#8043 Alexander's Phalangites
Dated: December 20, 2000.
NOTE: Due to technical and molding restraints, these figures will not come with a the long sarissa (pike). The customers will have to supply the sarissa themselves that they can snap in. Piano wire, broom or brush straws or fiber optic plastic are suggested.
A suggestion from Andy Callan: "Another cheap, readily available source of pikes - which I have used for many years - FLORISTS WIRE . It is rigid (unlike broom straws, which tend to droop beyond about 2 inches) but soft enough to make spear heads at the end - hammer it flat and file to shape. Over here in England it comes in lengths of about 9 inches, and you can buy a pack of 30 or so for about 50p (less than a dollar). The metal seems to a be a fairly soft iron, very dark, almost black, in appearance, so it looks pretty good even if you don't paint it !" Many thanks for the suggestion.
Approx. actual size.
All figures painted by Eric Williamson.
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