Welcome to the Pendraken Miniatures February newsletter!It's been the usual busy start to the year here at Pendraken HQ, so we hope you're all enjoying 2017 so far!
Blitzkrieg Commander IIIWe've been working almost non-stop on the revised Blitzkrieg Commander rules this year, only taking a few days off to get ready for the York show at the start of this month. The good news is that the (almost) finished version has now gone off to our feedback group for any final tweaks and suggestions. The formatting/layout is almost complete as well, just a few things to tidy up before it goes off to the printers.
We're hoping to have the feedback/suggestions back to us in the next 2-3 weeks, allowing us a week to get the rulebook all finalised before going off to the printers. It's a 2-week turnaround there, so we're aiming for a big release at Salute in April. The rules will be available in both hard-copy and pdf through Wargame Vault.
It's been a long time coming, but we're nearly there folks! Here's a little teaser pic as well...
New Website!The new website has taken something of a back seat while we've been working on BKC, but this is also nearly ready. We'll be meeting up with our new webguy while we're down at the Hammerhead show next weekend, to run through any final tweaks that need making. Once those are done, we'll be looking for some volunteers to go and have a play with it for us.
In the meantime, we're looking for some help with one particular feature of the new site, so head over to the Forum and see if you can
help us out!
Latest Releases!We've started the year with a bunch of vehicles for the 20th Century gamers, including:
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Shermans and Tiger II's - We've got another 11 revamped Shermans available, along with some new Tiger II models as well.
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M41 & M47 - And for the post-war crowd, both the Walker Bulldog and M47 Patton have been released.
In The Pipeline!One of our main ranges for 2017 is the revamp of our 1860's Italian range, expanded to include the whole Independence Wars period from 1849 through to 1866. We've had two batches of sculpts through so far, so have a look
here and
here.
Elsewhere, we've had a few vehicles done for the
WWII Belgians as well. We'll be adding some infantry and artillery to this range as well, but that won't be until later this year.
And finally, John at Ironclad Miniatures has been working on some new
WWII Eastern Front buildings for us, aiming for a release in the next week or two.
Shows!After a cracking start to the year at the York show, we've now got two shows in two weekends coming up, with
Hammerhead coming first on Saturday 4th March, followed by the
WMMS show on Sunday 12th March. If you want to pre-order anything for the Hammerhead show, you've got a day or two to sneak those in, but make sure to do it ASAP otherwise we can't guarantee we'll be able to get them ready in time. Pre-orders for WMMS will need to sent through to us before Sunday 5th please.
And of course at this time of year it's always worth a nudge in the direction of Salute, taking place on Saturday 22nd April. If you're attending this one and would like to pick anything up from us, please, please, please make sure to send your order through to us as soon as you can. Salute is always a crazy time of year for us so the earlier the better for pre-orders.
Minibits Corner!After the new 15mm painted
Epsilon buildings last month, we've got another new product line for you!
Minibits are very pleased to be teaming up with
Red Vectors to take all of their MDF designs to the shows and on our website. We'll be bringing the products over in batches, with the first lot containing some excellent 28mm ACW buildings, along with some WWII Russian villages in both 15mm and 20mm. Next in line will be some Fantasy styled buildings suitable for Frostgrave and Mordheim type games.
The RedVectors products can all be found on the Minibits website
here.
As well as those, we've also got the
Humbrol Paintbrushes back in stock! We lost our supplier for these for a while, but we've found a new one and they're back on the website again. We've added them to the Pendraken site as well, so you can order them along with your 10mm goodies.
Right then, that's everything for this month! We'll get on with finishing BKCIII and we'll have more new releases ready for you soon as well.
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