Material Shops

Ok guys so this is a post similar to the "what Warband you use" list. Reply with a link of the shops from where you buy Materials and stuff. and be specific pls.

MICROCONSTRUCT - http://www.microconstruct.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=377_378_891&products_id=5519

I know this shop from this very forum.

Nice shop for all kinds of TableTop-stuff, they also have some HirstArts and a hole lot of minis at good prices:
http://www.fantasyladen.de/frameset.html

They can get you nearly every miniature you need, wide range of minis:
http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/

Great RPG-shop:
http://www.dragonworld.de/

These are a couple of the better places I part with my bucks:

http://www.thewarstore.com/ : this is a very well stocked, somewhate bizzare store. It's predominately a mail order outfit with a flat rate shipping charge [USA] of $4.95 on all orders. Neal, the owner, runs it out of the rear half of his parents' green house; it's like a minis warehouse. Check out the Celebrities Reccommendations for a good chuckle. Highly reccommended.

http://www.armorcast.com/ :these folks have a nice selection of good quality, reasonably priced resin scenery, & some nice minis both in resin & metal. Their forum is heavily scenery oriented and populated by some very nice folks. Another source of inspiraion; recommended.

http://www.wyrd-games.net/ :another favorite hangout for moi, these folks have an unusal line of kind of steam punky, kind of western, totally unique minis. Their forum is super cool, very international, very friendly, & uber helpful. They run on-line painting competitions that attract folks with quite a wide variety of talents AND minis from any manufacturer you fancy are welcome to both the forum & competitions unlike a certain unnamed Mega Manufacturer of dubious business ethics. Very highly recommended, very.

I'll add a few more when & if the fog lifts from my ancient semifunctional old mind.

I remembered a couple of more:

Micro-Mark carries a mind boggling variety of tools specifically geared for modelers along with quite a variety of scenery & scratch modeling items. They are not he most inexpensive of shops, although their sales are usually worth the wait, & they carry thing that are difficult to impossible to find elsewhere. Recommended
http://www.micromark.com

Walthers is The source of all things for model railroads; a truly fantastic source of scenery, * scratch building supplies. Highly recommended.
http://www.walthers.com

The Hot Wire Foam Factory as the name suggests manufacture & sell foam cutting/sculpting tools, supplies useful in foam work, video instruction, etc.. Their gallery is a fine source of inspiration. Recommended.

http://www.hotwirefoamfactory.com/customer/home.php

There now, that should keep you impoverished for awhile.

These guys make some fantastic resin bases of all sizes, ranging from 20mm to your large chariot bases.

http://www.back2base-ix.com/

I'm hoping that this is the place for this one, but if it's not, feel free to move it, Tom.

I have a question about the little leaves that I see on some of the excellent pieces of terrain in the gallery. I'd love to track them down, both for basing models, and for adding that little something to terrain pieces. However, I just can't seem to find them - and I need to find an American supplier, which may or may not complicate things.

Thanks in advance for any help on this one!

Hawkeye wrote:

I'm hoping that this is the place for this one, but if it's not, feel free to move it, Tom.

I have a question about the little leaves that I see on some of the excellent pieces of terrain in the gallery. I'd love to track them down, both for basing models, and for adding that little something to terrain pieces. However, I just can't seem to find them - and I need to find an American supplier, which may or may not complicate things.

Thanks in advance for any help on this one!

HEY Hawkeye,

I've been searching around for the stuff for you. The closest I came was Cool Mini Or Not, who has a picture of the stuff as the header for their Tools & Accessories Section, but don't list it as an item for sale [PRETTY UNCOOL ]. I have a bag of Hudson & Allen Forest Litter I'm not going to be using; you can have it, if you'd like. PM me if interested.

Dried Herbs from the Floral section of a good Craft store is a decent alternatative.

@DeafNala - thanks for the reply on this one. Yes, you know the ones I mean, then - for all the world they look like tiny little maple leaves, or maybe sycamore. Can't find them anywhere, though.

