Plastic Fantastic Two New Celtic Nations From Gripping Beast
February 14, 2022 by avernos
Gripping Beast have previewed some figures from their two new box sets to flesh out the Celtic nations for Swordpoint with their new plastic Picts and Welsh.
Pict Box Art // Marco Capparoni
Like the recent release of the Irish these two plastic kits build 25 figures that can be armed in a variety of ways a couple of which are shown below. The top half of the sprue is the same as the Irish sprue which means all three boxes can be mixed together for alternative weapon builds and to add a bit more variety to your units. The bottom quarter for each has some unique pieces, be it heads, cloaks, or weapons.
Pict // Gripping Beast
Welsh Warrior // Gripping Beast
The sculpts themselves are chunky and match Gripping Beasts style and range of metals, so it may not be for everyone but the price point of £18 for a box of twenty-five is reasonable.
Dark Age Welsh Art // Gripping Beast
If you want to check them out in more detail there is a preview video below be aware that they are test sprue casts so they may not be the final quality of the production models when you see flashing and misalignment on the spear hand fingers.
Pirate Rich Paints
Could you be tempted to dive back into the Dark Age with these new plastic kits from Gripping Beast?
Let me know in the comments below...
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Very nice figures.
A Welsh army has been my Dark Age gaming ‘white whale’ for many years now, and I was delighted a few months ago to help fund the Welsh range Footsore did via Kickstarter. Matthew Bickley did an incredible job with the sculpts, and I look forward to painting them. Still, it would be great to have some other miniatures to mix in for variety and to expand the number of available troops. And plastic? Even better! But Gripping Beast… oof. I have quite a few of the figures Colin Patten sculpted for them back in the day, and they’re (like all… Read more »
Late/post-Roman era gaming is on my to do list. Glad to see the potential for some of the traditionally less favoured factions here.