Casting machine update, 12 September
Leave a CommentFighting 15s’ casting machine has been fixed and Ian should be able to pick it up from the engineering workshop in the next day or so. Licensed casting should resume by the end of the week.
Please be patient if Ian takes his time in dealing with orders, because figures need to be made for a number of orders placed over the past few weeks.
Casting machine update, 6 September
The casting machine goes in for repairs today, and I will be without it for at least a week. This means I am unable to cast any figures for Colours on 10 and 11 September and have to rely on existing stock of some AB Figures. I have been able to fulfil all advance orders for Colours so far, and have emailed customers accordingly, but at the cost of depleting the stock that I carry to shows. This means I will be out of stock of some codes of 15mm AB Figures at Colours.
Please bear with me while I deal with the failure of what is a critical piece of equipment. Some orders will inevitably be delayed until the casting machine is fixed.
I am out for most of this morning while I get the machine to the engineering company.
Ian
Fighting 15s revises and expands Late Prussian flags
Fighting 15s has revised the 15mm late Prussian flags for the Napoleonic Wars that form part of the Flags for AB range. Our designer has incorporated new research into the existing designs, and at our request also added two sheets that gamers should find useful.
The first of the new sheets, PRU-F07, contains flags for the reserve infantry regiments to the design authorized in 1814. The flags were not actually issued until after Waterloo, mostly in September 1815, but gamers who want to give their reserve regiments the flags that most clearly indicate their status may well appreciate the addition.
Sheet F08 now contains black flags for landwehr regiments – a mixture of black and white designs featuring the Maltese cross. Previously our landwehr flags had only one black and white design: this flag, and the previous colour landwehr/reservist flags are now on sheets F09 and F10.
Sheets are all priced at £3.50 including VAT and include 8 infantry flags (sheets F11 and F12 contain 12 and 13 cavalry flags respectively).
Orbat series adds French and Spanish flags for Albuera and Fuentes de Onoro
As well as redesigning the 15mm Spanish flags for the Napoleonic range, our designer has completed the flags required for Fuentes de Onoro (3 to 5 May 1811) and Albuera (16 May 1811) with the addition of French and Spanish flags, plus a sheet for the famous Light Division.
The Order of Battle series of 15mm Flags for AB allows gamers to easily buy all the required flags for particular historic formations on a few sheets rather than trying to create them with, in particular for the French, the more generic regimental flags. The French flags for the two battles provide appropriately numbered flags for participating regiments and their battalions. The Spanish flags have suitable city or provincial crests to suit the regiments.
The Light Division sheet provides flags for the 1/43rd,1/52nd, 2/52nd and 17th (2nd Elvas) regiments, making it suitable for engagements from 1810 to 1814.
Full details of the orbat flags are in the Fighting 15s online shop. Sheets are £4.00 each. Fighting 15s aims to have these flags available at Salute on Saturday 16 April, stand TK19.
Flags for AB expands and revises Napoleonic Spanish standards
Our designer has been hard at work revising and expanding the 15mm flags for the Napoleonic Spanish, tying in regional and city crests with regiments, and adding standards for volunteer and militia regiments. The new line-up of Spanish flags in the Flags for AB range is now as follows (most flags are the 1768 pattern):
SPA-F01: Aragon, Borbon, Cordoba and Soria line infantry, 8 flags
SPA-F02: 1st or 2nd Cataluna light infantry, Cantabia, Leon and Principe line regiments, 8 flags
SPA-F03 Estremadura, Reina, Toledo and 2nd Valencia line regiments, 8 flags
SPA-F04: Murcia and Valenca line regiments; 1808 Hibernia or Irlanda, and Ultonia regiments, 8 flags
SPA-F05: De la Princesa regiment, Imperial Alejandro infantry 1814, Reding’s regiment, Preux’s regiment, Portillo light infantry, Torrero light infantry, Campo Sgorbino cazadores, Valencia cazadores, 8 flags
SPA-F06: 2nd and 4th Tercios de Migueletes de Cataluna, 1st and 5th Murcian Volunteer regiments, 8 flags
SPA-F07: Ordenanza of the Tercio Saguntino, 1st Murcian Volunteer Tiradores, Volunteers of St Peter’s Mountian, Volunteers of Ciudad-Rodrigo, Royal regiment of artillery, Royal Troop of Sappers and Miners, 8 flags
SPA-F08: Royal Spanish Guards, Royal Walloon Guards, Royal Italian Guards, Royal Swiss Guards, 10 flags
SPA-F09: Guardia de Corps company flags, Squadron standards for line cavalry regiments Alcantara, Calatrava, Del Principe, Espana, Farnesio, Montesa, Reina, Rey, Santiago, 12 flags
SPA-F10 Carabineros Reales, Squadron standards for line hussar regiments Espanoles, Olivenza, Voluntarios de Espana, Squadron standards for line dragoon regiments Almansa, Numancia, Pavia, Reina, Rey, Sagunto, 12 flags
Sheets are £3.50 each including VAT, and are available now in the Fighting 15s online shop.
