We previewed these on our Facebook page a couple of weeks back and they're now available on the website! This street barricade comes in 3 pieces, each being around 40mm long, to create a 120mm long barrier altogether. It comes in high quality resin cast by the talented Ironclad Miniatures and is now on the website at only £3 per set!
The barricade itself is an assortment of bricks, boxes, sacks, doors and even a mattress, so should be of use for most of the 20th C. and beyond!
PS58 - Street barricade - http://www.pendraken.co.uk/PS58-p7346/ (http://www.pendraken.co.uk/PS58-p7346/)
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/PS58.jpg)
More scenery to come in the next few days with some new Escenografia painted items!
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Looking nice Leon.
I think a few of these will be needed for my new project.
Really like the cobbled together look.
Regards
Sean
There's lovely!
I think it would do for great chunks of the C19.
Very nice indeed.
Paris commune, anyone?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 October 2015, 07:42:57 AM
Paris commune, anyone?
Not you methinks - they'd et the pussys by then.
IanS :)
The mattress looketh comfy!
Sleep anywhere me!
You're thinking (courtesy term) of the FPW.
There is a chain of events I see unfolding here.
1) Pendraken release a seemingly innocuous street barricade
2) FSN sees the barricade
3) FSN remembers with fondness, "the Brothel in Rosenstrasse" by Michael Moorcock, which may, or may not have had street barricades, but definitely had a siege, and a brothel.
4) FSN re-reads aforesaid book, and becomes infatuated with a desire of some late C19 imagi-nations.
5) FSN drafts OOBs for 2 (or more) forces possibly based on the abortive early C18 work he did
6) FSN spends large amounts buying late C19 figures from Pendraken
7) FSN forgets to buy street barricades
8 ) Go to 1, replacing "street barricade" with whatever Pendraken are going to release next.
Another butterfly has emerged from a new cocoon. ;) X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 October 2015, 11:03:36 AM
You're thinking of the FPW.
Correct - the commune follows it immediately. The French army took over Prussian siege lines.
IanS
Quote from: fsn on 13 October 2015, 06:11:45 AM
I think it would do for great chunks of the C19.
I did wonder when that style of mattress came into being, but there's not a lot on Google about that! I said that pocket springs were a turn of the 20th C. invention so went with that in the end. The sculptor had initially done the model to suit the SCW in particular (and it originally had a dead horse on top which Dave removed in favour of some wooden beams...!)
Wikipedia says:
"Late 19th century: The box-spring is invented to distribute weight and act as a shock absorber, thereby lengthening the life of an innerspring mattress."
"In 1900 English-born engineer, James Marshall introduced the first individually wrapped pocketed spring coil mattress now commonly known as marshall coils and founded Marshall Mattress, a company that bears his name and is still in operation in Toronto, Canada. He allowed VI-Spring patent rights in England where they were known as Marshall Mattress of England until the 1930s."
www.strobel.com adds:
"With the industrial revolution came the steel coil spring. It was first patented for use in a chair seat in 1857. Heinrich Westphal was credited with inventing the innerspring mattress in 1871. Heinrich lived in Germany and never profited from his invention dying in poverty.
It would be more than 60 years before innerspring mattresses gained a measure of popularity. Innerspring mattresses and box springs were sold throughout this period and had their ups and downs in sales."
Very nice.
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Quote from: Leon on 13 October 2015, 04:35:59 PM
The sculptor had initially done the model to suit the SCW in particular (and it originally had a dead horse on top which Dave removed in favour of some wooden beams...!)
A good call
Quote from: Leon on 13 October 2015, 04:35:59 PM
I did wonder when that style of mattress came into being, but there's not a lot on Google about that! I said that pocket springs were a turn of the 20th C. invention so went with that in the end. The sculptor had initially done the model to suit the SCW in particular (and it originally had a dead horse on top which Dave removed in favour of some wooden beams...!)
Modern illustrators seem quite happy to include stripy mattresses of a similar design in Napoleonic barricades - straw filled but looking no different on the tabletop, just easier to fold over. Modern spring-filled mattresses, at least, have the appearance of having very little or no fold. Maybe it's a futon?
