Ogre Cavalry and Gunners back at Alternative Armies

All of the Hunvarian Legion and Krautian Giant Legion Ogres for use in Flintloque and Slaughterloo which use riding and limber Rhinos are now back on the Alternative Armies website. As we announced a week or so ago we were going to replace the 28mm scale white metal beasts used in Ogre cavalry and artillery crews with resin ones. We have done this and with this new production medium all of the codes are back online now with a 20% reduction in price. 

Here are the codes containing the resin Rhino's. Pricing new and old is shown on the website. Enjoy! 

56800 K.G.L Ogre Division (DAP) 

56522 K.G.L Ogre Artillery Crew 

56080 K.G.L Ogre Dragoons 

56109 K.G.L Ogre General on Rhino 

Go HERE 

56900 Hunvarian Legion Division (DAP)

56100 Hunvarian Legion Lancers 

56523 Hunvarian Ogre Artillery Crew 

Go HERE 

The contents of each code are not affected in terms of the number of miniatures and their poses and all other parts aside from the Rhino's remain in white metal as before. Thank you for your support. We will be moving onto other mounts in resin soon.  You can also purchase the Rhino's on their own too if you go HERE.

Thanks for Reading. 

GBS

Resin Rhinos for Flintloque and Slaughterloo soon

Following up on new resin versions of the Trolka and their huge Moose mounts Alternative Armies is about to replace the 28mm scale white metal mounts for Ogres in the games of Flintloque and Slaughterloo with resin versions.  Test castings have come out well as you can see above with the riding Rhino and the limber Rhino as used by the Ogres of the K.G.L (Krautian Giant Legion) and the Ogres of the Hunvarian Legion.

We have removed temporarily all of the codes on the website which make use of Rhino mounts while we are making changes and bringing a group of silicon molds on stream to produce the miniatures. Riders will of course remain white metal and here is a list of the codes to which the change will be made:

56800 K.G.L Ogre Division (DAP)

56522 K.G.L Ogre Artillery Crew

56080 K.G.L Ogre Dragoons

56109 K.G.L Ogre General on Rhino

56900 Hunvarian Legion Division (DAP)

56100 Hunvarian Legion Lancers

56523 Hunvarian Ogre Artillery Crew

More information soon and we hope not to have these codes offline for too long.  If you have any questions or comments please email me directly (enquiries@alternative-armies.com) or comment below.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Wargame News and Terrain Blog fantasy sizing post

Timmy over at Wargame News and Terrain blog has put up an interesting short article comparing the new monsters in the HOT range from 15mm.co.uk to 28mm miniatures from Alternative Armies. 

This was as a result of several wargamers stating that the HOT100 Ghoul Dragon and the HOT94 Jabberwock looked perfect for use in a 28mm scale setting despite being made for 15mm scale Fantasy wargaming. I was happy to send Timmy some size comparison pictures which he has used to good effect. Go HERE to read more and to see all the pictures. 

If you are keen on a joint order for products from Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk then it is totally possible and all you need to do is send an email asking for what you want to either place. All the details are in the article. 

Thanks for Reading. GBS

Classic Asgard Space Marine Set Released and save 15%

Alternative Armies has released a complete set of the classic 25mm / 28mm white metal Space Marines originally by Asgard back around 1980.  The single miniatures have been up on our website for a year now but it was pointed out to us that while we were showing love to the classic Asgard fantasy Barbarians with a complete set with saving we had not done the same thing for the Space Marines!  Well that would not do so here we are!  Go HERE.

Personally I adore these miniatures.  They just scream old school quality and they are lovely to hold and to use on the table.  Despite being from the dawn of science fiction wargaming and working the whole 2001 and Moonraker look they are still contemporary for near future use in play or for vintage setting games as well.  We have been told of and seen these figures in the collections of many wargamers all over the world.  Painted in a myriad of colours and shades.  Here is a listing of the single miniatures and these are all in the set too.

