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Quack Heads

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Question of the day: Who Are the Quack Heads and why do they gather dung? Secondly, why do they need an armed guard?

Quack Heads

Quack Heads

The Quack Heads are one of the newest figure sets in the Blasted Planets line of 25mm Science Fiction miniatures. The set consists of three figures; female & male dung gathers and; well we aren’t sure. Is he an armed guard, an overseer? Or what?

With so many questions, perhaps we need a contest? Yes. That’s it a contest to write some short back story for the Quack Heads.

Lets keep this simple. Write a short background piece for the Quack Heads. Entries needn’t be more than a paragraph or two, and it must answer the following questions:

  • Who are the Quack Heads?
  • Why do they gather dung?
  • Who/what is that guy with he rifle?

All entries will receive a free set of Quack Heads. Winning entry  will receive recognition as the ‘official’ back story for the Quack Heads and the author will receive $30 in HistoriFigs credit (can be used towards purchase of any HistoriFigs, Bloodaxe Minaitures, Resistant Rosters, Scruby or Blasted Planets products sold by HistoriFigs. All entries must be received midnight 17 November 2012. Email your entries to: mike at historifigs.com.

More soon.

 

25mm Hebridians Available Now

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Figure listing for the Bloodaxe Miniatures 25mm Hebridians have been posted on the Bloodaxe Miniatures site.

Hebridians

Hebridians

Figure are priced at: $1.50 each when ordering 1 to 11 castings (single part number). Or $1.25 each when ordering 12 or more (single part number).

Right now the descriptions are a bit weak, but each part number is accompanied by a photo, so at least the visual will let you know what the figures look like.

More next week.

More Bloodaxe, 25mm Hebridians

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A couple more pictures today. This time some Bloodaxe 25mm Hebridians.

Hebridian Axeman

Hebridian Axeman

I’m sure Lance will correct me if I spelled that incorrectly 🙂

These make for some nice Dark Ages warriors. Look for figure lists in the next week or two.

Hebridian Axeman

Hebridian Axeman

 

More updates next week.

GNW, WSS Anyone ?

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Some pictures from our next big-ish project:

Bloodaxe : WSS : Musketman

Bloodaxe : WSS : Musketman

Progress has been Very slow on this project, but it is beginning to pick up some momentum. As such you should be seeing some figures lists by Thanksgiving. The lists may not be complete, but we should start rolling these figures out by that time.

We have the molds for Lance’s (28mm) GNW/WSS range. Some will need to be replaced, and the figures from these will not be listed until the molds have been replaced. Other molds are still in good condition, the figures from these will be listed first.

Artillery is a weak point. But we do have a few guns to go with these figures, so all is not lost.

Bloodaxe : GNW : Swede

Bloodaxe : GNW : Swede

Right now we are int process of cataloging and photographing the figures. If anyone is interested in helping out with the cataloging process, drop me a note (mike at historifigs dot com) and we will see what we can do about getting you setup to help (you don’t even need to live nearby – that helps, but we can mail ‘stuff’ to you too).

We will close this post with one more picture, look for more soon.

Bloodaxe Russ...

Bloodaxe Russ...

Better Photos

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I’ve mentioned, in several posts, that we have been having a hard time getting good photos. One of the biggest problems has always been lighting. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad.

Recently, Alison took a couple steps back; she reviewed the manuals for our cameras, talked with several professional photographers as well as exercising her Google-fu. The result was some new camera settings and a new lighting setup. The lights are the same (turns out we already had a very nice set of lights), but we have a new light box. The light box project took only a couple hours to complete – Alison built the test box out of cardboard boxes we already had on hand (a better model will be built this winter – tape and heat from the lamps are not best friends). While there are still improvements to make, Alison’s notebook is slowly filling with results of her lighting tests. Many differences between figures sizes, painted vs. unpainted, etc.

OK, so here is a sample from her first test run with the new light box setup:

2056C - Napoleonic Lancer

2056C - Napoleonic Lancer

The consistency in this batch of photos is much better, but this next photo is still a bit light.

2055C : Hussar, 1810 shako, attacking

2055C : Hussar, 1810 shako, attacking

 

We are getting closer. With a new photo session today, we should have more photos (of new figures) to share tomorrow or at least by the end of the week.