Men, hold! Those Play-Doh bastards aren't going to get the better of us! Hoooold! Today we show them what the superior molding material is! FIRE!!

...onwards the soldiers marched in unison, their battle line advancing the enemy formations. The canons on both side were still firing short trying to find the right distances. Somewhere down the line a drummer boy started to drum out a marching rhythm, either to help the men to stay in formation or, more likely, to cast the fear from his own heart by beating it into the drum.
On the command of an officer the whole line stopped and, as the enemy line moved forward as well, prepared their muskets for a fusillade....

I'll bet if the trooper grew up with that rifle, he could easily compensate for that bent barrel using "Kentucky Windage."

Don't you mean Arkansas Elevation?^^
But frankly it's surprisingly difficult to bend a paper clip perfectly straight (even while using pliers :o

Ohhhh...! That explains that. With my model building projects I use steel wire or clipped ends of guitar and piano strings. So if you know any piano tuners or guitar players, you're in luck. (The outside wraps on Bass Guitar strings also make groovy "Flexible Hoses" for mecha and robot models.)