Wargames Foundry - unreleased and re-releasing..................

Those Lords of War at Foundry have announced they will be re-releasing all the old fantasy sculpts that have gone astray over the years....including (but not limited to!) Orcs and Dwarves. I have picked up hordes of their Orcs over the years but know there are more to be had.....damn this obsessive compulsive disorder! That evil Steve Casey, purveyor of steamy lead articles over at Eldritch Epistles, has broken down the walls at Bryan Ansell's Stoke Hall and gained access to unreleased sculpts and mystery moulds.......never was a man more jealous......Anyway, let us wipe the fevered brow......I found a few old 'coming soon' pics in my Foundry catalogue / compendiums......Kev 'Goblinmaster' Adams sculpts on the Orc front....it would be great if Foundry could pull him into their fold now he is on the mend...imagine him as an in-house sculptor!

I so need the 2 Orclings with chainsaws..........

May 1977 was a good month..............

White Dwarf magazine appeared for the first time from the ashes of a little known Games Workshop fanzine called Owl & Weasel.....I only have the March '77 copy so here's a taster......

Just finished a figure for Boki Gromdal at Stunties. The unpainted mini is a prize created by that sculpting God, John Pickford......for Clam's Chaos Dwarfs Online painting competition.......

Still some work to do as once I uploaded the pics I noticed the pool of glue or varnish under the feet....grrrrrrr.

Check out Clam's 'Clamshells and Sea Horses' blog as well.

A little hint of things to come...............

More hints later.......................

Westwind Empire of The Dead Kickstarter parcel arrived!

From back in March this year, all good things come to he who waits etc. Westwind Empire of the Dead linky here. No time to delve further today but initial package pics below. 

Asgard Miniatures robot out of the blue...so to speak...

I picked up a box of assorted offcuts / throwaway bits a couple of years ago....I couldn't make much out from the auction pic but went for it anyway. When it arrived it was a joyous occasion, as all those receiving old lead will be aware of......there was a mix of Hinchliffe siege tower cladding, Archive robot scraps and loads of bits I had yet to id. The other day I was cleaning one of the robots off and noticed 'X2' under the base.......the penny dropped and I checked the Lost Minis WIKI........Asgard Science Fiction ....lo and behold I now give you X2 Three-Arm Robot......yet to be cleaned up......

Not 100% certain but pretty darned sure that this is the arm sprue for it...

Goblinaid and a Wargames Foundry update......................

  

Shamelessly nabbed off the Goblinaid Facebook page;

From the legendary Bryan Ansell:

"We (at Foundry) are organising ourselves to get another Goblinaid pack together. 

No Kevin self portrait model in this one though. Instead, we might put a group of the really tiny snortlings in with each selection of Kevinish this and that. We will decide when we discover what moulds we have left. We will do our best to provide a significantly different mix than we have in the Kevin packs. We can't promise that you will not get a duplicate. But we will do our best: our memories of which models went in last time may be unreliable. I am sure you will find it in your hearts to forgive us any slips!

It may take a while for us to organise actual blisters and get them up on our website. We are a man or two short at Foundry (see vacancy add on our site). 

However, we are happy to sell you a Kevinless pack RIGHT NOW! SO: just stay sat right where you are at your computer - go to www.wargamesfoundry.com - find the Goblinaid page - AND BUY THE EXISTING GOBLINAID PACK! - Put a note on your order that you actually wanted the new Kevinless pack, and that is what we will send you."

In case you don't know Bryan Ansell, he is the genius behind the early meteoric growth of Games Workshop....previously he sculpted and set up just a few miniature companies....Conquest, Asgard, Tabletop, Citadel, Guernsey Foundry, Wargames Foundry......he is currently attempting to not interfere in the running of a rather nice looking stately home 'Stoke Hall' which, if my brother wasn't working on a similar ongoing project in Wales, would be where I would marry off my daughters......after which I might have time to paint the figures Bryan has caused me to buy over the last 35 years or so....grrrrrrr. His son, Marcus, is carrying on in the same vein......grrrrrr.

The latest of the Goblinaid sculpts, the bust by Philip Hynes, is available on a strictly limited run from the boys at Ainsty Castings here.

Don't forget, the rest of the sculpts are currently available from those good guys at Ral Partha Europe here

Archive Miniatures 2098 Star Fellowship - another piece of the puzzle......

As part of this 'never ending story' of the 'not Star Wars' minis I dug out a mini I had never identified following a friend's comments on this set about most of the set being Hobbit (or Hibbot) sized.....lo and behold.....Chewbacca the Fuzzy;

Excuse the pics, wife is in bed so can't use the normal lighting area....

The others I am certain of so far are;

Hans Self (2098 inscribed on the base) - here missing gun barrel...

Obi Tu

Princess Lula

That leaves the final 3; Leke Skyhibbot, Rsla Androidess and R.P.2.P - I am told the robots were 'normal' sized so potentially we have these;

Seems to fit the Androidess bit....

A 3rd Hibbot type has been posted by Nightbay on the Lost Minis WIKI..could this be Leke Skyhibbot?

If anyone has any further info please give me a shout on enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

Link to the previous post here

Don't forget if you are interested in Archive Minis, I run a Yahoo Group - (edit 25/02/2022), now long gone as are all Yahoo Groups.

Early morning edit (can't sleep)...I've just been informed that all the figs above do make up the set. Excellent. Anyone got a spare of the last Hibbot mini please????

Extra edit......2098 appears on the base of all of them now I've stripped them...should have done that in the first place.....

enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk