Olleys Armies was set up in october 2003 by Bob Olley and myself, Jackie. Bob does the sculpting and artwork and I do the website Moulds and castings made by Pete Brown and most recently by Griffin Moulds.
Freelance sculptor
Bob has been a freelance sculptor for 20 years and was a historical figurine painter before that. He first became interested in sculpting miniatures when he saw some of Citadel fantasy miniatures. Back then green stuff was unknown to us. So Bob’s first sculpts were in fimo, unfortunately they melted during the moulding process. Not a good start, but determination and a packet of newly discovered greenstuff won through.
Then sometime around the end of 2002. We had the mad idea to do it for ourselves. I can’t remember which of us had the idea and neither of us will own up now. Anyway, Bob started making the first minis. I bought a computer, learnt what a mouse was and how to write a website.
Part-time business
Olleys Armies is still only a part-time business for us, but despite the costs involved for moulds etc. And the limited time available due to Bob’s other freelance design work, the number of miniatures continues to grow.
Lastly, the unexpected bonus of the Olleys Armies website is that after all the years that Bob has been sculpting. He now gets to hear directly from the people who collect his miniatures, so thanks to everyone who’s got in touch.
Olleys Armies Ranges & details of their New Owners
MAXMINI
The New Owners of SF Ogre with 4 head variations and 3 arm weapon variations
Armorcast Terraform Terrain Ltd
The New Owners of Dwarf World Miniatures and Dwarf Pirates
Cavalcade Wargames
The New Owner of Minotaurs, Goblin Wolfriders and Samurai Orcs
Killer B Games
The New Owners of Scrunt Clean Up Squad
Stuart Cunningham
The New Owners of Scrobbits
Rattrap Productions
The New Owners of Human SF Commandos, Ghouls and Ghoul Bolt thrower
Wargames Supply Dump
The New Owners of Girls with Guns
Golgo Island
The New Owners of Aliens
Phantom Miniatures
The New Owners of Cave Troll, Mountain Troll and Human Ranger
Michael Thomas
The New Owners of Fantasy Dwarves, Titan Orcs,
Adam Carnall
The New Owners of Gravestones and Hellsbile undeads, shroud, poltergeist, ghosts and Grim reaper
Reaper Miniatures
The New Owners of Hellsbile Zombies
Tom Anders of Impact Miniatures
The New Owner of Puffy the Pompous Dragon
John Cappiello
The New Owner of Alice Meets caterpillar
Sam Wong AKA LUPUS
In Australia Now owns all rights to the following miniatures,
- Dog Cart
- Inquisitor Scrunts
- Psychic scrunts
- Shock Troop Scrunts
- Scrunt Elite Troops
- Scrunt Commando Troops
- Scrunt Regulars
- Scrunt Light Inf
- Shock Troop Machine Gun and Crew
- Shock Troop Dog handler
- Scrunties, Texan Scrunts
- Bob Olleys’ Nemesis Goblin sculpts
- The Thunderhawk Jetbike
- Scrunt Assault Stonker
- Judges Stonker/Legwalker
- Scrunty Flyer
- Psychic Mutant Flying Saucer
- Scrunt Bio Chamber with 3 Mutant Clones
- Mutant scrunts
- Psychic Mutant Trooper sets 1-5
- Tank Commanders and seated scrunts
- 14 Mutant Hunter scrunts
- 4 Scrunt Mutant Dog Handlers
Website Address: https://www.olleysarmies.co.uk/
Phone Number: 01208 623850
Fax:
Address: Olley’s Armies, R. Olley & J. Springall, 2 Celia Heights, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1EH, UK
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