Gripping Beast

Welcome To The Beast's Lair!

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

We're off to Vapnartak in York This Weekend...
.....so the workshop will be shut until late afternoon Monday 8th Feb. The web-site will still be open to take orders and we'll deal with all your emails as soon as we get back. If you're going to York, pop by and say hello.

New Cavalry Starter Army Deals Added 31/01/10
The Starter Army deal section now contains a numebr of Cavalry Starter Deals. These deals contain two 10 figure cavalry units (including commands), all appropriate weapons & shields (inc spears!) plus 20 of the 25x50mm plastic bases, all for £47. Bargain. Have a look here for the initial selection, more to follow.

Hey Nonny Nonny UPDATE!! 23/12/09
Well, they're here at last! We have just added the morris for general sale. Go here for hey nonny nonny.

New TWDC packs are here. UPDATE 05/02/10
The packs below have now arrived from the mould makers
BRIT08 Character Pack
TURK14 Character Pack Two
TWDCSP04 Armed Morris
All three will be available at the York show this Sunday Here's painted master spins of part of BRIT08 and TURK14.
Now available in the relevant TWDC sections

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

NEW Successor Cavalry here! 18/12/09
The first six packs of Successor cavalry are now available here. We have Antigonid Companion, Ptolemaic Companion & Neo-Tarentine command and trooper packs.
We've also added some unit deal packs here.

Turkish Delight 17/12/09
Added photo of the painted Ottoman Battalion Command TURK13. Yum. It's here.

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

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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