Gripping Beast

Welcome To The Beast's Lair!

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

PREVIEW - New TWDC Greens 29/06
"Right 'ere you lot! Move yerselves across to the TWDC preview page and 'ave a butchers at the forthcoming Empire Battalion Command (plus a few other bits,) all sculpted by Private Soaps. Come on now, toot sweet!"

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.

Hot Lead'09 on Sunday 12th July 2009
Some spaces are still open for Hot Lead, our traditional summer WAB event. Act fast as they will not last long. For details go here!

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.

SciFi Marines - New Photos 28/04/09
Just uploaded some new pictures of Robi Baker's SciFi Marines painted by Mystic Spirals. Take a look here.

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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