DH19 Baggage Turtle released 28mm Fantasy

"Swim the seas of trade across the ocean to being the finest things to the mountain holds of the Dwarfs.  The Gnomes are masters of commerce and welcome the gold of the deep Kings."

A promised new release to cap off our overhauling of the entire Dwarf Hosts (DH) 28mm Fantasy Range is here. Something rather different and special to go with with your Dwarfs, Gnomes and Halflings.  No mere donkey with load; oh no...this one can swim!

DH19 Baggage Turtle with Gnome Rider:  One resin Turtle covered in mixed baggage and a metal Gnome rider who sits atop it.  Excellent for your campaigning and a real eye catching piece.  Sculpted by Kieran Billings.  It is 50mm long and 40mm tall with rider. You can choose from the pack or parts of the pack. Get the rider on his own or the Baggage Turtle to put other riders upon it.

An Elder Dwarf Wizard and the demi giant Fnorr for scale next to the Baggage Turtle.  

The Overhaul Project has taken a whole month but it is now complete.  As well as every one of the seventy odd Dwarfs, Gnomes, Halflings being on the site as a single with new pictures they are also in value packs with a saving plus the mega multitude. Requested by wargamers the DHM01 Dwarf Multitude Miniature Set contains one of EVERY pose in the DH range with a bigger saving.  Get it all in one go.

Here is a line up for comparative sizing of the denizens of the DH Range.  From the smallest to the largest with sculpting by Dave Gallagher, Andy Cooper, Mike Owen and Sam Croes spanning the 1980’s to now.  DH6-05 is 25mm to top of the head as is DH13-01.

EH09 Flower of Evil III is new and totally free automatically in all shipped orders until 10th March 2025.  Above you can see it being tackled by Skeleton Warriors unarmoured and armoured with added weapons and shields from our Undead Legions Range.  Codes VNT57,58, 59 and VNT51.  You can purchase more Flowers if you want but every packaged shipped gets one free all the same.

500th Anniversary of the Battle of Pavia in 1525!  Amazing event half a millennium later which we have marked with a blanket 20% off every order at checkout (no code needed and shown on screen).  This ends shortly on 3rd March 2025.  While it honours soldiers of the time and in turn our 16th Century Furioso Renaissance Range the discount covers all ranges and everything we make.

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500th Anniversary of Pavia 1525 honouring the ghosts with 20% off

The 24th of February 2025 is the 500th Anniversary of the Battle of Pavia the most famous battle of The Italian Wars. It was the decisive engagement of the war of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Empire of Charles V the Holy Roman Emperor. Nearly fifty five thousand men took to the field and France was utterly defeated.  This exposed Italy to Hapsburg domination and swung the balance of European power.  Read more about it HERE.

Here is our way to give blood to the ghosts of these soldiers of the Renaissance. 20% off auto at checkout on ANY orders placed until 3th March 2025. You need do nothing but add to cart; discount is shown during checkout.  This offer applies to ANY codes though we are pointing it at our 15mm Furioso Renaissance Range and as usual anything on special or in our Deals and Offers page it’s discount is also applied.

An ideal time to get into the great rules set Furioso written by Steve Danes (author of Sengoku Monster Hunter and Doom Squad among others).  Playable in any scale and well loved by wargamers world wide there are two books these being the core rules and The Italian Wars expansion. In print and digital download. 

The 15mm scale range is huge and features infantry, cavalry, command, personalities, artillery well as loads of Landsknects and pre-made armies which come with free element bases.  Every code is a single miniature for tailoring your choices.  Many miniatures ideally suited for Pavia such as MR20 and MR133 to MR139.

As said this discount is a blanket one to mark this unique half millennium anniversary and it applies to anything you put in the cart so if you fancied some 28mm Fantasy Dwarfs or 15mm Ion Age Science Fiction or anything else we make this is a good time.  Plus you will automatically get EH09 Flower of Evil III in your package for free.  Excellent!

Here is to the ghosts and may someday war be only found upon the tops of our tables and in miniature.

Grima Combat Robot Gun Team new 28mm Ion Age

In the vast echoing expanse of the Vanda hydrogen refinery’s wide primary conducting corridor, two Grima Combat Robots stood vigilant, their angular, matte-white frames scarred from past engagements and faintly aglow under the harsh flicker of overhead lights. They flanked a hovering Espaten gun platform which mounted a formidable Valerin laser cannon thrumming with a low, menacing hum, its barrel traced with pulsing lines of blue energy. Cables snaked along the walls, hissing with the faint whine of pressurized air, water and other fluids. The Militia controller in charge of the robots was a hundred metres further down the corridor behind a thick barricade.  She angled the control unit into line of sight and issued commands to the waiting machines. “Enemy approaches….Hold Position...Rapid Fire...Avoid Overheat...Pin the Enemy...Enemy is Malig.”

The Grima Gunner’s multifaceted optical sensors whirred in sync, clicking as they tracked the guttural snarls and staccato clatter of Maia 9.6mm gunfire echoing off the reinforced walls, the goblins’ hunched, sinewy forms bursting into view through a haze of distortion from flung smoke grenades. Yelling they sprayed wild bursts from their weapons.  “Enact Programme...Proceed.” 

