We've being examining poses for dollies. We WILL produce attacking pikemen. The only pose we are likely to avoid is a levelled pike. We are thinking of attacking poses with pikes at angles between 15 and 45 degrees. To deal with the transportation problems there are a couple of options:
1. Hands will be 'closed'. We will probably get them drilled out before shipping. This will prevent pikes falling off in transit.
2. My favourite wargaming invention - the 'double box file' has allowed me to transport hundreds of pike armed figures for the last 20 years with very minimal damage. Thse who have seen my invention(I am so proud of it!!!!) will attest to its efficacy)
We are going to sculpt the tricornes in a style which doesn't look like the huge paper boats often seen on the heads of models from the WSS / WAS/SYW periods. They will be flatter and more folded in. The test cavalry sculpt will NOT be a production casting. We are likely to sculpt cavalry both with coats turned back and un pinned.
As mentioned before we'll have some barehead variants, karpus and cavalry variants. We haven;t discussed the Russians yet.
We are going to go ahead a do some further 'test sculpts' experimenting with style as we want to get the look right. The investors can have their say with these.
I have a fairly hectic work schedule at the moment with lots of international travel commits which are pretty disruptive but Clibinarium will start work anyway. Don't worry about the cost of this as I'll incorporate it into the overall project costs. No money required yet!!
