"Victrix - Macedonian Sprues Preview " Topic

Victrix published pictures of their new Macedonian sprues.

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Amicalement
Armand

These look fantastic.

Glad you like them my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

They look good but can help thinking there's a lot of space on the sprues that could be filled with more options

It looks like you can cut them off at the legs and substitute trousers for Bactrian Phalangites on the Successor sprue.

As wargamers, we want to get the figures painted and on the table to battle. These look like it will take a lot of time to put together and then paint to get to the point of the whole exercise.

As a wargamer who has put together many plastic kits it doesn't look difficult at all. Glue the head on and the arm with the pike and you are done. After the figures. is painted add the shield. And I really don't think the eastern option with trousers is that difficult. With a pair of clippers, cut the legs below the tunic and glue on the new legs. The operation would take about 15 seconds. As a wargamer who has cleaned the flash and sprues of many metal figures, I find plastic for the most part much easier.

Difficult to stick 4 pieces together?

Tough crowd!

Steve.

Having prepared many plastics and metals, I also don't see these taking any longer than metals to prepare properly. Less in fact, because to do wire pikes and get a good rather than rubbish contact between hands and pike is often quite time consuming with metals. Many finished metal figures out there that look like they are levitating the pike somehow rather than really holding them. No such problem with these figures and you get realistic pikes too rather than the wire usually used with metals (or worse still bendy white metal pikes!).

These are lovely when will all the cavalry for the period start being produced? They were as important as the infantry and there were largish numbers of them. I haven't heard any news on Victrix making cavalry, anyone know if such info exists?

Zargon – throwaway line by Victrix on their Facebook page – "Victrix Limited Greek cavalry – sculpting will commence late summer."

So maybe out by XMAS???

The Numidian Cavalry will be ready in a few weeks, the Spansish cavalry are about to start tooling. We have been announcing and working on cavalry sets for a while now.
Greek/ Macedonian cavalry will be started after the EIR Romans.

Steve.

I don't have any problems with plastic minis. I started off at age 5 with Airfix plastic tanks & planes and their soft-plastic soldiers. I don't mind the assembly process at all. The key is to have some good clippers, a shiny new blade in the knife, a couple of disposable nail files and some Testors plastic cement, the liquid type in the bottle, not the tube stuff.

Using the proper plastic cement (I prefer Testors) means that the joint will be welded together, not just stuck together like with a CA cement.

Also, here's an old trick I learned decades back for filling gaps and seams on plastic kits: Take a small jar with a tight fitting lid, like a glass baby food jar. Chop up all those old sprues you have laying about and fill the jar with them. Now carefully pour liquid plastic cement over them, and put the lid on tight. Every day or so, use a toothpick or some such item to stir the contents until they are all well melted together, like a medium-thick paste.

This material can be used to fill gaps in both plastic and metal models. Use it sparingly until you get the hang of it, as it can and will melt the area to which it is applied if you use too much.

It's a great way to recycle sprue bits, costs you nothing but time and some liquid cement, and works quite well.

V/R

A safer alternative to using plastic cement to melt the chopped-up sprues is to use acetone, available from most pharmacists' shops. It's cheaper than using cement too.

It can also be used to separate fingers that have been superglued together.

Or just pinch some of your significant other/daughter's nail varnish remover if you can't be bothered going to the pharmacy/chemist!

Glad you like them my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

I dread to think how robust those plastic pikes are going to be. As it is one sees far too many corkscrew shaped pikes on the table with metals….!!!

And for the Argyraspid option it would be nice to have had a Long Spear option alongside the pikes. there is room on the sprue.