NEWS on the Home Front at Outpost Wargame Services
(new ranges, ideas and thoughts for the future!)
I will update this every month or more as things progress to let you know how/what we are doing (unless anything special happens!)
April 9th 2010 - we will be on STAND TM17 at SALUTE .... come and see us!
Couple of more new things to be released at Salute : An extension to our 'Building Frontages' range - you asked, we listened! Roof sections x 2 to make a pitched roof and 2 'gable ends' (one plain, the other in brick) so you can now make full buildings with our street and shop frontages.
We will also have a new model in our Hundred Years War 1/1200th ships range - a Medieval galley to go with the popular Cogs
April 2nd 2010
Added pics of the new Russo-Turkish War Cavalry (Turkish and Don Cossacks) to the Masters page - we hope to have them ready for Salute, but that may be optomistic!
Added more pics of the new Highwymen releases - beautifully painted by Jon Atter
March 21st 2010
Updated the New Highwaymen with previews of the Bow Street Runners set and the Masters page with pics of the rest. I have the master moulds, but the production moulds will not arrive until the first week in April so the figures will not be on sale until the 6th April. As we've had no problems in casting them from the master, we are happy to accept pre-orders for posting or collection at Salute.
Although we have tried to make these also useful for other genre's of the period generally, the Bow Streer runners are especially handy for Pirate or 'Pulp' style games.
March 16th 2010
More 28mm Russo-Tukish War now available - Russian Guard Firing, Artillery Crews, Dismounted Don/Ural Cossacks and caucasian Cossacks firing.
15mm Later Crusade Photos updated - whole range now available
I've just got the masters for an extension to the Highwaymen range - these are LOVELY (says he in a completely unbiased way!). We've done a Bow Street runners set with a couple of footpads to go with them, John 'Swift Nick' Nevison and a gang of three new highwaymen. Pics of the masters will be posted at the weekend.
We are now starting to gear up for Salute - PLEASE pre-Order if you possibly can
JANUARY 31st 2010
Well, things never quite seem to go according to plan - we had a couple of unexpected problems with Master moulds, an unexpected prolonged stay at my parents at New Year due to the bad weather and more orders than we usually get in January. All of which has meant that the new range releases are behind schedule sadly. The good news is that we have managed to get all of the 15mm Late Crusades ready except the mounted sergeants, The South Pacific War 15mm Chilean and Bolivian foot / artillery are available and the 28mm RTW Russian Guard Marching and Advancing are available .... everything else is in progress and should be available gradually during February.
We are adding to the building range - roofs and 'gable ends' to allow full buildings to be put together along with a new version of the 2 shops front (BF6) to make it the same dimensions as BF3,4 & 7. So you can easily make up streets with houses on one side and shops on the other (or a mixture) - by adding the conversions as well it would be a great backdrop for either the Geezers or WW1/2 games. They should be available early March and I will have a good selection at Salute.
I will apologise here for the lack of pictures for the new stuff - the camera develope a fault over Christmas and is in for repair ... as soon as we get it back, I will organise a photo shoot!
DECEMBER (14th) 2009
A Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone .... we are going to stop posting order from 15th December until 6th January, we will continue to acccept them via e-mail throughout the holidays (although responses are likely to take longer than normal. We are hosts to the fmily Christmas this year and the house starts filling up from the 16th onwards so with my 2/3 year old nephews running about the place, most of the Outpost stuff will be put well out of the way!
Orders in November and december have been amazing - it feels like I've never been away from the casting machine! Thanks to all of you who have supported us. However, on the downside, I've not had any time to get the new ranges sorted out for moulding so I'm hoping to make use of some of the holiday period to catch up on these. With luck, all of the new codes for the 28mm Turkish War range will be available from the middle of January, the Late Crusaders will certainly also be out then with the Pacific war following close behind. Many apologies to all of you who have enquired about release dates for these ranges - but I'm sure you will appreciate the orders had to come first.
OCTOBER (25th) 2009
A crazy few weeks I'm afraid - work took longer than expected and then Marilyn came down with a nasty dose of Sinisitis and a chest infection, so it all went a bit 'pear shaped' :-(. Anyway, we are just about up to date with the mail (2 days at most) and orders (about 4 days), so please bear with us for a little longer.
Lots going on though - more RTW figures received from Martin that go off for master moulding this week and will be released during November.
