The Ion Age - August and Year Three is nearly here!

It is about to be that time of year again that sees The Ion Age celebrate another year, this time its third year, of being space opera awesome for wargamers. My baby is now a toddler with its own game system and near one hundred and fifty codes of 15mm scale miniatures, vehicles and terrain. We will continue to grow of course but each August an event occurs which many look forward to namely the release of the full year of IMP Monthly Miniatures from last summer to this summer. From September 2015 to August 2016 the miniatures were given away free in every order and shortly you will be able to purchase them as singles or a set in the YOC3 Year Three Collection come the start of next week. It will be on this pageHERE along with the Year One and the Year Two collections. Below is an image of the collection and read on to hear what else will be happening next month as part of the fun!

The Year Three Collection is a real doozy eh! From the top left across and to the bottom right we have: Muster Cutter Trooper, Female Nox Trooper, Florian Pumpkin Spore, Missiletoe Claus, Cold Climes PM Sergeant, Xin Monkey Bot, Padraig O'Malig, Hand of the Duxis, Happy Burger Clownbot this months Cybernetic Retained Knight and then you can see...August 2016's brand new twelfth miniature IMP36 Prefecta Aimar of the Styx Legion!

In August we will be releasing two new packs of miniatures sculpted by Dave Foley into the Ion Age Universe of 15mm characters which you can see HERE on the website. These will be a pack of five different Security Droids and a rocking pack of five different Entertainers which will be great for any setting from space port to cantina and city streets of the future too. Early next month for these.

In August we will be adding to our Poster Prints range with a fantastic resource for fans of The Ion Age created for us with cooperation by Aris Kolehmainen over in the mighty USA...a poster of thirty uniform schemes for Muster, Retained and Desteria along with their titles from the Prydian Army to the Marcher Barons and the Condots along with many more. Essential and already on my own wall! You can see our poster prints HERE. 

As it is our 'birthday' we will be having a great month long offer and it will be all about the IAF028 Khamel Tracked Bike where there will be 25% off the pack of three miniatures (Bike with Rider, Bike alone and Rider on foot) and 25% off the Bike with Rider on its own for those wanting to build a big force! You will also get a third new weapon mount option too! You can see this pack HERE and the offer will begin 1st August 2016.

August is going to be awesome!

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

Early Supporter Offers from December 2nd for Taranis Repulsar Tanks and Drones!

Ain't she just the most lovely thing you ever did see!

Wednesday 2nd December 2015 will see the start of the pre-orders otherwise known as the the Early Supporter Offers (ESO's) on the final of the four modes of propulsion Taranis Main Battle Tanks in 15mm scale; the Repulsar (Anti-Gravity) variants. Designed by industry legend Bob Naismith there will be five variants of the IAF103 Taranis Replusar MBT as there have been with the tracked, wheeled and lifter (hover) Taranis that are already released. 

Alongside the most space opera of the Taranis Tanks and also sculpted by Bob Naismith will be the IAF082 Taranis Repulsar Drones five different anti-gravity robots. The Early Supporter Offers will run for nine days with all orders containing one or more Taranis Repulsar Tanks being shipped out worldwide on Monday 11th December 2015 in time for Christmas.

Taranis Repulsar Tank with Energy Turret next to Repulsar Drones

Full details will be given at the time but the Early Supporter Offers will be upon the following codes:


IAF103A Taranis Repulsar MBT Cannon Turret
IAF103B Taranis Repulsar MBT Command Turret
IAF103C Taranis Repulsar MBT Energy Turret
IAF103D Taranis Repulsar MBT Siege Turret
IAF103E Taranis Repulsar APC
IAF082 Taranis Repulsar Drones (5)

The offers will be the same as before with 5% off a single Taranis or 10% off three of the same Taranis or a super 15% off a set of five one of each Taranis. Every Taranis pre-ordered will come with a FREE pack of five different Repulsar Drones so that is one pack with one tank, three packs with three tanks and five packs with five tanks. On top of this you will get the IMP28 Missiletoe Claus free monthly miniature worth 0.60GBP in your order automatically and you will get Reward Points on your account for your orders which can be used for future discounts and free items too. The release price of all variants of IAF103 (each of them made of several parts and over 100mm long) will be 20.00GBP and the release price of the pack of five IAF082 drones will be 5.00GBP so you can save greatly by picking up an deal or two for yourself. Designed, Manufactured and Shipped all from the UK. These offers will be on ourEarly Supporter Page. 

Scale Comparison of Taranis with IAF080 Adder SuperBlue....