Imagine the effort of lifting a dead horse onto the top of a barricade! Fantasy +20 Strength?
Is the photo the whole pack?
I'm a little confused by the 3x40mm pieces. Is it a left hand bit, a corner and the right hand bit? So its 3 bits that make up one barrier?
If so can they be assembled in different orders?
Quote from: fred 12df on 14 October 2015, 09:48:17 PM
Is the photo the whole pack?
I'm a little confused by the 3x40mm pieces. Is it a left hand bit, a corner and the right hand bit? So its 3 bits that make up one barrier?
If so can they be assembled in different orders?
The photo shows them all put together, so the three can be taken apart and put in any order you like. Here's a pic of the three separate pieces:
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12043171_10153504666785412_5011769091018410550_n.jpg?oh=b5502f7e379129dc6dfbedf3d133131f&oe=56D1C378)
Hello Leon
Quote from: Leon on 14 October 2015, 10:24:21 PM
The photo shows them all put together, so the three can be taken apart and put in any order you like. Here's a pic of the three separate pieces:
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12043171_10153504666785412_5011769091018410550_n.jpg?oh=b5502f7e379129dc6dfbedf3d133131f&oe=56D1C378)
Now you've opened a can of worms - people will start asking for two angled bits and the straight one without the mattress ;D ;D.
No I wasn't thinking that at all :-[
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 15 October 2015, 12:19:11 AM
Now you've opened a can of worms - people will start asking for two angled bits and the straight one without the mattress ;D ;D.
They can ask, but unfortunately we wouldn't be able to on these. With them being in resin they get cast and sent to us in sets, so we wouldn't want to split them apart if we could help it.
Quote from: Leon on 15 October 2015, 03:07:52 AM
They can ask, but unfortunately we wouldn't be able to on these. With them being in resin they get cast and sent to us in sets, so we wouldn't want to split them apart if we could help it.
I know, I was just stirring up the possums :d :d
Quote from: Leon on 14 October 2015, 10:24:21 PM
The photo shows them all put together, so the three can be taken apart and put in any order you like. Here's a pic of the three separate pieces:
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12043171_10153504666785412_5011769091018410550_n.jpg?oh=b5502f7e379129dc6dfbedf3d133131f&oe=56D1C378)
Ta Leon
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 15 October 2015, 12:19:11 AM
.... the straight one without the mattress ;D ;D.
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You have to say
dog kennel.
Very useful pieces, and on my order list for November.
The waggon wheels probably 'date' them to up the WW2 . I might add the n gauge wrecked cars from the PD Marsh range to modify them for barricades in the post war/modern era.
This looks perfect.
I have been looking at various methods to represent strongpoints in villages during Napolenic battles. It is because of the facility in my rules to set up strong points in captured villages, farms etc Using this barricade either complete or possible in its seperate parts (?) I should be able to acheive this.
Better buy one and find out. :)
Quote from: Sunray on 15 October 2015, 09:25:08 AM
Very useful pieces, and on my order list for November.
The waggon wheels probably 'date' them to up the WW2 . I might add the n gauge wrecked cars from the PD Marsh range to modify them for barricades in the post war/modern era.
Post WW2 you could could always claim that there were a couple of old wheels lying around and as old rubbish got 'donated' to the barricade
Totally agree.
Probably stacked at the back of the village smithy and forgotten about.
Cheers - Phil
Remember that dismal coffee-table in When Harry met Sally...?
Yes! YES! YES!!!!
;D
My next Pendraken order just keeps getting longer...
- Neil.
Aaaaahhh NeilCFord
Wellcome to the wonderful world of Pendraken. Leon does this all the time to increase your order.
I started a few years ago with a few marines and aliens to fight a small tabletop game!
Now I have most of the forces to fight the Falkland Islands in 1/1, most of the forces to re fight sword beach, a pict army? (Don't ask me it was a ooh shiny moment), the start of a French Indian wars force Highlanders,Rodgers Rangers and Indians. A whole load of Norman foot soldiers with enough Zombies for Shaun of the dead as well as walking Dead,
And I've just started ordering figures to do Joachim pipers Battlegroup in Hungary 1945.