I've used dried herbs on bases in the past. They haven't looked bad (in fact, they've looked pretty good), and have of course resulted in the hilarity of our gaming group sniffing the bases trying to guess the herbs. 'There's oregano, and basil, of course, and parsley, and...I'm getting just a hint of mint.' They tend to rub off quite easily, though.

Hudson and Allen Forest Litter, you say? I might try to find pics online somewhere to get an idea of what it looks like - and that's very kind of you, thank you. I'll let you know. It's still a bit premature on my part, as I'm still putting together the models. Sisters of Sigmar (as they've been lying around since forever), and I like the look of that wizarding warband in Legends of the Damned.

Thanks again!

@ Hawkeye: You are MOST welcome, Buddy; we ARE, afterall, ALL in this together.
Hudson & Allen make quite a variety of VERY good scenicing items geared toward the military modeler [their Slush is GREAT mixed with regular Snow for a sparkly effect]; as such it's a bit difficult finding their stuff [my local hobby shop carries a LIMITED selection periodically ]. For more general scenic stuff Walthers [ www.walthers.com ] is THE BEST source in the states.

There is a company in Europe that sells those leaves, I know you were looking for something in the USA.

The name of the company is something like Antennoci or something like that. I found them some time ago and they sell a mixture o fsci fi an dfantasy stuff.

http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/bases/products-basepacks.html

A bit of News on the Wyrd Games mini: they offer a flat rate on both domestic & international orders. The International rate is $5.75. http://www.wyrd-games.net/

Thought I would share these guys with you,

Freebooter Miniatures
http://www.freebooterminiatures.de/indexeng.html
They have some wonderful pirate miniatures and I really dig the hot chick minis A bit on the pricey side but they are well worth it.

In the US you can get them from
Cmon http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/
and
The War Storehttp://www.thewarstore.com/FreebooterMiniatures.html

AJS Metals

My source for skulls for my terrain. The site is brand spanking new, and the creator is working on other items to add to it as we speak.

In a manner of speaking

I guess I should also post this here. Source for Blue Foam in Southern California.

http://www.foamsalesandmarketing.com/

Also I like Armor Cast, good buildings. Scenic bases etc..

http://www.armorcast.com/

There are some other sites I can't remember off the top of my head I will update this later.

Greetings.

Anyone know any good shop to buy mordheim miniatures (other then games workshop)?

Any one know any good alternative for Beastman Riders miniatures?

Thanks,
- Miguel

palanolho wrote:

Any one know any good alternative for Beastman Riders miniatures?

Thanks,
- Miguel

Reaper make some nice Beastmen in their War Lord Reven range:
AND Avatars of War has an Ubercool Beastman Champion. They're available from www.thewarstore.com .

I got this link from Wyrd. For SOME REALLY COOL steampunky thingys along with barrels & whatnot for Mordheim: http://rustyrail.com/CastingsOScale.htm
O scale at 1:48 is slightly larger than the 1:56 of 28mm, but looks good nevertheless.

cianty wrote:

DeafNala wrote:

1:56 of 28mm

Isn't 28mm more like 1/65?

Actually I thought it was 1:60, but then I found some cool tanks with some GW IG next to them showing them to be a very nice matchup scalewise, AND they claimed the models to be 1:56.
BTW S scale is 1:64, & buildings in this scale look a bit too small next to a 28mm mini.

Well, a true 28mm would be monstrously huge, wouldn't it?

Measuring up an older Citadel, which I suppose would be considered a true 28 mm mini, he came in at 1 1/4"; an O gauge mini at 1:48 scale is 1 5/16" a difference of 1/16", so 1/56 seems close. Also scalewise what does the 28mm represent? Some folks say it's 6', but an actual man from the Middle Ages/Renaissance would come in at 5'4" or less. If you think about it enough, you'll get a full scale migraine.

DeafNala wrote:

If you think about it enough, you'll get a full scale migraine.

LOL. Yeah..

A new source of scenic bits with some VERY NICE Asian pieces, including a couple of Sampams:
http://www.minisandscenery.com/index.html

Another source of VERY COOL although somewhat expensive scenery items:
http://www.scenicexpress.com/
This will be of somewhat more interest to those of us here in the US.