Victrix 28mm hard plastic figure sets
Victrix manufacture 28mm hard plastic British and French Napoleonic figures. Buy direct online, quality Waterloo or Peninsular war miniatures. We also have 54mm British and will be adding French soon. To date we have 11 plastic boxed sets including Highlander, Grenadier Guard and British Napoleonic Foot Artilery. The plastics are fully backed up with a full range of metal figures and flag sheets.
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We are pleased to announce the release of our Early Russian Dragoons 1805-1808, and Russian Musketeer Firing line 1805-1808
These were sculpted by the ever employed and talented Paul Hicks! who has sculpted all of our metals. He has done an outstanding job on the Dragoons with a lovely attention to detail, character and dynamism. Each of the trooper packs comes with six separate arm variants to add a real sense of individuality to your Dragoon units. We have added a Dragoon deal to the shopping cart so you can get these wonderful figures at nice discount.
Adding to our ever expanding range of Early Russians we have a Musketeer firing line. These figures are full of action with every one an individual, you can really create those stolid lines of Russians for the French to break themselves upon. We have added a line battalion deal 2 to the shopping cart for you to buy your firing lines at a good price.
The Russian army deal and Infantry Brigade deals can have any of these new packs included in them. When ordering just let us know by email or telephone if you want to swap Cuirassiers for Dragoons, or Firing line for Marching packs.
We have been adding some images to the product categories on the shopping cart. You can now view some painted examples of virtually all of our sets and metals.
Below are some examples of painted units of our New Austrians, painted by Ian Clark and Andrew Taylor.
Austrian Infantry 1789-1809
Austrian Grenadiers 1789-1815
Austrian Infantry 1806-1815
Austrian Landwehr 1808-1815
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There is no doubt that the internet has slowly but surely undermined the specialist model and hobby shops over the past few years. However, all is not lost for those that still like to make a personal trip to their local model and hobby shop. The retail chain, W Boyes & Co Ltd, have recognised that every high street needs a specialist model and hobby outlet and have decided to run a pilot scheme in a select number of their larger stores. This pilot will see a considerable amount of shop space being dedicated to a plastic modelling and hobby department, with kits, figures, paints and modelling equipment available for purchase.
The Victrix team are delighted to announce that W Boyes & Co Ltd will be selling the full range of Victrix plastic figure sets in 6 of their shops across the East Midlands and North of England. The 6 W Boyes & Co Ltd shops that will initially be carrying Victrix products are:
York - Victrix products available from Thursday 28th July 2011
Ilkley - Victrix products available from Thursday 4th August 2011
Arnold - Victrix products available from Friday 5th August 2011
Bridlington - Victrix products available from Thursday 11th August 2011
Scarborough - Victrix products available from Thursday 4th August 2011
Billingham - Victrix products available from Thursday 11th August 2011
If the pilot scheme is successful W Boyes & Co Ltd could potentially open "in house hobby departments" in 41 shops across the Midlands and the North of England. If you would like to see a return to the high street of a dedicated modelling and hobby retail outlet please get down to your local W Boyes & Co Ltd store and support this noble venture.
If you have any questions about this new venture please feel free to call or e mail Victrix through the contact details in the contact us page.
Our new plastic Austrian sets are getting ever closer to being released..
We now have some of the first plastic test shots of the infantry frame wearing helmets. The majority of positions are for marching figures but if you wish you can make some other poses such as firing and advancing etc... You can see a few of those poses illustrated below.Andrew Taylor and Darren from Gripping Beast are painting a few up for us at the momment so we will have some painted samples to show next week. Also we are eagerly expecting to get test sprues of the command frame later this week. We will show you those as soon as they come in.
Once we have tests of all the 4 sets we will be putting them on pre-order, so not long to wait now!
Each box contains 56 figures. 48 infantry, 2 officers, 2 drummers, 2 standard bearers and 2 lovely mounted colonels. The infantry can all be in marching poses but we do have some arms to enable you to make some figures, firing, loading and advancing with levelled musket or at porte. Most of the figures are easy to assemble so you can get your units built quickly, however we have added a few extras to add some individuality and character to your miniatures so they don’t look like production line robots!
Austrian infantry 1798-1809
These are the classic looking Austrians that most people think of when envisaging Austrians of the Napoleonic wars. Wearing the helmet with yellow and black crest.
The helmet was officially replaced in 1806 by the shako. However as in most armies of the Napoleonic wars equipment was replaced slowly. Many Austrian infantry, possibly more than half continued to wear the helmet in 1809 and some time after.
Austrian Grenadiers 1798-1815
Grenadiers were part of the Line regiments, however they were mostly brigaded to together in combined Grenadier battalions. These proudly wore their distinctive fur mitres and moustaches.
Austrian infantry 1806-1815
This set depicts the Austrian infantry from the 1806 reforms wearing shakos. These can happily fight alongside helmeted Austrians up to 1809 and a bit after.
Austrian Landwehr 1808-1815
The Austrian Landwehr came into being in 1808 and were present in large numbers during the Wagram campaign. They were the distinctive Corsican style hat. Looking a bit like a top hat crossed with an Australian bush hat! The Landwehr wore many varied colour schemes and will add a nice uniform change to your armies if you want to break up the white ranks a bit. The Hat decorations were many and varied from regiment to regiment. We could not cater for all hat decoration styles. However we will include uniform guides to enable to you alter the hat decorations simply by cutting bits off or cutting off pompoms and gluing elsewhere on the hats.
We have included 2 types of backpack in the sets. The first type has a bayonet attached. The second type has a bayonet and sword. This is due to the fact Grenadiers and some Landwehr carried swords and bayonets, whilst the ordinary infantry simply carried a bayonet. The backpack has the water-bottle, bayonet and cartridge box attached. This enables a greater level of detail on these items and prevents undercut issues. They are very easy to glue on with no tiny parts.
And finally in each set there will be 2 flags. The regimental flag and colonels flag. There will be the 1792, 1804 and 1806 patterns. The earlier 1792 pattern was used by some units up to 1815. We will also be producing some extra flag sheets sold separately.
We will also be producing a range of metals to support our plastic sets. More on those later
Victrix are delighted to announce that Warlord Games will now carry the complete Victrix range, plastic sets, metal figures and regimental flags, around the UK and European show circuit.
If you are attending a show and there is a specific Victrix product you require please e mail paul@warlordgames.co.uk to make sure it is in stock.
Please check the news page to find a list of shows that Warlord Games will be attending.
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Stephen Hales & Julian Blakeney-Edwards
Victrix Limited