With a sharp whine, the floating Espanten platform’s cannon came to life and its muzzle flaring. The second Grima, keeling directed the searing Valerin beam which carved through the front wave; vaporizing goblins mid-stride. Then, adjusted the angle, the robots unleashing a second blast that scorched a jagged line across the Goblins; silencing a chorus of Maia fire in a burst of molten flesh. The twin Grima Combat Robots remained unyielding, their servos hissing amid the acrid tang of burnt metal and flesh.  More Maligs were coming...a lot more.

New releases in the 28mm scale Ion Age this week as we add a requested code to the line up of Grima Combat Robots in the service of the Prydian Precinct.  Alongside gun teams for Retained Knights and Planetary Militia we have the first of two for these programmable soldiers.  The new two miniature gun team ‘man's’ the Portable Weapon as seen above and can be had as the pack or as singles like the range of the mighty range.

IB96 Grima Gun Team (IA281,IA282). This pack contains two 28mm scale metal miniatures.

IA281 Grima Gunner with enhanced optical viewer head

IA282 Grima Gunner kneeling with gun control unit

We have gun teams for Retained Knights, Muster and Planetary Militia which go well with all the Portable Weapon Platforms.

We have over thirty poses of Grima Combat Robot along with a four man male and four female control team for them.  Platoon packs offer the best value though the range is in packs and all as single poses too.

Malig Space Goblins the most numerous and expendable troops of the alien Shia Khan Empire. The new ones were sculpted by Sam Croes.

Work this year continues on The Ion Age and new editions of MOTH and Firefight to support the growth of the 28mm range.  News on this as it happens of course but for now we wish to thank you for the support of Alternative Armies and our space opera setting.  This is our sole release news in this scale and setting for February 2025.

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Adore a Monster FM24v2 The Silent Shambler returns at half price

Alternative Armies is working away. From Flintloque to The Ion Age to Erin and many other ranges and scales there are new creations a plenty from our wee team. Among these projects is one ongoing which is close to our hearts; the restoration of Asgard Miniatures. A titan of the 1980’s miniatures landscape its models are one by one, range by range; returning on our website. New molding means new life from legendary masters such as Nick Bibby, Jes Goodwin, John Blanche and others. 

While Asgard restoration has slowed down after Jes Goodwin’s Dwarfs and the epic undertaking of his entire massive Orc Range and we have been tending to our own 1990’s codes (see the DH Dwarven Hosts Range) there is still Asgard work going on. The first of the 2025 restored codes is ready and is here with a great Valentines Weekend Offer.  We invite you to Adore a Monster with 50% off regular price until 18th February on The Silent Shambler!

FM24v2 The Silent Shambler:  A one piece metal miniature which is 37mm tall to the top of the figure. Long arms ending in claws and a mouth full of teeth this creature never makes a sound.  Sculpted by Nick Bibby and our one painted by Studio Maxi to perfection.  It will function in 28mm scale but also 15mm and even 6mm as a monster.

Above you can see an Alternate Stars 28mm Sci-fi miniature facing off with the Silent Shambler perhaps in an alien hunt scenario?  A Dwarven Shield Maiden as well as a 15mm Elf Lancer on Horse show you its size in the fray with fantasy opponents.

The D5 Spike Tailed Dragon Lizard is 75mm long and 25mm in height and in two piece metal. Sculpted by Nick Bibby.  This was last years Love the Monster fun for Valentines Day and its 20% off too.  See all of Nick Bibby’s other restored work on the website in its own collection. 

Fancy something free for your miniature garden?  Every shipped order until March 10th 2025 automatically gets the brand new EH09 Flower of Evil included for free.  Yes totally free.  You need do nothing but order and it will be put in the package by us.

Keeping the fun in tabletop gaming and love of miniatures in your life.

Now 60 Base choices with HOTT element MDF sizes added

A venerable wargames rules set which is going strong and excellent play of an afternoon is Hordes of the Things (HOTT) of which our own Hordes of Things (HOT) 15mm Fantasy Range was named and begun as in 1991.  We are pleased to announce MDF element bases at great prices added to our Bases for Miniatures Range in the sizes for HOTT.

We have added a further five MDF bases to our array which covers wood, resin, metal and plastic in a great many shapes and sizes.  Great for any game and scale of miniature or monster or vehicle. The new codes are:

MDF012 40mm by 15mm – Buy More Save More (10, 50, 100)

MDF013 40mm by 20mm – Buy More Save More (10, 50, 100)

MDF014 40mm by 30mm – Buy More Save More (10, 50, 100)

MDF015 40mm by 40mm – Buy More Save More (1,5,10)

MDF016 40mm by 60mm – Buy More Save More (1,5,10)

For your blades, warbands, behemoths, dragons, heroes and all other Hordes of the Things uses.

While our HOT 15mm Fantasy Range and the classic TTF Tabletop 15mm Fantasy Range have loads of miniatures suitable for this game we have a dedicated page of ready made HOTT 24AP Armies all of which come with element bases included for free.  Over twenty different armies.

