Sunday, 28 June 2026

Minotaur Miniatures, Timurid Range Back Online and Available for Purchase


A quick note to say that the Minotaur Miniatures, Timurid Range is back online and available to buy from their online shop HERE.

Minotaur Miniatures Facebook Page to keep up with all the upcoming releases ie HERE.

More pictures to whet the pallete.



Congratulations to Ashley and Mrs Ashley too! 

Saturday, 27 June 2026

Coming Soon, North Star Hussite Wars Knights

                                                                                       

I was very please to hear the announcement yesterday and reveal today from North Star Miniatures about the up and coming release a range of plastic miniatures suitable for the Hussite Wars, and that this range would include, not just the Hussites but the forces of the armies of the Catholics who fought them and by extension Eastern armours and fashions. By this I'm hoping for, not just Hussites and Wagons but for Mounted and Foot Knights, Men at Arms (on foot and mounted), artillery, Hungarian/Balkan looking archers and crossbowmen. at least that is my initial "wish list"! to my mind, the range could extend into Hungary, into Moldavia and even into the realms of Medieval Ottoman Empire! What an absolute treat that would be!

due to my excitement at the announcement, I could not stop myself from making these initial comments here! Bearing in mind that this is a very early look I'd like to compare the Eastern/German/Bohemian Foot Knights to that of the more Western European Perry Miniatures Foot Knights, based at what little info we have thus far.. What grabbed me immediately was that a distinction between the general look of the armours and fashions of Western vs Eastern Foot Knights had not been overlooked which is a huge tick in the box for me. In the interests of completely honesty I must also point out that the dynamism and elegance in the Perry sculpts (far below) is lacking a wee bit in the North Star sculpts (below), which to my mind look a little more more clunky. hopefully I will be gladly proven to be incorrect in this matter. As I have already pointed out, this is a very early look at the range and I certainly do not want to be counting my chickens. I will be investing in this range. 


The Announcement from the North Star Newsletter:


And finally, a look at the sprue for the Foot Knights. They do seem to have a lot of parts, which is always a great thing as kit bashing with plastics to get a certain result is always preferable to converting metal! I'm now wondering how well the Perry foot Knights would kit bash with thet of the new north Star range? Only time will tell! 

Thursday, 18 June 2026

Clubbing it! Games at the Club 11-06-2026

It's time I dropped some images from last week's games at the club. 

Chain of Command, Cold War




Gaslands

This game fills me with nostalgia and memories of playing Dark Future. Hint hint!



Scourge of Princes




Ye olde players of WRG 6th should be quaking in their boots at the sight of the Polish Winged Lancers!


WAB V.2, Arab Conquest vs Sassanids

















Cheers for now

Tuesday, 9 June 2026

AD Miniatures- Third Century Imperial Romans/Middle Imperial Romans

From the highly skilled hands of Adam Smith come a fantastic range of Third Century Imperial Romans/Middle Imperial Romans (link to be added on release)! I've been lucky enough to be in contact with Adam as the range began and has developed and I have to say, not since the Aventine Miniatures, Early Byzantines range have I seen such crisp, detailed and attractive sculpts. 

To some extent the new AD Miniatures MIR range is a slight redux of his A&A miniatures Third century Middle Imperial Romans but I would leave Adam to comment upon that as he is much more knowledgeable about the subject than my good self.

I was given permission by Mark Farr (owner and director of Footsore Miniatures & Games) who will be putting the range into production and Adam to show off some of what we can expect from AD Miniatures in the future and was of course more than happy to