28mm Crusades Project - 1st Arab Cavalry

[Yarkshire Gamer]

http://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/28mm-crusades-project-1st-arab-cavalry.html

A standard "show off" post today for my first complete units for the Yarkshire Gamer Crusades Project. Probably had the figures for a couple of years now, so progress is quick ;-)

I do like these Gripping Beast plastic sets, a good method of building up troop numbers at a reasonable cost.

Lots of pics via the link above

Must stop getting distracted........ Oh that will be the postman with my new WW2 tanks...

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[FierceKitty]

What Arabs were involved in the Crusades?

[Yarkshire Gamer]

The first thing to say is the Cavalry from Gripping Beast are called Arab Cavalry hence the title.

Without writing a history dissertation it kind of depends on your definition of Arab. Do you mean Arab as in the modern Arab World, ie the 22 states of the Arab League ?

Or maybe the group of People who speak Arabic as their language ? Saladin was from the Ayyubid dynasty, born a Kurd but speaking Arabic, he was definitely involved so that's at least one under that definition.

Or perhaps you  mean the Arab tribes who were conquered by the Turks as they spread South, some of whom swore alleagance to their new masters and fought.

Or the people who follow an Arabic Culture ?

I just like the figures

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[FierceKitty]

Lovely figures, and for that matter Donald Trump is a fine Englishman....

[OSHIROmodels]

I think they look great 

cheers

James

[Belisarius]

Y.G. you,be done a terrific painting job on these , they look suitably terrifying. I particularly like the skin colours and tones on the riders. These plastic kits are fantastic for building up armies , although in my case , it always leads to buying more metal to complement them.

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Maybe Saracens is a better, less controversial label ?

[Codsticker]

Although I think the box set should be named Medieval Muslim Cavalry, since "Arabs" were/are Semitic peoples of the Arabian peninsula and southern Syrian desert, they could easily be (and most likely were) recruited into the armies of Saladin and other Muslim non-Arab leaders so I think if you wish to call them Arab Cavalry go right ahead.

[FierceKitty]

And would have mysteriously adopted Turkic dress?

[Charlie_]

They look great! I'm not a massive fan of the Gripping Beast plastics, but you've made them look really good - I like the colours.

(Looking at them now I think the heavier ones are much better sculpts than the light cavalry / horse archers, I think it's the bow arms that are the weakest part of the sculpts)

What Arabs were involved in the Crusades?

Lovely figures, and for that matter Donald Trump is a fine Englishman....

And would have mysteriously adopted Turkic dress?

.... what's your problem?

[Codsticker]

And would have mysteriously adopted Turkic dress?

That ... is a different problem. 

[FierceKitty]

They look great! I'm not a massive fan of the Gripping Beast plastics, but you've made them look really good - I like the colours.

(Looking at them now I think the heavier ones are much better sculpts than the light cavalry / horse archers, I think it's the bow arms that are the weakest part of the sculpts)

.... what's your problem?

Stereotypic and generically racist attitudes.

[fluffy05]

Lovely brushwork!

Those plastic kits look great!

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Stereotypic and generically racist attitudes.

Wow! Perhaps you are reading too much from the title, aren't you? After all, Amin Maalouf, not particularly suspicious of racist behaviour, wrote Les Croisades vue par les Arabs, meaning by "Arabs" all those peoples that used Arabic language and that lived in the general region of what now is called the Middle East. Therefore, while technically correct, you are picking at straws in order to feel offended.

Anyway, we shouldn't hijack the thread with rants about politics. 

[Phil Portway]

I am in the process of painting 3 boxes of the ARAB/MUSLIM/SARACEN/ TURKISH, ETC cavalry and agree the heavies are nicer than the light horse box.

Nice painting and especially the skin tones. 


Fierce kitty snipes on a lot of threads, I ended up ignoring his comments on mine(he must get bored)