Oathmark Elf Cavalry

 The recently released Oathmark Elf Cavalry and supporting metal miniatures.

Elven Heavy Cavalry (Gripping Beast Goth Elite Cavalry)

 At Salute 2023, Renedra had an offer on Gripping Beast plastic box sets. On the Lead Adventures forum someone had used the Goth Elite Cavalry as Elven Cavalry with a suitable head transplant..

So a box was added to my load.

The box is of standard dimensions and contains four sprues, each sprue builds three cavalry figures.

Each sprue has seven heads, three shields, four lances, two swords (with optional two axes) and two standards (one of which is a Draco style one).

The head/body joint is a flat iron shaped neck on the body and a corresponding flat area on the underside of the head.

For elves, the helmeted heads from the Oathmark Elf light infantry was used. They have a ball joint, so a pilot hole was drilled into the neck part of the body, and that was opened up with larger diameter drills until a 3mm drill made the correct size for the head.

The horse had a feather from the same sprue added to the head with the feather projecting back between the ears. I did contemplate making them unicorns, but they were not bulky enough.

Fireforge Northmen Cavalry

 Though I bought a box of the Fireforge Northmen Cavalry way back in November, I had not got round to doing any more than photographing the sprues (not even posting them here).

The box contains enough parts for six cavalry.

There is one of the common Northmen Command sprues.

There are two sets of bases (ignore the ones on the right).  The elliptical ones ended up under the Chronohounds.

Two sprues of multi-part horses with partial barding.

Two sprues of riders.

There are three arms with swords, three with spears and one banner. I am not convinced the swords would fit in the scabbards.

The horses are in four parts (head, left body, right body, tail). I am not sure how much you can mix and match them.

The horses (especially this one) have very small points of contact, and only one hoof anywhere near the ground. I pinned that one and will add some miliput to hold the other two hooves in place. It has fallen off twice so far.

Comparison with an Oathmark Human Infantry.

Comparison with the recently released Oathmark Human Cavalry.

Oathmark Human Cavalry - first build

 So having shown the sprues for the new Oathmark Human Cavalry, here is the first one I have built.

The horse is in two parts, one half has the head, the joint being hidden by the reins. It is a particularly dynamic horse, which does not quite match up to the rather static rider. I may have to swap riders around until I am happy with the combination.

The cavalryman's body is in five parts: head; two arms; torso;legs.

Are they perhaps related?

Oathmark Human Cavalry and Human Infantry. The heads do appear identical, which is a bit of a disappointment, different faces would have been nice.

And a comparison with the Fireforge Northmen Cavalry.

Oathmark Human Cavalry

 The new Oathmark Cavalry come in a standard box and contain five horse sprues and three rider sprues.

Most of the horses are dynamically posed, I need to test how many different horses they will build.

The riders are kitted up with similar equipment to the Infantry, swords, spears and bows. There is a set of Command pieces (posh helmet, posh sword, double bladed axe, banner with horse top.

Minor disappointment is they have the same rectangular shields, there could have been an opportunity for a set of variant shields (Coded for Your Convenience).

The bases are 25mm x 50mm (no one does plain "pill" type bases).

Now to build them.