Gripping Beast - 28mm Viking Hirdmen

Box Art

The first release from Gripping Beast sees a box containing parts for 44 spear, sword, hand-axe or two handed dane-axe armed Hirdsmen.

The set also includes command figures to allow the building of up to two Viking Jarls and two horn blowers or standard bearers. Also included in the boxed set are two paper banners.

These fearsome warriors would be well equipped with the finest weapons and armour. A favoured weapon was the mighty dane-axe which was wielded with both hands and quite capable of severing a horse's head with one blow.

Figure Frame

The figures are very easy to put together and have virtually no flash to deal with, Vkings would have formed a predominantly spear armed Shield Wall and the choice of arms available reflects this. That said there are not enough spear arms to enable the whole box to be so created

Command Frame

All figures are armoured with chain mail, representing the viking period (8th-10th centuries), most bearing a hammer pendant in honour of their god Odin.

Each set comes with 4 identical frames, each containing 10 figures, each figures is a basic torso with legs, though some have an arm pre-attached, to which a range of arms and heads can be attached to give the required variety