Arab Heavy and Light Cavalry Plastic Sets from Gripping Beast - Two Kits , One Review!

Rodge here! Today I'm taking a look at GBP05 Arab Heavy Cavalry and GBP06 Arab Light Cavalry & Horse Archers Box Sets from Gripping Beast!
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[@zhodanicommando]

Great honest assessment of kits. I have three boxes of each so I can cover all three Muslim armies. I also use the Arab foot plastic box kit heads with wrapped faces to make my Moor army cavalry. The Javelin cases I wish they had more, but they are great kits.

[@RodgeRules]

Noice! I think that may be my plan as well. Good call on the masked face heads from the infantry kit. If the ogrish GB faces bother someone, they can just use those masked ones! (Faster to paint too!)

[@misterballista]

Great job on the horses. 👍

[@RodgeRules]

Thank you for saying so! :)

[@mobileandhostile7895]

⭐️great review and very nice brushwork ⭐️👍

[@RodgeRules]

Thank you for watching and saying so! :)

[@Wielands_Schmiede]

Good review and a very good paintjob.

[@RodgeRules]

Thank you very much! :)

[@Chito_17]

Me watching him paint the horse: "Ooh, he messed it up. Ooh, I dunno about that. Ooh, he messed it up again. Ooh, it looks amazing! What the heck?!"

[@RodgeRules]

Hehe! That is probably quite similar to my own thoughts!

[@alessandroconcina8142]

Nice

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks!

[@deangoble347]

Hey Rodge, would you like to elaborate on your 32mm round bases comment? I was considering 20mm x 40mm (instead of our usual 25mm x 50mm) bases for mounted missile troops. Should I rethink? Thanks for your awesome channel.

[@RodgeRules]

Hi Dean! For melee troops, base size mostly doesn't matter. For missile troops, smaller bases are better for squeezing your guys into range while keeping the enemy as far away as possible. If you run mounted missile troops, you will find it's much easier to get them all into that M range with the 20x40mm bases. Objectively they're better than 32mm rounds - I just prefer round bases and 32mm is as small as you can get them.

[@martinteasdale542]

Have you tried filling the gaps with a mix of Tamiya extra thin glue and sprue clippings ? It works great for smaller gaps.

[@RodgeRules]

A local bud just turned me on to the possibilities here. I'm going to try it out soon!

[@ostrowulf]

Your 4 frames at once of building is the way to go with this stuff. It is all there, but not a 40 minute video.

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks Gareth! :)

[@Swindondruid2]

I have just finished assembling the horses, and I have to say I am really disapointed. They just didi not fit together well. Having previously assembled lots of Perry horses (which are very well designed) I was amazed how bad these Gripping Beast horses were.

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks for chiming in! These are the first and worst of the GB plastic horses. The later kits like the Goth/Roman cav seem better on the gaps.

[@stompie51]

As you say, the faces look a bit unexciting, but I don’t think anybody has done any Islamic medical plastics since…

[@RodgeRules]

Shortly after I posted this, Fireforge announced some Islamic infantry kits. I reckon there will be some cav in the future as well but nothing confirmed!

[@stompie51]

@@RodgeRules I just saw! So excited. Need cavalry though. And I’m. It sure about the history but aren’t they just North Africa?