It seems that the wargamer’s conventional approach is to wrap the pennon around the lance, which, while giving a sound fixing, isn’t really authentic. Today I made a search on The Miniatures Page, and found thisthread.
I then made an internet search and found this auction lot, which shows a metal strip attached to the side of a bamboo lance, with the pennon attached to that. While there is also evidence that pennons were tied to lances, this seems more practical from a modelling perspective, so I have decided to attempt this, probably by painting the metal strip on to the lance first. Let’s see …
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| Top: a Victorian era pennon attached to a metal strip on a bamboo lance. Above: a Perry Miniatures Bengal Cavalry sowar, lances, and the Empress Minniature’s pennons, which are clearly way too large. |
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