Bring Out Your Lead 2018 ..... Oldhammer BOYL at Foundry, day 1...

Well, day 1 of BOYL was wonderful......I started by visiting Pete at The Mouldmaker to pick up some Tenoch ..... yesterday I'd Google mapped him from the hotel and Foundry and was surprised to see he was only 15 minutes away.....this morning that changed to over an hour...I'd obviously been looking at the results for visiting Newark hence ended up at Foundry just after 12....immediately bumped into Diane Ansell who made me feel at home. Doesn't seem like a year since the last one! Spent most of the day talking to Bryan, Maria and Marcus Ansell, Tony Yates and Mark Stevenson )who has started his epic journey on a complete history of Asgard Miniatures....more of that in another post). Met up with sculptor extraordinaire Drew Williams (top bloke) who showed his latest troll greens (pic below) and loads of other people who shall me named tomorrow (quick write up before curry and beer).  Tony Ackland unfortunately couldn't be here this weekend but will be missed, the stories he came out with last year still have me laughing...

On to the pics.......

The Mouldmaker's residence......great chatting to Pete as always.

Bryan and Mark discussing the Asgard project....

A bunch that Bryan brought out including old unreleased adventurers converted to Sci Fi for early Rogue Trader playtesting......

Bryan, Mark and Drew....

Drew on his own...

Drew's troll greens....

Kev Adam's dragon made up and painted by Paul Sanderson of 'Here Be Goblins'...

A small selection of Mark's Asgard minis....I still need that damned giant!

Below are some originals and some conversions (some cast, some just conversions) for playtesting Rogue Trader....the original pre-cursor to Warhammer 40K......

Steve Beale of' ''Somewhere The Tea's Getting Cold' blog Shrine of Rigg' temple for tomorrow's game.....more detail tomorrow and amended as I'd put it originally as Jamie Loft's creation....oops....

My pal Tony Yates...

Couple of pics of a skeleton we couldn't identify. Pretty certain I've seen it but didn't bring my close up specs.......certainly Citadel but which range??

Thanks as always to the Ansell family for putting up with us. More tomorrow, this was just the quiet Friday......

Day 2 here.

Day 3 here.

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Phoenix Models - risen from the flames so to speak......

Well, I just picked up a couple of Phoenix Miniatures larger scale 'Bolgs'. Two of the A17 Female Bolg to be exact. I then did a search and found that Forty-Third Limited have re-released the full range along with a lot of the 1/43 railway items. 

Edit; now available from S&D Models https://www.sanddmodels.co.uk/products_32_fantasy.htm

 I remember well the excitement of seeing this range develop back in the day although it was mostly out of my price range. I've since got quite a few and they really are most excellent sculpts by the late Tim Richards.

 Phoenix Model Developments themselves are still going strong of course although they concentrate of doll's house items these days although still superbly sculpted ones. There's a little bit of their history here.

 

Also, for those into the old 'Follies' range, they are available here!

Tell them I sent you!

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Pirates of Treasure Island on the horizon sir!

Well, John at Black Tree Design emailed me to say they've finally launched their pirate range via Kickstarter. I posted about these a few years back here. 

There are various groups to back however the complete set is the best value of course!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/656177818/pirates-of-treasure-island

Tell them I sent you if you get the chance, someone's got to think my blog is useful!!

Lots more of my pirate posts here.

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Peter Firmin RIP.

It is with great regret I heard that Peter died today. He leaves behind his wife Joan and six daughters along with a multitude of people who have been enthralled by his work over the past 6 decades. Another great one gone.

So sad.

The Little Soldier Company website is now live!

Well, it's been a while but it's finally up there. 

https://thelittlesoldiercompany.co.uk/

The Noggin the Nog Kickstarter is currently being fulfilled and I'm prepping for the next one. At some point I'll get back to old school minis I promise. Divorce, redundancy and such like have occupied my life for the last 3 years but hopefully I'm getting there!

C&C in comments below please!

New Oldhammer style miniatures by Kev Adams - Tenoch (Aztec frogs)

Another project I've been getting along with has come to fruition......

Enhanced Warriors (human types)

EW1 Warrior with sword / shield

EW2 Warrior with axe / shield

EW3 Warrior with spear

Beast Riders

TB1 Warrior w.Spear / shield

TB2 Warrior w.Sword / shield

Tenoch

T1 Warrior w.Spear / shield

T2 Warrior w.Sword / shield

T3 Youngling Blowpipe 1

T4 Youngling Blowpipe 2

T5 Warrior Champion / shield / shield

Speciality Sets

SP1 Overlord on Palanquin

The general background......

The Tenoch came from the stars it was told. How else could they have appeared without legend or warning? They swam through the corridors of space it was said in vessels of fine glass. The Tenoch ate only the first born of virgin daughters of the priesthood we were told. The priests forbade us to talk of them and so we did. Often would I ponder the malice of these creatures, these web footed caricatures of the beasts of the Culhuacan swamps. I see you, you of the other side. I hear you, your feet make impressions on the water. I smell you, oh befouler of air. We move with swiftness, with caution, with breath held hard and pray to the Ikree that we reach your eggs. I see you, oh old one. You tremble not as your sight is impaired by the passage of time. You shudder though, as if the cold is weapon of its own. Do you hear us? You make no impression on the void. Now we take back our young. Now you feel the kiss of my obsidian. Is that pain that registers across your face, your strange, alien visage? No man shall partake of your flesh, no child shall fall again beneath your scythe. Now we take our children back. You do not stop us; your breath has ceased. Your sight is no more. A dull glow, perhaps a sign. We leave. The yolk of your eggs stain the temple floor. The centre once great, now lost to us. The children whimper beneath their new skulls. Your skulls. Your eggs. No more children for your slain. To take our children. We feast upon our own, not the flesh of your offspring. The children will change, we know. We have experience now. We have fear still but now we have knowledge of your ways. You Tenoch shall not this world inhabit for the aeons that our sisters have. With the knowledge of the Ikree we have you. Slowly shall we rejoice in the taking back of the lands of the Culhuacan. We dream the dream of the old ones once more. The old ones know you. Praise to the Ikree, may her womb be fertile once more. We shall send her rivers of bloods. The old ways for the old ones.

These are all by that sculpting God, Kev Adams.....

Currently £3 for foot, £6 for mounted and £20 for the Palanquin (a 4 piece kit that is not recommend for the uninitiated). They don't come with bases and the chain under the palanquin is not supplied. That was a very fiddly addition once I found some chains!

Email me if interested!

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Noggin the Nog Kickstarter - close to posting!

Well, it's been a longer journey than I thought it would be however I hope everyone will be as happy with the finished product as I am! A few pics below including a character box I am doing for Nick Case' boardgame 'Tales of the Northlands' along with some new sculpts from 'The Flying Machine' set....

Shrinkwrapped and almost ready to fly.....

The 18 miniatures .....

The character box for the boardgame....

Labels arrived and boxing commences....

Four pieces from 'The Flying Machine'

Emir Ahmed el Ahmed, ruler of the land of Silver Sand

Haroun ibn Daud and his genie

The crown thief on his flying carpet......

Loads more to follow!

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