That is - the danger of breakage. Overall they are pretty robust, particularly on the unit bases.. you can be careful to position figures without protruding spears etc.. however, the sticky out bits are always at risk.
My fear with these particular figures is firstly the Triarii spears. One could replace them with brass or similar.. but to be honest, I want to make and paint these figure and get playing, not get too involved in a modelling project.. I have my trains stuff for that.
The other is the gorgeous great big feather plumes on the helmets. Essential 'Republican Roman' adornment.
I was moving the units around in their storage box this morning when I spotted exactly that - one of the Principes had lost his plumage!
So - thoughts of green stuff, pins and wire were put to one side for now.. try the easy fix first. In the box thankfully there are lots of spare heads I selected one of the more fancy ones with more of a surface for fixing to the helmet - a quick snip.. bit of filing, gluing and repainting and hopefully he's back to his former glory!
Finally just a shot of the unit in which our newly repaired chappie lives..
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I am currently re-basing my Warlord Celts to play against these and was concerned at what damage I may find / cause while doing it. There are a few broken spears from the many years campaigning they have done, however, out of about 160 figures re-based so far I have broken one.
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