4Ground wargames model buildings and Accessories. 10mm Jesserai Sci Fi. Furniture and Belongings. Basing and Gaming Aids. Unpainted Terrain.

Eighteen months in and we are happy to say lots of gamers and model makers now rate our work as amongst the best that’s available. We have always hoped to design and produce at our best so it is great so many of our customers feel this way.

There have been a few changes, actually rather a lot, but all for the good. Holly is taking some time out with the birth of her son but hopes to be back on the team this time next year.

Cad came on a year ago

Cad came on a year ago as part time but is now full time support for retailers and especially support for gaming clubs. (so if you’re an active and inclusive club looking for our help and support Cad’s the man you need to talk to). Cad also manages our Facebook, twitter and newsletter so any info you want him to share please let him know.

Warehouse distribution for 4Ground is now independent from Tymeagain's ‎ main warehousing and this is managed full time by the very able Carrie. (who came over from Tymeagain after eight years there). So when your order was packed. (both for retail and mail order). Carrie and her little team did the packing and did their utmost to make sure you got what you ordered and it was dispatched as soon as possible. (please remember we always say even for UK customers please allow 10 working days for your order to be dispatched).

Tank he’s the man with the plans

Then there is ‘Tank’ he’s the man with the plans, Tank is our laser production supervisor. Tymeagain started 4Ground with two 85 watt industrial lasers and now we have five industrial lasers. (one 75 watts, two 85 watts and two 100 watts). Before we had this number of machines Tank and his small team had at times been working in relay shifts from 7pm Sunday right through. All week and nonstop, to Friday 7pm, that’s day and night just to keep up with demand for hundreds and thousands of our kits! Even now some weeks we have to have a few night shifts planed to keep up with demand. And as always it is Tank who is the most willing to do more unsociable hours than anyone else on the team.

The reason we are so busy is possibly because more and more people now know that in effect our pre-painted kits. (with 4Ground Base Paints). Are in effect almost two models in one. We include pre-painted outside walls and pre-painted inside walls in the same pack. Making a very robust and durable piece of gaming terrain. As Francis Parker one of our very first and still regular customers told us. 4Ground kits are so good once you have made your first you just want more. They are the best terrain buildings bar NON”; and even today. (18th May 2013). We got this from Ray Gillespie, a new customer after he got his first order from 4Ground. Just took delivery of my first 4ground kits today, the Whitechapel police station and warehouse...

I just cannot believe the quality of these kits

All I can say is WOW, I just cannot believe the quality of these kits. We have been making all sorts of kits from Plastic t Radio Controlled aircraft over the years and I can honestly say. I have never seen such quality in any format. I LOVE the pictorial instructions and the sprue checklist is brilliant, even down to including the pegs and rubber bands for construction. All in all guys you make brilliant products.

My initial thoughts on finding your site was that the kits were a tad expensive. However now I have seen the contents I don’t know how you manage this excellence for the price !. Suffice to say I will be buying tons more. As I need to purchase the rest of the Whitechapel range and then move on to the rest. You have one delighted and long term customer here, well done on a brilliant product.”

Finally we come to the work we have done with other companies. These are among the leading designers and manufactures in the wargames hobby today. And they came to us because they like what we do and the way we do it. We have lots more planned to do with other companies and even more we plan to do ourselves. (and not all is historical in nature). It looks like the next 18 months will be just as active and progressive for 4Ground. Laser cut wargmames buildings and terrain as the last 18 months have been. Thank you everyone for your interest and support for what we do.

Ben

December 2011.

I’m Adam and along with Ben and Holly we are your 4GROUND team at Tymeagain Ltd. Since 1994. We’ve been designing and making historically inspired items for a wide range of customers. (from ‘Bioware’ the motion capture team at EA games in British Columbia - to The British Museum in London). We’re best known for our historic toys, available at the likes of English Heritage and The National Trust.

