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

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.

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

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