"Making arrows" Topic

I'm making up Perry's plastic WotR bowmen. One of the possible poses is a man in shooting position- left arm straight, right hand by the chest. Now that could be just loosed, but I want to put an arrow in some, as at full draw. Toothpicks are to fat. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Pins.

Styrene rod stock, and/or spring-steel, piano wire.

Plastic might be safer, so you don't get the whole corrosion issue by having two different metals in contact with one another.

Brass rod. Cut to length and smash the tip and cut to a point or a quick green stuff arrowhead/feathers and your in business. 1/32 rod should work.

pulled sprue

Broom bristles

What not-the-OFM said – straight pin.

Doug

the perry boxes have arrow stands on them have as look if they may work

They do, but they are the kind poked into the ground, so will come up short if clipped.

I did think of wire, but I'd have to buy ammeter length for a few arrows, and its a better to clip I've found, ask well as paint.

Going to remove a bristle from the broom

For those short lengths, floral arrangement wire is easy to work with, and cheap. It's soft, so it's easy to cut with pliers. It's also good to have around for pinning figures together during assembly.

I use brass wire – hard and strong enough not to bend, soft enough to easily fashion tip and fletching. I have also used floral wire and broom bristles, but am most satisfied with appearance of brass wire.

For very short lengths I just use normal household pins, but a bit of brass rod or piano wire from a model shop is very inexpensive and lasts forever.

The other thing is to make up some thin plastic sprue – take a bit of moulding sprue, warm over a candle until it is soft in the middle then pull it out into a thin piece of plastic.

Useful for making aerials, and in my more crazy plastic modelling days, indvidual rivet heads….

Copper wire from defunked electrical appliances is free.

Paper clips work well too. The thin gauge ones are softer metal and can easily be hammered on one end to make arrow points.

eBay bits sellers have loose arrows sometimes, I think from Brettonian plastics. I bought a bunch when I was converting my Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors into archers, worked great.

Actually used some from the hand-brush that goes with the dust pan – think I will have to nip down the Pound shop to see what they have. Paint brush might be a good one.