We are please to announce new Lower prices for All Resistant Roosters products…
Effective 01 November 2009 we have reduced price for all Resistant Roosters products. Be sure to visit the Resistant Roosters website for product listings and new prices.
In addition to our new pricing we are offering Free US Shipping through 31 January 2010 with reduced shipping cost for our international customers.
Look for more Holiday specials next week!
It is now less than 24 hours before we head out for Rock-Con – not quite ready yet, but getting close.
The last week has seen much activity at HistoriFigs HQ. In addition to casting and fulfilling our regular orders, we have been busy with convention preparation. We not only cast our own figures, we also print all of our own packaging. I’m not sure which is more work, casting or printing and cutting packaging materials.
Tomorrow marks the official release of the new Resistant Roosters Early War Germans. The last of the production molds was completed on Monday and the figures were packed out on Tuesday. If you are attending Rock-Con be sure to stop by and check out the new release. I’m not sure if I ‘ll have time to update the Resistant Roosters website before Monday, but be sure to check in Monday night for the updated listing to include the Early War Germans.
While on the subject of new releases I should mention that tomorrow we are releasing the first of our tentacle themed Blasted Planets offerings – the Asti. Pictures and more Blasted Planets news next week.
The third print run of Jack Scruby’s Mafrica map is almost sold out. Only a couple left. Rock-Con may be your last chance to pick up one of these. We will do another print run, but not until we have a sufficient number of requests.
If you are attending Rock-Con this weekend, be sure to stop by and say hi! You might even win some nifty prizes…
Until next time!
Way back in August we posted the first pictures of our new Resistant Roosters Early War Germans with a promise to post more pictures once the second batch was in…
Processing the second batch took longer than planned, so pictures have been delayed until now. Once again Randy F. took brush in hand to paint up a set of samples for us. Here now is a peek at our new figures (early war Germans in helmet) as painted by Randy:
I’m finishing up the production molds and will have the first sets available at Rock-Con next week.
Our new figure development process will allow for lower pricing on these (and future) new platoon packs. Check back next week for final pricing on the new Early War German Platoon packs.
Those of you interested in such things as product budgeting and such migth be interested to know that this was our first project with a real budget. Not was it our first with a budget, it was our first to come in on budget! Inital numbers were showing us over budget by $5 to $10, but a second look shows that we brought this one in on (perhaps even a little under) budget…
As promised the other day I am posting some pictures of the new 1914 Russians in Fur Cap. These new figures help round out the Bloodaxe Miniatures offering of 1914 Russians (there are a few more Russian figures planned – a few more command figures, and an artillery crew; all in fur cap.
For figure listings visit the Bloodaxe Miniatures website. For a first look at the figures, see the pictures below.
Coming up next time: Resistant Roosters new Early War (39-41) Germans…
It has been a little bit since my last post, so I thought I’d fill the gap with a small batch of miscellaneous updates…
My article on Medieval War Games is almost done, a couple of misplaced files have been recovered, so I should have this one done by the end of the week.
Randy finished painting samples of the the new Early War Germans late last week. He mailed them out on Friday, so I should have them in hand today or tomorrow. I’ll shoot some photos as soon as I have these in hand. Look for an official release of the new Resistant Roosters Platoon Packs (team packs too) at Rock-Con later this month.
SPAM levels are increasing, and this is slowing down our email response times (if I crank up the filters too much we start loosing emails – slow response is better than no response).
Look For a new Blasted Planets release at Rock-Con – I have a few different things in mind, we will just have to see what gets molded before the convention.
On the Bloodaxe Miniatures front, I’ve finally finished the last of the molds for the 1914 Russians in Fur Cap. I’ll shoot photos of these figures when shooting photos of the Resistant Roosters WWII Germans. We migth be able to squeeze in one more Bloodaxe Minaitures release before the end of the year. The mold making shop is busy with custom work, but I’ll see if we can finish the Adowa (First Italo–Ethiopian War) molds before the end of December.
Completed a new mold for [Scruby Miniatures] NN-60: N-gauge, Napoleonic French Fusilier, Marching, Slung Musket (looks more like at the carry to me). I started with the original master figure and created a nice, clean new set of pattern figures for use in the new production mold. NN-60 has never looked better!
Alison is a bit backed up in the shop – a hard disk problem caused a few mixups in work orders, so she had to re-do a few orders. I think I have the problem sorted out, so we should be good going forward. Well, that should about do it for today. Look for at least one more post later this week…