We’ve had some internet connectivity downtime the past few days. I’m still not sure where the problem is/was – with satellite internet it is hard to tell sometimes…
Things were back to normal this morning, which leads me to believe that problem, was not with our hardware, so maybe all is well.
Anyhow, if you waiting on email from us, it might be a little delayed due to our connectivity issues, but I think we shall be caught up on email by end of tomorrow (1 Feb 2007).
More news soon…
This past weekend, well-known sculptor Stefan Niehues was auctioning off a 54mm scale master figure “54mm Söldner, Mercenary”.
We were lucky enough to be the high bidder in this auction. As a result this will be our first totally new 54mm offering. We have other [new] 54mm figures planned, but none have reached the sculpting stages…
We expect to release this figure in late February 2007. To celebrate the release of or first 54mm figure, all orders received (or shipped) between 1 January and 28 February give you an entry in a drawing for a “free” production version of this new offering.
Been having some fun with medieval figures of late; I’ve been working on a couple of projects for customers, and as a result I get to work on my long stalled medieval project too!
The first big batch of figures I’ve been working on are casting T-21. As we all know many of the Scruby figures are a rather flattened and static pose. Well, in this case the customer wanted to use this figure, but did not want all 50 plus figures to be in the exact same pose. So After casting and cleaning the figures I sat down an individually posed about 100 figures. Posing the figures is quite easy. Most of the time you can just bend the arms into different poses; other times, just clip a foot from the base and bend the legs a bit – to get a bit more action into the pose. Other times, I combined the two to make a more dynamic pose. The other thing that is easy to do it clip the shield a bit and then use some putty – Green Stuff, or ProCreate to make a new, uniquely shaped shield. One could also fiddle with headgear, but I didn’t do that for this figure, but perhaps for T-22, which is next up on my hit list.
While we have a limited number of poses available, there are an almost unlimited number of variations you can add to the figures to make a unique army, using just a few basic figures. For these projects the figures will be going off to the painters (no way I can paint several hundred figures in any reasonable period of time), but I will be sure to photograph the results when they come back, before sending the finish goods off to their new homes.
Another benefit of this project is a new special for February (but you can order now)
The “Big Bin of Vikings” – $75.00 (shipping weight ~2 pounds)
You might be asking yourself “what do I get for the $75.00?”…
Well, you will get a minimum of 100 figures, a random selection of:
Viking, standing with spear 1601
Viking, standing with sword 1602
Viking, standing with axe 1606
Gaul, with spear and cloak 1603
Gaul, with boar head banner 1605
Gaul Warrior with Spear and Shield 1604
So, one might call this the “Big Bin of Vikings/Gauls, but hey, the figures all work well as Vikings, so we just shorten it to “Big Bin of Vikings”.
So why not take advantage of my temporary insanity? I got a bit carried away casting these figures, so I have a bunch of these figures in bins just waiting to be painted sent into battle.
Should you want a “Big Bin of Painted Vikings”, let us know we should be able to get that for around $300.00 plus shipping (free shipping not variable for this offer).
For my batch of figures, we plan to use them as individually based figures with the old Chainmail rules from Lowry Enterprises (later TSR). This will be Liam’s first wargame with something other than his own rules (5 year olds have funny ideas about how games should be played).
Oh, and one last note: We do plan on remolding the entire medieval range, so look for more package deals…
New from Nordic Miniatures (in Sweden) the first in a new series of Viking Dwarves.
The figure is about 25mm sole to eye.
You can purchase this figure from directly from HistoriFigs.
NMVD0107 – $2.25 each
NMVD0107-3 – bag of 3 for $6.50
NMVD0107-6 – bag of 6 for $12.00
Postage for a single figure, shipped to any US address will be $1.50
After reviewing our actual costs for mold making we have revised our pricing for this service. As you can see, our pricing on Production molds has not changed, however the prices for Pattern molds have increased
Pattern Molds:
Full 9” Pattern Mold $75
Full 12” Pattern Mold $105
Pattern Mold prices include 1 set of pattern castings.
Production Molds:
Full 9” Production Mold $40
Fill 12” Production Mold $55
Partial or Shared Molds (Pattern and Production) prices will be quoted based on percentage of mold space used by your project.
We offer discounts for large or long-term projects. Please write for details.
Prices for production casting as based up the weight of your castings, plus any additional costs for packaging. Shipping is extra – costs are based on method and actual shipping costs.