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SoCal Vacation Notice
Team Hydra: hydra spawn Adam, Sam, owner Matt and beautiful wife May
Team Hydra (i.e. Beachamp-Mulla family) will be going to Southern California for our yearly family reunion and site-seeing adventure. We will be out of town from July 7-20, 2009. The webstore will still be active and orders will be filled when we return on the 20th. However, I'll still be answering e-mails and doing some sculpting work while on vacation. Hopefully, I'll have new releases for Gen Con 2009.
Hydra Now Stocking Miniaturicum Paint Racks
Hydra Miniatures is very excited to be the North American retailer for the excellent range of paint racks from German manufacturer Miniaturicum. You can find the paint racks in our online store here. There are two different styles of paint racks to accommodate nearly every style of hobby paint:
Paint Racks for Dripper Bottles
This style of paint racks is designed to hold dripper bottles from manufacturers such as Vallejo, Reaper, or Andrea. These racks are very compact and the rows are staggered so it’s easy to see all your paints. The innovative design of these racks also allows you to store the bottles either right side up or bottom up.
Paint Racks for Standard Bottles
This style is designed to hold a variety of standard bottles from manufacturers such as Games Workshop, Foundry, Privateer, Press, and Iron Wind Metals (Partha Paint.) Each row is designed to hold 12 narrower flip-top bottles (Privateer Press or Foundry) or 10 of the larger GW/Citadel paint bottles.
These sturdy paint racks are made from precision-cut MDF board and supplied in kit form. Easy-to-follow instructions are included, and the racks can be assembled with or without glue.
We at Hydra Miniatures feel that these racks are the best in the market and have been storing our personal paint collection in Miniaturicum paint racks for the past year. We love these racks and guarantee that you will not be disappointed!
Free Stat Cards for FANTASTIC WORLDS
Fantastic Worlds and its sequel Planet X by Rattrap Productions have been two of the best selling products in the Hydra Miniatures online store. Therefore, we are pleased to announce a special Fantastic Worlds cross-promotion between Rattrap Productions and Hydra Miniatures. Rich at Rattrap has agreed to let us post these official Fantastic Worlds stat cards for all of our Retro Raygun models. These attractive stat cards were designed by super-gamer Tom Kiley with the assistance of FW author Marc Anderson. Just download the PDFs from our Downloads page and you'll be ready to play Fantastic Worlds in no time!
Planet X and New Space Aliens
The Aliens are coming! Hydra Miniatures is pleased to announce some exciting new products for February in addition to the release of Planet X: Terror From Across the Universe--the highly-anticipated supplement for Rattrap’s Fantastic Worlds. Every copy of Planet X will include a free limited edition miniature of the evil galactic dictator Xurr the Exalted .
We also have the first releases from our Retro Raygun space aliens range: the mysterious two-headed Cosmic Stranger and the tentacled terrors known as the Slishians.
Playtest Status and More War Rocket Previews
Hydra Miniatures would like to thank everyone for applying to be official playtesters for War Rocket. The War Rocket development team only expected a maximum of 12-18 applications and were stunned to get a whopping 63 applicants! The caliber of the playtesters is very high and the decision making process will take a little longer than anticipated. We hope to notify everyone about our selections by the middle of next week.
Also we have two work in progress photos of new War Rocket ships. The first ship is a class 2 patrol ship from the Imperial fleet of Marduk the Tyrant. This ship is designed by master 3D sculptor Phil Beauchamp and this three-piece white metal casting will be approximately 2.5 inches (60mm) long.
Our second preview is from the Zenithians--the Saucer Men from the Eight Dimension! This small class 1 attack saucer was designed by our talented new digital sculptor Stephen Meli. This Zenithian saucer will be a one-piece casting approximately 1 inch (25mm) in diameter.
Stay tuned for more War Rocket news!
Workbench Previews
Sculptor Matt Beauchamp has been busy sculpting new products for Hydra Miniatures' upcoming October 2008 release and we are posting some photos to wet your appetite. Also, you can see some early WIPs of our 2009 releases as we focus more attention on the development of our Primal Dawn prehistoric fantasy rules and ranges. Read the complete story and see more images here on our blog
War Rocket Update
We have really high standards of quality at Hydra Miniatures and we've had some technical difficulties getting clean castings of the rockets. We've resolved the problems and development is picking up steam. Our summer 2008 release date was a little overambitious and the project will take a little longer to "do it right."
In the meantime, here's a link to a posting on our blog where you can read more and see photos of some WIP models at hydraminiatures.wordpress.com
Thanks for your interest. We promise that this game and miniatures will be "top notch!"