"So I was looking at the spear arms on the GB arabs.." Topic

that Santa got me for Christmas. I was thinking that I had some spear arms left over from my GB dark age warriors. I wondered if they would fit the arabs as a change of pace. So I dug out the sprues to see if they would fit. And guess what? They fit very well. Why? Because they are the same exact arms in both sets.

Well that's one way to save on sculpting fees. Technically there's nothing wrong with that, but it still feels shady to me.

Is a spear arm a spear arm.. and any reason why they shouldn't fit?

I think it's more that one would hope for more variations of an arm with javelin to be swapped between figures.

Glengarry5, you hit it right on the nose. But I guess they figure a long sleeve to the wrist with a spear in the hand can be same no matter what the figure is. So GB what were you thinking? TIG (I really don't think that I will get a response from them.)

That makes me wonder. Did they use the same arms for the plastic Vikings and Saxons?

I swapped some of the viking and saxon bits about, I think the spear arms were similar if not the same, but sword and axe arms were different as I swapped the bits for a bit more variety.

I didn't know because I was building an Anglo-Dane army. I mixed all of the sprues from both boxes from the start.