Regards
Sean
As above!
Oh, I'm already well and truly caught in that trap!
- Neil.
Quote from: Sean67 on 15 October 2015, 04:25:06 PM
Aaaaahhh NeilCFord
Wellcome to the wonderful world of Pendraken. Leon does this all the time to increase your order.
I started a few years ago with a few marines and aliens to fight a small tabletop game!
Now I have most of the forces to fight the Falkland Islands in 1/1, most of the forces to re fight sword beach, a pict army? (Don't ask me it was a ooh shiny moment), the start of a French Indian wars force Highlanders,Rodgers Rangers and Indians. A whole load of Norman foot soldiers with enough Zombies for Shaun of the dead as well as walking Dead,
And I've just started ordering figures to do Joachim pipers Battlegroup in Hungary 1945.
Regards
Sean
lol! But so true.
The next trick Leon uses is when you get your order there is too much shiny at once so you squirrel some away for a gloomy day.
When said day comes you go to your stash and Lo! It's disappeared making you think you have lost your senses!
So you re order then when that order comes in you go to the stash for something else and the original figures have magically appeared lol
Trust me it'll happen :D :D :D
Regards
Sean
True also, but I'm not sure we can blame Leon for that one...
I thought we all knew Leon was a practicing sorcerer!
Oh, it was only me...
- Neil.
Oh, I don't think he's practising ... I think he's a master of the art :)
We don't call him the dark Lord out of respect! ;D
Just heard from his magnificence my latest order is now flying by swift bat to me here in darkest Bavaria.
This is full of re-inforcements for my WW2 Germans so they can launch operation spring awakening and throw back the Soviet hordes from Budapest.
:D
I thought it was caused by the gravitational field caused by the large quantity of lead, causing stuff to move around
But Leon being a sorcerer is a valid explanation too. It could explain a lot of things...
Take not the name of the Dark Lord in vain! :o
:P
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 October 2015, 06:26:22 PM
Take not the name of the Dark Lord in vain! :o
Blessed be his Bunions!
Amen, Brother.
We should now sing a paean to his fiery wrath. Join me in "Goodness, Dark Lord, Great Balls of Fire."
Or should we sooth him to slumber with "The Leon Sleeps Tonight"?
... oh dear. I feel a thread coming on.
Quote from: fsn on 16 October 2015, 06:56:39 AM
Amen, Brother.
We should now sing a paean to his fiery wrath. Join me in "Goodness, Dark Lord, Great Balls of Fire."
Or should we sooth him to slumber with "The Leon Sleeps Tonight"?
... oh dear. I feel a thread coming on.
Or that old black lace classic, "ave a brew".....
STOP! Stop right now! For all our sanity's sake, pleas stop!
- Neil.
Quote from: NeilCFord on 16 October 2015, 10:54:15 AM
STOP! Stop right now! For all our sanity's sake, pleas stop!
- Neil.
twont work Nobby sells his pills mail order through mini bits....
IanS
Nonono!
It's STOP: Hammer Time!
Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 October 2015, 11:43:45 AM
Nonono!
It's STOP: Hammer Time!
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Quote from: Leon on 14 October 2015, 10:24:21 PM
The photo shows them all put together, so the three can be taken apart and put in any order you like. Here's a pic of the three separate pieces:
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12043171_10153504666785412_5011769091018410550_n.jpg?oh=b5502f7e379129dc6dfbedf3d133131f&oe=56D1C378)
Very nice. I will certainly get some in due course. Any danger of a WW1/SCW trench system any time soon?
Quote from: John Cook on 24 October 2015, 02:29:13 PM
Very nice. I will certainly get some in due course. Any danger of a WW1/SCW trench system any time soon?
Coincidentally, we do have a 19th C. trench system waiting in the wings to be moulded/cast by our resin guys. It won't be until the new year, but those could be an option...
Another request: bits of the street barricade chopped up and made in to jump off points for Interwar Chain of Command would be really useful. Actually a range of jump off points in general would be damn useful.
- Neil.