I've also got more later Crusade masters from Pete (Knights with sword, Mounted Command, Spearmen and Crossbowmen) and I'm busy preparing these for production moulds - also due out in November.
We've held back on releasing the Pacific War range - Pete has some more foot types and the cavalry to complete but to be honest, it's really because we have had too much to do and something had to 'give'. I'm hoping to now release them in early December.
OCTOBER (1st) 2009
We are closing for a week - loads going on, Marilyn is doing 2 weddings and we are having work done on the house which means the computer needs to be 'put away' .... so rather than try and work around the mayhem, we have decided to 'shut down'. I will reply to any e-mails from 12th October onwards when things get back to normal and I get the workshop back from all the flowers that will be in it and the dust has settled! Please bear with us :-)
In the background there is lots going on - we should have a number of Russo-Turkish war codes released early November .... Artillery Crews + gun , Russian Guard and some Cossacks I hope. Suited warriors for the Huaxtec will make an appearance and in the 15mm ranges, we should have both the later Crusaders and the bulk of the Pacific war figures ready.
June 2009
Sorry folks, I keep forgetting to update this page :-(
We have not been as prolific on the range front over the last 12 months - various different reasons for this, mostly work / family related so I won't bore you! But we hope to get a lot more done over the coming 6 months or so to try and make up for it!
In 28mm the INCA range is just about complete now, just the Tribal archers to release now, hopefully next month, and the Russo-Turkish war is moving along slowly but surely with Bulgarian, Turkish and Russian foot all available now - the first of the Artillery is in progress and we start work on some cavary shortly.
In 15mm the 'Later Crusade' range is well under way, I've got masters for the first of the knights and most of the other codes are in progress - expected release in early August. We are also doing a 'Pacific war' range (from the 1870's) between Peru, Bolivia and Chile, this should come out in September / October if things goaccording to plan. We are then looking at finishing a Samurai range and potentially a Korean range from the same period as the Ching / Ming dynasty.
There have of course been releases from Killer B in the Geezers range and we released a buildings frontage range to compliment these
I will try and keep this more up to date as the year progresses!
May 2008
28mm INCA : Lots of good feedback on these - I've added a downloadable PDF of a WAB list for the army - we have decided to complete the range so that we can supply all of the figures necesary for the army. Expect new figures during June and July
March 30th 2008
I've added the new INCA 28mm range (for release at Salute really, so the page is for 'pre-orders' - mail order won't get sent until after 21st April), these were commissioned by a couple of regular customers and we are all very proud of these.
In the same vein, there is a new Huaxtec range added to the Conquistador and allies page - just two codes, but lovely figures .... sadly, my photos were blurred so until I get these redone, you will just have to take my word for it!
All of the 15mm Byzantines are now available
A customer has started commissioning a Russo-Turkish 1870's war range (Bulgarians first).... more on this after Salute get's out of the way
February 10th 2008 .... HAPPY NEW YEAR!
A very busy start to the new year - and we've got loads going on, so time to give an update
28mm Highwaymen range : the Dragoons are now available (have been for a few weeks, but just got round to updating the web page)
18mm Byzantines for the Crusade period - the first 5 codes are available and another 2 will be ready by the end of the month
28mm Meso-americans : We've got a lovely 'fill-in' range of INCA coming out shortly .... these are the figures you need to complete your armies that have been 'left out' by other well known manufacturers :-) The figures have been commissioned by a group of customers who got sick of waiting - I'm proud of these figures, they are absolutely lovely! Expect some photos and a web page over the next couple of weeks or so
28mm Geezers - a big update for these from 'Killer B games' - which just about doubles the size of the range. I'm busy getting the production moulds done, so expect the web page to be updated within the next 2 weeks
We've also got another couple of ranges in progress - when I find the time to get these properly progressed, I will tell you more - but they should be available for Salute :-) They include a range I've had done just for me .... but of course, I'm happy to share :-)
December (17th)
Well, a strange month or so - thanks to all of you folks to making this the busiest November / December we've ever had (by a factor of 3!!!). On the downside, this is usually the period I use to catch up on new ranges and get prepared for them to be ready for 2008 ... we've been so busy with orders, all of the new stuff has just had to take a back seat. I'm still hoping to have the new Dragoons and a small addition to Meso-America out in early January along with the 15mm Byzantines. But this depends on how much time Marilyn 'allows' me to spend on Outpost during the holidays :-)
November (5th)...
