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Fighting 15s Buys Black Hat 15mm

Saturday, 15 September 2018 10:00
Written by Mike
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Fighting 15s is taking over the 15mm and 18mm ranges from Black Hat Miniatures, and ownership officially transfers this weekend at Colours.

All the 15mm ranges will be sold as Gladiator Miniatures – as they were before Black Hat produced them. The 18mm Martian Empires range will be sold under the Martian Empires name in the Fighting 15s shop.

All the codes have been uploaded to the Fighting 15s shop and will go live within the next week. I have been working hard to make descriptions consistent, and to remove quirks of spelling. There will still be errors that I will kick myself over each time they become apparent...

Until the moulds and stock arrive, the pictures will be the same as used by Gladiator and Black Hat - some of these go back to 2002 and the era of modems and tiny image files, and they are not satisfactory for today's website. Some codes were never photographed. I will be updating and adding photos as soon as possible, but there are more than 800 codes to ink, photograph and edit, so please bear with me.

I have all the masters and production masters, and I should take delivery of the moulds within the next week.

Looking ahead, I aim to use Fighting 15s' shows rep, Stuart Armstrong at Colonel Bill's, to offer army packs of the Gladiator Miniatures ranges at UK wargames shows, but this will take some months to organise. Stuart already takes some AB, Eureka and Fighting 15s figures to shows.

Mark Severin at Scale Creep Miniatures will continue to carry the figures in the USA so there should be no disruption in service to US customers. Olympian will continue to carry them in Australia.

In future, all Gladiator Miniatures will be cast in lead-free pewter. This affects the costs of figures, originally priced for a much cheaper lead-tin mix, and because adding VAT will also affect the price to customers in the EU I have taken the opportunity to reorganise the contents of many of the packs to reduce the impact on the total price.

Standard packs of Gladiator Miniatures 15mm infantry and cavalry therefore now contain 8 infantry or 4 cavalry to fit in with the rest of Fighting 15s' ranges - and most of the rest of the wargaming hobby. A standard pack is now £3.40 inc tax. Chariot packs and elephant packs are £3.60 inc VAT. Command packs typically contain 5 foot or 3 mounted, and cost £2.55 inc VAT - the number in a command pack varies from range to range and descriptions of command as being "1 set" will be changed as soon as possible. Standard Martian Empires packs will be £3.60 inc VAT and continue to include 8 infantry or 4 cavalry.

Note that Mike at Black Hat Miniatures will continue to produce and distribute Coat d'arms paints, as well as focus on his 54mm toy soldier business, Imperial Miniatures. Fighting 15s will continue to represent AB Figures and Eureka Miniatures in the EU.

Ian
Fighting 15s and Gladiator Miniatures

Links

Fighting 15s: www.fighting15sshop.co.uk

Gladiator Minatures: www.gladiatorminiatures.co.uk

Black Hat Miniatures: www.blackhat.co.uk

One day, all the pictures will look more like this

 

18 mm Napoleonic Ottomans

Friday, 25 May 2018 17:00
Written by Mike
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All orders over £30.00 from our range of 18 mm Napoleonic Ottomans will receive a free copy of Johnson & Bell's 1988, 38 page booklet "The Ottoman Empire and the Napoleonic Wars".

 

Booklet details | Figures

Of course being Ottomans, the figures are suitable for other historical periods from the Renaissance onwards.

The offer will run until close of business on Monday, 04 June 2018 and is available only while stocks of the booklet last.

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18 mm Ottoman Battalion Packs

Friday, 18 May 2018 17:00
Written by Mike
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There are four discounted battalion packs available from our range of 18 mm Napoleonic Ottomans.

Janissaries, Cairo Janissaries, and the Shifflick Regiments are avaialble in both 24 & 32 figure packs for various rule systems.

Of course being Ottomans, the figures are suitable for other historical periods from the Renaissance onwards.

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New Martian Empires Releases

Tuesday, 02 February 2016 23:44
Written by Mike
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We have some new release for our 18mm Martian Empires range.

EMP253 British Lancers on Gasmask Horses
EMP254 British Lancer COmmand on Gasmask Horses
EMP553 Prussian Uhlans on Gasmask Horses
EMP553 Prussian Uhlan Command on Gasmask Horses
EMP903 Gas Mask Horses (6)

all packs £3.00

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Eureka 18mm WSS Catalonians

Saturday, 28 March 2015 13:31
Written by Mike
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Eureka 18mm WSS Catalonians

Fighting 15s licensed to produce War of Spanish Succession range

Eureka Miniatures of Australia’s first figures in its new War of Spanish Succession (WSS) range are the Catalonians for 1701-14. The release includes line infantry, grenadiers, migueletes, artillery crews, line cavalry and hussars.

The figures are available in Europe through Fighting 15s.

The Catalonians are cast to order in the UK by Fighting 15s using licensed moulds, thus reducing the potential for delay caused by shipping in bulk from Australia. The WSS range joins Eureka’s 18mm Seven Years War range as figures that are cast in the UK under licence by Fighting 15s.

Packs cost £4.00 including VAT for eight infantry or four cavalry and £2.00 including VAT for four artillery crewmen. Casting under licence means that Fighting 15s is able to set ex-tax prices that are currently equivalent to Eureka’s ex-tax prices (around 42p excluding VAT for a foot figure).

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