1st Corps is owned by Brothers Simon and Michael Curtis. We have been wargaming and collecting for over 20 years and are fascinated by all periods.
Our aim is to offer products of the highest quality, detail and authenticity that are also great value and backed up by fast and friendly customer service.
Every figure comes complete with all the weapons, shields etc it needs.
Variation We try to put as much of it in our packs as possible our figure packs contain upto 8 different figures.
Command packs and standard packs all contain an even number of figures, no more annoying missing or left over figures.
We cast all our products here in Yorkshire in lead free pewter.
We live in Snaith, a small rural market town located 20 miles south of York in the north of England.
Simon- is the full time member of the team. He does the mold making, casting, dispatch and is responsible for some of the figures you can see on this site. . When not busy with that lot he likes going to the cinema, having a pint and game of darts down at the local hostelry. He also enjoys being taken for a walk by his golden retrievers, Rebel and Cadet
Michael- is also responsible for many of the painted figures on the site as well as product planning and dispatching orders. Mick swears he has no time for anything else! But we know he likes to travel and have a beer down the local hostelry playing darts, and has even been seen down the local gym the next day trying to make amends!
3 The Parkway
Snaith, Near Goole
East Yorkshire
DN14 9JN
A&A Miniatures, manufacturers of 28mm metal miniatures for wargamers and collectors. We currently produce a large selection of figures for the Ancient Period including. All the figures have been sculpted by Adam Smith.
Sassanid Persians
Carthaginians
Numidians
3rd Century Romans
Spanish, Celts
Samnites
Everything is available to buy online using your Credit / Debit Card also PayPal account through our secure Shopping Cart. Or you may send a cheque or Postal order (address available on request)
All the figures have been sculpted by Adam Smith.
Bangor
Down
BT19 6WT
Agema Miniatures is a small firm of avid amateur historians and passionate wargamers. Comprised of Greg and Rita, Agema aims to bring you some of the best and most comprehensive wargaming figures in 28mm hard plastic and metal available.
As a fan of ancient history, Greg has always been wowed by large tables full of fantastic miniatures that really capture a sense of the drama of ancient conflicts. Having cut his teeth on Tony Bathʼs Ancient Wargaming, he progressed to WAB and recently to Hail Caesar!, at each iteration of rules wishing for a range of figures that fully gave justice to the great games being played and the epic conflicts they represent. As for Rita, she also loves history, but is still a novice to wargaming. Instead of playing out the battles on the table, she prefers to paint them. Rita is behind the graphics on this website.
With the advent of high quality plastic figure production, Greg decided that if you want something doing, you have to do it yourself! Plastic gives the gamer the opportunity to build large scale armies relatively inexpensively, and with advances in production techniques, at a quality to rival many metal ranges. Thus the idea behind Agema Miniatures was born.
We have always loved the Hellenistic and Punic Wars – who could not be enthralled by the Herculean conflict between Carthage and Rome, Hannibal and Scipio! And weʼve always thought that the available figures for the period havenʼt really done it justice – certainly not in the field of plastics. So, we hope to redress that balance.
Starting with a small sprue of Roman Velites to establish our name and intent, we hope to progress through Legionnaires, to Carthaginian and Libyan troops, to Spaniards and Celts.
Weʼd love to hear your thoughts, recommendations, questions and advice, so feel free to drop us a line, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter. We hope youʼll join us for the journey!
Bath
BA2 1JQ
Aventine Miniatures produce 28mm white metal miniatures for the Struggle for Italy. All the figures have been sculpted by Adam Smith formerly of A&A.
We have been asked several times now Aventine got started.
Keith and Adam have known each other for around 35 years through the local war-gaming and modelling club in Belfast. When Keith was offered an early retirement he decided that he would like to make his hobby into a part-time occupation and contacted Adam to see if he could be tempted. The discussion was very brief and it was agreed, Aventine would be born on the 1st April 2009.
Since then it has turned from part-time into something a lot more and as we continue to add to the ranges it may well see an expansion with more bodies spinning lead.
Aventine Miniatures, where did that name come from…
It’s one of the seven hills of Rome. As both Adam and Keith are Roman fans it seemed appropriate and sounded good. We will be building our ranges to the theme “The struggle for Italy.”
Our first range was the LATE ETRUSCAN range which is available to buy in our shop along with our full range.
We will keep you informed of any new ranges we plan to release which will be listed in our shop once complete.
We have added a number of other ranges now, just hover over the Ranges button to see the full list.
All our figures have been sculpted by Adam who designed A&A’s 3rd Century Romans and Palmyrans. He has created a large number of differing figures to allow the gamer to produce distinctive individual units.
All our figures are made from Lead alloy and contain small parts, they are therefore unsuitable for children under 14.
Bangor
Northern Ireland
BT197ZY
Black Tree Design Ltd provides 28mm Hand Made Metal Models for Wargamers, Modellers, Collectors and Painters. Our goal is to bring the widest range of Miniatures and Hobby Accessories under one roof.
The Black Tree Design Command Staff brings to the table over 75 years in the Miniature and Gaming Field. Games Workshop, Marauder Miniatures, New World Computing, Harlequin Computing, Task Force Games, Tabletop Games, Fantasy Forge, Grenadier, Games Workshop US, to name but a few.
The Black Tree Design Range will be distributed by EOE. Black Tree Design manufactures an extensive range of 28mm Hand Made Models for Wargamers, Modelers, Collectors and Painters. Our WWII Range is one of the largest produced in the gaming market. We also have Ancients, Dark Ages, Feudal, Medieval, Zulu Wars, Romans and a large Fantasy Collection.
In order to serve our customers better, we have offices in both the US and the UK. From these locations we are able to supply efficiently to anywhere in the World.
Our goal is to provide the best possible Miniatures and Accessories at the best possible prices.
Miniatures and accessories for real Gamers and Enthusiasts
Crusader Miniatures are a UK based company making 28mm sized metal figures, all designed and sculpted by Mark Sims. The figures are designed for wargamers, miniature figure painters and collectors of model soldiers. Our ranges cover a huge expanse of history, from the armies of Alexander the Great to the British Tommies of World War Two. To explore further, click on the page links listed to the left.
Unit W37
Lenton Business Centre
Lenton Boulevard
Nottingham
NG7 2BY
Ebor miniature’s was set up in 2010 in the historic city of York, roman Eboracum with the invaluable help of Ian Kay of Irregular miniatures.
We at Ebor miniatures take great pride in supplying top quality figure’s at affordable prices, quality of service is also very important to us, all our order’s are inspected and packaged personally to ensure only top quality figure’s are dispatched.
Our ever growing range of First world war figure’s are sculpted by the very talented Bob Naismith,this range will cover all the major nation’s from 1914 through to 1918.
We are also working on a new range of figures for the war’s of the Spanish succession which we aim to have in our shop by November 2011.
Our longer term aims are to produce range’s for many different era’s which we hope will be greatly influenced by the input from as many customers as possible.
8 Tedder Road
Acomb,
York
YO24 3JB
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
22 Sydney Road
Hornsby Heights
2077
Australia
Essex Miniatures Ltd have been established for over 25 years and since then we have been proud to provide a prompt and efficient world wide service to all of our customers. We design and manufacture each of our 15mm and 25mm miniatures onsite at our factory store in Essex to a very high standard as well as stocking the latest and greatest games & rulesets and gaming accessories.
Unit 1 Shannon Centre
Thames Industrial Estate
Canvey Island
Essex
SS8 0PE
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
Stoke Hall
Church Lane, East Stoke
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG23 5QF