"Gripping Beast's "Desert Frontier" range??" Topic
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| Primus Pictor | 24 Jul 2019 7:37 a.m. PST |
Hi all. Whatever happened to Gripping Beast's "Desert Frontier" range?? Have they discontinued it for some reason? All I can find at their site are the shields from those Desert Frontier figures: link For reference, the tribesmen figures themselves looked like this (from the excellent "Iron Mitten" blog)
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 BigRedBat  | 24 Jul 2019 8:20 a.m. PST |
They were nice minis. Unusual. |
| Johnp4000 | 24 Jul 2019 10:12 a.m. PST |
Isn't this one of several ranges like the Romans/Celts which have been waiting for new molds for several years now? |
| BigRedBat | 24 Jul 2019 11:25 a.m. PST |
If you bought the shields, you might do a good approximation using the Perry plastic mahdists? |
| altfritz | 25 Jul 2019 5:40 a.m. PST |
Those are nice figures! I hope the do new moulds soon. |
| Come In Nighthawk | 25 Jul 2019 2:49 p.m. PST |
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| Primus Pictor | 25 Jul 2019 3:40 p.m. PST |
"Come In NighthawK" – they represent Garamantes tribesmen. The Garamantes were apparently a tribe/nation in North Africa who were a local power there from c.500BC up to c.700AD. That's a LONG time, so they could play a role in many an ancient army, as either allies or opponents. Osprey 243 – Rome's Enemies (5), The Desert Frontier, has a bit of info on them (Plate A3), as does this Wikipedia article: link |
| Come In Nighthawk | 13 Sep 2020 4:16 a.m. PST |
Any fotos of the other figures in this extinct line?? |
| Come In Nighthawk | 19 Sep 2020 5:02 a.m. PST |
I'm stunned to think that is the only foto of Gripping Beast's now-sadly OOP line of "Desert Frontier" figures??? No one can shed some light on any others??? |
| Come In Nighthawk | 22 Sep 2020 4:08 p.m. PST |
I guess I was not clear, clear enough anyway, about that for which I was looking? Not "just" the Garamantes "infantry," but the wider, Gripping Beast "Desert Frontier" line of figures… However, by reaching to the depths of my Google-Fu, and typing into my search engine, "TMP Gripping Beast Desert Frontier," I got… TMP link I would hope there are other images out there, just still eluding my searches. But it is a start… |
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