Gripping beast to do plastic Arab cavalry released in April

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

if a person twists his torso to one side, the lace/buttons/whatever down the front should reflect the torsion of the body - on these, the stuff runs down to the hips when the torso is turned to the side, looking totally unnatural to me

It appears to me to be the case that the torsos and legs are separate pieces, which would explain that.  I agree, it's a bit unnatural-looking, and I guess the trade off (sort of? If you can look past the lack of shirt twisting) is increased posability. Sort of a perennial problem with plastics - increased options for posing, but many of those don't look natural.

Anyways, I'm much more interested in the heavy cavalry, and am still optimistic about those, since I've generally been impressed with other GB plastics.

[Argonor]

I think they should have done it like the dark age sets - legs and torso in one piece. No point in all that 'multi-posable' stuff if it looks rubbish.

[Engel]

New pictures of the heavy cav.

Looks like lots of fun. Too bad I already have a large army. But I guess I can always get an even larger, its starting to get heavy to carry to the club for games. An not so often mentioned bonus with plastic miniatures, the weight.




More pictures at: http://www.grippingbeast.com/GBP05_Arab_Heavy_Cavalry--product--4999.html

[Hu Rhu]

I have to say that the Heavy Cavalry sculpts look a little better than their light counterparts.

[Dewbakuk]

Those look much better

[Longstrider]

The heavies do look better IMHO - though the horses just seem a touch off (but then I don't know anything about horses, and in any case I haven't really come across metal horse that looks right to me either).

That plus a few bits from the Dark Ages and Vikings box should see me good for some Andalusian cavalry for Saga, at least - nice that both boxes come with a full 12 bows and 12 spears/javelins.

[Argonor]

Agreed, they seem to be a nicer product.

[AdamPHayes]

Both sets will be useful for conversions. I have the light cavalry pencilled in as Back of Beyond era Basmachis...

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

There some sprue pictures on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Gripping-Beast/196181460427546?fref=ts

It looks like you get four sprues each with three horses, three torsos and legs, 16 arms and 8 heads, plus swords, bow cases and arrows.
That is a lot of parts and a lot of variety.  
I think that you will also be able to mix parts from each set nad also heads from the infantry sets.

I think that this will be a very good set.
I wonder if I could mix in some parts and horses from the Fireforge Mongels to get even more variety.

Mick

[Atheling]

I think that this will be a very good set.
I wonder if I could mix in some parts and horses from the Fireforge Mongels to get even more variety.

I haven't see the sprue on the flesh but I reckon they might be interchangeable..... 

Darrell.

[Thaddeu]

Well, the light cav will be quite handy for my 17th-century Polish light cavalry, even if I have to be careful/creative with the posing. And the heavy cav look like they'll make a good base for muscovite nobles, whenever I get around to that army.