Essex Miniatures Australia is distributor for the following companies which are listed alphabetically.

Britannia

C in C Miniatures

Dixon Miniatures

Essex Miniatures

Front Rank Figurines

Hovels

Redoubt Enterprises

Tin Soldier Figurines

Veni Vidi Vici

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

Miniature Flags for Historical Miniature Gamers and Collectors. Complete 10mm Game System and Products for the Napoleonic Wars (La Petite Armée) and American Civil War (LPA:ACW, Limited Edition).

If you have been thinking of getting into war gaming the Napoleonic period, you’ve probably been overwhelmed by the questions, choices, and amount of information and advice out there.  What scale of figures?  What level of command when choosing the rules, and then which of the dozens of rules available do you use?  How and where do I get the terrain?  Will I be able to find an opponent who has made the same decisions I have?

The decisions may seem endless and daunting to a new gamer so I have created the LPA Complete 10mm Napoleonic System.  It is just what it claims to be – COMPLETE! – a ready to play game right out of the box.  It’s not like some “complete” starter sets that give you a couple of bags of unpainted miniatures a set of rules and a couple of paper buildings.  Each LPA Complete 10mm Napoleonic System comes with two painted 10mm armies, one French and your choice of a British, Russian, Prussian, or Austrian army as an opponent – over two-hundred figures and guns already mounted on flocked, magnetic movement stands and metal magnetic brigade stands with the appropriate national flag.  You also get all the terrain you need to set up an attractive 3’x2’ battlefield including three 2’x1’ battleboards, six hills, eight buildings, twenty trees, four fields, four stone wall sections, four sections of hedges, one stone bridge, and material for roads and rivers – and everything is already painted and/or assembled.  You get a set of rules, La Petite Armée, with reference cards, markers, casualty caps, and markers – even dice and rulers.  And everything comes packed complete in a handy, portable box for easy transport.  And you don’t have to worry if someone else has the same scale figures or plays the same rules.  Since each game is complete, all you need is an opponent ready to play.  Games with the basic set, representing a Corps of 15,000 plus men on each side, can be played to completion in 2-3 hours.

Many of my customers have purchased just the basic game system and fought dozens of enjoyable battles over the years without every feeling the need to expand what they have.  Others have added additional games, armies, terrain, etc, to fight the size battles they are looking for.  I myself have the equivalent of four games worth of terrain and over 2300 figures in my set.  It is up to you. If any of these apply to you, then welcome to the world of Le Petit Armée Complete 10mm Napoleonic System. This system is designed to provide you with one-stop shopping when it comes to your Napoleonic gaming needs. LPA is based upon a set of rules of the same name, and every item you need to play using those rules can be obtained using this system.

And LPA is not just for gamers new to the Napoleonic period.  I myself have been gaming for over thirty years and many of my customers are also experienced players who have been attracted by the smaller scale, easy to learn and play rules, and overall look of the LPA system.