Fireforge Games company arose from the passion for wargaming, and you probably share that passion with us if you are reading this note.

We have a dream Which is the dream of creating the most beautiful and historically-accurate plastic miniatures in the world The kind of miniatures that we, as hobbyists, would like to own, assemble, paint, put on a gaming table with pride. And lead to victory in our gaming campaigns. Our dream is to create a complete gaming system, miniatures. And supplements that will allow you to enjoy infinite hours of hobby and entertainment.

Welcome to Fireforge Games, welcome to our dream.

Fireforge Games is an italian company focused on the creation and distribution of wargaming multi-part figures and rulebooks. In hard plastic and resin for historical and fantasy players.

We are all passionate and long-time wargamers and hobbyists, and this passion is the main ingredient behind our work.

Our mission is to give you, and ourselves, fun and entertainment with our figures and games.

First Legion Ltd makers of Napoleon's Europe 60mm Toy Soldiers and historical miniatures for collectors and wargamers alike. Please check out our latest ranges including World War II, The American Revolution, the American Civil War, The Age of the Samurai, Ancient Greece, The Anglo-Zulu War, The Crusades, the Franco-Prussian War, the Glory of Rome, Medieval Wars, The Renaissance, the Seven Years War , The Thirty Years War, Vietnam War, Vikings, WWI - The Great War, and The Wild West.

First Legion is truly a company of collectors for collectors. Prior to First Legion we were collectors of figures from various companies, but none of them seemed to fully be able to meet our collecting desires. We wanted superb quality, historical accuracy, and tremendous range depth to create the most intricate and accurate dioramas and wargames possible. The problem was that this simply did not exist, even across many different figure makers. It was because of this lack of suitable products that we decided we would go ahead and create our own company to make products how we feel they should be made. As such, we have a real passion for our figure ranges and take a great level of pride in everything we produce. We formed the company in 2007 and released our first products in 2008. Since that time we have released hundreds of figure sets, expanded into several new figure ranges, and have rapidly built a brand that has become synonymous with quality, detail, and historical accuracy. Simply put, our figures are widely regarded as the finest in the world and the best value in the price/quality matrix with a depth of figure ranges that is unparalleled. We truly hope you enjoy collecting and gaming with our products as much as we enjoy making them.

The philosophy of our company is to produce products of the highest quality at prices affordable to the average consumer. We aim to make products that we ourselves want to collect and we are and will remain our own greatest critics. We will continue to innovate and push the boundaries of the hobby forward, blurring the lines between traditional toy soldier collecting and master level diorama building. The concept behind all of our product ranges is simple: to emulate the quality of sculpting and painting found on the most discerning collector's figures coming out of Russia and offer them at a tiny fraction of the price. We hope that there are many out there like ourselves who crave figures with world class sculpting and true connoisseur painting and who want access to complete figure ranges but who simply can't bear to pay up to $150 for a foot figure or $500 for a single cavalry figure. Until First Legion came into being, this simply didn't exist. Now it does.

Our goal is to build a brand that is synonymous with quality and excellent customer service and as such, we'll do whatever we can to make sure you are completely satisfied with any product that has our name on it. So if you have any problems with an order or a product, please feel free to contact us and we'll do our best to rectify it as quickly as we can.

Flags of War is a small business that began in 2011. It began when I was painting some Covenanters and required some flags. After researching the period, I drew the flags I wanted using my laptop. When folk started to take interest in the flags I made and asking to purchase them I began a small website selling my new flags. Flags of War is now one of the most extensive miniatures wargame flag suppliers in the hobby.

All flags listed on the website are in 28mm heroic scale and supplied on high-quality paper to give the design details the crisp print they need. All of our flags can be supplied in 15mm, 18mm,20mm & 40mm scales.

FoW also offers a readymade flags service.

As time goes on the site gets bigger and bigger and we have formed some good relationships around the world with other gamers and Historical Miniatures sites where we supply them with flags for their products. If you wish to have flags made or stock our flags to accompany your own range please contact us.

