We’ve posted a few more photos on the Bloodaxe website. So far a few pictures of the Early Greek Hoplites are up; these will be followed by some photos of the WWII Germans and Russians.
The Early Greek Hoplites are from my Thessalain DBA army. The figures were painted a few years ago by Clif Castle – Visit the Gallery page to see some larger color photos.
Finally. After, oh lets not say how long, we have posted some pictures of the Bloodaxe Russo-Japanese War Japanese (pictured below) and World War One Russians…
I think we will re-shoot a few of these pictures, but for now they should give you an idea of what the figures look like.
The Japanese are some of Lance’s more recent work, while the Russians are some of his older work (but if I recall correctly some of these figures were re-done for this release).
Many folks have bee picking up the Russians to use in Russian Civil War games. I too plan to use some for the RCW. Additionally, we will be using these for our WWI game that will start to crank up this winter, so look for the Russians in fur cap as well as the first of the Germans some time in late December.
Why not pop over to the Bloodaxe website and take a peek?
Several of you have asked about the old Resistant Roosters tutorial pages, and if we will be bringing those back…
In short; yes, we will be bringing these back. I’d like to reformat and perhaps update a few of these, so we will not have them up over night.
The first of the pages has been reformatted and is presented here for your reading and modeling pleasure. We have decided to present the tutorial pages as PDFs. We felt that this format will make it easier for you to download and read at you convenience. Additionally, it will make future updates much easier.
Next week, I’ll setup a new Tutorials page in the Resistant Roosters section of the website, until then the link above will take you to the new file.
Today’s Resistant Roosters update is to let you know that we are working on the formulation for an additional USMC Pack offering…
I’ve been sketching out a pack formulation for a new USMC Company Pack.
The company will be based on the ‘E’ series, 1943 Marine Battalion Companies, which would have looked something like this:
USMC ‘E’ Series Rifle Company:
I’m still working on a proper configuration for a proper product offering, but I should be getting close.
Should you have any thoughts or ideas on this topic, please feel free to pass them along. I’m far from an expert on the subject, as such I welcome your input.
Back for my weekend at Rock-Con. I had forgotten just how much work conventions can be (we’ve not attended a convention, as a dealer since our move to Wisconsin). Needless to say I was very tired at the end of the day!
I didn’t get much of a chance to checkout the games, but I still had a good time. I met plenty of new people and was able to catch up with friends.
One of the things we took to the convention was a sampling of Scruby figures in various scales. Many gamers have never seen the Scruby figures; as such I’ve decided to build a smallish and somewhat permanent display case for the classic figures (think of it has a mini Scruby museum). I’ll be taking this display to all future conventions/shows – if you are interested in having some input of this project, please feel free to send you thoughts and ideas in – I have some ideas, but I’m sure that I will forget something!
I tried to take a wide variety of products to display and sell. Our product mix included:
Some of the items we had on display were some new N-Gauge terrain pieces created by Jay Miller. The pieces include: European Tents, Teepees, Wigwams, For Necessity, Log Cabins and Gabions. This was the first time we had shown these pieces to anyone – we’ve had the molds in hand for some time now, but just had not had the time to cast anything until last week. The pieces were well received. It seems that folks liked the tents in particular; it seems that15mm WWII gamers like them enough to use them as one man tents. More news about these new products as soon as I nail down some proper pricing – later this week, if my schedule holds…
Without applying numbers (or dollar values) the most popular items (in no particular order) at our booth were:
The interest in the WWI figures was a pleasant surprise. At the last minute, I asked Alison to run the molds for hour or so (stock was limited, and I though that we should have a few more figures on hand). So, as it turned out this was a very good idea. We sold more of these figures than I expected – looks like Russian Civil War is a popular theme and the Russian figures work nicely for this.
When all is said, I had fun at Rock-Con and am looking forward to next year.