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It’s Day 8 Of 10 Days Of Shiny!

Monday, 08 June 2020 09:16
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The days are flying by and we're already on Day 8 of the '10 Days of Shiny!'

Today we move over to some new scenery releases with the first batch of Feudal Japanese buildings now available! These are the Castle Arts range (which we purchased at the start of 2019) so we're excited to get them back into production. John at Ironclad has been doing some tweaks and new moulds for us, so these are all new crisp castings and look great.

The next batch of these should be some of the walls and fences, which we're hoping to have ready sometime in August.

Scenery
Feudal Japan
SCN-FEU1 Samurai Dojo £4.50
SCN-FEU5 Village House, type 1 £4.00
SCN-FEU6 Samurai House £4.00
SCN-FEU7 Village House, type 2 £4.00
SCN-FEU8 Dormitory £4.00
SCN-FEU9 Inn £4.00

And the pics:

Day 9 will see some handy storage items from Minibits...

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Dicing With Death – Gladiator Rules

Saturday, 06 June 2020 08:25
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“The latest set of rules from innovative publishers “Wargaming for Grown Ups” is a set of simple, fast play wargame rules for contests between gladiators in the arenas of ancient Rome. The rules cover all of the major types of gladiators, including retiarii and laquerarii. Also included is a simple campaign system enabling players to compete for the coveted rudis, the wooden sword symbolising a gladiator reaching the end of their career. Rules include full details of all the gladiators usable in the game, together with character record sheets and a Quick Reference Sheet. The system uses standard d6 for movement and combat and an offset square playing grid (although you can use hexes if you prefer). The innovative combat system uses concealed dice rolls as the players attempt to outscore their opponents using holds and re-rolls based on the gladiator’s skill level.

Unlike most other sets to game system is aimed to simulate the actual gladiator “sport” with players having a reasonable chance of surviving (being granted “missio”), despite being bested by an opponent, like 90% of most actual gladiators did!”

These rules come bundled with a set of our Champions of the arena to get you started.

Please note this is a pre-order and will be sent out as soon as we have stock available.

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Age Of Sail Chinese Junk Flags

Friday, 05 June 2020 17:10
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If anyone was missing some Far East naval powers ensigns and flags, in order to add some colour to their deadly war junks, I hope these two new releases will be useful and tempting enough to you!

For I've just made available two new sets of 1:600th scale naval flags for Chinese ships during Ming and Qing periods - between XV and XIX centuries approx.

Lluís Vilalta
www.minairons.eu

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4th & 5th Day Of 10 Days Of Shiny!

Friday, 05 June 2020 14:18
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We're at Day 4 of the '10 Days of Shiny' and it's a big one! We know that a lot of you have been eagerly awaiting this release so we're very excited to have our new Feudal Japanese range now available!
We've replaced and expanded our old Samurai range with more codes, more poses, more equipment... more everything really. We've got infantry and cavalry, monks and ninjas, guns and drums, casualties, banners, civilians and more. Everything you could possbly want for your Japanese armies...

 

Head over to our Forum for more info: HERE

 

We're reaching the halfway point of our '10 Days of Shiny' and for Day 5 we've got some 28mm transport from RedVectors!

This lot are perfect for the Wild West and ACW, as well as the later 19th Century in general, especially the wagons. The wagons come in both 2-wheel and 4-wheel varieties and then we've also got a stagecoach and prison wagon as well. Finally, we've added some walking horses to pull them. These are all around the £5-£6 mark and the horses come in pairs for £4.

Red Vectors
28mm Wagons -
RED-WAG-01 2-wheeled wagons (x2) £5.00
RED-WAG-01 4-wheeled wagon £5.00
RED-WAG-01 Stagecoach £6.00
RED-WAG-01 Prison Wagon £6.00
RED-WAG-01 Walking horses (x2) £4.00

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QRF – News For June

Thursday, 04 June 2020 19:20
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WHAT'S NEW?
We have now received completed the Bedford OY - long awaited but now here at last! As a bonus, the Bedford MW and possibly the MWC and MW Portee are also complete to add to last months new figures.

That's the good news! The bad news is that we are very busy casting orders and have been unable put any new figures in to mould - Sorry!

THE PLAN!
Our main focus for the coming year will be WW1 Africa so, if you have any particular figures you want let us know - especially pictures! We will also be starting the redesign of the Pike and Shot era and in-filling the Franco-Prussian War range, especially as the 150th Anniversaries approach.

We do need to catch up from this last period, so, if we haven't responded, or you are missing something, please let us know again. There is now only Chas casting and Bernie only works 2 afternoons a week and we have been getting the number of orders through at the level of 3 years ago, when we had three casters and Sarah working full time!
Thank you all for your patience!

Keep your heads down and keep safe, and – go explore!!
Chas and Geoff

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