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Offline Argonor

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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2015, 07:15:24 PM »
A thought I had too, with the Haradrim, except that the GW plastics are pretty expensive these days. :(

I may have phrased it wrongly; I am going to use plastic Saracens as Haradrim, because the GW stuff is probably going OOP (and, of course, also as Saracens to counter Crusaders).
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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2015, 07:36:16 AM »
In the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated GB mentioned back in a comercial that they will be releasing two new plastic boxes at salute.

They could be those boxes Longstrider talked about.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2015, 08:15:17 AM by Engel »

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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2015, 07:45:25 AM »
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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2015, 07:23:20 AM »
 :-* Gripping Beast:


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At SALUTE this year we are releasing TWO new boxes of plastics; Arab Light Cavalry and Arab Heavy Cavalry. Earlier this week we received the mould test shots for the lights. Test shots are used to make sure everything on the mould is aligned and forms properly and are usually slightly less crisp than the final product from the mould once any issues from the test shots are sorted and the locating pins tightened. We were so pleased with the tests that we stuck a few together - so, here are a couple of quick snaps we thought we'd share. Remember they were roughly stuck just to test and Martin didn't trim any sprue bits or mould flash (which is present on these test shots but won't be on the final versions!!) Caveats over...what you think?

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=854296397949379&id=196181460427546




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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2015, 07:35:36 AM »
Impressive  :-*.

Especially the Turcoman  :-* :-*

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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2015, 07:48:14 AM »
Yes, I like them a lot too, and this box sounds very promising.
Maybe the start of another army... :D
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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2015, 08:13:55 AM »
really nice Sounds like "sun spear " (GOT) to me!
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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2015, 04:47:59 PM »
The Turcoman's hat is a little small and Fez like.

I see what you mean, probably should be taller. However that hat always says Turkoman to me. Probably more to do with available sculpts than history ;)

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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2015, 08:32:10 PM »
Ian Heaths book has a bloke in a fez, imagine that's where it's probably come from. The Arab figures turban looks odd to me, maybe just the angle, but it looks like a bunnet, as worn by Sunday drivers across the land. Or one of those afghan hats?

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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2015, 09:26:41 PM »
:(
There comes a time when you just have to say what you think - and I think these are incredibly crudely done.
I didn't think much of the Arab infantry, and these look even less good.
The horse has got a banana-shaped head and stick legs. The riders' arms are all wrong: the bow arm with hardly any detail or shape at all; the sword arm at an unnatural angle.
The horse archer appears to be wearing a pancake on his head. His torso doesn't fit on his legs properly. His open hand is weird. There's no detail to speak of. The costume detailing is... sketchy...

Yes, it could just be down to the photos, but to judge from these, they're distinctly ropey-looking figures.


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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #26 on: March 17, 2015, 09:38:46 PM »
:(
There comes a time when you just have to say what you think - and I think these are incredibly crudely done.
I didn't think much of the Arab infantry, and these look even less good.
The horse has got a banana-shaped head and stick legs. The riders' arms are all wrong: the bow arm with hardly any detail or shape at all; the sword arm at an unnatural angle.
The horse archer appears to be wearing a pancake on his head. His torso doesn't fit on his legs properly. His open hand is weird. There's no detail to speak of. The costume detailing is... sketchy...

Yes, it could just be down to the photos, but to judge from these, they're distinctly ropey-looking figures.


... and the hands are also too big compared to the heads.
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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2015, 09:52:23 PM »
The horse has got a banana-shaped head

And an eyeball in a strange orientation and placement, at the bottom of a weird hole.

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the bow arm with hardly any detail

And a funny lookin' shoulder.

There's a feeling that you have do give these new plastic producers some leeway 'cos they're a bit inexperienced, and maybe GBP's last couple of kits were a sign of improvement (I dunno, didn't look too closely at them) but I think they're starting to slide backwards again.
For one thing, I personally wish they'd try to do multipart limited-pose minis with anatomy that kinda makes sense, rather than multipose minis with strange one-armed-bandit robo-limbs. It looks like they're using moulding/casting decisions that even GW gave up on a few years ago.

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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2015, 08:56:11 AM »
I loved their Hirdmen box but besides these I actually think they are moving backwards...

What Captain Blood is all to true.
But still... Plastic Saracens... I could use some boxes of these...
To bad Perry cant make all the miniatures for all the eras and games...
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Re: Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2015, 09:55:47 AM »
What Captain Blood is all to true.
But still... Plastic Saracens... I could use some boxes of these...
To bad Perry cant make all the miniatures for all the eras and games...

I do think Perry plastic miniatures are the best by some considerable distance. But there are a lot of other good plastic historical miniatures out there - much of the Victrix range, some of the later Fireforge stuff.
But these just look poor :(

 

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