blue Qin crossbowmen with new belts

[cheng]

without body armour again, Cowabounga-Arnaud
any suggestions for crossbow bolts(arrows)? ....shorter and less feather but quite a waste to spoil these nice PM arrows

[playmofire]

Those new belts look very smart indeed, cheng.

[cowabounga]

Suggestions? Nope. A helmet would hide these wonderful hair buns, so no, no suggestions.
You got me remembering of the first PM crossbows that actually shot quarrels with a rubber string. Do you remember these?

[cheng]

thanks Gordon!

and Arnaud;

...you got me remembering of the first PM crossbows that actually shot quarrels with a rubber string. Do you remember these?

Yikes! do I have dementia already? You meant those big (not handheld) PM crossbows, right?

[cowabounga]

Nope! Not at all! Those I'm talking about were hand-held crossbows. I can't remember how many arrows I shot and lost! I'll try and find a pic for you, probably on Collectobil.

[tahra]

Ah, those.. Pic taken, will post later.... :-)

[henry_martini]

Ancient chinese and pm as can be.

[cowabounga]

Ah, those.. Pic taken, will post later.... :-)

Oh, you have one? Thanks Tahra!

[tahra]

Oh, you have one? Thanks Tahra!

Of course... 

Bows and crossbow, firing and non-firing versions:



Though the crossbows were not originally ours. We only started to like the medievals in the 90s (go figure). The indian bows were (so that rubber band might be from 83!

We used to shoot against the styrofoam of the 7 klickys indian box   

(darn, guess I should have taken a pic of the arrows too... oh well.)

[DrDalek6]

Great customs as always very smart looking, the simple designs and bold colours look good and the little splash of white on those arrow quivers makes them look all the more realistic, I like their faces as well.

Intersting seeing those bows/crossbows that really fire what a good idea to improve playtime at least until you lose the arrows