View Article  Clay Shapers added to store
We've added two types of Royal Clay Shapers (aka Colour Shapers) to the store here
These tools are ideal for pushing around the various putty the flat chisel being especially useful for smoothing.


Firm Tapered Point Size O
Firm Flat Chisel Size O

both costs £2.99 each
View Article  New Website Category and Items at AW
To prepare the way for our new 15mm kits we've created a new category page on the website.

15mm World War II    contains (or will contain) the following items:

Landmark Pre-painted 15mm Scenery
AW Bunker Kits
Telegraph Poles suitable for 15mm
A Security fencing kit
Camouflage Netting Packs
Decal and Paper Posters

Some items are already available (Landmark buildings, fencing, telegraph poles, camouflage netting) others are currently being mastered or moulded  such as our Bunker range.

The aim is to have the full range available by Christmas with individual kits or items coming out every 2 weeks or so.


Antenociti's Workshop Bunker & Fortifications:
What we've done is to take a series of historical bunkers from a number of settings such as the D-Day landing beaches - then transform those into 15mm structures that conform to fit the basing sizes of Battlefront's Flames of War rule set (although they will obviously still work with other types of 15mm wargames figures and rules).

These include PAK43 bunkers, HMG bunkers, 5cm KWK emplacements and so forth. We're also adding a number of "fantasy" bunkers which have been made up to conform to generic German WW2 designs but that are not specific to certain locations and can therefore be used to represent any bunker anywhere you like.

We're then also adding some more "fantasy" elements such as Radar Posts, Fuel Dumps and Underground complexes as gaming objectives.

Posters:
The poster sets are a combination of Advertisements and Propaganda posters re-sized for 15mm 1:100 scales. They come in two formats: Waterslide decals and printed paper.
These are country/language specific so that you can represent specific areas within Europe by adding the relevant posters for that country.
The Advertisements are for everyday goods from soap to motorbikes whilst the Propaganda posters are German propaganda in the specific country language i.e. the French propaganda Posters are in the French language supporting the Germans.

Countries that we will be covering are: France, Holland, Belgium, Italy and Germany.
View Article  15mm PAK43 Bunker coming online soon!
The PAK43 Atlantic Wall Bunker  that we had on sale at Colours (and sold out of) will be going online on the shopping cart within the next week.

In the meantime here are some pictures to look at:




and more here:

Also we will have our new camouflage netting (as seen on the bunker above) available in both colours at the start of next week.




And if you can wait a couple of weeks we will also have our 15mm Posters available in paper and decal format.
The first set will be French Advertising posters and French Propaganda Posters (meaning German propaganda posters posted in the French language). The eagle-eyed will spot a couple of the posters on the image above.

View Article  Order Delays at the Workshop
View Article  Black Gesso now in Stock
We now stock Liquitex Black Gesso which cost £7.99 and you can find here



Black Gesso can be used as a figure or model primer - simply brush it on then leave it to dry. It goes on thick but contracts substantially whilst drying to leave a perfect base for painting on as well as a prime layer that, literally, grips the figure underneath it.
View Article  New items in the store!
We now have the following new items in store:

Winsor & Newton Series 7 brushes in stock
Royal & Langnickel Soft-Grip brushes
Liquitex Flow-Aid
Liquitex Fluid Retarder
Masters Brush Soap
Liquitex Airbrush Medium
Plastic Paint Palette
DecoArt & Anitas Craft Paint - here



Liquitex Gloss Varnish
Plaka Gloss Varnish Spray here

View Article  Colours Wargame Show
Please note that we are away at the Colours Wargame Show for the weekend of 15/16th September 2007.

Any online orders will be dealt with on Monday for a Tuesday dispatch.
View Article  FoW Panther
I seem to be doing a lot of 15mm work at the moment and its drawn me looking at actually getting back into a bit of wargaming. As such I've joined the local club (Shrewsbury Wargame Society)  and am (very) slowly putting together a small FoW force - 600 point Aufklarung to be exact.

This model isn't from this force though: I needed to buy a lot of artillery to be able to develop some Atlantik Wall bunkers and then judge road sizes on a new wargames table by the width of a large tank - and that is where the Panther came in.

I soon got sick of looking at it simply primered so it *had* to be painted up.

So, my very first FoW model:  a Normandy Panther.


This was admittedly my third attempt to get something I liked but this will now do me.

Needs to be decal-fixed to remove the decal sheen and then dullcoted but the pictures "as is" are a fair representation.






View Article  FOW Barracks WIP
Work In Progress barracks for Fow 15mm gaming.

This is an "insert" for a gaming table (it drops into a 25cm x 25cm hole in the game board and can be swapped with other inserts)

15mm scale for FoW.



Have to wait for some ultra-fine mesh to arrive before I can finish the fence but this is as far as I can go atm, hinged gates sub-surface is a sheet of 2mm styrene into which all of the fence posts are pinned with steel wire for strength:

scratch-built guard tower, kit-bashed barracks houses. Could also double up for a POW camp if you forgive the angle of the fence posts.