November 6th 2009
We are please to announce new Lower prices for All Resistant Roosters products…
Effective 01 November 2009 we have reduced price for all Resistant Roosters products. Be sure to visit the Resistant Roosters website for product listings and new prices.
In addition to our new pricing we are offering Free US Shipping through 31 January 2010 with reduced shipping cost for our international customers.
Look for more Holiday specials next week!
October 14th 2009
Way back in August we posted the first pictures of our new Resistant Roosters Early War Germans with a promise to post more pictures once the second batch was in…
Processing the second batch took longer than planned, so pictures have been delayed until now. Once again Randy F. took brush in hand to paint up a set of samples for us. Here now is a peek at our new figures (early war Germans in helmet) as painted by Randy:
I’m finishing up the production molds and will have the first sets available at Rock-Con next week.
Our new figure development process will allow for lower pricing on these (and future) new platoon packs. Check back next week for final pricing on the new Early War German Platoon packs.
Those of you interested in such things as product budgeting and such migth be interested to know that this was our first project with a real budget. Not was it our first with a budget, it was our first to come in on budget! Inital numbers were showing us over budget by $5 to $10, but a second look shows that we brought this one in on (perhaps even a little under) budget…
October 5th 2009
It has been a little bit since my last post, so I thought I’d fill the gap with a small batch of miscellaneous updates…
My article on Medieval War Games is almost done, a couple of misplaced files have been recovered, so I should have this one done by the end of the week.
Randy finished painting samples of the the new Early War Germans late last week. He mailed them out on Friday, so I should have them in hand today or tomorrow. I’ll shoot some photos as soon as I have these in hand. Look for an official release of the new Resistant Roosters Platoon Packs (team packs too) at Rock-Con later this month.
SPAM levels are increasing, and this is slowing down our email response times (if I crank up the filters too much we start loosing emails – slow response is better than no response).
Look For a new Blasted Planets release at Rock-Con – I have a few different things in mind, we will just have to see what gets molded before the convention.
On the Bloodaxe Miniatures front, I’ve finally finished the last of the molds for the 1914 Russians in Fur Cap. I’ll shoot photos of these figures when shooting photos of the Resistant Roosters WWII Germans. We migth be able to squeeze in one more Bloodaxe Minaitures release before the end of the year. The mold making shop is busy with custom work, but I’ll see if we can finish the Adowa (First Italo–Ethiopian War) molds before the end of December.
Completed a new mold for [Scruby Miniatures] NN-60: N-gauge, Napoleonic French Fusilier, Marching, Slung Musket (looks more like at the carry to me). I started with the original master figure and created a nice, clean new set of pattern figures for use in the new production mold. NN-60 has never looked better!
Alison is a bit backed up in the shop – a hard disk problem caused a few mixups in work orders, so she had to re-do a few orders. I think I have the problem sorted out, so we should be good going forward. Well, that should about do it for today. Look for at least one more post later this week…
August 21st 2009
For the past few months we’ve been working on some new releases for the Resistant Roosters line. The first greens arrived in June and the latest batch arrived last week.
A pattern mold has been created for the first batch and we are in the process of laying out production molds. Early next week a pattern mold will be created for the second batch, with production molds to be created in short order.
Early war is my area of interest, as such you can expect to see more early war offerings in the future. The idea behind this set was to create a flexible, yet less expensive (to produce) set of figures. From our perspective we hit our goals. Production costs are in line with our expectations (given current figure pricing) and there is enough variety in the set to allow for stands without duplicate figures (or at least minimal duplication on a single stand).
This first part of the set depicts Early War Germans in field cap. Today’s pictures show painted examples of German troops in field cap. Figures in the second batch of greens represent Early War Germans in helmet.
Our sample figures were painted by Randy F. who had this to say about the castings he received:
The figures were easy to paint.
The details are well defined and easy to reach.
They also have enough character to make them interesting.
I like the way the figures model a unit moving across a field.
Our initial release will consist of three (3) platoon packs:
We are still working out details for further expansion of Early War Germans. Our initial thoughts were post Poland organization, thus the lack of a light mortar section; however, we may revisit this and add a light mortar team as an option in a larger Company Box offering.
Molds and casting should be complete in early September – look for a release announcement around the 7th.
As for our next Resistant Roosters release, we are looking at Soviets circa 1939 – think Winter War…
Coming up next time, a look at our recently remolded 54mm Scruby Soldiers of the American Civil War.
March 3rd 2009
Portage Wisconsin - HistoriFigs reports the arrival of Finnish reinforcements. Newly arrived at Resistant Roosters HQ are:
Finnish Infantry in Winter Uniform
These new packs round out our selection of Finnish infantry in winter uniform…
A few samples of our new Finnish troops – Samples painted by Dansville Wargamers