There will be articles to follow in the coming week which will give you more information. These will be one per day on these subjects:


IAF103 Taranis Repulsar Main Battle Tank variants and parts.
Information Burst : The Taranis Model 32 Repulsar Main Battle Tank IAF103.
IAF082 Taranis Repulsar Drones will be free in Taranis ESO's!
IAF103 Taranis Repulsar Tanks Comparison and Scale Photos.

The full set of Taranis Repulsar Drones - five types.

I want to thank everyone from across the world who took us up on Taranis Tracked Tanks, Taranis Wheeled Tanks, Taranis Lifter Tanks and Taranis Running Drones all HERE. This December will see the last of the four propulsion types released and the completion of the whole initial range of twenty different Taranis into The Ion Age before we move on into the New Year.

Thanks for Reading.


GBS

New Look at the Taranis - Scale and Paint

IAF100 Taranis Tracked Tank with Five Running Drones!

The Early Supporter Offers will be coming next week and as we stated in the previous of today's postings there are more articles to come before then about the IAF100 Taranis Tracked Tanks all five variants and their drones that will feature in the offers. Click on the linkHERE to see plain backdrop painted photos and click HERE to see an article with all the resin parts and dimensions of the kits. 

This article presents to you a series of scale photographs showing Taranis alongside other items from our 15mm range that are in your wargame collection. Each photograph has a caption that tells you more. 

Taranis Tank advanced uphill with female Retained Knights

A Red Adder Combat Car next to Taranis Siege Tank

Planetary Militia dismebark from a Taranis Tracked APC

Muster Khamel Tracked Bike next to Taranis Seige Tank

Energy Turret Taranis with Hab Dome and Cratered Hab Dome

Brothers in Arms! Taranis with Skylark and Mullo vehicles

Taranis Tracked Tank with Steornade Battlesuits

Planetary Militia Infantry next to stationary Taranis Tracked Tank

Taranis with PM Officer, Colabretta Carrier and Hazelwurm Patrol Car

Do you feel sorry for the Canlastrian forces...I do!

Its a mighty big vehicle and damn impressive too! Bob Naismith has done a fantastic job on bringing my idea of what a futuristic science fiction space opera Human tracked tank would look like into a resin reality. There are more articles to come including one on the Taranis Running Tank Drones and an Information Burst fiction article followed by joy of joys the ESO's themselves! 

Thanks for Reading.


GBS

Ion Age Taranis Tracked Main Battle Tank Variants and Parts

So today we are combining two posts from the Ion Age blog into one. Gavin and crew put up the main post about the parts that go into each variant of the Taranis and then a follow up showing the assembled models. I have attached the assembled pics to the parts coverage for simplicity sake.

I think you will all agree that this new armor system drops a giant mass of awesome vehicular goodness on the gaming seen...

Welcome to the variants and parts article for the IAF100 Taranis Tracked Main Battle Tank. While another article will tell you about the mighty Taranis in the universe of The Ion Age this time around we are all about the physical 15mm scale models themselves. All of the pieces with scale and then all of the pieces together that show what you get with each variant when you receive a Taranis kit. A super cool vehicle designed by Bob Naismith and now in the finest resin!

Brigade Models shows off fancy new infantry sculpts!

From: http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2015/03/pbi/

Brigade Models is showing off some awesome new infantry sculpted by Martin Baker:

Salute 2015 is now about five-and-a-half weeks away. Loads of time, aeons. That said, the show edition of Miniature Wargames has just dropped through the letterbox which reminds us that we’re getting ever closer. We’ve been planning our show releases since before Xmas, although as always we’ll be panicking up to the last minute I’m sure ! It’s time to start previewing them, which we’ll do over the coming 3-4 weeks.

The first batch of masters has arrived ready for moulding – and we have to admit to being quite excited by them. Although we have a few packs of figures in our 15mm range (some lovely PF aliens and bounty hunters, our Power Armour and some very useful tank crew) we don’t have any straightforward, ground-pounder infantry. So we’ve got together with Martin Baker and he’s sculpted us some really excellent figures, based around some 3D designed and printed weapons. These are straight out of the package that came in the post this morning, and will be off for moulding tomorrow so I haven’t had long to get them photographed. Click on the photos for larger versions if you’d like to see more.

As you can see we have a number of infantry poses, plus command, support weapons (SAW, grenade launcher and rocket launcher), snipers and heavy weapons crewmen. The gunners will be paired up with tripod mounted versions of our pintel weapons (unfortunately I didn’t have any to hand when I took the photos). They will be sold in packs of eight figures (or equivalent), although we haven’t finalised the exact contents just yet. Having these available will also allow us to create platoon packs of APCs with crew and infantry and we’ll also create complete army packs of tanks, APCs, infantry and support vehicles.

