (only two). Of course, I only made a few "arrows". A bunch of them might drive one mad….

Thanks to all for the contributions.

I think I'm going to try a few of those suggestions and will get back. I'm also wondering if I can't spilt the ends of some broom straw or something natural and even insert a thin flight – plastic or brass.

I'll report back.

my effort

1. thin brass florists wire
2. flatten with hammer
3. cut then file fletchs
4. drill hole in sheild/body
5. attach with super glue

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There was a Games Workshop modeling article on this; I think actually it was a sidebar to an article showcasing a nice conversion (the plastic Giant? a Bretonnian character or unit?) and I can't remember where it appeared (White Dwarf? The online zine Black Gobbo? A Citadel Catalog? The General's Compendium?).

Anyway as I recall they used either brass or styrene rod for the shafts, cut fletches out of either card stock or styrene, and attached them with superglue using a tweezers.

The few times I added arrows with fletching, it was because I had fletched bits that had broken off of some thing else.

I vote that bluewillow's method makes the most sense, and if I ever need to fashion arrows again, I am going to use it.

@ donrice: trust GW to come up with a modelling method that adds spurious steps/parts and headache!…