Dwarfish Hosts (DH Range) 28mm Fantasy
Pt1 of the Overhaul is now complete!  

New molds, new pictures and single mini choice with value packs too.  Part one the earliest codes DH1,2,3 all sculpted by Dave Gallagher originally for Rieder Designs in the late 1980’s.  Young Dwarfs, Gnomes and Halflings plus the mighty Fnorr the Big ‘Un.  DH is a big range and we will report each part completed as it happens across this month with a new release at the end. 

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Flower of Evil III free in orders and what is coming until March 10th

“It pulses beats a rhythm that makes it impossible to turn away.  As a seed it was given to me by a wrinkled hand and a whispered promise on foul breath. Now it has grown; the pot I planted it in burst apart as it spread.  To the meagre garden in arms I took it and in the shade it flourished and now...well now its pulse never leaves my soul. My neighbours I took to it and it fed.  My dog and my dear wife too as it grew.  Now it hungers and only I remain. It is growing dark and as I sink to my knees for its embrace I know that I have brought a greater good into this benighted world.” 

Until 10th March 2025 the brand new EH09 Flower of Evil III is added to every shipped out order placed with Alternative Armies automatically across the world.  You need do nothing but place an order which requires shipping and we will add it as it leaves us.  As many orders as you wish, plus you can order EH09 and one will still be put into your package free.  This is the third ‘flower’ in the series by popular request.  It works in any scale and for almost any setting.  See our Current and Formerly Free Codes Collected.

EH09 Flower of Evil III:  You can use it in 28mm in 15mm or 6mm as it sizes its threat to your other miniatures. Horror Games, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Plant Wars (they are Triffic!) and more. One piece resin miniature which is 28mm across and 10mm tall. Its mouth gapes and a tongue lolls. Other miniatures shown with it are for scale comparison only and not supplied. 

Above you can see how the Flower matches with the 28mm scale Erin Celtic Myth miniature and an Alternate Stars miniature too.  Then in 15mm scale a Star Merc from the HOF Range and a Wraith from the 15mm HOT Fantasy Range.  Lastly a stand of 6mm Infantry from the Bradley Miniatures Range.

Here are all three of our Flowers of Evil which are a fine addition to a garden of horrors. EH01 Flower of Evil and EH08 Flower of Evil II which are to be found in our Monsters and Creatures Range.

What is coming and happening before 10th March 2025

During the next month or so we have a lot happening.  Our Deals and Offers has been updated with some new treats added to the array there.  Among others are HOF27 Maginot Defence Tower and HOF156 Combat Saucer (Grey Aliens) plus 59520 Mortar in 28mm scale all at 25% off. These new will last until the end of this period.  

Our Bases for Miniatures Range will expand further with MDF sizes for HOTT 2nd Edition and its 15mm Armies.  We will have a new 28mm Ion Age release for the Grima Combat Robots following on the Portable Weapons and related.  

Adore the Monster another classic Asgard sculpt of the 1980’s by Nick Bibby is released the Silent Shambler.

However the biggest news concerns the Dwarfish Hosts (DH) 28mm Fantasy Range.  Featuring sculptors Andy Cooper, Dave Gallagher, Mike Owen and others we are overhauling the whole range. Miniatures dating from 1987 to 2025. Brand new pictures will be joined by new molds and the expanded ability to purchase every miniature as a single and as packs with a saving baked in. Some 70 Dwarfs along with Halflings and Gnomes as well as Artillery and Monsters.  And a brand new release.  

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Norman Quilted Infantry 28mm scale plus Weapons restored

Sculpted alongside the venerable Fantasy Warlord range in 1990-1991 we are proud to announce the restoration of 28mm scale historical codes. Norman Infantry (open handed) as well as a Norman Officer and a sprue of spears, two different shields and a saver full unit too.  11th Century and the time of the Conquest.

The infantry are supplied without bases and without weapons or shields just as with Fantasy Warlord. We are not sure who sculpted these miniatures and would welcome input in that regard.  Restored by wargamer request and now in new molds as well.  Fresh and clean.

NO1 Norman Officer

NO2 Norman Infantry

NO3 Spear Sprue

NO4 Kite Shields

NO5 Round Shields

We have created a new page just as we did with our 28mm Jacobite Scottish Range.  We will not be expanding these classics we have simply restored them as we have with Laserburn for wargamers to enjoy on the table or to complete their collections. Each of the five infantry poses are slightly different and can be had as five with a saving or choose singles. The officer is on his own with sword and shield included and the Spears, Kite Shield and Round Shield are in packs of five.

There is a full unit code NOU01 Norman Quilted Infantry Unit (20) which has a baked in saving and also comes with spears and kite shields; that is an officer with nineteen mixed of five poses of infantry.

This is our last news before the end of the current free code period on the 6th February so this is your last chance to get VNT62 Three Wise Skeletons automatically in your package free with any shipped order. See them along with all the Former Free Collected Codes on our website.  These go great with our Undead Legions with the new Skeleton Crossbows and Warriors.

It is also your last chance on January Joy with 50% off three codes and dozens of other Deals and Offers.

What will the next new free code be...not long to wait...we have just planted a seed in your mind...

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