First Glossy Set nearly ready

The first glossy set we are releasing under the "Little Wars Revisited" name is nearly ready to go. I've received the boxes and foam and made up a sample box.



These will be released in June with a set every two months after that to test the waters.

I'm waiting on a whole load of new sculpts for the next set of releases which will also let me get on with painting the 60 Line Infantry I need.

First Unit underway

This is the first infantry unit - the Grenadier Guards - 12 figures painted so far...

Peter Cushing and Little Wars

I was very intrigued to see this video clip from Pathe news:

PETER CUSHING

Which shows Peter Cushing playing Little Wars...

New Castings now available

The four new castings are now available in the Black Hat Miniatures shop. These are:



British Grenadier Guard Officer





Three artillery in shirts, bareheaded.

British General

I went to the London Toy Soldier show last weekend at the Royal National Hotel in Russel Square.

It was an interesting contrast to the familiar wargaming shows that I usually attend. There was everything from fairly cheap plastics and Britains repaints on sale to superb (and very expensive) figures from the likes of First Legion and K&C.

I met up with Padre Paul Wright (author of Funny Little Wars) for a coffee along with Brian from the Yahoogroup who is involved in Plastic Warrior magazine. We had an interesting chat and got to see some of Brian's latest conversions.

The other thing I got to see was the different ways of packaging glossy boxed sets and how people present them - after a chat with Giles from Dorset Soldiers I have managed to source a supply of boxes for our first Glossy sets which I hope to release in May.

I bought a magazine and just one figure from Asset Miniatures, which is their model of George Vth dressed as a Field Marshall in parade uniform, which I thought would make a very good British CinC for Army Red.

Master Castings

I had chance to make a master mould last week and these are some very quickly assembled test castings from the mould.

These are the four new figures:



These are the artillery compared with a Britain's Gun



I am off to the London Toy Soldier Show for the first time tomorrow, so will hopefully get some ideas for new additions to the armies and possible castings to convert for generals, etc.

Some more Greens

Alongside some new 28mm figures due for release at Salute came some new 54mm figures and pieces from the sculptor Martian Baker.

I have put together a few quick photos of the figures to give people an idea of how they look.

First up is the Guard Officer:



Then we have a basic general purpose artilleyman in shirt and braces with a bare-head so he can be used for any side.

There are three combinations of possible arms at the moment:







The shell is separate so the arms can be used to hold other things as well.