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Re: Making Pikes
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:12:58 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
I need some pikes for my medieval/renaissance armies and I was wondering what
solutions others have used, the standard spear being too short for a pike.  I
thought of shaving off the axe blade from the gray halberd, which leaves a
longer spear, but it has that clunky squared off section, and a pike should • be
longer than a halberd in any case.  I can get a long enough effect with a • spear
mated to a lightsabre, though at the cost of a rather unsatisfying color
combination.  Any suggestions?

Another possibility which just occured to me is to use those 'whip' antennae.
Doesn't the Desert Skiff come with a couple in brown?  One of them would look
a bit goofy, but a forest of them would be cool.

James



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  Re: Making Pikes
 
(...) spear (...) Fake it. :) Have your minifigs standing sideways in the pikewall, so that the "pike" is angled down through both their hands. In the upper hand, have them holding a spear, with as much extension as they can get. In the back hand, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)

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