Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Heroic Maps: New Roleplaying The Knight's House and The Ranger's House Stackable Miniature Terrain


Heroic Maps: The Knight's House is a five storey Tower protected by a small wall. It's the perfect location for a base of operations, or somewhere to rest between adventures.

The Knight's House is a multiple level set, comprising 5 battlemaps (each depicting a different floor)
Ground Floor (20x20) - The ground floor of the tower is surrounded by a small courtyard with stables and a jousting list, with a strong wall. The ground floor houses a large kitchen and store. 


First Floor (12x10) - This floor holds the Great Hall, where the Knight greets visitors.
Second Floor (12x10) - An armoury and combat training arena.
Third Floor (12x10) - The knight's solar, with bed, garderobe, dining area, small study and chapel
Fourth Floor (12x10) - An attic bedroom for squires and men-at-arms.


The Knight's House is part of the Tower Builder range. You can put the floors in any order, or add in floors from other maps in the Tower Builder range to make custom towers. Each Tower is associated with a different class or character type, making them perfect as a base for your character. 

Heroic Maps: Tower Builder - The Ranger's House - The Ranger's House is a five storey Tower located in the forest. It's the perfect location for a base of operations, or somewhere to rest between adventures.

The Ranger's House is a multiple level set, comprising 5 battlemaps (each depicting a different floor)
Ground Floor (20x20) - The ground floor of the tower is located in a forest. Outside the tower are wolf skins and a smoking hut for meat, and the ground floor of the tower houses animal pens. 


First Floor (12x10) - A messy kitchen with large table and various items, including a messy bed.
Second Floor (12x10) - An armoury, workshop and store room.
Third Floor (12x10) - A study and library with display cabinets, bookshelves and desks.
Fourth Floor (12x10) - An attic bedroom.


These modular and stackable miniature roleplaying and wargame scenery maps can now be bought through DriveThru RPG here, the largest download shop for all your printable scenery and rulebooks!

Puppetswar: New Steampunk Steambots Released


Puppetswar: Steambots - our newest addition to the Steam Kingdom range. Set contains five 28mm 'heroic' scale miniatures.


Industria Mechanika: Futuristic 1/35th Knight Mech Preview


Industria Mechanika: We’re working out the “how” but you will be able to select which two weapon arms you’d like to receive (depending on supplies on-hand) when ordering the base Knight mecha kit. The 3 initial weapons, Vulcan Gun, Howitzer, and Rocket Launcher Pod can be made to work on either side, so select two of the same or mix and match! Additional weapons may be available in the future. Mecha is posable with an opening cockpit. New pilot figure with opening mask included.


Fly Trap Factory: New Cartoony Cavemen Miniature Range


Fly Trap Factory previewed these cartoony cavemen and creatures.


Victrix: Upcoming Hard-Plastic Greek Cavalry, Punic War Elephant and Numidian Infantry


Victrix: The Greek cavalry will be completed shortly and then the design team move onto the Punic War Elephant (still not sure on the title).

Nearer to release the schedule I will be chasing the tool makers about the Iberian cavalry that should be out anytime very soon. Further to that the Numidian Infantry are now tooling, see below for a sprue layout. The set will contain 24 figures and will have options to build Numidian skirmishers and the "ersatz" legions including command figures.


Here is a montage of the Greek /Macedonian cavalry bodies with some arm and head options. The last stage is the arms for the Greek cavalry, cloaks and shields plus command parts such as trumpet and standard bearer arm. That you have in these renders are Macedonian companion cavalry using the Xyston (A long cavalry spear) They should have cloaks and these are being worked on along with a few more arm options using the Xyston in an overhead thrust pose. 

The head with horns is for a commander type figure. The next parts will be arms for the Greek cavalry option holding javelins and mostly in short sleeves (which can be used on the Companion cavalry for extra variety)There will also be some other helmet options such as Thracian/Phrygian and Antigonid Attic styles plus some shields to make later Hellenistic heavy cavalry.

So from this set you should be able to make Macedonian companion cavalry, Greek heavy cavalry, Thessalian heavy cavalry and later Hellenistic/ Successor heavy cavalry with or without shields. I am sure by the addition of some Carthaginian helmet heads and some round shields these will make very passable Carthaginian and Libyan heavy cavalry. Today I received renders of the Ancient Greek Cavalry horses. Bodies, heads, arms, weapons etc are now underway and will be posted once complete.




Wayland Games: New Discounted Deep-Cut Studio Terrain Tiles Released


Wayland Games: Deep-Cut Studio have had an awesome idea! They have created new Terrain Tiles, these mini mousepad mats can be cut to size and added on top of your main gaming surface. 

