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April 30, 2008 Latest news and gossip from Eureka Here at Eureka we receive a lot of emails and phone calls from people asking us what new products we have in the pipeline and what we are generally up to. So we thought we would post regular bulletins here on the website in attempt to keep you generally informed as to what is happening at ‘Fort Eureka’. So what’s new? Well, following on from the current additions to the 15mm AB Figures range, customers can look forward to a few new arrivals in our own Eureka range of 18mm Waterloo period Napoleonic figures, designed by Alan marsh to be compatible with the AB Figures. We have not added much to this range for a while, but we have not forgotten it and more 18mm Waterloo figures are planned. People wanting something larger, and altogether weirder, should keep an eye out for Kosta Heristanidis’ latest daemonic offerings, and Kosta has just presented us with the masters for his Frog artillery. There will be a few 28mm Special Forces offerings to come from Kosta as well. Mike Broadbent recently completed the work for our 300 Club requested Indo-China War figures, and all the 15mm French Foreign Legion and Viet Minh have been despatched to the customers who pre-ordered and supported the project. Anyone who wants to get there hands on these figures quickly can still order them for a limited period via the 300 Club – click here. However, we will soon be closing this Club entry and this range will then be temporarily retired into our release schedule for its formal launch hopefully in the fourth quarter of the year. Mike’s next task for the 300 Club will be the requested 15mm WW2 Ghurkhas. The required pre-orders have been received and Mike will be sculpting this range in the next four weeks. The figures are kitted out in long trousers and shirt sleeve order and will all be available in both tin helmets and slouch hats. Sadly we didn’t get enough interest to make them in shorts as well. They can also still be ordered via the 300 Club here. For the 100 Club Alan Marsh is hard at work on the 28mm Seven Years War Saxon cavalry and War of Austrian Succession Dutch. Both lines are intended to be comprehensive and have taken us quite a while to complete. So long as Alan doesn’t get distracted (or we don’t give him something else to make) we believe the masters for both these ranges will be back to us by the end of May and we hope to despatch them to the 100 Club subscribers in June. It isn’t too late to sign up, and you can pre-order here. Victoria Lamb’s latest figure is of her namesake Queen Victoria. Her Majesty will be added to our 28mm Victorian Pax Limpopo range, and we hope to release her with The Prince Consort, Shaka Zulu, and a ‘Public Building’ as a mini diorama. More news on this project when the important, but slightly scandalous, ‘Public Building’ is completed. And last, but not least, it is a big “welcome back” from the wilderness to Vic Pocilujko of Grumpy Miniatures. Vic has sent us the first masters for his 15mm German landsknechts. Once cast we will be sending the heads and torsos back to him to be assembled. He also promises that the heads will be fully bearded by the time they return to us for moulding. Vic has also completed his Polish 1580 – 1625 range which we hope to be able to add to the site in the coming months. We still need to catalogue them fully, make the horse moulds and have them all photographed, but when they are ready we will get them up on the web site straight away - and announce it in this column. This range has been in development for quite some time, but we are all happy to hear that Vic is back in the fold and sculpting again after a few years pursuing other projects. That’s the lot from Eureka for the moment. On a more general note, we are quite excited about all the hard plastic 28mm historical figures starting to make an appearance in the miniatures world. Last week a friend sent us a set of new Perry Plastics, and what lovely figures they are. Excellent moulding by Renedra, plus the attention to detail, and correct anatomy that one has come to expect from the Perrys. The box artwork is very reminiscent of Airfix, and we assume that it is deliberately done to appeal to that ‘certain generation’ (a bracket into which almost the entire Eureka staff comfortably fit). We are not sure if this will help or hinder sales, except that we had the box on show in the Eureka shop over the weekend and not one customer noticed them. As soon as we pointed them out though, there was general rejoicing and again all comments were very favourable. We do hope that these ventures are all successful, and we are looking forward to all the other plastic offerings that are coming out in the next few months. We will report on ‘local’ reaction when we get chance to see them. We hope you enjoyed this mini-Blog. Most of what will be written here are the type of things that you find out if you visit our shop in Melbourne. However, we realise not everyone can do that, so most weeks we will try and pass on any little gems we discuss in the shop and tell you what new items we have received from our sculptors. We can not promise that everything mentioned here will be done on time, as some of the best laid plans fail as soon as they are tested, but the intention is to try and keep you aware of what is happening at Eureka. Nic Robson and everyone at Eureka

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