SM1 Space Marine in full armour

SM2 Space Marine in light space armour

SM3 Space Marine in full battle armour

SM3A Space Marine in full battle armour flying

SM4 Psionic Marine with Psionic blaster

SM5 Space Trooper with Force Axe in Battle Armour

SM6 Space Trooper advancing with AP Rifle

SM7 Space Trooper kneeling Firing Energy Mortar

SM8 Space Trooper Captain

SM9 Large Battle Droid

SM11 Space Marine Mortar with crew (3 Miniatures)

And now...

SM14 Space Marines Set - Save 15%  (13 Miniatures)

(Regular Price 33.00GBP set offered at 28.05GBP)

Go HERE.

Here are some pictures of the single miniatures from SM1 through to SM11.  You gotta love SM9 Large Battledroid...if you gave HAL a body...

SM1

SM2

SM3

SM3A

SM4

SM5

SM6

SM7

SM8

SM9

SM11

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Tony Harwood paints up The Slaughterloo Monument

After a break the master model maker and long time Flintloque fan Tony Harwood has graced us all with some blog posts showing his take on our great 59010 Slaughterloo Monument.  We were giving this 28mm scale resin monument away in orders last month and hundreds of them went out across the world including quite a few painted by our staff with a variety of flags (another blog post perhaps!). Tony decided to paint his own up in the same way that Sam Croes did our one in the studio here.

You can visit his blog posts in the following order from their start to end to follow the process shown in the pictures here.  He goes into details of tools used, paints, techniques and so on.

Preparation

Base Coats

Painting

Basing and Details

As he says:

Alternative Armies have produced this resin terrain piece to commemorate the actual World Events of June 18th 1815, it depicts a bullet scarred monument of stone blocks topped with a draped Greate BitOrc Flag (the one featured on the old Flintloque Box set) and a broken Ferach Eagle.

The monument is on our website for regular sale now at a great price.  Go HERE to see it and learn more.

Great work Tony!

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Draw made for Field of Waterloo book winner announced

Our promotions across Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Waterloo are now over. I would like to thank all of you who placed orders for Flintloque and Slaughterloo codes and Brickdust codes as well. We wore out three sets of molds of the 59010 Slaughterloo Monument and we made many thousands of 15mm Napoleonic miniatures too. Packages are winging round the world and the last of the orders from the promotional period will be coming out next week at this time due to the order volume. In the meantime...do you remember that for extra fun I was going to hold a random draw to win one of my own books? 

Well the draw has now occurred! Here to remind you was what I said back a few weeks ago: 

I have a copy of 'The Field of Waterloo' by Paul Davies published by Pan in 1970 to go along with the Waterloo movie starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer; one of my favourite films of all time. Its worth about 10.00GBP and its in good condition and while it contains nothing unique it is rather rare as it was a promotional paperback. I am going to randomly draw an order number from all qualifying orders placed between 15th and 29th June on Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk and then mail the book to the winner! A qualifying order means products from Flintloque, Slaughterloo on Alternative Armies and the Brickdust 15mm Napoleonic range on 15mm.co.uk of any value. The draw will be blind from a hat and the winner announced. I wanted to mark this anniversary in my own way and to make it a bit more fun. 

A winner has been drawn! The winner will get the book in the mail most likely by the end of the week along with a short note. I have also emailed the winner to let them know their luck. 

Our winner is a fine lady in the UK named Katie Lucas! Well done Katie! 

Bring on July! 

Thanks for Reading. 

GBS

Spirit of Slaughterloo Scenario and Last Days for Free Monument

There are only a few days left to get yourself a free 59010 Slaughterloo Monument terrain piece in any order over 20.00GBP and to take advantage of our offers of 15% off the prices of a list of our most popular Elf, Orc and Dwarf codes. Visit our Deals and Offers Page HERE or to read the full details of the offers and the monument on the blog go HERE. Offers and free end on 29th June 2015. 

Inspired by the release of the Slaughterloo Monument sculptor and all round top guy Christian Cello has penned a short tale and Flintloque scenario called 'The Spirit of Slaughterloo. It concerns former combatants in the Mordredian Wars being brought once more into the fray long after the wars have officially ended for one last crack at the Ferach Elves. 

We have created a PDF which features artwork as yet never seen by Valonian artist Edward Jackson. 

You can download the full two page with artwork PDF from our dropbox account for free using this link. Click HERE. 

Thanks for Reading. 

GBS