Revisiting an old unit

This isn't a new unit - I've gone back to an old one and made some improvements.

I've haven't been very happy with the colour I've painted all my bows (and arrows), so have decided to bite the bullet and redo them all. A simple task by itself, but it does mean all the archer units need to be rebased so my brush can actually reach where it needs to go.

I've started with this French unit, as there were a few other things I wanted to change about it. Previously it was an archer unit with a few polearms mixed in, but I've added a few more polearms to make it closer to 50/50 - more of a 'bill and bow' unit now. I think it looks much better this way. I also took the opportunity to improve a few other small things to make it fit in better with my most recent figures  (painted some belt buckles, gave them a coat of the better matt varnish I now use).

As for the colour of the bows I've settled on - I decided not to worry too much about trying to get a 100% perfect representation of the actual colour of bow staves, that way lies madness.... it's just a lighter colour, instead of the dark brown I originally used. Much more suitable I think.

Committing to rebasing is difficult - ripping the figures off the bases makes a real mess, especially if a lot of them are a plastic-to-plastic join (perhaps it's not so traumatic if you use MDF bases), but it's always worth it in the end! I'll be doing the same to my other archer units in time.