Check out more previews on their website!

Fantastic Terrain

 Amazing New Fantasy Human Buildings from 15mm.co.uk

There are very few miniatures that get released that truly take my breath away and even fewer terrain items, but 15mm.co.uk's upcoming Hordes of Buildings line is one of them.

Promising to be an amazing series of releases, this first installment of structures brings to gamers five human buildings with a decidedly fantastic bent. These are not just regular old medieval buildings. Each of the five new buildings is bubbling with faerie tale charm. Hovels in two sizes and houses in three, it's almost as if we are perfectly poised for a witch, a hidden princess or the dark streets of some village, stalked by wraiths or the thieves of the guild.

For more information on the release and the pre-order offers, head over - HERE

Defending Planets Across The Ion Age

Preview of Planetary Militia

February is set to be a nice release month for The Ion Age. Not only will the 15mm versions of the Planetary Militia be released but also a brand new set of vehicles for use with them. These citizen soldiers are tasked with holding the ground and maintaining defense behind the armored lines of the Muster and armored elites. 

Several packs of infantry and vehicle variants are planned for February releases...

IAF067 Planetary Militia 1st Squad (10) (Rifle Squad) 5.00GBP
IAF068 Planetary Militia 2nd Squad (10) (Support Squad) 5.00GBP
IAF069 Planetary Militia Platoon Command (5) (Special Poses) 2.50GBP
IAFP02 Planetary Militia Platoon (25+1) 12.00GBP
(Contains IAF067, IAF068, IAF069 as well as a free unique miniature only in this platoon pack)

IAF054 Hazelwurm MkII Patrol Car (1) (Light Vehicle) 4.00GBP
IAF061A Colabreta Patrol Carrier MkI (1) (APC Light Vehicle) 6.00GBP
IAF061B Colabreta Patrol Command MkIII (1) (Control Light Vehicle) 6.00GBP

 

 See vehicle images below and read more - HERE 

Loud Ninja Games - Upcoming Releases and New Ranges

Hey all,

Guess what time it is?

It's time for Loud Ninja Games to get rolling.

Due to release Monday, February 2, 2015, are RAP13, 14, and 15 will see the start of two new ranges Alien Encounters #1 (RAP13) and my wild and crazy Wasteland (RAP14 & 15).

RAP13 Alien Encounters #1

RAP14 Wasteland Mutants

RAP15 Super Mutants

Alien Encounters will be a sort of grab bag of science fiction one-offs and small encounter groups geared toward collecting and role-playing but certainly not outside the realm of use for more traditional wargaming.

The Wasteland range will be just about everything I can imagine to fill a blasted, mutated, violent future. Mutants, savages, renegade, monsters, even some heroes.

Look for these in the Loud Ninja Games store at 15mm.co.uk come Monday, February 2, 2015.

Loud Friday

Loud Ninja Games Black Friday Sale

Loud Ninja Games, in partnership with our friends at 15mm.co.uk, is happy to announce that we will be holding a twenty four hour Black Friday Sale on Friday 28th November 2014. This sale will be as follows. For a period from 9am GMT Friday 28th November 2014 until 9am Saturday 29th November 2014 there will be a 20% price reduction on the core Chuhuac space raptor codes. This will be applied directly to the prices on the website on the Loud Ninja Games page so no need for a voucher code or such.

This is very exciting for use at LNG as it marks our first ever special offer and a chance for raptors fans to acquire some reinforcements or new formations for those who have not yet caught the raptor bug!

Here are the codes included in the coming offer:

RAP001 Chuhuac Troopers (6)

RAP002 Chuhuac Leaders and Support Weapons (6)

RAP003 Chuhuac Command Section (4)

RAP004 Chuhuac Herdmaster (1)

RAP005 Chuhuac Spec Ops (6)

RAP006 Chuhuac Assault Troopers (6)

RAP007 Chuhuac Battlesuits (2)

RAP008 Sirrus APC (1)

RAP009 Chuhuac Grav Bikes (3)

RAP010 28mm Chuhuac Alphas (3)

RAP011 28mm Chuhuac Troopers (3)

RAP012 Chuhuac Heavy Combat Cyberform (1)

RAP003A Chuhuac Light Combat Cyberform (6)

We will announce this event when it happens through our channels online but it is best if you bookmark and look out for this special event as it will be over fast!

Previews: Armies Army - Reinforcements coming soon!

