Delta Wargames Studio

03/01/2024

well, a rainy weekend seems like a good time to start a new game 🤣
I've always been a fan of 2000AD and Judge Dredd is still one of my favorites - after Strodium Dog of course! 😆

03/09/2021

10/24/2020

nice!

Viking Mercenaries and Explorers.
Crusader Miniatures' new release are 12 Dark Age characters, which can be used for mercenaries, explorers and adventurers.
https://www.crusaderminiatures.com/list.php?cat=4&sub=70&page=1

07/27/2020

awesome!

Artizan Design Steam Punk range.
The Northern Alliance Militia, Private armies of the Northern iron-masters and mill owners raised under the pretence of quelling anti-industrialist uprisings. But more likely used to break away from the high taxing control of London.
Available to buy tomorrow.

07/14/2020

new goodies from Little Big Man Studios!

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Heraldic Shield Designs Transfers color shield decals (12) MED1 New Free Ship! at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

07/09/2020

excellent kit! Lots of options!

FGVP06 - Frostgrave Wizards. For all their spells and power, fewer still survive its perils….

07/07/2020

Good article. I'm definitely seeing an increase in my miniatures business - keep painting! 🤪

Duncan Weldon, Britain Economics Correspondent, with The Economist, www.economist.com, wrote to ask if we would like to contribute to an article he was writing on the wargames industry during the pandemic. We, of course, agreed and the article appeared a few days ago in print and online.

If you happened to miss it, here it is...

The lead belt booms

The firms that are doing well out of the pandemic are, by and large, high-tech ones, helping people to live virtually. But an industry about as unlike Zoom as possible is also flourishing. “It’s like two Christmases’ worth of demand,” according to Alan Perry of Perry miniatures.

Wargaming—collecting and painting toy soldiers before fighting battles using dice, tape measures and often complicated rules—is surprisingly big business in Britain. The share price of Games Workshop, the best-known and biggest player in the industry, has risen 1,500% over the past five years, making it the best-performing British listed share over the period. With a market capitalisation of around £2.7bn ($3.4bn), it has overtaken Centrica, owner of British Gas, and Marks & Spencer.

Games Workshop’s science-fiction and Tolkienesque figures are designed at its headquarters in Nottingham, centre of the “lead belt”—although the figures have not been made from lead since the 1990s. Miniatures are sculpted by hand, and moulds then created. The industry norm is to cast to order rather than carry large inventories, so figures are mostly produced in Britain to reduce delivery times.

Games Workshop’s presence in Nottingham has spawned a local cluster. Many of the city’s figure designers, manufacturers and rules-publishing firms are run by ex-Games Workshop staff. The wider industry is less focused on elves and space marines and more geared to historical gaming: the second world war and the Napoleonic and medieval periods are especially popular. Nottingham is a “mecca of sorts for gamers”, says Teras Cassidy of Canada’s Geek Nation Tours, who organises tours for North American fans.

Games Workshop, which boomed in the 1990s, is enjoying a surge of demand from what the industry calls “returners”—30- or 40-something men who last held a 28mm-high orc in their teens and, now that they no longer have to pretend to be cool, find themselves picking up their paintbrushes once more. “I’ve got a wife and a kid and I don’t feel the need to pretend to have other hobbies any more,” says Paul, a 36-year-old local-government worker. Historical gamers tend to be older: many mention Airfix kits of the 1960s and 1970s as their introduction to the hobby.

Social distancing mostly closed down the wargaming side of the hobby, but that’s not really what aficionados are in it for. Mr Perry, an ex-Games Workshop sculptor who runs Perry Miniatures with his twin brother Michael, says that “for every hour you actually game, you might have spent 25 painting”. Michael Perry lost part of his right arm after a cannon explosion during a medieval re-enactment in 1996, and now sculpts with his left hand.

It’s a good hobby for an anxious time. Gamers talk about the painting process as others might discuss yoga or meditation. “Spending evenings quietly assembling and painting the models is part of the charm,” says Richard, a finance worker. Many gamers added to their “lead piles” of unpainted soldiers during lockdown, and prepare them for the fray right down to the tiny buttons of their Napoleonic uniforms. Let battle commence!■

Duncan Weldon

Britain Economics Correspondent

06/24/2020

this is an excellent supplement for Chain of Command!

This 124 page handbook provides a comprehensive coverage of the campaign in France and the Low Countries in 1940. Fancy blowing up a section of the Maginot Line?. Finally, we have five new scenarios types, Going with a Bang, Strike from Above, Swift to Support, Hasty Defence and Blitzkrieg to bring....

06/18/2020

back in stock!

Miniatures are supplied unpainted and assembly may be required.

06/04/2020

these are beautiful! We're excited! 😂

AN 80 Napoleonic Austrian ‘German’ Cavalry (Cuirassiers, Dragoons, Chevauxlegers) 1798-1815. This set allows you to build the large ‘German’ cavalry arm of the Austrian Army throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

04/16/2020

this is beautiful! And ready to ship now!

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age New Hard Cover Core Rules! Free Shipping! at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

04/06/2020

some free solo rules for you folks staying home -

Free download Solo Rules supplement for Combat Patrol: The Miniatures Skirmish Game. The aim of the supplement is to simulate the plans and decisions of an intelligent opponent. Although designed for Combat Patrol WW2 these solo mechanisms can be used to play any historical miniatures Skirmish game....

03/21/2020

all of the available French & Indian wars figures are listed - get started on your Muskets & Tomahawks armies!

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Muskets & Tomahawks 28mm Compagnies Franches de la Marine (8) New-Free Shipping! at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

03/21/2020

and the first supplement is ready!

Muskets & Tomahawks is a set of rules for recreating skirmishes during the major wars of the 18th and 19th centuries.

03/21/2020

OK! We've got the first listings up for the brand new Muskets & Tomahawks 2nd Edition - looks fantastic!

Muskets & Tomahawks is a set of rules for recreating skirmishes during the major wars of the 18th and 19th centuries.

03/20/2020

lots of good stuff from Nottingham! I'll be working on getting it all listed this weekend - the Muskets & Tomahawks rules and miniatures will be available by Sunday!