If the style of the figures looks a little familiar, then that’s because they are by Richard Deasey of DZ and Dazed fame.

European distributor coming next year, so right now we in the UK will need to play the post office roulette with respect to customs fees if we make a large order.

Primaeval Designs have worked closely with Two Hour Wargames to produce their new “Adventures in the Lost Lands” rules, released last week.

As well as the eight items listed so far on the web site there over 30 items in production, awaiting photos, and more than one hundred masters completed!

Dinosaurs

• PD 0001 Elasmosaurus $12.00
• PD 0002 Ankylosaurus $12.00
• PD 0005 Spinosaurus $38.00
• PD 0006 Parasaurolophus $10.00
• PD 0007 Saurosuchus $ 8.00
• PD 0009 Dimetrodon $ 5.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0010 Utahraptor $ 6.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0011 Nanotyrannus $10.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0012 Eryops (6) $ 6.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0013 Diplocaulus (6) $ 5.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0014 Plateosaurus $ 8.00
• PD 0015 Pachyrhinosaurus $ 9.00
• PD 0016 Deinonychus (3) $ 8.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0019 Protoceratops (2) $ 6.00 (Pewter)
• PD 0020 Dead Sauropod $28.00

Prehistoric Mammals

• PD 2002 Elasmotherium $12.00
• PD 2003 Wooly Mammoth #1 $15.00
• PD 2004 Wooly Mammoth #2 $13.00
• PD 2005 Gomphotherium $ 8.00
• PD 2006 North American Mastadon $15.00
• PD 2011 Dead Wooly Mammoth $ 10.00
• PD 2013 Coelodonta $ 9.00
• PD 2015 Megaloceros, standing $ 8.00 (Pewter antlers)
• PD 2016 Megaloceros,head down $ 8.00 (Pewter antlers)
• PD 2017 Smilodon $ 6.00 (Pewter)
• PD 2018 Dinofelis $ 6.00 (Pewter)
• PD 2019 Bison,running $ 7.00
• PD 2020 Bison,standing $ 7.00
• PD 2022 Miracinonyx (2) $ 6.00 (Pewter)

Role Playing

• RPD 3001 Giant Ape $20.00
• RPD 3002 Giant Ape,walking $20.00

Magister Militum continue to add new creatures to their 10mm range, including the Therizinosaurus shown here.

MegaMiniatures have expanded their range of 25mm prehistoric mammals with Megalonyx, Smilodon and Andrewsarc​hus. I like the Andrewsarchus, not quite so keen on the other two.

Two Hour Wargames have posted some battle reports that give a flavour of their forthcoming set of rules Adventures in the Lost Lands.

Top sculptor Sean Cooper or Paleocraft has recently completed a commission in a smaller scale than usual. This 1/48 scale wooly rhino has been handed over to the very lucky Jodee who is investing getting it cast and possibly putting it on sale.

If you know of any other news about miniature dinosaurs then leave a comment below. And did you know that you can subscribe to an RSS feed of just my dinosaur related posts?

On Wednesday night I attended the preview of a new exhibition, Dinosaurs Unleashed, on Oxford Street. It’s a slightly surreal experience seeing life size animatronic dinosaurs backdropped by the office blocks and department stores of central London.

I’ve already written about it on the Visit London blog and you can see more photos on Flickr. And, in a isn’t the internet cool moment, this morning I was added as a Flickr contact by the workshop who produced the dinosaurs and you can see behind the scenes photos of them being made.

More to come…

1 ticket for Salute, @ £9.95.

1 Mammoth from Baker Company, @ £20.00

1 pack of Chaps on the Hunt from The Woodbine Design Company, @ £6.00

5 UK police Geezers from Killer B Games, @ £9.00

Total for Salute: £44.95

Spent at SELWG.

1 ticket for SELWG, @ £5.00

1 Smilodon from Strategem/Trent/DZ, @ £3.50

3 packs of Soapy’s SciFi figures from The Woodbine Design Company, @ £13.00

Copy of Sticks & Stones from the Bring and Buy, @ £5.00

Book Golem and Orangutans from Black Cat Bases, @ £9.00

Total for SELWG: £35.50

All that the story on the RLBPS web site says is:

Dazed Miniatures was a partnership and it has been been ended by one partner (the Sculpter) withdrawing the licence to produce any of the figures we made. RLBPS still owns the molds but can not run them.

I wonder what it is with Richard Deasey’s lines? He sculpted the second half of the the HLBS prehistoric line and then took it away to found DZ Miniatures, which vanished soon afterwards. The mammals, but not the dinosaurs, reappearing years later from Strategem/Trent Miniatures whose own tribulations made getting hold of them sometimes frustrating (but they are currently available via North Star). And now this. Is there any chance that some of the best prehistoric miniatures will be available from a stable supplier (one with a working e-commerce facility would be really nice)?

In the mean time I need to work out how much I splurge on miniature mammoths, etc., taking Christmas, moving house and exchange rates into consideration. Couldn’t be a worse time for a closing down sale.

Very True Mood:  confused

Total: £39.92

Via the SFSFW blog comes the very welcome news that HLBS have, temporarily, re-released their Bog-A-Ten rules and some of their dinosaur miniatures range in honour of the game’s tenth anniversary. As it was their original range that got me into miniature dinosaurs (I bought a Styracosaurus and some Velociraptors at Salute 2000) this is very pleasing. Get them whilst you can, in particular DA10 Tylosaur, DA11 Elasmosaurus and DA12 Phorusrhacos which have been out of production for several years.

(This does make my web page even more complicated as some of these models have now been released under three different product codes.)

I’ve been updating my Dinosaurs in Miniature pages. The main differences have been the addition of the MegaMiniatures megafauna that I posted about previously, the continuing expansion of the Dazed Miniatures range and some new miniatures from Wargames Foundry, including the Terror Bird shown here.

BTW, Foundry have a 20% off sale until the 10th November 2009. So now’s a very good time to pick up these new goodies.

At SELWG last month I picked up a “new” Smilodon from the “old” DZ range sold by Trent Miniatures. It’s in a walking pose rather than the leaping pose that’s been available for a while. This range is now available over the web from North Star though this additional Smilodon isn’t listed.

There have also been a few additions to the 10mm DinoMight range form Magister Militum.

MY Miniatures ice age range seems to have melted away from the web with the close of Geocities. Does anyone know if they have a new web site elsewhere?

And finally, the Tusk rules are available as PDF via Wessex Games/Wargame Vault. You can still buy the paper version from Irregular but the new version has full colour photos throughout.

I am currently growing a moustache as all big game hunters should.

I’ve been fascinated by Chalicotheres ever since I saw them on Walking with Beasts but up to now the only miniature representation has been the 1/72 scale David Krentz version, which whilst a better sculpt is small and pricey. So big kudos to Mega for bringing one of my favourite animals to life.

Very True Mood:  mellow