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28mm Ancient, Dark Age & Early Medieval Figures
..plus accessories and now The Woodbine Design Company too!


Back To Work & Weather Warning! 05/01/09
We're back in now and have started processing all the festive period orders. There's snow on the ground and the workshop is EXTREMELY cold and won't have warmed up much by the weekend so if you're coming to our sold out Cold Steel event this Sunday (11th) please wrap up and bring a hat!
Talking of Cold Steel, top Chum Andy Hawes has prepared a new army for this Arthurian themed event and from the photos he's sent through, it's looking amazing... Click here for a closer look.

New Arabs In Ottoman Service Section Pack 09/12/08
The first release from The Woodbine Design Company of Arabs in Ottoman service is now available here. It's a section pack of 10 different figures from a pool of 16. There will be Arab officers, HMGs etc available soon.

Hat's the way to do it! 26/11/08
Now available from The Woodbine Design Company are a whole host of new Section Pack variantions featuring the new seperate heads.
For Britain & The Empire, there is a new section pack in serge uniform and '08 pattern webbing with a choice of 8 different head-gear choices plus a Great Pack add-on sprue, available here.
For the Ottomans there is a new full-kit section pack with a choice of 3 different head-gear, available here.

T-Shirts, Hammers & The Gods! 05/12/08
Full restock has just arrived in time for the Yule festivities.
Praise Odin! here.

RESIN BUILDINGS AND SHIPS BACK IN STOCK! 30/11/08
Well sort of, BUL 1 and 4 are still not available. They sold out at Warfare last weekend. More on order, should be with us in about a week.
Available here.

TWDC Deals 28/11/08
Just added an Army Builder deal to The Woodbine Design Company WW1 product list. This is quite a flexible deal as it allows you to buy ANY four sections from The Woodbine Design Company WW1 range - you could for example buy 4 the same, or maybe 2 Turks in Fez and 2 British RND sections, or whatever como you fancy really. Have a look at this deal and the Starter Army, Army Expansion & Battery deals here.

New 40mm x 40mm Bases Now In 28/11/08
Along with our restock of 20mm x 20mm bases and base sprues came some bags of ten 40mm x 40mm bases in green. These bases are ideal for multi-basing figures, making moving your units much easier as well as helping with the ranking up of more animated figures.
All our bases are available here in the Accessories section.

Gallery Raided 20/11/08
Added some rather lovely painted Viking Raiders to Chum Eric Bonsell's Gallery Room. Free entry here.

BOOM! 05/11/08
New in from The Woodbine Design Company and just in time for the Fireworks Night celebration of the Gun Powder Plot, we have an 18lb gun with 6 crew for the armies of the British Empire and a Krupp 75mm with 6 crew for the Ottoman Empire. Priced at £14.00 each, the 18lb is available here and the Krupp here.
Battery Deals and Army Expansion Deals here!



NEW Plastic Bases In Stock 31/10/08
New in, plastic bases! These are available as either a sprue (as pictured) that features enough bases for 44 figures or as bags of 40 20x20mm bases.
The frame includes single 20mm square bases and muliti bases. Bases are 1.5mm deep and slightly textured so they don't slide about. The sprue contains:
16 20mm x 20mm bases
2 40mm x 20mm bases
2 60mm x 20mm bases
2 100mm x 20mm bases
2 40mm x 40mm bases
Priced at £2.00 per sprue (or 3 for £5.00) and £2.50 for the bag of 40, they are available in the Accessories section here.



Picture Of Pictures To Come 23/10/08
Here are a couple of Teutonic Knights painted by Chum Tom Weiss. We'll shortly be adding a HUGE new room to the Gallery full of Tom's amazing work.

NEW Viking Board Games 03/09/08
New in the Special Stuff section of the Products List is a range of beautifully produced, hand-made Viking Board games. These are ideal for playing by the fire-light in your Great Hall now that the nights are getting longer. Horn of Mead optional.
Have a look here.

NEW Tribal Warriors (Pruss, Estonians etc) 20/08
Just released, 3 new packs of Tribal Warriors sculpted by Rob Baker. Primarily designed to be used as Pruss or Estonian allies & enemies for the Medieval Russian & Teutonic Knights in the Baltic Crusades, these are very versatile figures. We have set up a number of Unit Deals to enable you to field them as Rus, Germanics, Vikings, Early Saxons, Franks or even Pruss & Estonians!
Have a look here.
Added a new Medieval Russian Army Deal here.

ALSO NEW - Norman £100 Army Deal Two here.

Spears Again IMPORTANT INFORMATION 0805/08
Please note that we will no longer be supplying Lead Spears with our figures. We will be including all the other seperate weapons & shields as normal.
However, we will be including them in Army Deals, thus making them even better value!
Wire and Lead spears are available in Weapons Packs here.
This information over-rides any reference to seperate weapons or spears in the Product List as it will take time to go through and update all those entries.

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Recent News
GB in the US
Unfortunately Gripping Beast miniatures are no longer being made under licence in the USA. Until we can arrange another US licence deal, the full range of GB, MoFo & Woodbine Design Company figures can be purchased direct from Gripping Beast in the UK.... more detail

Blog Wars!! 05/01/09
New year, new blog added.... more detail

The Great War In The East UPDATED 09/12/08
New page from TWDC explainiing what's what in re the TGWITE range, what! Pictures of the new Arabs In Ottoman Service.... more detail

Forthcoming GB UPDATED 04/12/08
A page dedicated to what's coming next from The Beast....now showing forthcoming Russian Crossbowmen. Twang.... more detail

Ordering Info
Have a look at the 'more detail' below for info about ordering from The Beast...... more detail