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Victrix is a new company set up by Stephen Hales (Little Big Men Studios, Kingmaker Miniatures) and Julian Blakeney-Edwards (Valiant Miniatures and Kingmaker Miniatures).
Our first release due for release late summer are four boxed sets of 28mm hard-plastic British Napoleonic infantry.
VX0001 British Peninsular Infantry Centre Company
VX0002 British Peninsular Infantry Flank Company
VX0003 British Waterloo Infantry Centre Company
VX0004 British Waterloo Infantry Flank Company
Each set will contain 52 figures, and will provide gamers and modellers with a great range of useful poses comprising of firing, advancing, loading, marching and kneeling. We will also include officers, sergeants, standardbearers and drummers. However, best of all, we will provide numerous separate head and arm options that will allow an amazing amount of combinations and conversion possibilities.
We will also include 2 Regimental and Kings colours in each set. These will be different for each of the four boxes, and have been designed by Stephen Hales.
Each box will contain a simple set of exciting fast-play infantry rules written by Barry Hilton of the League of Augsburg. We intend to include both cavalry and artillery rules with future releases.
At present, all sculpting is complete, and we are at the pattern-making stage of the project.
Have a look at the website victrixlimited.com for more detailed information on the upcoming releases and our plans for the future of Victrix. There is also a Gallery section where you can view some earlier works-in-progress shots of the infantry. We will add more up-to-date photos in the next couple of weeks of the finished models, once we get them back from the pattern makers.
The website is a simple work-in-progress at present, but will evolve into a more visually pleasing experience over the coming weeks and months.
Julian will be at Partizan this weekend with his Valiant, Chiltern and Kingmaker ranges, and I will be helping him out on the day. So please feel free to come over and have a chat about the new ranges.