Forged in Battle manufactures of miniatures for wargamers.
Our “Battle Ready System” cuts the time from opening the box to playing your first game down to the bare minimum. Resin bodies - All vehicle hulls/bodies plus wheels and/or tracks are cast on a base in a single resin piece. This eliminates many of the problems of traditional white metal kits. - squashing, - tapering, - ovalisation, - mould lines, - flash and - poor fit of parts. We believe our models are the most accurate and best proportioned on the market.
Forged in Battle made for War! Or at least Wargaming. Established in 2007 Forged in Battle (FiB) grew steadily, becoming a major supplier of 15mm WWII tanks and miniatures.
In 2014 we took FiB to Kickstarter, the crowd funding website. This is where we experienced a massive explosion in the growth of the company. Our War & Empire range grew from six armies, to over twenty. Throughout the course of a year we designed, sculpted, moulded and manufactured over half a million miniatures!
Who are we?
Andy Cooper
Head of Design and MD at Forged in Battle. Andy has a whole lot of experience in the miniatures business, having worked within the industry for over thirty years. One of the best commercial sculptors, Andy has worked for many companies over the years and Forged in Battle is the culmination of all his experience. FiB is his baby.
Wendy Cooper
General Manager MD. Wendy runs the business, no small task looking after everything and staying sane.
Andrew Rawling
Straight line Modeller/Sculptor and Chief Mould Maker. Andrew makes our extraordinary tanks and equipment.
Forged in Battle Staff
Martin, Lee, Dave and Chris, without these guys there would be no toys at all.
Unit 201
Waterside Mill
Tanner Business Centre
Greenfield
Oldham
OL3 7NH
Little Big Men Studios produce thousands of different transfer sheets for you to choose from in 28mm, 20mm, 15mm and 10mm sizes. I cover periods from Ancient to Medieval to Napoleonic covering shields and flags.
The work I do is extremely detailed and combines history and artistry in miniature. The range is expanding all the time with new designs appearing nearly every week. Sometimes I do forget to put transfer images on the website so if you know I make something for a manufacturer but can’t find it please let me know.
My name is Stephen Hales and I own ‘Little Big Men Studios’. The company was started in April of 2004 initially as a painting service. The transfers were created to help me with my painting commissions, but as time went by the transfers took up more and more of my time and became my main business. The painting commission side of LBMS is no more as I simply don’t have the time to paint due to the great success of the transfers.
Before LBMS I was a film and computer animator, but have been interested in History and war-gaming since I was seven years old. Finally becoming disillusioned with others controlling my creativity I decided to start LBMS. This has been the best decision I could have made as it has given me the chance to be my own boss and to be creative within my favourite subject matter, which is history. It gives me great pride to receive messages from satisfied customers who have really enjoyed using the transfers over the years and I must thank a lot of my regular customers for making this a very pleasant job.
The range is so large now I have lost count, but must run into the thousands! in 28mm, 15mm, 10mm and 1/72nd scales. My design time has become less due to the pressures and time constraints of sorting customer and trade orders. So the designs I do are for the more popular periods and ranges rather than the more esoteric.
I work closely with Victrix limited working on the design of the plastic figure ranges. I produce a very large range of transfers for Victrix but they are only sold via the Victrix Website.
Steve
Little Big Men Studios
51 Highfield Terrace
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 6EE