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Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Thu May 12, 2011 11:48 am
by Paul´s Bods • 1.314 Posts

Just a thought ...as far as I know there is only one slinger protrayed as a medieval ..the one in the Zvezda set, Medieval peasants, but they were a pretty common weapon,
Staffslingers
http://slinging.org/articleimages/23/battlesandwich2s.jpg
hand slings
http://slinging.org/forum/yabbfiles/Atta...a_froissart.jpg
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4723/liber2.jpg

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RE: Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Thu May 12, 2011 7:12 pm
by Jager • 178 Posts

Yea that would be a good idea for a valdemar set some slingers!
But it almost posible to use the ancient set straight out of box, cause the changes over time is not big

For example the alexanders infantry
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=148


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RE: Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Thu May 12, 2011 9:30 pm
by Paul´s Bods • 1.314 Posts

I´ve got those Hat light inf...I looked at them today...just after I wrote the idea up...they are very small figs.
I´ve made two today, conversions from one of my favourite sets of medievals ...tomorrow I´ll post them...


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RE: Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Sat May 14, 2011 9:28 am
by Paul´s Bods • 1.314 Posts

A day late but that´s life...the web seemed to be in a state of chaos yesterday...Friday the 13th???

Medieval Staff slingers based on contemporary pics

The finished figs and a bit more history here.http://paulsbods.blogspot.com/2011/05/me...f-slingers.html

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RE: Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Sun May 15, 2011 1:03 am
by Ben90 • 430 Posts

These are really great! Doesn´t even look like a conversion And a good idea... never thought about medieval slingers

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RE: Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Sun May 15, 2011 8:32 pm
by Valdemar • 2.175 Posts

Yes slingers would be nice, Alex and I did some brainstorming and I will add the slingers to the list, think that we will show the brutto list in a few days.


Best regards

ValdemarMiniatures.com

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RE: Slingers

in Inspiration for future work? Sun May 15, 2011 8:58 pm
by Paul´s Bods • 1.314 Posts

Brilliant news!!!!!!!! You´d be onto a winner...there are absolutely none that I can find anywhere in any scale. !! A good one, IMHO would be generic infantry, a bit of chain mail and helmet...I´ve found a picture of a re-enactor dreesed like this..if I can get my scanner to work I´ll post it.

Here´s another I´ve found
http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/Greyc...s/ourslings.jpg
Here´s a slow video of one being used...shows that the position of mine is a bit wrong..or maybe not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reEaUOTU1KI

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