Acolyte Minis

Acolyte Miniatures is incredibly proud to announce its newest product range, an ongoing series of military themed busts.   While these busts will be great for painters and collectors, this is also a range of busts with a purpose.

First of all the range will be launched in August with the release of Fighting Spirit. Featuring a wounded World War II soldier the bust is 1/10th scale, standing 60mm tall.

This will be followed by Operation Nimrod, an SAS bust based on the infamous Iranian Embassy siege of 1980.

Collectors can be sure these busts will be highly detailed and historically accurate.

Additionally a wide range of British historical periods will be covered with future releases.

What makes the series extra special is that Acolyte Minis will be supporting military charity SSAFA

SSAFA is a UK based Armed Forces charity, formerly known as Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association. The charity provides lifelong support to serving men, women and veterans from the British Armed Forces and their families or dependents. Anyone who is currently serving or has ever served in the Armed Forces, and their families, both regulars and reserves, is eligible for their help.

SSAFA does an amazing job for the Armed Forces and Acolyte Miniatures wanted to do something to help.

Therefore 20% of the profits of every miniature themed bust will be donated by Acolyte Miniatures to SSAFA.

War has touched and affected the lives of people in many different ways.

Because of their fantastic work Acolyte Miniatures think you will agree SSAFA is a great charity and one very much deserving of our support.

Customers can be notified of when the bust will be officially available using the special sign up form, which can be found here Fighting Spirit.

We look forward to receiving your support.

This year has seen Acolyte Miniatures begin to develop a variety of miniature figures for what will be an ongoing series of 32mm fantasy figures for our Acolyte Fantasy range.

We are huge fans of fantasy gaming, having grown up playing Dungeons & Dragons and it was inevitable that we would produce fantasy miniatures at some point.

Once The Defeated had been released we were able to look at what we wanted to produce next and we unanimously agreed to design some fantasy characters.  We also wanted to continue designing really detailed miniatures that capture the essence of the characters.  This level of quality is something we are becoming known for and we couldn't see any reason not to do that for these 32mm figures.

We want to design characters from all classes and races so it was a difficult decision where to start with the range.  We knew we wanted to design traditional characters but examine their personality traits a little more.

A barbarian was an obvious choice and the first character we set to work on.  We just wanted to do a powerful barbarian but not have the OTT muscles.  We called him Bonecrusher and designed a giant warhammer, envisaging him easily crushing his opponents with it.  This is a pretty no nonsense character but we think he has a great look to him.  

The rogue was a lot of fun to design.  When we think of rogues we see them as devious, cunning characters.  With this character we wanted to design a female but approaching her differently.  So we designed her casually smoking a pipe but with the stance suggesting she isn't just an innocent bystander. 

This rogue clearly has someone or something in her sights.  A person, a building?  Is she working alone or in a gang.  This simple pose offers lots of options, which we think is the key to a good character.

The Elf Ranger is another classic fantasy style character.  We designed him to be clearly hunting but whether it is a creature or a person is for you to decide.  Is he part of a larger hunting party or a scout? We have plans for  a lot of elves so things will become clearer in due course.

We added a few details like the antler bow and the leaf pattern designs on his armour and these should make for great features to paint.  It is going to be fun to reveal the full elf collection over time.

The Wizard is the last figure in this first wave of fantasy miniatures and we wanted to do something a little different with him.  We didn't want to go down the route of the stereotypical wizard, so we gave him a more unique look.  Older yes, but clearly a master of his arts.  He has his all important spell books with him and we posed him in a confident stance, suggesting he is a veteran of  many an encounter and not afraid to face anything.

That is the initial wave of figures that will form the Acolyte Fantasy range.  We are very excited about what we are creating and we hope you feel the same way.  There are many more figures being planned. Some are already sculpted and others are just ideas.  They will all be revealed here as soon as they are ready.