I like to give gamers what they want so if you have some ideas about flags that you would like to see on the site and we will always do our best to get what you want.

Thanks

Iain

Foundry Miniatures Ltd manufacture the world's largest range of 28mm metal miniatures for gamers, collectors, modellers and painters.

Clifford Ansell was looking for an interesting retirement job that would keep him busy. Cliff had spent much of his life working in the mining industry (apart from a few years away with the Royal Navy in the 1940s) he ended up a mining engineer and an expert on mine safety, ventilation and dust suppression. In the 60s Cliff moved on to a second career as a maths teacher: he taught maths at Bishop Dunn Comprehensive in Nottingham.

Cliff's son was, and is, my father: Bryan Ansell who had made toy soldiers with Skytrex, Tabletop, Asgard and Citadel/Games Workshop. He ended up owning GW and was responsible for games like Warhammer Fantasy Battle, 40K, Space Hulk etc.

When Cliff announced that he was going to take early retirement, Bryan suggested that Cliff might like to have a go at manufacturing toy soldiers himself.

Cliff was already experienced in dealing with both stubborn Lancashire miners and wilful, disorganised children: so it was clear that the strange mindset of the confused denizens of the toy soldier industry would be absolutely no problem for Cliff to handle.

As it happened: this was the time when Citadel was starting to change from metal based models to their new "slotta bases", and also ceasing to make historical models. Bryan was able to set Foundry up with a number of discontinued ranges - Barons Wars and Wars of the Roses Medievals, Samurai and the Vikings, Normans and Saxons, Woodland Indians, Huns and Elizabethans initially (these had all previously served as Human forces in Warhammer Fantasy Battle for some years). Further hundreds of other Citadel models followed. We still make those models at Foundry today, though we cannot manage to have them all in stock at the same time.

Michael and Alan Perry sculpted almost all these models and were keen to continue sculpting historical models for their own painting and wargaming purposes, so they continued to sculpt new Foundry ranges for Cliff for quite some years. Alistair Morrison and Dave Andrews both contributed ranges too.

So, Foundry was up and running very quickly indeed. Cliff first had premises in Sherwood, then moved to a larger unit in New Basford. The upstairs in New Basford was taken by Alistair and Trish Morrison: who sculpted the Marauder range for Games Workshop up there.

For a long period, Foundry was making many master moulds and production moulds for Games Workshop whenever they found themselves with more moulds than they could handle. Over the years many ex Games Workshop staff worked for Foundry; most notably John "Bones" Ellard, "Ep" Epworth, Andy Pattinson, Kevin Adams, Colin Dixon and Shane Hoyle.

In 1991 my father left Games Workshop and went off to Guernsey for a decade or so. In Guernsey he had three children, restored four old houses (he does that wherever he goes: not the children, just the houses) started Guernsey Foundry and made Seven Years War, Old West, Pirates and Darkest Africa models these were mostly sculpted by Mark Copplestone. When he came back to England in 2000 he brought his ranges and a couple of the Guernsey staff with him, started restoring a house near Newark and took over running Foundry from Cliff. He produced more Seven Years War, Darkest Africa and loads more Old West, then Street Violence, Vikings, Gladiators, various Romans, 16th century Swashbucklers, huge ranges of Greeks and Macedonians, Fantasy and various odds and ends.

In 2005 my father left Foundry and went back to gardening and restoring houses.

We only re-entered the world of toy soldiers because my cousin Neil Littlewood went to work at Foundry for a while, and it became apparent that there were serious problems that needed sorting out. In the end we stepped in, and the Ansell family are running the factory again.

We have moved Foundry into the huge old Carriage Court alongside our house in East Stoke.

Cheers

Marcus

Frontline Wargaming manufacture various ranges of 15mm, 20mm and 25mm terrain, buildings, vehicles and figures suitable for many periods.

All furniture and vehicle ranges are now being produced in polyurethane resin, which speeds production and are more durable. I will still be using polyester resin for the larger scenery etc. The only downside is higher material cost therefore I have to put a price increase on these ranges.