Building My Kings Guard | Human Soldiers | Oathmark Human Infantry Kit Build and Review.

[@warcorgi3623]

Another great video; thanks! And that is 100% the correct way to clear clogs in your plastic glue tubes.

[@TheLordUrban]

Shields of that design usually have grip on the inside of the boss rather than straps for the for forearms.

[@MrHaicken]

Nice video. I'm a long time traditional archer. The arrow can go on either side of the bow, depending on culture/shooting style. Assuming a right handed shooter (arrow in the right hand with bow in the left), Mediterranean (European) finger draw has the arrow on the left side of the bow Mongolian and Japanese thumb draws have the arrow on the right side of the bow. For the models, keeping the arrow on the left side is fine.

[@ScruffyCrow]

It looks a bit awkward on the model but I'll keep do them on the left from now. Have you seen Shads vids on the subject, seems like right might have been done too if not commonly.

[@MrHaicken]

@@ScruffyCrow I'm sure I saw Shad's video at some point. Here a couple of videos on archery draw styles from NUSensei. Mediterranean Draw (Left side): kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmjYaYNuiLuJn7s Mongolian Draw with a thumb ring (right side) kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHybY6uapKt0p7s

[@alessiodecarolis]

You could add a thin stripe to the shields arms, and fix them after painting. These figures are well done, pity they are a little small. For the heads that are a little fiddly, generally a metal pin is helpful

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Really nice look at the Oathmark humans.

[@AzraelThanatos]

I've been building a force...though I've largely been using Reapers Anhurian metals save for the cavalry. I'd already made a few for other games that need to be rebased. They've been converted from lances to spears for the cavalry with a few bits from Fireforge's kits and a banner/instrument from other Reaper stuff...along with a separate Reaper mini for a caster. With building units, I would suggest making the 20th infantry to have more use for the unit in options.

[@BrushQuill]

A nice little review of the kit and the little issues. The figures look nice assembled.

[@mightyeroc7284]

Very cool, I haven't started my humans yet.

[@Shiroyama1]

The arrow goes on the left of the bow with a western finger release, it goes on the right with an Asian thumb release. 🙂 Loving your videos btw 👍

[@ScruffyCrow]

Yeah, I see that now. However check out the whole impossible realese Shad saga, seems like contemporary art and speed of reload make right hand side with western realese likely, at least occasionally.

[@Shiroyama1]

@@ScruffyCrow I've just looked it up, interesting... I'm going to have to give it a try 🤔

[@habsburgerdonkey5342]

@@ScruffyCrow I mean contemporary art also has spearmen with no shields, all norman warriors in mail and helmet, etc. How much knowledge does your contemporary artist today have about military gear? =) Always found that part of the argument a flimsy one.

[@tonlito22]

The issue with the arms and shields puts me in mind of how Fire-Forge handles it. The have a lot of arms with flattened sections to keep their shields close to the body, but other arms are fully detailed if you want to either use different shields or poses.

[@MC-pt8kv]

Thanks a lot for this review, I was on the fence about it. Could you perhaps show how the figures look next to kits from other manufacturers' models? As in, other sort of 'budget' plastic kits?

[@ScruffyCrow]

These are the only plastic humans I own unfortunately, at least for now. Is there a specific range you were looking at, I believe they scale best with gripping beast and they are a bit shorter and squatter than Perry and Victrix.

