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Jiggering About With Carthaginian Transfers 23/08
Steve at LBMS has made some adjustments to the way the Carthaginian/Libyan transfers are presented. There are now 4 sheets of 16 different designs per sheet and one sheet featuring 16 of the 'classic Carthaginian' design, and jolly nice they are too. Steve has reworked many of the designs as well as adding new ones to each sheet. The old, 4 design per sheet transfers are no longer available.
Take a look
here!

Additional Plastic Bases Added 19/08/10
Plastic kings Renedra have also just added some new options to their excellent range of precision cut plastic bases. New packs feature 25mm discs, large ovals and large rectangles (100mm x 50mm) both excellent for diorama or warmachines.
Have a look here!

NEW Discounted Unit & LBMS Transfer Deals.....
.....WITH FREE LIMITED LEADER TRANSFER!!
Available until Monday 13th September 2010 only.
For a limited time only you can buy a selected unit deal and transfers from the Arthurian, Byzantine, Early Saxon,Late Crusade and Viking ranges at a discounted price and get a FREE limited edition shield transfer for the unit leader. Take a look to see here which units are on offer.....

Tent-tastic New Release From Renedra 16/08/10
New from plastic kings Renedra we have 4 new tent sets - Bell, Ridge, Dog & a Mixed Set. Great value here.
We have also added to the range of fences here .

New Plastic Vikings & Transfer Deal Added 11/08/10
AVAILABLE UNTIL MONDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 2010 ONLY!!!
For a limited time only, you can get a box of our plastic Viking Hirdmen (44) plus the four different sheets of LBMS shield transfers suitable for the plastic shields (VIKP01, 02, 03 & 04; that's 48 transfers) plus A LIMITED RUN LBMS SINGLE VIKING SHIELD DESIGN with a metal shield to attach it to!
Head here right now to secure your deal...

New Late Roman Shield Transfer Design 11/08/10
New in from LBMS is this lovely battered Late Roman infantry shield design, available as sheets of 12 in Large & Small sizes here.



Musketeer Miniatures 03/08/10
Starting in earnest from 9th August 2010, Gripping Beast are proud to be taking over the day to day running of Musketeer Miniatures. We will be handling the production and sales duties (including shows) and this will free up Musketeer Bill to do what he does best - sculpt.
Bill's currently working on additional packs for his Goths, Caliphates and Inter-War period ranges after which he will be concentrating on his Great Northern War range. He is also planning a massive new range too!
Bill will be helping out on the GB stand at all the shows we attend this year so come along and find out what's what.

The Musketeer Miniatures ranges are:
Armies Of The Caliphates
Early Saxons (yes, more!)
Goths
Great Northern War Russians
Great Northern War Swedes
Early WW1 British
WW1 Russians
Inter-War period 1919-1939

Musketeer Miniatures are currently available online at Musketeer's website or you can call or email us here at Beast Towers. We will be migrating all to our web-site shortly.



Ragnar Lothbrok
Fantastic paint job by Mystic Spirals on a fantastic sculpt by Duncan Patten. Get him here...unpainted!

Making It Easier Part Two 27/06/10
We've added some deals to our Carry Bag & Foam Storage Tray section. These deals allow you to get our Carry Bag filled with the foam trays of your choice, all for at least 10% off. That's a saving of £7.00 against buying the bits. Of course the bag and trays are all available individually for those of you who just need, say, one or two trays or even those of you who refuse to pay the reduced deal price.....
Deals are here!.

Eric's Painted Vikings 09/06/10
Chum Eric Bonsell has just sent us a few pics of his painted plastic Viking Hirdmen which we've added to his room in the Friends Of The Beast Gallery. Very nice. Visit Eric's room here and scroll to the bottom. Bet you can't do it without getting distracted by all his other loveliness.....

Making It Easier 27.05.10
To make things easy for our new unit-based army-deal (see Pick Your Own Army Deal below,) we've decided to bring all our unit deals into line regarding pricing and figures per pack.
This means that all unit deals inc Polemarch nowl have 24 foot or 10 cav and cost £25 per unit.

Pick Your Own Army Deal 27.05.10
We have added an army deal here which allows you to pick any four unit deals from across any of our ranges (choices do not have to be restricted to one range.) We will then add a suitable Army General and Army Standard Bearer plus 8 skirmishers for FREE.
All you have to do, once you have hit the buy button and completed the transaction, is send us an email with your name and order number as the title and tell us which four units you would like. Also let us know which army you would like your FREE miniatures for - this is important as you can pick any four from the many on offer. EG Republican Hastati x 2. Viking Hirdmen x 1 and Teutonic foot x 1.

Look At This! 25/05/10
Chum Mark 'Over Open Sights' Hargreaves has sent us some pictures of quite spectacularly painted Woodbine figures. Have a look at his room in the Friends Of The Beast Gallery here.

And there's more!! 25/05/10
Chum Tom Weiss has also sent us some amazing painting, in his case of Vikings. Check out his room here.

Three and One
Here is a picture of one of the 'Three-Up' masters along with the same pose made from the new Viking plastic box set. Click here for a closer look or here for a different pair.
The plastic Vikings are now available here.

Plastic Fantastic UPDATES 18/05/10
For a page of general 'stuff' about the plastics (including pictures of the sprues etc) take a look here.
UPDATED - Added some conversions using only parts from the plastic Viking sprue, a few wire spears and a sharp knife!
Also Chum of The Beast Mike Collington has sent us a picture of a rather nice Viking he has put together and painted.
UPDATED 18/05 - Added painted example of the axeman conversion (as seen here) PLUS a painted standard bearer made from parts straight off the sprue.

Bondi Starter Army Deal Added 10/05/10
Contains 20 Bondi (inc command), 20 more Bondi (inc command), 4 characters, all appropriate weapons & shield (INCLUDING SPEARS!) PLUS one of our new plastic base sprues with enough bases for 44 men.
Saves £6.50 on retail value and available here.

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

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.



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

Ordering Info
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Beast On Tour - The next show is....
....The Other Partizan, Kelham Hall, Newark, Notts. Sunday 5th September 2010. ... more detail


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