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Saturday, 07 May 2011 20:00 |
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I've added new German and Russian sailors to the catalog today. This called for the addition of a whole new category: German Colonials.
There are quite a few new items to add and as I get them into production I'll be adding them a bit at a time this fall. Tony Portillo, aka the Combat Painter, painted these in dark blue to match a German landing party; the Russians in Central Asia wore the same uniform in white.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 14:36 |
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Saturday, 09 April 2011 20:00 |
I have been wanting to add more mule sets for quite a while and now they are finally here!
M-5 (left) is a pair of draft mules, straining to pull...whatever you need them to! Wearing collars, they are in the kind of harness you'd use to pull a plow or a small cart. With four of them, they would be pulling a wagon.
I believe Askari Miniatures has the broadest and best selection of 28mm mules anywhere.
Click on the Read more button to see some really unique Ambulance mules...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 14:52 |
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Tuesday, 07 December 2010 16:13 |
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A large and well known miniatures company recently announced that a price increase is coming. They write that they have not changed their prices for nearly two and a half years
and during that time the prices of postage, materials and
services have risen, especially "the price of metal having
almost doubled in the last twelve months."
I may not make any friends among fellow manufacturers for saying this, but what is really annoying to me is that while they say the price of metal has risen recently, what they DON'T say is that the price of metal had dropped by half in 2009,
making the net price today a little less than it was at its height in
2008.
What they also don't say is that the really big cost--unless they
do a huge volume of sales, which perhaps they do--is the
cost of making masters. The metal cost is actually a relatively trivial amount of the total cost of the figure. I can assure you that over the years, my scuptors have made a lot more moneythan I have--and not that I begrudge them either. The quality and detail found on figures today far exceeds those 25-cent figures of fond memory.
So without getting into a technial discussion of the various metal alloys and the prices thereof, let me simply say that Askari Miniatures will not be raising figure prices anytime soon and that I haven't had a general price increase for over three years. In fact, while I have adjusted prices to reflect economic realities over the years, there are quite a few models--such as the artillery and animal packs--whose prices have remained the same since I began in 2004.
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Sunday, 07 November 2010 01:14 |
I have just posted a number of new color photos of our Askari Adventures series figures. These were painted for a game of Two Hour Wargames' Adventures in Lost Lands at Rio Grande Wars.
See the web store for more shots.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 14:57 |
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Sunday, 03 October 2010 06:07 |
We have some sailors in the works. Some are Russian or German types and some are general 19th century types. At left, landing party types.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 07 November 2010 03:03 |
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