Ideal for games where terrain is integral to play but you don't want to fiddle around trying to fit models in a miniature forest. They look stunning and for less than £20 you can't really go wrong. 

Check these unique and useful terrain feature tiles here


Nexus Miniatures: Something Stranger This Way Comes ... Demogorgon


Nexus Miniatures: We are literally within two "Everything New Deals" of passing that first boundry, and being into the next Production Mold. You know about the Kids, the Red Sector Crew, so how about another teaser!


Diplomatist Books: Discounted Hereward Show Pre-Orders


Diplomatist Books: On Sunday 4 September Diplomatist Books will be having at stall at the Hereward Wargames Show to be held in Peterborough.

It would be nice if some of you were able to come along and say hello! We will be bringing along a mix of military history and some other stuff (I don't know why, but my gut tells me this might be a chance to sell graphic novels).  However, as this is the first wargames show that we've attended as a dealer we may get the mix wrong.  Therefore we are offering customers a 15% discount on pre-orders for collection on the day.


There are several good reasons for participating in this offer

  • 15% off!
  • no postage to pay
  • it ensures we don't leave the book you want at home
  • many of our books in stock are single copies - it ensures someone else doesn't buy it first!

If you want to order for collection in Peterborough, e-mail us with the details of your order at diplomatist2@gmail.com

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Sally 4th: New European Show Agent of Sloppy Jalopy's Miniature Vehicle Range


Sally 4th: Sally 4th has just been appointed as the show agent and stockist for Sloppy Jalopy. We have the complete range of 28mm WW1 and Interwar (Pulp Era) vehicle kits, Pulp Figures and Cold War Vehicles in stock. 

I've been a big fan, and a customer for many years and thought that they would complement the great pulp ranges that we carry already from Pulp Alley, Pulp Figures, Thrilling Adventures and Copplestone.





These are available from us via our website and we will be carrying them at all shows we attend. The next few shows we are attending are Border Reivers (Gateshead 3rd September), Fiasco (Leeds 30th October), Crisis (Antwerp 5th November) and Warfare (Reading 19th & 20th November).

Northstar Miniatures: Upcoming Metal Frostgrave Barbarian Characters Previewed


Northstar Miniatures previewed more miniatures for their upcoming Frostgrave Forgotten Pacts expansion featuring plastic and metal savage barbarians!

Okay, my special Frostgrave chums. I know you've not painted your Gnolls yet, but I'm asking you to put your pennies aside for the next Knickstarter! The fourth Frostgrave plastic box set is coming out in November to accompany 'Forgotten Pacts', the next Frostgrave supplement. I'm planning to start the Knickstarter beginning of October. Some of the characters featuring in the next chapter of Frostgrave, Barbarian Bard, Thief and Barbarian. Barbarian Barbarian? 


Missed the preview of the awesome modular plastic Frostgrave Barbarians, check the pictures here Don't miss out these!

Turncoat Miniatures: Upcoming Resin and Metal World War Two Cavalry Kickstarter - Cossack, Russian and Japanese Cavalry


Turncoat Miniatures previewed these renders and painted preview pictures of their upcoming metal - resin hybrid World War Two cavalry models.

These Russian, Cossack and Japanese cavalry miniatures will be funded through Kickstarter in September. These 28mm miniatures are sculpted by  Duncan Louca and will have modular heads, arms and legs to me more variety to your miniatures. Looking at the preview picture the quality looks nice and hopefully compatible with popular miniature ranges such as the Warlord Games' Bolt Action range and others.







Gang Fight Games: Western Horror Blackwater Gulch Second Edition Kickstarter Launched


Gang Fight Games: Blackwater Gulch is a Western Horror skirmish game featuring infamous gangs, savage beasts, ravenous dead and malevolent creatures.

A massive gold rush brought a flood of greedy fortune-seekers to Blackwater Gulch, sending prospectors out into the wild to stake their claim, strip-mine the land and and defile sacred grounds, all in search of just one more chunk of that yellow rock. Rampant gang violence erupted in the streets, and fiendish things stalk unsuspecting travelers and treasure hunters on the outskirts of town. These are dark times indeed, but all is not lost. Even among outlaws, heroes emerge to combat this dark threat before the town becomes consumed by evil. Will you fight to save Blackwater Gulch, or fight to destroy it?


