Amazon Miniatures Catalogue - June 2001

 

Amazon Miniatures were based in North Manchester and manufactured 25/28mm historical & fantasy miniatures. They bought up QT Miniatures, Garrison, SKT, Admins, Early Dixons ranges, Rose Models, Greenwood & Ball 25mm ranges) and Pendragon Studios. They also produced their own ranges but the owners went on to pastures new and a lot of the ranges were picked up by Wargame Design Workshop who have recently stopped trading... now Mark at Checkpoint Miniatures (used to be CP Models) has picked up some of the ranges. Fingers crossed they'll all be kept in production!

https://www.checkpointminiatures.co.uk/

Rob Young just reminded me (sorry Rob!) that he also picked up Garrison, SKT, Admins and Rose along with Greenwood and Ball and Warman (don't know Warman offhand). He's over at;

https://easterngarrison.blogspot.com/

Sean of The Bunker fame sent me this catalogue he came across the other day as he knows I love this sort of stuff! Cheers! It doesn't contain all the ranges as it's 'just' a one part section.

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Greenwood & Ball catalogue 1978

 I posted the catalogue as pics a couple of years back (here) but just found it again and thought I'd scan as a PDF as they seem preferable. Great trip down memory lane as always. I've put it as 1978 but not 100% certain of the exact year. Certainly close though! 

PDF file is on my Google share drive below, it will open in a new window and should allow you to view / download it etc.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hSVs68o_U_xH6aQz30X7RMPkLB-YudH/view?usp=sharing

There's a 1975 catalogue (JPGs, not PDF though) here.

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Greenwood & Ball Catalogue - 1975

Well, I have finally found a piece of software to edit photos on the new laptop......one that I can almost understand. Window Photo Viewer has changed so there are no editing tools like the old simple crop I used all the time......God Bless Irfanview. It's given me an easy way to crop and rotate scanned catalogues....no longer will I have to post wonky pics! On to the goodies......picked up off eBay recently I thought it would be good to share. The errata sheet at the end shows the first pictures of a new range; 'Sword And Sorcery'. I was 14 at the time and didn't discover them till the next year or so. John Braithwaite was the 25mm designer for Garrison, the wargame figure area of Greenwood & Ball. He was, apparently, a lifelong smoker, as was the habit in those days ......my own parents were never without a Player's No.6 either in their mouth or being lit up......great for us children as the vouchers that came with them would allow us to choose gifts from a catalogue...much joy had over Timpo plastics turning up in the post.......halcyon days indeed. Cancer took John in the late 70s however his sculpts live on. Rob Young currently has most of the old molds over at Garrison Miniatures although that site is now closed for business. Rob has left a potted history of the company here and is carrying on as usual in the hobby himself with his own worthwhile blog The Eastern Garrison. As Rob has taken down the catalogue, check out the Lost Minis WIKI listings here.

Hopefully you can save the files and view at your leisure. Enjoy!

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