"Gripping Beast painted versions of Arab Infantry." Topic

Before starting to install its stand for the Salute, Gripping Beast presents the painted versions of its Arab infantry in plastic and in 28 mm .

From here
grippingbeast.com

Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

They look very good!

For what periods and locations would these be appropriate for?

regards

Glad you enjoyed them my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

Whirlwind wrote;
"For what periods and locations would these be appropriate for?"

Gripping Beast does the first Crusade.
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@Whirlwind – from the back of the box: "These Arab searmen and archers may be used to represent almost any unarmoured Arab Warrior from the pre-Islamic period to the 18th Century Ottoman Empire. They might be found in the Moorish Armies in Spain, defending the Holy Land during the Crusades or even in the Auxiliary Infantry at the Siege of Vienna…."

I guess it boils down to how picky you are. With some shield substitutions they might work for Nasrids from the late 15th Century.

I was a bit disappointed with the box though – you get sprues each with five figures. Unfortunately, one is posed as if he is at full draw, which limits other uses for him, three have their left arms already moulded onto the figure, and only there are only five shields (three round, two kite) . There are eight heads which are okay – but why do they persist with moulding the neck onto the body? It means having to do surgery to the figure if you wish to use other heads.

Unfortunately the Perry WotR boxes are streets ahead in terms of what you can do with them.

@Littlearmies: you'll need them by the dozen, and it would come in handy for most of the gamers that they not have to spend hours to make a box. I like assembling plastic minis, but I can certainly see why they like simpler sets.

And sadly somehow I lost my mojo for making full plastic Crusades armies – maybe because almost everything is available, or will be available soon?

I asked on the stand and cavalry are also planned as well. That's good because I want to do the Moors in Spain, and I'm not investing in infantry if I have to get metal cavalry.

With regard to the number of parts in a plastic figure, I think in historical figures you can deal with less variety, and in some cases it becomes a bonus. Gripping Beast's other boxes seem to come with more parts, so perhaps it was a deliberate design choice.

Leigh