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Tuesday 21 January 2014

Classic Asgard Space Marines

SM3 Space Marine in full armour
SM3A Space Marine in full armour jump jets
Last year Alternative Armies brought some of the 25mm/28mm Asgard Space Marine range back to white metal life through our website.  Its not the whole range of what Tabletop Miniatures has to offer or all the Space Marines but now we have great pictures of most of these miniatures and they show these classics off in awesome fashion.  Great for anyone into powered armour and sci-fi.

You can find these miniatures on the Alternative Armies website.  There are ten codes with images covering Space Marines in light armour, in full armour, jump jets, officers, space troopers, battle droid and more.  The examples on our website are painted by our lead designer Sam Croes and they are some of his favourite figures.

SM9 Space Trooper Captain
Pricing on these miniatures is very reasonable at 1.75GBP for a typical sized Space Marine (such as SM8 Space Trooper Captain) and 2.50GBP for a Space Marine in full armour with the SM9 Battle Droid being 4.00GBP.

SM9 Battledroid (35m tall)
The history behind this range of miniatures is one of the best in the tale of British Wargaming.  You can see from Wikipedia here the story of the term 'Space Marine' and Asgard's use of it in 1980-82 providing inspiration for a great many followers in the industry.  Styled after such classics as the 1968 movie 2001 A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick they are quite unlike anything made now.  In 1979 Richard Halliwell and Rick Priestly came up with Combat 3000, a wargame that I believe brought about the SM range of Space Marines.  Combat 3000 is currently out of print but if anyone reading this has a copy of it and or its sequal Combat 3001 contact me I would like to get them.



We aim to expand the range re-released across this year but for now I give you the Asgard Space Marines.

GBS

6 comments:

  1. I was wondering if some of the larger models over at 15mm.co.uk like the Thulgs were part of the range, or if they'd work well side by side?

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    1. Thanks for your comment Pastor. There were two scales of Laserburn and Asgard miniatures made 25mm/28mm and 15mm. The Thulg in 15mm are rather large at about 24-26mm tall. They would be small next to these but it might work.

      I hope this helps.

      GBS

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  2. Hi - this is great news! What are you plans for the Asgard SF miniatures like the Orts and Trimotes?
    Thx/Hans

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    1. Hello Hans,

      We plan to get as much as we can back into production but I cannot say more for now. Each part of each range will be tested out and shown here on the blog. The 15mm Orts and Trimotes are on 15mm.co.uk now.

      GBS

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  3. Fuller listing of the old Laserburn range is on the Lost Minis WIKI;

    http://miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Laserburn

    I am living in hope of the early codes (Bob Olley sculpts) being released at some point!!

    Dave

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    1. Thanks Dave for the link. I have been to this page many times. The Laserburn Law Officers and such are high on my list for this year. News here on the blog as and when.

      GBS

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