4GROUND began because John and Paul over at Warlord Games had a special request for Tymeagain to design and make a model kit of Rorke’s Drift. They know we’re gamers and that a big part of what we do is design and produce laser cut items. They thought who better to design a gamers’ model kit than a couple of wargamers? So we designed the buildings we wanted. Buildings as part of the game and not just table accessories. We made options for holes in walls and maximum accessibility. Next we had to design the kit for others to be able to make it. Then we had to make hundreds and hundreds of kits and get them to Warlord Games. Before the release of their Anglo-Zulu range. Well we did all that and really enjoyed the project. Then we thought why not make other kits, and so 4GROUND started.

With two 85watt lasers to work on production

With two 85watt lasers to work on production. The big task for us is not how will we keep up with stock levels for orders to go out quickly. Our biggest task is which way do we go next. Do we make more historical, and if so which period, or do we go for futuristic or fantasy buildings. So if you have any ideas of what we should design next please contact us. The more people who ask for that special thing. The more likely we will make it, so if you see it here in 28mm and you want 15mm or 20mm. Maybe you want buildings and walls for your King& Country or Tom Gunn 60mm collection.

Personally, we game with miniatures, cards and board games so markers for all these types of games will be in the pipeline. If we don’t have the marker or counter you want for a game, just contact us. We’re also making bases and movement trays. With such large and fast, lasers, we can make these simple items less costly and pass the reduced costs on to you. We’ll be offering many at lower prices than are often found on Internet auction sites.

We’re happy to work with other manufacturers

We’re happy to work with other manufacturers, so maybe you want to add our kits to your range of products. Or add your stuff to our model kits (sandbags in windows etc). We don’t mind if you also design and make buildings. If you want to work with us and we can, we will. Have you a design for a laser cut component you want. Or would you like us to design a range of tokens or markers for a game or rule system you produce. Send us a short message at business enquiries with what you have in mind. We cut and etch/engrave in many materials (solid woods, ply-woods, MDF, HDF, laminates, acrylics - acrylic from 1.5mm to over 30mm thick) so if you have something that’s more than an initial idea let’s talk.

Most of 4GROUND’s products are available to retailers (a physical shop is not required for an account, but you must have already established your own mail order website). Contact us at business enquiries for all trade requests and tell us a bit about your business. At first this site will be thin on the ground with product, as long term quality and customer happiness, is more important to us than short term sales. Keep coming back and you’ll see we’re pro-active with developments.

Advanced Deployment provide laser cut and engraved gaming accessories, perfect for role playing, miniatures wargames and board games. Our products are designed and created in Washington State by a small team of three people. We’re gamers just like you, and we seek to produce quality products at a reasonable price.

We’re just a few nerds in the big sea of gamerdom, and we just can’t get our hands on everything out there.  Many of our products come from us pausing in the middle of a game and saying “You know, I wish I hade X thing.” Cue us scrambling for paper and pen to scribble out our ideas. But we don’t play everything, and we certainly cannot think of everything, we rely on our fellow gamers to come forward with ideas.
Advanced Deployment isn’t one of the “Big Guys,” we’ve always got time for our fellow gamers, and since we print on demand, no niche is too small for us. We’ll design tokens for the big popular games, right down to the indy games, or heck even for your home brew.

Who We Are

Ravyn

Ravyn is me, the originator of Advanced Deployment, I’m the artist, and creative director behind all those nifty tokens you see. I’m a graduate of WCC in Bellingham with a degree in Graphic Design, and am an avid gamer, playing both miniatures games and table top rpgs. I’m hugely fond of Warmachine and Dungeons and Dragons, though I’ve done my time playing Traveler, Warhammer and lots of board games! Oh yeah, I’ve been known to cosplay too. I live in beautiful Bellingham, WA with my husband and my four cats, I also run a reptile rescue in my spare time!

