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


UPDATE Hey Nonny Nonny UPDATE!! 20/11/08
UPDATE! - The moulds have arrived! StuBy is busy casting some stock up for Warfare this weekend but supplies will be limited so get yours early.
Go here to see greens of the next pack in Lord S's range of 1930s nonsense, the village morris team.

UPDATE Also available at Warfare this weekend.....
.....will be the Slingers and Archers for the Polemarch Successor range. Pictures soon.

Death In The Snow - Crisis 2009 16/11/09
Just put some pictures up of our recent demo game at Crisis. Have a look here .

New Plastic Bases & Pre Cut Magnetic Tape 13/11/09
Plastic Kings Renedra now make a range of 25mm bases. We've got 25mm X 50mm (15 in a bag, ideal for light cavalry), 50mm X 50mm (8 in a bag, we use these for double basing our heavy cavalry, especially cataphracts etc) and 25mm X 25mm (40 in a bag), all in green.

We also have a restock of our pre-cut magnetic tape. Available as either 20mm X 20mm or 25mm X 50mm, it is approx 0.75mm thick and is ideal attached to the appropriate plastic bases.

Have a look at the Plastic Bases section here

New Battalion Army Deals Added 02/11/09
Added some Battalion deals, as seen in issue 265 of Wargames Illustrated, into the relevant TWDC WW1 section. While we were there, we reorganised the deal section so take a look here.

Great War Gaming Day - 6th December at GBHQ
We will be hosting a day of Great War games at Beast Towers on Sunday 6th December. We have several different formats planned to suit most gaming preferences. For full info go here.

New Polemarch Imitation Legionaries
Three new packs of Imitation Legionaries now available, troopers & two different commands plus a new Imitation Legionary Unit Deal (all available with either scutum or thureos shields.) Individual packs available here. Unit deal available here.
Painted example (with thureos) by chum Darrell Hindley.

Soapy's SciFi Laser Troopers
Soapy recently made these for himself but has had some requests to make them available so here they are!

New Woodbine Packs Available 07/10/09
New from The Woodbine Design Company we have a British 18pdr with 6 crew in shirt-sleeve order and Vickers HMG with 3 crew in serge uniforms. Both these packs use the Headless System.
We also have a British Casualty pack too.
For the Ottoman Empire, we have a Krupp 75mm with 6 Arab crew and an Arab casualty pack.
All these are available here.

Warhammer Campaign Weekend in October
The Beast will be running a Bruanburgh (Shieldwall) Campaign at the Warhammer Campaign Weekend at GWHQ in Lenton, Nottingham on the 24th/25th October. Places are limited so skip over to Historical Wargames website for detail and a downloadable pack.

New Releases & Greens for Polemarch 07/09/09
Added some pictures of the first cavalry greens for the Polemarch Successor range. These are Tarantine & Ptolemaic sets and can be seen
here.
Also now available Thorakites Command & Warriors, Settlor Command & appropriate unit deals PLUS starter armies. All these available here.
Thorakite Officer here painted by chum Darrell Hindley.

NOW AVAILABLE - TWDC Battalion Command 30/07
Added the TWDC Empire & Ottoman Battalion commands. These are now ready to buy. They will be making their show debut at Claymore this weekend along with the new GB Black Hoods which you can find in the Medieval Russian section, which are also now available.

UPDATED 17/08/09 Just added a picture of the Ottoman Battalion Command.

Gallery Updates - Brian Phillips 30/06/09
Added some more pictures in the Brian Phillips Room in the Friends Of The Beast wing which feature more of his gorgeous Thematic Byzantines.

NEW Polemarch Packs Added 23/06/09
Added some new packs to the Polemarch Successors range: Thureophoroi Command Two, Seleucid Guard Command, Machimoi Commands One & Two plus added Unit Deals for Machimoi Line & Seleucid Guard. Available here.

NEW 'Worm/Snake' Fencing
New in from plastic kings Renedra, packs of 'Worm/Snake' fencing - 11 pieces, each about 8.5cm long. Available here.

All Quiet On The Evesham Front 29/06/09
Last weekend's All Quiet On The Evesham Front WW1 Great War event went very well - thanks to all who came and took part. Picture shows on the left British Major Dave discussing the posish with Private Soapy (middle) while a seated Kaiser Swiss prepares to sweep all before him and spearhead the German's advance to victory.
Tea & Medals provided by chums Dave at Grand Manner, Nick Northstar & Rob 'Scarab' Broom. Latrines dug of course by TWDC.

Newly Painted Russians 08/04/09
Click on the link for a bigger picture of our newly painted Druzhina cavalry. Painted by Mystic Spirals.
Individual packs available
here.
Loads of Russian Cavalry and Infantry unit deals available here.
Transfers & pennants used on the Russians available here and here.

NEW Islamic Horse Variants 23/03/09
We have five new Islamic horse variants and we will be shipping these with all ranges that use them. Here's one with a rider from ISC02 Seljuk Heavy Cavalry.

Coming To See Us At A Show?
The please read this important information about what we will be bringing with us. Thanks!

Ahoy There! 21/02/09
Now available, a new resin & metal boat kit suitable for Picts, Scots & Irish raider types. Comes with resin boat body & mast and metal parts (8 rowers, steersman, 8 oars, rudder.)

Available to buy individually or as a 3 boat deal here.

New Starter Army Deal Added 03/02/09
Brand new section added to the Product List! Look here for the first of many new £45 Starter Armies, all of which contain 2 core units, 4 character and one plastic base sprue with enough bases for the whole lot. These great value deals also contain all the necessary weapons & shields including spears!
For a larger picture of the Viking Starter Army Deal look here!
UPDATED 12/02/09! Two new El Cid Starter Armies added, one for the Moors & one for Christian Spain.

Trade Show News 21/01/09
Little Big Men Studios
We are pleased to announce that this year we will be the Official LBMS show rep. This means that we will be carrying the complete range of LBMS Shield Transfers & Banners*. These cover many manufacturers as well as our own ranges. Please note that this is Trade Shows only and the LBMS web-site is still the place to go if you wish to mail-order non-GB related transfers.

* Except those suitable for 1st Corps, Kingmaker and Curtey's miniatures. Mick and Simon will continue to stock these on the Curtey's stand.

VICTRIX & VALIANT plastic box sets
We will also have the complete range of Victrix plastic Napoleonic figures & the Valiant 1/72 WW2 plastics PLUS we will be the only trader with the exclusive Victrix metal figures which come with their multi-box deals (including the FREE pioneer with every Victrix purchase.) Please note, we will be carrying Victrix & Valiant to all shows EXCEPT Salute, where Julian & Steve will be there themselves. Please note that this is Trade Shows only and the Victrix and Valiant web-sites our still the place to go if you wish to mail-order these items



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!! 01/09/09
Added two new top blogs for your viewing pleasure - Paintshed by Steve Jones and Saxon Dog by David Imrie.... more detail

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

Beast On Tour - The last show of the year is....
...Warfare in Reading, Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd November. See you there.... more detail