More Highwaymen : I've just got the masters back for the Dragoons (3 foot and 3 mounted) - you can see them on the Masters page. I'm not accepting preorders yet until I get the master mould back (around the 16th Nov) as these are probably the most complex figures we have done so far. To be honest, I'm pretty proud of Martin's efforts here - these are absolutely lovely figures and I can't wait to have a go at painting them! Assuming success at moulding, the fgures will be avilable towards the end of November (I'm hoping to have a limited supply at the Stockton show)
15mm Byzantines - Hooray. Pete as delivered the second 4 codes for the range, so we now have enough to put them out. These last 4 go off to be master moulded with the Highwaymen and should be back at the same time. The whole range (with the exception of the Pecheneg light horse and Kataphractio - to allow for earlier Byzantine armies - these are due in around 4 weeks time), will be on sale late November in time for Christmas orders, again - maybe a few packs at the Stockton show on 24th November. Unfortunately, my photo shoot yielded rubbish results, so I've only got 4 codes on the masters page - will try and do the rest again later this week.
15mm Christian Crusades - I thought this range was finished! .... we've had a few requests for archers to be included in the range, so Pete did a couple of variants for you. Release due at the end of November.
October ..
The GEEZERS range (1970's cops an robbers) - I love these ... they are a 'fun' range we have helped Killer B Games develop, thay are based on those 70's TV shows and films we grew up on and have become popular again through the likes of 'Life on Mars'. Craig of Killer B will have some rules out over the next month or so, but to be honest, you could easily adapt some of the Wild West rules around and have a lot of fun with them - Enjoy! There are 17 figures available already with probably around the same again to come.
More Highwaymen - Thieftakers this time (based on Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard)
15mm Byzantines - we've got the first 4 codes, but I'm holding them back until we get the rest. Pete's had a few family problems and is way behind with the range so we will just release them when we can (hopefully towards the end of November)
6th August : New highwaymen fully available.
Byzantines(15mm) : Still haven't got the pics re-done, but just to let you know what we have in master form ..... Peltastoi (Light Spearmen), Scutatoi (Heavy Spearmen), Heavy cavalry (Lancers), Mounted Command. I should get the Varingian Guard, Light Archers, Pecheneg Light Horse and foot Command over the next couple of weeks. Which means we are looking at a release date of around the beginning of October.
25th July - latest highwaymen now available for pre-order, byzantine pics came out badly will need to redo :-( .... nice figures though!
6th July 2007
Well, it's been a bizarre 6 weeks or so. Started with the water company putting a digger through the mains power cable in the street, damaging the casting machine (which was running at the time) and the PC (which was on at the time). It took around 10 days to get the casting fixed, and around 3 weeks for the PC (including retreival of the data from the damaged hard drive!). This ran into us having 2 weeks off to celebrate (!) my 50th birthday where all of the family decended upon us (which was great 'cos we don't get together very much nowadays) ..... but of course I couldn't announce the break on the site! So we ended up way behind with both orders and correspondence, which I believe are now all caught up - but I have an awful feeling we lost a number of e-mails. If we did not reply to you over the last 6 weeks or so, please try again .... it was not intentional, honestly!
NEW HIGHWAYMEN : These have proved to be very popular, so we have had another batch done and will be doing more over the next couple of months(see masters page here). The masters only arrived a couple of days ago, so they won't be available in metal form for another couple of weeks. Once I get the master mould back (to check everything casts OK), I will put them on the page priced so that we can accept advance orders - should be around 16th July. I have to say I think these are some of the best figures Martin has done, the 'Wicked Lady' and 'Sexy TavernWench' are absolutely beautiful! Oh! I've also rearranged the 'set' to make it easier to cater for the new figures when they are available. I've also had to increase the price of individual figures to a flat £1.00 now that the promotional period is over to cover the increased sculpting costs ..... I hope it does not effect sales, but to be hosnest we really can't afford to sell them for any less!
15mm BYZANTINES (Crusade period) : I'm expecting the initial masters for this range to arrive on Saturday (around 5 codes), so expect pictures next week. They should be on sale around the end of the month. Pete has already started some of the 3rd Crusade figures so they should follow in a couple of months at the most.
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