Minis News 18 Dec 05 - part two

Infinity releases

This is from the Frothers fora and also at Creafigs, trying to gauge announcements for the Infinity game is a question apparently of looking at the images at the Infinity website and mentally differencing them from previous versions. The Corvus Belli site New Releases page now contains Infinity material but presumably has only stuff on general release.

Anyhow, here are the clues:

- Ariadne - highlander and line kazaks
- Yu Jing - tiger soldiers and guijia
- PanOceania - sikh commando

Below, a picture of the green for the sikh commando:

 

Shadowforge works in progress

Take a look a the workshop page of the Australian company. A limited edition Xmas special and some female BloodBowl-alike Orcs. Not keen on any of it, quite frankly.

New Urban War minis

Released in January, for VASA: power suit and (2) suppressors, all pictured.



 

Fantization 2006 Special Mini

Per the title, Fantization's a 32mm elf sculpted by the ur-sculptor Tom Meier. Choice of 2 heads and various weapons means, apparently, up to 18 possible versions:



Starship Troopers large bug

I've said before I'm not keen on this line, and though this model is very similar, at least, to the ones seen in the movie, I don't like it either. I think it comes down to whether you think the backstory is interesting on some of these games (Babylon 5, equally, leaves me cold, so Mongoose aren't on a good run from my point of view). There's an interesting discussion of the model's background by the sculptor, Steve Saunders about it in a thread on the frothers fora.



Crusader Miniatures new models

Some new sculpts from Crusader ...

- German riflemen in sidecaps
- German Assault Engineers
- Urko - Half Ogre (pictured)
- McCoy - Gnome Fighter

Some disparaging remarks on the Frothers' fora but I kind of like the half-ogre, at least (and I can take or leave the WWII stuff - don't like the gnome much though).



New Perry Dutch/Belgian Napoleonics

Cavalry casualties and cavalry command, both pictured. Fantastic, although I'm not sure how many dioramas are being made from the range (since I personally don't use casualty figures in wargames).





New Greens at Conquest

Some excellent greens of Native American armies which kind of makes me have a yen to get some skirmish warbands for the French and Indian war (but who would I play?). Anyhow, just a couple of pictures - far more on the site. The new ones are the Sauk and Fox Pack B (at the top).

 

Conquest are also running a Christmas sale (visible on their homepage) so you can (and I may if I don't stop myself) buy rules and models cheap.

Club Fenryll mini

A new mini for Fenryll's collectors club (which gets you a quarterly special edition mini, a catalog and some other stuff) - Nahiri the Serpent Hunter (for fourth quarter 2005). You can also see the green for the mini (or pair of minis, in fact) for first quarter 2006.



Dwarf Wars War Mammoth

What it says on the tin, a War Mammoth for Dwarf Wars from West Wind, just in time for the GW Dwarf releases. Resin model priced at £45.



Rackham January Releases

Bloody Rackham. Website doesn't work on Safari. January releases announced in the form of a poster.

Anyhow:

- Dogs of War (Confrontation expansion)
- Ophidian Archer
- Goblin Ninjas (2 sets, each blisters of 2 models)
- Clone Nefarius (special edition 1000th Rackham figurine)
- Grakha, Champion of Kamharu
- Selsym Sparrowhawks (I have that right? Need to check the catalog ... anyhow blister of 3 models)
- Cry Havoc (next issue is 7? Goes to bimonthly, price drops to E9.90)

Also, their exclusive model for the next Rackham open: