I am very proud to announce spear product review from Thomas Aagaard, leader of The 9th Stirland at Krigslive VII (Warlarp 7). The spear project is a success so far.

Calimacil Spear feedback:
+ We love them.
+ They are more durable
+ And more effective. One problem with our old ones where that the target often didn’t notice the hit. Now they do because of the weight.
+ Safe. Way better than our old homemade tips.
+ We are saving money. We lost two spears during drill before Krigslive and two more during combat at Krigslive. All of them because of a broken pole. With our old spears it would have been a total loss. Now we can reuse the tips, saving money and a lot of time.
- Looks… but really not as bad as we feared. And the color is a lot better than our old homemade latex tips.

The feedback we got from our enemies was also very good.
+ They notice the hits because of the weight.
+ But they are soft so it does not hurt. One was strongly hit in the head but mentioned that it hurt less that being hit by a soccer ball.
+ Looks not really that bad.

The leader of an enemy spear unit normally thinks Calimacil is too hard for larps… But he really liked the tips and actually talked about getting some for his unit next year…

Feedback from the Vejlegroup.
(they brought 12 of them)
They were happy with them.

Material
I don’t think that there are any durability problems with foam

Presentation movie:

Here is a fight with the 9th Stirland during Kriglive VII

Ok, so what is the next step now?
We have two versions ready for battle:
A) Pyramidal spear head with hole inside showed in this video
B) Pointed asymetric spear head with telescopic compession tested by Bicolline organisation and thrustable as well

In the virtual battlefield that is business, you sometime see old rivals form new creative alliances. That’s exactly what two very active players of the industry have done in our eternal quest to support the efforts of Live Action Role Playing artisans.

We are very happy to announce the creation of a new partnership between Calimacil and France-based Atelier Fantastic’ Art LLC. Fantastic’ Art is world renowned for the design and creation of Heroic Fantasy and Sci-Fi accessories such as weapons, armours and costumes. They’ve built themselves a stellar reputation creating products for LARP, film projects and mind-blowing promotional costumes for videogames such as Blizzard Entertainment’s Starcraft II and World of Warcraft.

This new partnership will merge Calimacil’s technical expertise and revolutionary materials with Fantastic’ Art’s creativity and design finesse to create a new line of medieval weapons. The first prototype of this union is a marvellous black sword whose beautiful design perfectly combines the blade from Calimacil’s « Pirate » sword with an elven hilt of Fantastic’ Art creation. This weapon gives an idea of what’s to come as legendary weapon waiting to be picked up and worn by intrepid heroes seeking new adventures.

This sword is but the first of many concepts we’re working on! We’re burning with impatience to show you our models and we hope to make the first one available to you in the next month or so. Each of these will be incarnations of Calimacil’s fundamental vision of giving life to your dreams.

We are firm believers that cooperation is the best strategy to grow a creative and dynamic hobby such as ours. That’s why we are so excited about this partnership and look forward to creating many others in the coming years.