Agema Miniatures: New Carthaginian Sacred Band Soldier Preview
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Sunday, June 10, 2018
Agema Miniatures: New Illyrian Pirate Lembos Galley Preview
Agema Miniatures: I received the first master casts of the Pirate Ship / Lembos from Rob Alderman yesterday, and thought I would unwrap it and take a pic to show you all. It is quite something! I've added a few cavalry figures to sub as rowers to show you how big this thing is!
One of the hulls is now winging it's way to Alan over at Hokayhey Wargaming to have a laser cut MDF deck and side lattice work constructed, and then it will be on to the crew. When it's all done it should be a thing of beauty! The Lembos was a fast, single decked galley popularised by Illyrian pirates and traders, but also heavily utilised as a transport ship and supply vessel by the Romans, Greeks, Successors - everyone pretty much! In time I hope to have a set of rules to add to a growing range of ships to allow landing actions and boarding actions to be played.
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Agema Miniatures: Plastic African Veteran Infantry Preview
Agema Miniatures: I've just received the first test sprues of our African Vets set from the top guys at Renedra Ltd, and I think you'll agree they have done an awesome job (as always!) I haven't had the chance to put some of these together yet, but that's my task over the Holiday Weekend. My plan is to have a unit of 24 built, and once done I'll post some more pics of them here.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Agema Miniatures: War Elephants - Removable Howdah Option
Agema Miniatures: More Elephants! As followers of this page (that would be Facebook) will probably know by now, I've been trying out various options to create flexibility and variety with our War Elephant; specifically how you can switch between 'configurations' easily.
We have the blanketed elephant ready to production mould now, and as you will have seen previously we have two bareback riders to create an 'un-towered' version of the ancient equivalent of the tank. This latest iteration is a simple to build mdf tower within which you can add a crew from our existing Libyan foot figures. The tower takes a few seconds to put together and can be permanently fixed in place, or as in this case I've tacked it on with the view that I can easily remove the tower and revert back to bareback crew or even a 'naked' beast should I wish. I haven't stuck the crew's shields on the outside so you can get a good look at it. I've put this tower together without glue it's that quick and simple. Let me know what you think!
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Agema Miniatures: New Early Italian Infantry Preview
Agema Miniatures: New Early Italian Infantry coming soon from Agema Miniatures. Looking at the pictures, these will be casted in metal to support their existing unique plastic miniature kits.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Northstar Miniatures: Stocking Agema Miniatures and 20% Discount Launched
Northstar Miniatures: We are delighted to announce a new relationship with Agema Miniatures. We have worked with Greg and his team since their beginning, but now we've tied in closer by taking over all their sales and distribution. The good news is this will free up time for Agema to develop their ranges further. To bribe you into buying your first box of Agema Miniatures plastics from us, we've offering a 20% discount.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Agema Miniatures: New Italian Allied Heads Spotted
Agema Miniatures: Here are some better shots of the new Italian Allied heads Matt has done, fitted to some of our plastic Legionary and Velites bodies.
I've only tentatively blue tacked the heads on, so the eventual fit will be better than these shots! By mixing and matching with the Thureos, Scutum and Aspis, you can get a really eclectic look for your Italians.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Agema Miniatures: New Carthaginian War Elephant
Agema Miniatures: The Carthaginians seem to have adopted the use of Elephants as instruments of war following exposure to Pyrrhus and his beasts in the 3rd Century BC. The Carthaginians seem to have phased out war chariots, and developed an Elephant corp to replace them (with mixed success!) However, Pyrrhus used Indian elephants, and with limited access to such beasts, it seems the Carthaginians used the smaller (and now extinct) North African Forest Elephant, with its distinctive ‘saddle back’.
If they did indeed adopt Elephants following Pyrrhus’ invasion of Sicily then they would in all probability have been equipped with towers and a crew. However, coins from the period show Elephants with only a mahout (the driver) and untrained or inexperienced elephants may well have been used without the encumbrance of towers and crew. There are historians who believe the North African Forest Elephant was too small to carry a tower and crew. This model represents just such a ‘naked’ war elephant, stomping his way through Legionaries with his mahout hurling down javelins on his foes. 1 x Metal multi-part elephant model and 1 x multi-part mahout – supplied un-assembled.
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