Category Archives: Admiring Others

I have the great fortune to be part of a web of people who are in possession of great talent. These talents can be in the written word or the drawing of pictures among a great many other things. In these posts I pay due respect and let you all know about the excellence that exists out there.

I now also see Lead People!

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A current project on 'I see lead people'.

I have the good fortune to be able to count the talented fellow Eli Arndt among my friends in the world of miniature wargaming.  Though we have never met we do speak a lot on email and as some of you might know Eli is a miniature designer (among other things) who has worked with 15mm.co.uk under my SHM brand for aspiring designers.  I rate Eli highly and his design work goes from strength to strength.  In fact I am often surprised as how diverse his interests are with aliens, super heroes and board games all coming up in the last week or two alone!

Most recently with myself Eli has another ten 15mm scale miniatures released (SHM26-SHM35) this month.  He is working on more…

I asked Eli if he could give me his blog address so that I could link to him and tell all of you about him.  He was kind enough to send me the link to his blog – I See Lead People.  With the link now on my blog this posting is really just to let you all know to go along and have a look at what Eli is up to.

Enjoy!

GBS

5109 Sharkes Chosen – Boxed Set for Flintloque – Released on 2nd April!

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It is a grand week indeed over on Alternative Armies for the release of a brand new Flintloque Boxed Set is upon us.  Yes, I taunted you all with teaser posts but it was worth it.  Rob Alderman and myself have been working on this for more than a year and now it’s here – 5109 Sharke’s Chosen (A4 Boxed Set of Characters!)

This is a super set and contains not only the new incarnations of the original six Rifleorcs but also a new Rifleorc (Koopa) plus a new Captain Fredorcson and a new Wo-Gan to replace the long sold out LE code but also a brand new character Major Septic Piecrust.  Not only this but four mounted versions of Sharke, Harpy, Wo-Gan and Piecrust on horses.  All of this in white metal 28mm scale plus a four page insert that gives you full character details and rules, uniform guides, weapon guides, stats for Half-Orcs and a scenario too to get you started.

Miniatures from 5109 set

Above you can see an image of the whole set but if you click HERE you can download a zip file with hi-rez images of all the miniatures both front and back plus a PDF version of the insert that comes with the 5109 boxed set.  Enjoy!

Craig Andrews over on Barking Irons Online has told me he is interested in doing a special interview with myself and Rob Alderman about this great new set and our plans for Sharke and his lads over the next year.  More on this as it happens.

This set will be featured at Salute as the main part of the demo game which I will be running alongside the Gingerbread House.

Also keep in mind you can get 15% off your orders with Alternative Armies until 23rd April 2012 with the Salute Month Promotion using the special code plus if you are going to the show you can collect your order from my very hands saving the postage too!

GBS

Enter the Spaceport! New 15mm SHM Miniatures.

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15mm.co.uk has just released a bunch of new 15mm into the great SHM Range.  Any and all sculptors can submit to the range but all of these designs were created by Eli Arndt a rather talented fellow and over the last year increasingly a good friend too.  He has a vision of a ‘starport’ in space where all manner of weird creatures meet…I love this idea and these miniatures bring it a step closer to a space opera reality.

Below you can see the miniatures.  I have inserted large format images so you can get a good look at them and below the images is the listing of the codes so you can see what each of these alien chaps is called.

SHM30, SHM31, SHM34

SHM32, SHM33,SHM27

SHM35,SHM28,SHM29

SHM27 Starport Urchins
SHM28 Trandan Mercenary
SHM29 Asteroid Miner
SHM30 Gizbin Mercenary
SHM31 Baroka Crimelord
SHM32 Calamite Preacher
SHM33 Phreek Bystande
SHM34 Prang Soldier
SHM35 Kardul Bodyguard

These miniatures are brilliant and I have added several of them in multiples to my USE ME forces (in fact I used a few of them in testing the Terminus Micro Scenarios too).  Personal favourite is SHM32 Calamite Preacher..great for a psyker or other minor leader of mercenaries.

Remember that you can get 15% off all orders on 15mm.co.uk until April 23rd 2012 in the annual Salute Month Promotion plus you have the option of picking up your order on the day from the Alternative Armies / 15mm.co.uk trade stand saving you the postage too!  Just use the given code.

GBS

Eclipsing Binaries Blog – 15mm Sci-fi

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This week I got an email from Colin, who runs the Eclipsing Binaries Blog, over on blogger.  Below is an image of one of his favourite miniatures!

Laserburn 505 Mercenary in power armour

He is a big fan of Laserburn and other 15mm.co.uk miniatures and has create a nice little blog…check it out!

Colin has also expressed an interest in designing some miniatures for the SHM range.  I have emailed him with some information and encouragement.  You can check out some of his initial attempts at sculpting on his blog.  He shows a lot of promise.

