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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

 

15mm Ancien Régime Flags

Sunday, 28 June 2015 14:24
Written by Mike
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15mm Ancien Régime flags

Fighting 15s releases French infantry flags for Seven Years and Revolutionary Wars.

Fighting 15s has released 30 sheets of 15mm paper flags for Ancien Régime infantry. The flags are suitable for French infantry from the Seven Years War right up to the Revolutionary Wars.

Each sheet costs £4.00 including VAT and sheets typically contain 12 flags – six white Colonel’s flags and six coloured Ordonnance flags. Flags are in Fighting 15s’ new shaded style, introduced for the Austrian Seven Years War infantry flags, and the stitching has been emphasised on the Colonels’ flags so they look more than just a white flag.

The flags have been designed in particular to suit Eureka’s Seven Years War French to give a good fit around the flag staff. The accompanying images are of lower resolution than the actual flags.

Fighting 15s is in the process of reorganising the flags section of the online shop, and this is the first part of Fighting 15s’ flags range to be fully illustrated on the site.

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1815 British Join 3mm Line-Up

Monday, 08 June 2015 16:15
Written by Mike
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Napoleonic British join 3mm line-up

The latest releases from Oddzial Osmy of Poland arrive at Fighting 15s

The latest releases from Oddzial Osmy of Poland have arrived in stock at Fighting 15s. The releases are all in 1:600 scale (3mm) and include:

Moderns
SA-6118 2S7 Pion 203mm heavy self-propelled gun
SA-6202 PMP floating bridge set
US-696 F-4B Phantom II
US-697 X-47B UCAS-D

Napoleonics
NAP-637 British line infantry 1815
NAP-638 British line infantry 1815 command
NAP-639 British skirmishers 1815

Terrain and Scenery
TR-621 Deciduous trees IV
TR-622 Coniferous trees II

Packs are all £3.00 including VAT with contents as described on the website (typically 15 vehicles, 15 strips of infantry, 8 aircraft or 8 trees). SA-6202 is a special "triple set" and costs £9.00 inc VAT.

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15mm Napoleonic Painting Guides

Saturday, 02 May 2015 20:28
Written by Mike
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15mm Napoleonic painting guides

Fighting 15s republishes Napoleonic painting guides

Once upon a time, Fighting 15s was just a figure painting service specialising in 15mm Napoleonics. It’s where the name comes from - an allusion to British regimental nicknames such as the “Fighting 15th”, the King’s Hussars, as well as to magnificent pieces of technology such as the F-15 Eagle.
Way back then, Fighting 15s had two painting articles published by the now defunct Wargames Journal in its Painter’s Shed series.
Fighting 15s has long since stopped being a painting service, and those articles have long since disappeared in a complete form from the web. But now, thanks to a request for a copy of the articles, they have been republished and can be found in their new home on Fighting 15s’ Oozlum Games website.

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Napoleonic Playing Cards

Monday, 13 April 2015 20:15
Written by Mike
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Napoleonic pin-up playing cards.

More Polish delights arrive at Fighting 15s.

Fighting 15s now has in stock the fabulous Napoleonic pin-up girls playing cards illustrated by Polish artist Bartek Drejewicz.

Published by Polish lingerie store Intimo, this deck of playing cards features pin-up girls in Napoleonic uniforms. The deck is definitely themed as traditional pin-ups, not “glamour”, with bare midriffs and plunging necklines the limit of any risque exposure.

Each suite is themed as follows: Clubs - Austrians and Prussians; Diamonds - French; Hearts - Polish and Confederation of the Rhine; Spades - British, Russians and Spanish. All cards in the decks are illustrated in full colour, and the illustrations on the standard 52 cards are unique. Four identically illustrated jokers are also included. Illustrations are identical in the blue and red decks; the only difference is the colour of the backs of the cards.

The cards use continental notation for the court cards - K for king, D for queen (dame) and J for jack – which should cause minimal confusion if the decks are used, for example, to drive a game’s card-driven initiative system.

Decks are priced at £9.50 each including VAT, or £18.00 including VAT for a pair of different-backed decks.

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