"Gripping Beast Late Roman Heavy Cavalry" Topic
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Asteroid X | 01 Sep 2019 10:34 p.m. PST |
Okay, so I got some Gripping Beast Late Roman Heavy Cavalry and the standard does not come with an arm attached (it's just the same one from the foot figures box which does come with open hands). The hands/arms in the kit all have weapons in them and they are not very large to drill out for the diameter of the standard's pole. How have others dealt with this? |
skipper John | 02 Sep 2019 9:43 a.m. PST |
I've cut off the weapon and filed a U shape in the hand using the drill bit as a file, so the pole will slip into it. Epoxy! |
Asteroid X | 02 Sep 2019 2:08 p.m. PST |
Thank you. I guess that is what I will have to do. I really don't like plastic spears – they tend to break too easily. So I may change them to metal ones (but often they seem so thin unless a person buys pikes and then there is a lot left over once cut to size). |
Bowman | 10 Oct 2019 12:32 p.m. PST |
That's crazy! Just took a look at the Late Roman Heavy Cavalry sprues and you have to do surgery on your Romans if you want to use the axes too. Wouldn't have killed GB to add an arm to the standard or the axes. |
Asteroid X | 11 Oct 2019 10:23 p.m. PST |
Bowman, I agree! The axe hands are just the same as used for the Late Roman infantry sprues (and the Late Roman Light Cavalry sprues – the horns are the same, just a hand). Victrix did some stuff like that with the ancient Greek skirmishers. I have come to the conclusion anything other than drilling and pinning will only leave one regretting it down the road as the join is so small. Sometimes I just tell myself the amount of poses I am getting is worth it accompanied by the price. Then I work with metal figures and try not to think of how much more I like the metal ones over the plastic. I did take the standard, cut the pole off and drilled into the standard to add a "pike" thickness shaft. The original is so thick the pike diameter fits in rather easily. (I have started to use pikes for all my spears as they look better than the thin diameter ones labled as "spears" – those ones I use for javelins.) |
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