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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: David Cowper on December 15, 2020, 12:15:44 PM

Title: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: David Cowper on December 15, 2020, 12:15:44 PM

I have loads of spare heads, arms, weapons and other bits and pieces from the Gripping Beast Arab Cavalry sets and quite a few bodies from the Dark Age Warriors.  Could I add the Arab parts to the Dark Age Warriors bodies and them still be historically be mainly historically accurate for a Middle Eastern type of infantry?  What could they represent? Does anybody have any examples of conversions that they might have made by mixing those two sets?   

Title: Re: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: delbruck on December 15, 2020, 12:51:33 PM

Yes. Armenians and Georgians are a couple that come to mind. The long Arab robe was not very practical for people fighting on foot. Many soldiers instead wore a simple tunic into battle. Others, such as later Ottoman foot, tucked (pulled up) their robe with their belt.

Title: Re: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: Erik on December 15, 2020, 01:36:01 PM

Sounds very interesting.

Please post photos if you continue with this project.


Cheers
Erik

Title: Re: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: David Cowper on December 17, 2020, 05:35:51 PM

Not the clearest picture but this is what I' very come up with adding arab heads, arms and shields to the Dark Age Warrior bodies. I only had 11 of them so I added a GB western mercenary figure to be their leader. I think I'll use them as a fierce foot unit for Lion Rampant Crusader States.

Title: Re: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: SJWi on December 18, 2020, 10:49:00 AM

As Delbruck has said what you are proposing is eminently feasible. The figures you have produced can also be used as Turkic soldiers who fought in many “Islamic” armies.

 

Title: Re: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: monkeylite on December 18, 2020, 12:36:38 PM

Sorry, I misread the question, please ignore.

I put some Arab heads on some plastic armoured vikings and added a bit of green stuff to make some heavy Arab infantry. No idea how accurate this ends up being:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUAYJWBFYBk/VdROGUhAySI/AAAAAAAACo0/HMS6rxss4fA/s1600/003.JPG)

https://tewblogger.blogspot.com/2015/08/green-stuff-arabs.html

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XK-W3D-3YQQ/VyT3yWCU71I/AAAAAAAADhM/fKqTi0Q_GGs_OPoNMLFOD0yfPQcFZPCIwCLcB/s1600/008.JPG)

Title: Re: Mixing Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors with Arab parts
Post by: David Cowper on December 20, 2020, 09:15:06 AM

Thank you for your help.