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New Miniatures at Gen Con Indy
Hydra Miniatures is very excited to introduce three new pre-release miniatures at Gen Con Indianapolis from August 14th-17th. Our entire product range will be sold by our good friends Dark Platypus Studios --booth #2553 in the Exhibitor Hall. These pre-release figures will be available in very limited quantities at Gen Con and should be officially released in late September or early October 2008:
Comet, Galacteer chimp sidekick ($3.50)
Destroyer Warbot with double pulse cannons ($15.50)
Heavy support Legionnaire with pulse cannon ($6.75)
In addition to these previewed miniatures, our next release will hopefully include Dr. Deiter Zahn (Galacteer Science Officer), Simon-6 (Galacteer robot) and the minibots (Robot Legion.)
Enjoy the Con!
Saurian Idol Returns!
Good News!
The new and improved Saurian Idol has returned to the Hydra Miniatures online store. In addition, our Thrilling Expedition bundles that contain the Saurian Idol have also been reintroduced. In order to achieve high-quality castings, we outsourced our resin casting operations. The new castings are amazing--absolutely perfect with no bubbles or seams. Seriously, these are the cleanest castings we've ever seen! However, these high-quality castings cost Hydra Miniatures more to produce so we have raised the price on our Saurian Idol castings to $6.00 each.
Make the Saurian God happy--buy a Saurian Idol today!
War Rocket Update
We have really high standards of quality at Hydra Miniatures and we've had some technical difficulties getting clean castings of the rockets. We've resolved the problems and development is picking up steam. Our summer 2008 release date was a little overambitious and the project will take a little longer to "do it right."
In the meantime, here's a link to a posting on our blog where you can read more and see photos of some WIP models at hydraminiatures.wordpress.com
Thanks for your interest. We promise that this game and miniatures will be "top notch!"
Origins Game Fair and Vacation Notice
We are pleased to announce that our products will be available for sale at the 2008 Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio from June 25-29th. You can purchase our products from Dark Platypus Studios at Booth #70. Also, don't forget to check out their Bendy Dungeon Walls which are nominated for an Origins award this year!
Also, we will be taking a much needed two week family vacation from Saturday, June 28th to July 12th. I'll be checking e-mail regularly, but any orders placed during this time will be processed once we return. If you need our products more quickly, try ordering from Recreational Conflict, Michigan Toy Soldier, or Miniaturicum (in Germany.)
During our break, I hope to have some sculpting time to finish some sculpts of new robots, new Vardu, some Rog dinosaur men and new Galacteers.
Finally....New Releases for June
After numerous delays, we are very pleased to unveil our latest releases:
Primal Dawn: 30mm Prehistoric Fantasy
| Kithix Hunter (large, clawed insect creature) | $13.50 |
| Kithix Hunter Unit (3 Kithix hunter models) | $36.00 |
Retro Raygun: 30mm Pulp Sci-fi
In addition, we are extremely pleased to announce that Miniaturicum has been named our official convention representative in Germany. Our products have proven to be extremely popular with German gamers and we are confident that Miniaturicum's proprietor Michael Funk will help to attract new Hydra fans by promoting our products at German gaming conventions. Our previous releases are currently available on the Miniaturicum online store, and new releases should be available for German customers in 2 weeks. Visit the Miniaturicum website at http://www.miniaturicum.de/
Finally, work is slowly progressing on development of War Rocket. The initial digital prints resulted in castings that were very low quality. These technical issues have been resolved and the latest figures exceeded our high standards of quality. We hope the next few spaceship designs will be completed more quickly. We will release some preview photos in a few weeks.
Enjoy the new releases!
New 'Lost World' Products for March
We have a very small catalog update this month. First, we have added the new supplement Thrilling Expeditions from Rattrap Productions. This exciting rulebook is packed wtih info for Lost World gaming and can be used with all three of their game systems--.45 Adventures, Gloire, and Fantastic Worlds.
We are also introducing the first item in our new range of resin scenics. Our first product is a Saurian Idol and depicts a carved stone statue of a reptilian god with human skulls piled on its altar--perfect for those Lost World scenarios.
In addition, check out our two new Thrilling Expeditions special offer bundles. For a limited time you can save up to 15% when you purchase the Thrilling Expeditions rulebook, Saurian Idol, and Ugg spearmen together. The deals can be found on our Rulebooks section of the store
Finally, we are putting the finishing touches on a large batch of figures for our Retro Raygun and Primal Dawn ranges. Expect a big release in mid-April.
War Rocket--New Game Planned for Summer 2008
Our 32mm pulp sci-fi figures have proven wildly popular and we are currently working on more pulp sci-fi goodies. In addition, we are extremely excited to announce our upcoming product War Rocket-- the game of pulp sci-fi space combat. The rules are being designed by master painter Dave Pauwels and will focus on the smaller spaceship missions that are the mainstay of pulp sci-fi comics such as Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, or Dan Dare. War Rocket is designed to be a fun and fast, mission-centered game in which each player controls no more than a dozen sparking, buzzing rocketships.
The miniatures are being created by veteran 3D designer Phil Beauchamp and the masters are being output using a 3D printer. Metal castings are made from these resin masters and the detail on these models is incredible. The scale of the rockets is approximately 1:285 (6mm) and most spaceships will be 1 to 3 inches long. However, we'll be designing larger battleships that will be 4-5 inches long.
Currently there are four factions in development: Galacteers (Galactic Space Patrol), Imperial Forces of Marduk the Tyrant, Zenithian saucer-men, and Space Pirates/Marauders. The two ships in the illustration above are from the Galacteer faction.
Stay tuned for more War Rocket information!!!
Hydra Miniatures Announces Convention Representative
Hydra Miniatures is pleased to announce that Recreational Conflict is now our official convention representative and will be selling our products at major U.S. gaming conventions, including Fall-In, which is held in Gettysburg , Pennsylvannia, from November 9-11, 2007 . Convention gamers will now be able to see our extremely popular 30mm Retro Raygun and Primal Dawn ranges in the “flesh” before they buy.
Recreational Conflict is a relatively new company that specializes in products from many small and upcoming game companies. Their goal is to expose gamers to many interesting products from the “little guys” in our hobby. In addition to being the official U.S. convention representative for Hydra Miniatures, Recreational Conflict also represents Tiger Miniatures, Rebel Minis, and The Virtual Armchair General. Recreational Conflict also carries a large stock of painted figures, handmade terrain, and loads of collectible miniature game singles. Visit their growing website at http://www.recreationalconflict.com. Recreational Conflict will be attending Fall-In 2007 at booth 42, which is next to Crusader Miniatures USA and across the aisle from Dayton Painting Consortium.
Pre-order Fantastic Worlds with Limited Edition Figure
We are pleased to announce that we are taking pre-orders for the Fantastic Worlds pulp sci-fi rules from Rattrap Productions. Everyone who purchases a copy of the Fantastic Worlds rules will receive a free limited ediiton miniature of Buster Gordy, savior of the universe (shown below.)
The miniature is a collaborative project from sculptors Matt Beauchamp and Scott Francek. A few details still need to be finished before the miniature can sent to the caster. Pre-orders will begin shipping during the first week of November 2007.
Fantastic Worlds and the very popular .45 Adventure series of pulp rulebooks from Rattrap Productions can be purchased from our online store here.