Blackwater Gulch is a character-driven tabletop skirmish game featuring gangs of mortals and immortals all vying for control of the land and its resources. You and your friends will collect and build gangs from our highly detailed miniatures and do battle in the town streets and outskirts for fame, fortune, glory or survival. Games are fast and fun, and usually only take about 30-60 minutes to play. The rules are simple to learn, yet provide a great deal of thematic and cinematic actions and events, and valuable loot can be found and used to give your gangs an edge over their enemies.




With your help we hope to fund the production costs for our new Blackwater Gulch Second Edition Gameworld Ruleset, along with 3 new Gang Starter Sets which will be produced in highly detailed plastic and include the character cards that show what each miniature can do in the game. The Blackwater Gulch Second Edition Gameworld Ruleset includes 1 full color 120+ Page Hardback rulebook, 1 deck of 54 Loot Cards, 6 custom 6-sided dice and a collection of thick cardstock tokens that can be used to keep track of special damage effects, objectives or loot caches.

Check the Kickstarter here and grab this cool miniature game!


Cool Tabletop Miniature Jurassic Park Project Launched


The talented miniature painter HvM has embarked upon an epic project of bringing Jurassic Park alive on the miniature tabletop. Follow his progress here on The Lead Adventure Forum


Zealot Miniatures: New Fallen Adventurers and Familiars


Zealot Miniatures released these Fallen Adventurers and Familiars.




Empress Miniatures: New HLBS 1/48 Modern Russian and French Armour


Empress Miniatures: Our Modern Vehicles store also sees the additional of more HLBS 1/48 Russian and French armour.



Firedragon Games: Stone Textured Foam Sheets Kickstarter - Ruined Castle Wall Example


Firedragon Games previewed this fantasy - historical ruined castle wall scenery piece made with their stone textured foamboards suited for skirmish and mass battle miniature wargames.

Currently on the construction table, made using blue foam with a foamed PVC base. The tower was made using layers of thin blue foam wrapped around a cardboard tube. The whole thing has been given a thin coat of Rosco's Foamcoat. Now to paint & flock... my favourite bit. Grab your own sheets during their Kickstarter campaign which is now going on!



Dust Models: New Weird World War Two German and Soviet Walkers and Troopers


Dust Models released these new Weird World War Two vehicles and troopers for their interesting 47' miniature wargame setting. 



Monday, August 29, 2016

TTCombat: New Modern Portable Toilets Released


TTCombat released these portable toilets to their modern scenery range.


Spellcrow: New 10mm Fantasy Barbarians Previewed


Spellcrow is venturing in the magical realm of small scale miniatures with these upcoming 10mm barbarian miniatures sculpted by the talented Marek Rurarz.


Battlefront Miniatures: New All Plastic Flames of War - Army Deals Released


Battlefront Miniatures released these new army deals for their hugely popular Flames of War - World War Two miniature game. In Flames of War, you lead your 15mm soldiers and tanks on the tabletop battlefields of the Second World War.

We are pleased to bring you new army box sets for each of the major combatant nations in WWII. Designed to give new players everything they need to start playing Flames Of War, each army deal includes a copy of the pocket-size Flames Of War rulebook as well as a softcover Intelligence Briefing book suitable for each army. And for veteran players, these deals are a great-value expansion your existing army.

Stalin’s Bears is based on a Hero Guards Heavy Tank Regiment from Berlin. It is a truly formidable Soviet tank army, with a total of six IS-2 heavy tanks, three ISU-122 heavy assault guns and four T-34/85 obr 1944 medium tanks.



Monty’s Hounds gives you a British Armoured Squadron from Nachtjäger, based around the versatile Comet tank cruiser tank. The army box contains a total of seven Comet tanks, supported by a Motor Platoon who ride into battle in their four M5 half-tracks.



Patton’s Eagles is the new American army deal, based on a Tank Company from Bridge at Remagen.It includes five versatile M4A3 Sherman tanks, with an impressive number of possible variants, allowing you to customise your army list to your perfect points level. The Shermans are supported by three M26 Pershing heavy tanks and a full-strength Armored Rifle Platoon with five M3 half-tracks.



Rommel’s Wolves features a powerful German Tank Company with seven power Panther G medium tanks, three deadly Jagdpanther tank destroyers and a full-strength Gepanzerte Panzergrenadier Platoon in their SdKfz 251 half-tracks. Rommel’s Wolves is based on a Panzer Kampfgruppe from Desperate Measures, which is included in the box.



Shieldwolf Miniatures Northern Alliance Great War Mammooth Reviewed!


With Shieldwolf Miniatures shipping their massive Great Northern War Mammooths from their Warmaiden kickstarter. I though it's a good moment to share our own review of this gargantuan beast of war. If you're looking for a great center piece for your army, search no further! Check our review here