Sunday, January 20, 2019

'Sport' from PaulSS: English Archery Tournament


I was really stuck on what to do for the sports bonus round, a trawl of the lead pile revealed no inspiration. After a cup of tea and a biscuit I struck on the idea of using some Hundred Years War English archers having an archery tournament for a purse of silver.

The archers were easy enough, I had a couple of dozen assembled already so only needed to paint them.



The target is a 20mm Renedra base that had a circle of paper cut out and stuck on it. The supports are made from a coffee stirrer cut into an A-frame. After it had dried I drilled four holes into it and stuck some brass rod in.

The whole thing was then painted - bit of a mistake here, I should have added the arrows after painting not before! Once painted I cut some flights from paper and stuck them on the arrows sticking out of the target.



There we have it, three English bowmen passing time before catching the boat to Harfleur.





25 comments:

  1. Great entry Paul, the butt came out perfectly

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    1. Thank you, My butt is getting a lot of attention ;)

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  2. Am I allowed to say I really admire your butt?

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  3. An excellent interpretation of the theme, well done, Paul!

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  4. What could be a more quintessential British sport than shooting some arrows at a target? Excellent choice.

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  5. That archery butt (is that what it's called?) Is a very nice addition!

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    1. Thanks, I did not think it would count as sport if it was just archers.

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  6. A very good idea and really works! Well done Paul!

    Christopher

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  7. Very nice, I especially like the target model.

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  8. Great idea, lovely figures, would an elephant and castle or a Saracens head been right? I can't remember but a really nice vignette!
    Best Iain

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  9. Marvellous work! I'm too late to squeeze in an innuendo unfortunately it seems...

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  10. I see were where on a similar wave length. Great work.

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  11. 'Do all these arrows make my butt look big?'

    Sorry. My fingers couldn't stop typing...

    Great entry, Paul. :)

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