New figures available to order next week

I have just sent off figures for seven production moulds to be made at Griffin. There are figures for a further 8 moulds so its going to be ab busy summer.

The figures that have gone are the marching Spanish Infantry, the Savoia mounted Officers, the French dragoon, the early French Hussar, British Horse ( command and trooper) and the French artillery - I'm doing two four figure packs for these one pack of the crew serving the gun and a pack of the pushing/pulling figures as I think these will be useful for other things - some nice vignettes?

Pictures below - apologies for the quality the light was just too strong!

These will be available to order on the web site next week.

New Metal Masters

Just to keep the pot boiling I received some of the new metal masters from Griffin today

There's the mules for the mule train - Ebob miniatures on licence with the details added by John Dougan, the French dragoon and the generic infantry with pompom.

Then we have the first batch of Compagnie Franches de la Marine in tricorn and waistcoat.

One checked and cleaned up they will be going for casting.

A summer of new releases

Over the next few months I have lined up a fair few releases/


First up is a real 'special' John Ray who's wonderful collection graces the A Military Gentleman Book, blog and Forum very kindly sculpted an early French Hussar for the range
The figure looks comfortable on both standing  and galloping horses and I'm sure this will be a must want figure.

Unfortunately Richard Ansell continues to be unavailable due to ongoing family issues, to that end I have sought the services of Andy Stadden son of Charles to help out.

The first set of releases he has done are primarily conversions but more pieces are coming.
So we have the French artillery crew and the British Horse

 I think you will agree he has done a good job.

Finally John Dougan continues his work on the War in Italy the Spanish Infantry marching is making his way to me, pack mules etc are already at Griffin and expect to see a mountain gun coming soon as well.

Just check the website for updates and availability

Crann Tara at Partizan

For a change rather than take the trade stand I chose to put on a demo game under the Crann Tara banner, in reality I've been doing demo games at Partizan since Newark Irregulars started holding wargame shows!!!

Anyway the day was filled with lots of jaw, jaw and not enough war war but you really need around 5 people to run a successful demo game and engage with the public at the same time, it most probably saved the French army from an embarrassing defeat. We were using Honours of War rules as they were the common denominator between us, however the French C in C threw three 1's in succession for his right flank commanders and ended up with 3 dithering commanders who for the first half the game only reluctantly crept forward at a very slow and uncoordinated pace.

So a big thankyou to all those who stopped for a chat, friends and strangers alike and for all the positive comments received  and to those people who still haven't seen or heard of the range of figures - its a hard life being a figure producer against the big boys :)

and now the pictures

Falkirk and Partizan

 I apologise for being behind on a few things but I think I'm starting to return to normality!

First I'm trading at Falkirk on the 13th May so there's a 10% discount coupon on all orders for collection at the show just spend £30 or more and enter Falkirk2017 when asked for coupon code.

I'm also at Partizan on the 21st May - I'm putting a demo game on with my figures but if you want any figures for collection then just enter Partizan17 at checkout and the order will be post free and I will bring it along to the show for you.

The Savoia Cavalry command is available to pre.order and I hope to list the Minden Russian cannon on the site this week

Apologies

Ladies/Gents,
apologies for the lack of posts, my Mam took ill mid March and she passed away last Saturday so as you can imagine things have been a little hectic!!!!

I will still be at Salute this weekend with all my stock, I haven't had time to do my new display but hopefully it will make it's appearance later this year.

If you're going to Salute pop over and say hi even if I can't get you to part with cash.

I will have the Russian and Austrian equipment and artillery with me from the Jim's Minden/Fife and Drum range.

See you Saturday?

Coming soon

For those hat are on facebook then this will not be new news however for those that don't then look on and please make comment.
A colleague is looking to publish a book on the Sugar Island' campaign of the 1730's and 1740's and rather rashly I said I would have a go at making some of the troops necessary.
Well below we have the first renditions of the Compagnies Franchaise de la Marine and the Naval landing party.

The Marines I have done using dollies form Richard, the landing party are based on the laborers from Jim's Minden/Fife and Drum range.

I intend to do he Marines in Tricorns and to add to the lading party so there's about 25 different figures.
In the pipeline slave militia and weapons for the naval bods.

Not all the marines are shown but hopefully will give you a taste