What to say? Well, gee I’m not sure!
April has come and gone – and it was not a good month for us. Alison went to California to help her Dad get setup in a new place, but then had to stay an extra week. Then when she finally got home both she and Liam were sick 🙁
Shortly after that it was my turn to be down for a week plus (and neither Alison or I are back to 100% yet). So needless to say we did not get very much done in April!
Alison did get our photography “area” setup, so now we can get going on some long over due photography – I have a table full of figures for Alison to photograph, so we can release them. What we have is a mix of “lost” or old Scruby figures in 30 and 40mm and some new 15mm “Bloodaxe” as well as some recently re-done 25mm “Bloodaxe” sci-fi figures.
The sci-fi figures are being released under our new brand: “Blasted Planets” – this just happens to be the name of Lance’s sci-fi skirmish game rules. The rules and the line of figures will be supported by our new website: http://www.blastedplanets.com The website is still under construction, but you can still visit! I expect regular updates over the next week or so until I have the initial release of figures fully covered. After the initial release, we will release new figures (or vehicles or whatever) every month (at least until we run out of new “stuff”). Anyhow, checkout the figure and checkout the rules (a free download) and have a blast!
Back on the historical side of things we have a bunch of new stuff (just waiting on photos). Lance’s Russo-Japanese War (the Japanese are done), along with some old Scruby 30mm 18th Century infantry (again, just waiting on photographs) and as soon as I fix a couple 25mm masters we will have some of the older Scruby 25mm 18th Century Infantry in Tricorne back in production.
My daughter Liz is in town this week, so we won’t get a lot done, but we do plan to post “lots” of pictures middle of next week: Scruby Fantasy, Scruby 30 & 40mm plus the 15mm Russo-Japanese War and Blasted Planets figures…
One more piece of news on the historical front is that all of the Scruby 40mm ACW figures are now in new molds! finally, it has only taken about a year and a half, but I’m done with these molds, so look for updated figure listings in a few days.
Jumping to the subject of websites; The main HistoriFigs site is still out of date and is being re-worked and updated, but this is a slow process, so please bear with us. I will try and keep the existing site up to date with the latest news and figure listings. Coming with the new Blasted Planets website will be a new site for the Bloodaxe figures – bloodaxeminiatures.com – will be the new home for news and figure listings for this line of figures. Look for this to appear sometime during the month of May.
Since this is May and my birthday is in May, our specials for May/June will include many of my favorite figures (I should have the list up by tomorrow). These will include, but are not limited to: 25mm SYW & AWI, 28mm Spanish in the American Revolution, N-Gauge 30YW, 45mm Napoleonic and 40mm ACW…
I think that about catches up up to “today” We hope to be more on top of things this month and through out the remainder of the year (and going forward too).
OK, one last item: Painted versions of our Scruby figures have been becoming more and more popular, so if you have an interest in purchasing pre-painted Scruby miniatures, please let us know – we can offer deals that are hard to beat!