Off topic (sorta), but I'd like to register my request for the Delgon troops/Striders to also have thicker spears please! I've been replacing mine with brass rod this weekend, and it's driving me mad!
I'm planning to do something with the striders, but sadly the troops would require almost an entire resculpt to have thicker spears so it isn't really practical/economical at this time. Sorry!
At least the spears are much shorter....
Good news about the Striders then (sorry Brandlin).
The issue I had was that once the spear had bent significantly (I had very droopy spear heads), the already feeble area was now rather more weakened even if you bent the head back very carefully and gently.
I would have thought that you could thicken the spears on the Delgon troops without resculpting the whole figure though? Could you not effectively replace the shafts with a thicker rod (or apply a thin layer of putty over the current spear shafts) and then remould, or is it more involved than that?
Worst case scenario, some new thicker spear heads and butts on a separate sprue would make brass rod replacement on the troops much easier (as the sizes of those is what limits the thickness of the brass rod replacements more than anything else).
Either way, I'm halfway through replacing my troops' spears myself now... I'm sure that on the basis of repetition alone (18 spears; each one takes about 30mins!), this is a subtle form of torture!