New previews and news from Armies Army:

Hello everybody :)

Before the update, Id like to thank all the people whom have supported me with the opening of my webstore. Thankfully everything has gone smoothly, yet Ive still some things that need look at and I'm always keen on improving. If you do have any ideas, don't hesitate to drop me an email or post a comment.

Anyhow to the update....

I really hoped that I would have had more items out for sale by now, however the web store was busier then I believed and I basically was learning the ropes. Then the dreaded 'work' word got in the way and is still doing so! This will be around for at least another three weeks, however Ill then be back to normal hours, which will give me time to start releasing my new stuff. I'm hesitant to put dates, due to changes, however I can put up a priority order as to what will be released :)

So here it is

Penal Troops ~(Shipping tonight)

BTR160  and variants (Two weeks time)

Rusk IMV Gaz Cartographa  (around 3 weeks)

Russian Empire Forces  (around 4 weeks)

The Russian Empire remains at civil war with the breakaway colonies of the RUSK forces. They  share many similarities to the RUSK forces, however have more advanced weaponry and vehicles compared to the rugged and dependable items designed of that built by the Buzzard Design Bureau. 

They are fewer in number and lack the winning attitude of the RUSK'S  (so say the RUSK's) forces.

More news to follow , however here is a snifter of old

Enemy Unknown - Reinforcements  (around 4 weeks)

The 'Enemy Unknown'  increase in encounters are causing a rising tension with the World's Empires and Forces. Frequency of an encounter is increasing as is the number of Enemy forces. Unconfirmed rumors suggest several battles are taking place with heavier and heavier armaments involved. The Enemy Unknown are no longer scouting. They look like they are here to stay!

With that in mind, I will be releasing the next lines of EU figures. Ill have a HQ and heavier support weapons in two forms. Ill also have an assault squad with pistol and shield and couple of unusual beasts. 

BTR 290 Variants  (around 6 weeks)

The BTR 290 used by several world's forces will be getting some additional support. The BTR 290 'Shilka' AAA and the BTR290 'Tunguska' AT . Other variants will follow.

Xiangyu WZ993 APC ( around 6-8 weeks)

The PLA Xiangyu APC has had several field issues, resulting in the withdrawal from the front lines. A redesign with additional hatches, turret variants, PLA infantry support drones . The redesign is almost complete and will be sent for mastering in the next two weeks. Several designers have been sent to the Penal Battalions to work off their crimes. 

Unconfirmed rumors also suggest that several other projects are coming to fruition, however with a few unexpected items jumping the queue as my minions churn out the masters etc ( minions being me...) 

So...lots to come, lots being planned, lots being designed, including brand new items and some forces are getting reinforcements to complete the line :)

Ill keep the usual places updated!

thanks

Keith

Khurasan Miniatures Releases Nova Respublik Drakon and Grifon vehicles and Previews the NF USMC infantry and Columbiad heavy droid!

By Harold

Khurasan Miniatures has released two new great Sci-Fi vehicle sets, each with both tank and grav options:

We are very pleased to release the next generation of armoured warfare for our 15mm Nova Respublik range, the Drakon tank and Grifon IFV.

Built to supplement the vast fleets of Red Banner tanks and Hedgehog IFVs, these vehicles represent a significant step forward in technology, matching that of federal vehicles.

The base tank, the Drakon-T, may be armed with either a plasma gun or a railgun and has a robot self defence system to protect it from both close assault and missiles.

 Still experimental but fielded in one company, the Drakon-G is the first Nova vehicle to employ grav tech, copied from captured Federal vehicles.

To provide vital infantry support to the new tanks, the Grifon IFV, a development of the Drakon hull, can carry a full squad of infantry and has a rapid fire mini-railgun for anti-personnel or light anti-tank work. Against heavier targets it may have disposable missile boxes added to the flanks.

The experimental Grifon-G employs the same grav propulsion system as the Drakon-G and these vehicles support the Grav tanks in battle.

For all of the above vehicles, platoon sets are available at a discount. The models were designed by Steve Tyler. Our own dwartist provided the amazing paint jobs -- thanks David!

These are available now, comrades, at the link below.

http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/15mmscifi.html 

And Khurasan has previewed these awesome upcoming kits, the Columbiad Heavy Droid and  NF USMC  Infantry with an incredible paint job:

Amazing job. You won't be able to make it out when the image is resized but Duff has actually painted the impression of a face on the visor, it's jawdropping.

He'll be painting the rest once he has some other jobs out of the way and then these and the Columbiad heavy droid will be released together.

Looking foward to seeing these awesome kits released soon!