"Late Japanese samurai/ashigaru yaris..." Topic

… cast onto the soldier, straight up, or

2) provided separate of the soldier and 45 degrees?

(Or something else)

This is for the Momoyama period, when yari were very long.

I would say separate, giving the purchaser the option of replacing the spears/pikes with more durable wire spears/pikes.

Separate is always better.

Separate & straight up. easier to rank up stands

Separate and 45 degrees. It looks better and is more flexible .

Nobody in real life uses 45° with long polearms, at least not for a prolonged period. Not usefull to either hold, march or fight a pike.

Tabletop depiction is something else, as levelled pike tend to rank up bad and do not allow for base contact with the enemy. Still, I prefer my pikes levelled or upright.

That said, I have no 15mm collection, so I am not in your customer base (unless you start 28mm).

Separate and straight up is rather hard to do, Zulupaul, because the open hands often don't cast that well. Separate and 45° is easier to get cast because of the way the hands are posed on the models.