I hope to hear from Colin soon.

GBS

New 28mm Ion Age Released this week by Alternative Armies

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IB51

Retained Squires - Front

IB51

Retained Squires - Rear

This week Alternative Armies is releasing those four new 28mm Ion Age sci-fi miniatures that I showed you all last week.  You can see them above and first off let me offer a big thank you and well done to Sam Croes who painted and based these four as a favour to me.  One of the four even looks a little like my father in law!

These four are coded as follows:

  • IB051 Retained Squires (a pack of all four white metal miniatures with bases)
  • IA190 Retained Squire with campaign version Moth Type 12 (one in from left)
  • IA191 Retained Squire signalling the advance (on the left)
  • IA192 Retained Squire with Octa Power Sword (one in from the right)
  • IA193 Retained Squire running with Angis 12.5mm AP Rifle (on the right)

Look for these miniatures in the Ion Age Miniature Range on the Alternative Armies website.  Suitable for any 28mm science fiction game including MOTH and Firefight 2.0.

These four are all without helms for their armour and this was the number one request for new miniatures that the company got from gamers.  Suitable as post (fire-team), lance (squad) leaders or just as troopers they add some great variety on the tabletop.  Pricing will be about 2.50GBP each with a small reduction for the pack of four.

Sam Croes also did some other miniatures in the Ion Age for his own collection; the Retained of Castella.  You can see them in this posting here on my blog.

GBS

Gingerbread with your Flintloque?

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Gingerbread Flintloque Set

Excitement is building and now the cake is out of the bag to alter a well quoted phrase.  In April 2012 there will be a new Very Limited Edition code (VLE) released by Alternative Armies which will feature not only an Undead Baker (cousin of the Reanimator creator Doctorov…Bakorov perhaps?) but also two terrified Dwarf Assistants and a large angry Gingerbread Man (standing some 50mm tall as you see see in this post).  This set will feature in the Flintloque participation game at Salute 2012 along with the fantastic Gingerbread House scratchbuilt by Tony Harwood.

Tony stated to me earlier this week that he would kindly make a pledge to paint up this set for his own use and for use as the official AA photos on the company website.  He has announced this pledge now on his excellent blog so its public knowledge and I can now also talk about it.

And in reply to your offer of ‘thanks’ Tony, all I can say is that you are most welcome.  As Kurt Benson said on the Notables group Flintloque is a unique game that has a special sense of humour all too rare, a sense of whimsy if you like.  Who could not love this set of 28mm scale miniatures.

A hard baked army will be mine!

GBS

O.G.Joel finishes USE ME Cyberpunk manuscript

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Another title in the excellent USE ME series of wargaming rules takes a step nearer to completion.  O.G.Joel has delivered the manuscript for UM011 USE ME Cyberpunk to me at 15mm.co.uk.

Below you can see the cover for the book, which is due for release in April 2012, with digital art created by my best buddy Jim Brittain.

UM011 Cover

More on this title nearer the time but I can tell you that it covers skirmishes, battles, campaigns, solo play along with what you would expect in the way of Cyborgs, Corporations, Hackers and the like.  My own contribution to it that I am working on now is a list of recommended viewing and reading in the genre.  Lots to choose from but I will narrow it down keeping in mind all those late 80’s and early 90’s B-Movies like Cyborg that you can check out too.

GBS

Salute to the G-House!

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I got a package in the mail this morning and was I in for a surprise.  A package from Tony Harwood for use with at the Flintloque demo game at Salute 2012…and in it…the actual original Gingerbread House as yet to feature on Barking Irons Online.  See here for Dampf’s Blog.

The actual Gingerbread House in 28mm scale

This is a superb little piece of terrain, rich and looking real tasty too.  I will of course take good care of it and those of you who come along on the day to Salute will get to it see it and a lot more new Flintloque goodness.

More on the new Flintloque miniatures and sets nearer the time and also on the demo game but for now thanks to Tony and if you are interested in playing in the demo game drop me a line at Alternative Armies.

GBS

Yum! Battenburger Dwarves

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Flintloque mega fan Tony Harwood has added another custom formation of Dwarves to his collection of lovely painted and based miniatures.  You can read the full article and previous parts on Dampfs Modelling Page and below is an image of the complete set.

Tony enjoys a unique setting in the central urop theatre of the Mordredian Wars called the ‘Sauerkraut Wars’ where his short and stocky lads continue the Bier fights and all the fun that entails. These are superb miniatures from start to end the paint work makes them look good enough to eat and the special touches like the cake themed flag and the hammer carried by the female officer.

Tony created a limited edition unit of Dwarves that are still availiable on the Alternative Armies website.  The LEU03 Princess Julianna have a lot of character too, check them out.

Nice work Tony!

GBS