We have also added to our Orbat range of flags, adding the Spanish army for Albuera. Orbat flags are £4.00 per sheet, but fewer are needed to complete historic orders of battle.
We hope to have these fantastic additions to the range at Salute, stand TK19.
Anglo-Portuguese orbat flags for Albuera and Fuentes de Onoro 1811
Fighting 15s continues to expand the Flags for AB range of 15mm Napoleonic flags with 14 handy sheets covering the Anglo-Portuguese army at Fuentes de Onoro, 3 to 5 May 1811, and Albuera, 16 May 1811.
The release is the first in a range of flags for particular orbats, and is aimed at gamers who want to create historic formations without acquiring a host of potentially irrelevant flags. The flags are slightly more expensive than our usual range, at GBP 4.00 per sheet including VAT, but most offer better value by having more flags than our usual British and Portguese sheets.
The flags are available now in the Fighting 15s shop.
There are 9 sheets of flags for Fuentes de Onoro, and 5 sheets of flags for Albuera. There’s a special offer on all 14 sheets at just GBP 52.00 including VAT – a saving of GBP 4.00, or in effect one free sheet.
Our designer has also discovered more information about Portuguese flags in the process, and we have also updated and revised our Portuguese flags, expanding the range from five to eight sheets. The expansions include flags with special battle honours, later pattern flags, and militia flags.
The new Portuguese flags are GBP 3.50 per sheet including VAT.
Fighting 15s’ flags are laser printed on high quality paper. Instructions on applying them to flagpoles are available on the website.
Fighting 15s acquires 15mm lines from Oddzial Osmy
Fighting 15s has bought the rights to the 15mm lines of figures produced by Oddzial Osmy of Poland. Marcin at Oddzial Osmy is focusing on his 1:600 (3mm) ranges by expanding the existing moderns and WWII ranges, and beginning work on new eras.
Fighting 15s has the masters for the 15mm Napoleonics, and is expecting the masters for the 15mm Medievals (Tannenberg/Grunwald) shortly. There will probably be a break in production while we get some changes made to the range – mainly turning the horses into more wargamer-friendly one-part castings, and putting the bayonets on the correct side of some of the muskets. The packaging will also be changed to the usual 8 infantry, 4 mounted format that we use for other ranges.
Please note that the Oddzial Osmy Napoleonics are on the whole smaller than the ranges we offer from AB and Eureka, and for which we are agents. Fighting 15s has acquired the range to ensure it does not slip out of production, and has the permission of Nic Robson of Eureka Miniatures to do so.
Fighting 15s completes revised Russian Napoleonic flags
Fighting 15s has enhanced its range of 15mm paper flags for the Russian Napoleonic army by including flags for the third battalions of infantry regiments. Each sheet now has 12 instead of eight flags, and contains flags for two regiments, with one white flag and five coloured flags for each infantry regiment.
Each sheet still costs £3.25 including VAT, and is zero-weighted for delivery in the online shop, so customers can order any number of sheets of flags and still pay only the base delivery charge for an order.
While Fighting 15s exhausts stocks of the old sheets, customers may be provided with two eight-flag sheets to provide the requisite number of flags.
Fighting 15s has changed the make-up of these sheets to cope with the upcoming 200th anniversary of Borodino, for which a number of customers are already preparing. Fighting 15s has in the past been asked about a solution to providing flags for third battalions other than buying a second sheet of flags, and Ian’s response has usually been along the lines of “I’d have to be mad to re-do the entire range”. So certify him. 🙂
Fighting 15s apologizes for not illustrating the flags online: this is to reduce abuse of copyright.
CGM ranges withdrawn from Fighting 15s shop
Sales of the 15mm Napoleonics from Campaign Game Miniatures have not lived up to expectations and Fighting 15s has withdrawn this range from the products on offer in the online shop. Fighting 15s will have a limited supply of some codes for a short while longer for customers who contact us by email, but remaining stocks of CGM figures will be melted down by the end of August. They will therefore resurface at some point as licensed castings of 15mm AB Figures.
Fighting 15s, therefore, will not have CGM figures at any more shows this year.
40mm Children of the Hydra – sorted!
Flashing Blade, 40mm: Children of the Hydra
Fighting 15s is making sense of the moulds and inherited stock from Flashing Blade, and is pleased to announce we have sorted out what’s what in the 40mm Children of the Hydra, aka Skeletons. We have photographed the display model, identified its components, re-described the figures in the shop because they didn’t match the list, and finally uploaded the appropriate pictures. All this for just six figures!
The skeletons are usually £2.50 each including VAT. A special Children of the Hydra multi-pack allows customers to buy all six different figures for £14 including VAT, a saving of £1. We will have these figures at Salute on Saturday 24 April.
Fighting 15s will shortly be turning its attention to the skeletons’ natural gaming partners in the range, the Greeks, and photographing the available models.
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