Dustin

Dustin is my husband, and the company’s go-fer. He is the self proclaimed El Presedente (for life) of Advanced Deployment, Production Money, and Director of Viral Marketing. Often in charge of packaging shipping, more often than not he can be found organizing the weeks orders, and usually he can be found running to the store to pick up that one thing I forgot…again. He’s also the guy I bounce all my ideas off of. He tests the creations we build here, making sure they are up to good gaming standards.
He’s working on a degree in Electronic Technology, so this has some awesome prospects for future products for Advanced Deployment.

Kevin

Kevin is my father and the master of the laser. He is in charge of creating the layouts we use, and tweaking designs until they are just right. He’s also the person who sits there and hand cleans the over-burn off of every token that comes out of here.
He’s a Army veteran, and when not doing my bidding at the laser, he’s usually found tinkering with his Datsun 260Z.

Mission Statement

Or: How our first attempt at terrain taught us everything we needed to know about ourselves.

Hi guys! I'm Dustin, the other face of Southpaw, along with my wife Ravyn. I'm a long time nerd and gamer, and that's how I think of myself first and foremost. This whole business thing got started when I asked Ravyn if I could get some custom tokens out of the design shop, she said “Sure! We can make something cool for you” and ever since then we haven't bought off the shelf. That got us thinking that if we liked playing with custom labeled and uniquely designed tokens maybe other people would as well. After all, if we're going to put in the time converting, painting and customizing every aspects of our models, why would settle for generic tokens?

We cranked out what worked for us and it turned out quite a few other people liked them as well. Business was good, and that got us thinking some more. Maybe we could make terrain as well! We've had mixed luck finding a local gaming store that had decent terrain and found ourselves needing something quick and easy that we could layout fast and get playing. We tinkered around a bit, knocked out a set and kept going. Again with the idea that if we could use it, maybe someone would want it as well.

But as it turns out while some people liked what we created, not everyone did. We're not annoyed about it, our tastes and needs aren't what everyone wants. This is a good thing, and made us realize that we were starting to fall into the same business pit trap we had just pulled ourselves out of: mainly other people trying to tell gamers what we should and shouldn't be playing with. That was the last thing we wanted to be as a company, our whole goal is to produce things people actually want, not something they have to settle for.

Which is where you guys come in. We know what we like because we play these games. But we're not you. We don't know what you want. But we want to! Because its just the two of us, we can make what you want if you tell us what that is. We're not beholden to any shareholders or anyone demanding a bottom line. Its just us. If we make something that you want, great! Glad it works for you. But if we roll something that doesn't work, let us know. We'll hit the lab again and try to make something that is what you need.

Keep giving us feedback and we'll work to make sure that you get tokens, tools and terrain that you like. Not what some corporate office thinks you need, but products designed by gamers to be easy to use, cheap to get and durable enough to hold up to a weekend con of packing, unpacking, drops and getting stepped on. We don't have any ego about our products, we just want to make stuff that makes gaming better. To that end, keep the emails and forum posts coming, we try to read everything that's out there so we can continue to improve and innovate. We truly do appreciate all the feedback we've gotten and none of what we do would be possible without you guys.

Aftermath is a miniatures and wargames figure painting service of Richard and Isaac Turton established in 1993 UK. Richard has been painting wargaming toy soldier miniatures as a full time professional ever since, providing a painting service to the highest standard. Most of Aftermath Miniatures work is commissions as part of our professional miniatures and wargames figure painting service.

We specialise in painting large historical and fantasy armies 6mm, 15mm and 28mm, dioramas and large vehicles as well as individual miniatures of all scales.

New painted wargaming figures and miniatures are are regularly added to our shop to buy and our gallery’s are regularly updated with new pictures of painted wargaming figures and miniatures.

Alionas Miniatures has been in business since 2001. We offer a large assortment of miniatures and scenery. Our products are for people who like to collect miniatures, role players, history buffs, science fiction fans, any anyone who likes board games.

For the players we offer our own game system with a complete Fantasy world. The rules are suitable for Wargames and Roleplay. .

We also offer a professional painting service.

Landscape Architectural Miniatures (AMSI Stuff). AMSI has been in business manufacturing miniature landscaping materials for over sixty years.