[@bobcrutch8905]

Hello Scruffy...a good set I may invest in some myself as I don't have many "goodie humans" especially spear and shield armed bods ( I always thought spear and shield were lets say poor quality weapons, spear and shield armed guys always ended up guarding doors and dying without to much bother in my dungeon crawl games of D and D, how wrong I was...) anyhoo the shield problem could be fixed with a ball of greenstuff popped in the back and its tacky so no gluing ( but its hassle you could do without IF they had just made them flat in the first place, like they have the wood texture so surely it would have been easier for the sculpter as well into the bargain I would have thought) as for heads there's a few bearded heads in the frostgrave soldiers set and the wizards set ( that's what I shall be using), I've only got 20 hand weapon and shield guys to paint and that will be the "evil human" army painted once my grass sheets and tufts turn up I'll base them and then start on my barbarian force I have the leaders done already in a way as I plan to use my frostgrave barbarians warband and wizards which I'll just give a quick repaint to so in effect I'll have used 5 boxes of barbarians though not exactly if you follow me, plus the victrix cavalry they don't have bases so I ordered some standard cavalry bases to put them on which will turn up soon I hope but I've got enough to be going on with in the meantime...cheers now

[@tommoblue2296]

awsome

[@fearisthemindkiller5225]

Haha, that´s exactly the way i unblock the nozzle from my glue. Great glue for plastic b.t.w.

[@habsburgerdonkey5342]

Excellent stuff. I personally liked the human kit the least out of the Oathmark lineup. Have a hard time putting my finger on why, though.

[@ScruffyCrow]

I genuinly liked it, for me its the light dwarves that let the range down a bit.

[@habsburgerdonkey5342]

@@ScruffyCrow heh those might be my favourite looks wise although it's pretty obvious that it was their first kit cause the hands aren't great. =D

[@blkjet117]

If you were getting only one box of human soldiers to support a Dwarven army, which would be better 20 spear and shield and 10 bowmen, or 20 hand weapon and shield and 10 bowmen?

[@ScruffyCrow]

You might find 10 human bowmen a bit wimpy, for the others it depends on how you want to use them, have a look at what the spears give you and decide if that's something they might need.

[@blkjet117]

@@ScruffyCrow I will be playing on a 4 x 4 table with smaller forces than most players. I'm blending in Oathmark with my ROSD campaign, which will contain elements of Frostgrave, and Ghost Archipelago. .

[@scotteverroad4545]

I'm looking to make a box for Frostgrave. Like Hired Soldiers. Mostly Thugs. One sword/ weapon and nothing else. Would they make good thugs? In Your Opinion man? TY for feedback!

[@ScruffyCrow]

Sorry ity took me so long to reply, Yeah the standard FG soldiers would make good motley thugs, the sprue comes with enough hand weapons to equip everyone, you only run into issues if you want shields.

[@LifeTreeof]

Very nicely done! What range is that King model from that you showed at the end?

[@ScruffyCrow]

He's Vercingetorix from Warlord games. I randomly picked him up before Xmas just because I liked the sculpt. store.warlordgames.com/products/vercingetorix-gallic-celt-chieftain?_pos=1&_sid=5a660d401&_ss=r

[@tonykplayter8019]

I was about to go to bed :p

[@ScruffyCrow]

Sorry, I was running behind schedule, will try to have next Wednesday's out on time

[@tonykplayter8019]

@@ScruffyCrow sorry, I wasn't commenting due to lateness :)

[@h347h]

Where did that movement tray come from?

[@xpluscollectorscrew]

The arrow goes on the left side if the bow...otherwise it would just fall off while drawing it....lol

[@ScruffyCrow]

Theres actually some controversy on that point. Check out Shadiversity

[@xpluscollectorscrew]

@@ScruffyCrow i have a bow there's an arrow rest on the left side of the bow, i understand there are bows that shoot on the opposite side, likely bows in other areas of the world, where they practice odd methods of archery, but when holding a bow with the left hand and drawing with the right it doesn't make sense aiming or resting the arrow on the other side, it isn't in line with your eye. Youd have to cant your bow in the opposite direction which doesn't feel natural, since your arm naturally wants to cant the bow slightly to the right. Most traditional fantasy uses traditional archery, particularly ones hinted as being loosely based on western europe, it's up to you to decide what your going to do with your figs, but i dont think thats what the sculptor intended.

[@symyr]

This is a good video but please put a plaster on those cuts. It's very off putting.