"Victrix 28mm Hoplites plastic question " Topic

Hello All
I recently picked up some of the 28mm Victrix Hoplite Mercenaries plastics and assembled a few with great delight.
I would like to ask here if anyone else has been able to assemble their Victrix Hoplites with all of the spears pointing upwards despite the box coming with enough arms to model half of them either pointing upwards or overhead thrusting forward . For ease of assembling units I'd like to model all the spears from the box set to be pointing upwards.
All of the assembled models I've seen on their advertising shows models with spears pointing up , I was wondering did they also use the " thrusting forward "arms to achieve this pose as well ? BTW , these are great figures.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated , thankyou .

cheers Tom

I don't own the Victrix hoplites but had a similar issue with some plastic Saxons that had too many pointing up and not enough thrusting overarm. I reversed the spear (cut it off either side of the hand and stuck them on the other end). As long as the arm is bent at 90° it should look fine.

ok well the spears are separate on these Hoplite chaps so i'll just trial some with blu-tak and give it a go

thankyou

Hi Thabear,

A thrusting overhead arm rotated 90 degrees forwards becomes a holding spear upright pose. You might need to trim a little bit of sleeve on a few so they are not defying gravity.
Also you have the sword arms to use. Chop off the hand holding the sword at the wrist band (we added those for easy conversions like this)Take a thrusting hand and join it to the sword arm and you have another few holding spear upright poses.

Hope that helps?

Steve.

I made up a couple of mine with the "pointing" right arm and a spear held behind the shield in the left. Not sure if this was technically possible but it looks great. Cut the spear so that it reaches from the hand to the base, glue that in place. When dry, add the top half, having removed a hand width to get the right length.

thanks all. Luckily for me the glue had not set rock hard so for the 8-10 I'd assembled it was not a doddle to rotate the arm around. I also cut the wrist on a few and glued it back on at correct angle to hold spear upright.

Am I correct in assuming all of the torsos are the same between the various sets and its only the helmets that are different ?

cheers Tom

The heads and some specialised bits like arms, cloaks, trumpets command arms etc… are different between the sets. If you mix them all together you get a great variety of parts to interchange.

Steve.