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**shabbadoo**

I think we need some multi-part not-Necromunda gangs.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Hasslefriesian

One of the minis I had in mind when I made the body blank, I present to you: Captain Hannah, WIP....

Just her holstered pistol left to finish

**BrookM**

Oh wow, that one I like loads.

**Wehrkind**

That is pretty awesome! Like a female Mal. Femal.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Maika is the rebellious only daughter of Margraf von Ostwald. After her older brother, and heir to the von Ostwald estate, was killed in battle when she was a teenager, Maika decided to prove she was every bit worthy of the title herself. Joining the Emperor's Greatswords, she rose through the ranks and now commands her own Unit.

Armed here with her giant flamberge and charging into battle with her usual cocky air of reassurance.

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**Wehrkind**

Love it!

**Mousemuffins**

one of the minis I had in mind when I made the body blank, I present to you: Captain Hannah, WIP....

Just her holstered pistol left to finish

Best.

Hmmm. pistol needs more broomhandle. and scope.

**Brother SRM**

shabbadoo wrote:
I think we need some multi-part not-Necromunda gangs.

Notcromunda?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

this was fast

Hannah is an old friend of Vic Lewinski's. A smuggler and pilot she is a woman not to be crossed, she will shoot first.

... What?

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**BrookM**

Prolly hoping to tap into that brown coat demograph.

**Paradigm**

BrookM wrote:
Prolly hoping to tap into that brown coat demograph.

Pretty sure she's meant to be a female Han Solo rather than anything Firefly related, hence the 'shoot first' bit. And the name, though it took me while to get that.

On a side note, what are HF minis like quality-wise? The metals on their site look a bit rough at times, it that might just be the pics. Anyone got any pics handy?

**Vain**

No pics handy by their models are absolutely beautiful to work with. From my experience, lack of mold lines and sensible cuts/builds, make them a solid contender for "best" and even if they don't make it, they are definitely top 3.

**Paradigm**

Good to know. Now they stock Red Box Games minis as well I was planning a joint HF-RBG order in the near future when I next dip into fantasy stuff.

**Ian Sturrock**

I've been hugely impressed with the detail and finish of everything I've bought from them, which has so far only been the metals (Norse dwarves, some orcs and goblins, and a bunch of Fantasy and SF characters and some conversion bits... I love HF!).

**Wehrkind**

Is there a good source for HS mini's in the USA? The shipping and $ to pound conversion makes for a pretty expensive model. I see that CMoN has some of the line, but it doesn't look like the complete one (at least at a glance... their web store is really irritating.)

**Barzam**

FRP Games is probably your best bet. Their stock can be fairly limited, but they seem to have the entire catalog except the resins and some of the bits.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The main US distributors are Golden (formerly Warpath) and CMON,

http://www.goldendist.com/index.php?m=search&s=hasslefree

not sure how far behind they are in terms of recent releases or if either of them carries the resins though

**Wehrkind**

Great, thanks for the help guys! I have a handful of HF models from back when I used to order from CmoN more frequently, but lately I haven't been buying from them much outside of KS. Come to think of it, my buying habits got a bit strange...

**Ian Sturrock**

HF customers have had a phishing type email. I got one overnight, and was suspicious (it's a fairly competent-looking scam but still a scam). They've sent out a warning email about it, which I've repeated below:

Scam Warning

Hey guys. Some of you may have received an email purporting to be from us about having won a voucher of some kind?

Do not click on anything in that email!

It's not from us, that's not our website address (it uses hyphens instead of periods). We would never charge you for anything you've won, we would never send an email asking for payment details for anything etc. Not do we use pop-ups in anythign we do.

We have no idea where it's from, it happened overnight for us here in the UK so we're only just able to start checking.

You can follow along at the FB thread HERE or we will be updating the front page of our actual website HERE.

The only bit of news I can tell you right now is that it doesn't seem likely to have anything to do with our attempted hack a little while ago. Because this scam email spoofed our email address then we are getting any bounces or out of office replies etc and some of those are 'not' in our customer database. We are awaiting the newsletter company we use and our tech guys to wake up so we can look into it more deeply.

Sorry to those of you this is happening for, we will update both places above as and when we know more. In the meantime the website is safe, as long as you go directly to it (Definitely double check the url if you happen to have had one of these emails just in case).

Thanks

Arty.

**shasolenzabi**

I use their metal Agent G as a scale man for my model works, here he is helping with a new APC project
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the quality when they show pics may seem rough, but it is good stuff!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

They always ink the metals which shows off the most detail on the mini,

but does tend to make them look a lot rougher than they are

**BrookM**

Inking the models is a great move though, unlike the bare metals on display on some sites..

**-iPaint-**

BrookM wrote:
Inking the models is a great move though, unlike the bare metals on display on some sites..

Or 200x200 pixel pictures taken using a potato. Seriously, not having hi-res images of your product in this day and age is insane.

HF models are stellar, btw.

~iPaint

**Mousemuffins**

....aaaaaannd purchased.

So while I wait for Hannah for turn up, she'll need a ride.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Big Halloween sale extended

We're Back! (Almost)

Our original plan was to fly back to the UK on the 16th, but I decided to surprise my beautiful wife with a weekend in Iceland on nthe way home.

She loves the sun, and the beach, and it's Iceland in October, what coud possibly go wrong?! (It's pretty amazing to be fair)

This means we are now back on the 19th and order start going out on the 20th. 'That' means...

Halloween Code Ends Tomorrow!

... this is about to be obsolete. The code will end on the 19th!

For those of you who missed it, use the code HALLOWEEN2015 to get 20% off everything by Hasslefree (or more with our already discounted multi-packs) and discounts off everything else.

Enter the code on the 'confirm' page, which is the last page before you pay. Do not write the code in the comments box, because...

Goody Bags Galore!

You may have followed the ridiculous overbuying of candy on our FB page recently. Well this should help with that

Throughout the entire month of October, even after the code ends, any order that's £50* or over will get a Halloween Goody Bag. Free minis, accessories, miscasts, bits 'n' bobs and special Haloween-themed trick or treat candy (Half of it is sour, half of it isn't!).

Not only that but, if you wish, you can write 'FANTASY', 'SCI-FI' or 'MODERN' in the comments section and we will theme the freebies in your goody bag accordingly. Everyone gets the halloween based ones regardless such as zombies, dressed up kids, decapitated goblin heads etc. but we will do our best to theme any extras to your request

(If you want 'BITZ' or just even more candy instead then feel free to request those too, request whatever ya like, typing is free )

*That's £50 after any applicable taxes such as VAT but before postage.

Backup Codes

For anyone who wants to make a second (or third!) order, or forthose of you who experienced a problem with your first attempt at the code, then there are 2 backup codes...

HALLOWEEN2015B & HALLOWEEN2015C

...aren't I inventive!

Use them in exactly the same way.

Wait, Red Box?

Yeah, right what happened is this. We have a fancy new voucher system, that allows us to apply it to various categories, products, etc. It's not working so that's out.

What we've done is adjusted the prices of Red Box products accordingly so the voucher now works on them to but it's only '10-20%' off. We figured as it's a bit of a faff you deserved something

(Anyone who has ordered the pre-order items, they are arriving while we are away and your order will be fixed accordingly )

We've also made sure all codes have a thumbnail and an image, even if it's just a temporary one, while we're away, making things a little easier for ya!

Share Please!

One of the things that's been super difficult to do on the road is access forums and do some advertising for the sale. As it's down to the last day and a half I thought I'd try and palm some of my work off to ask some of you guys and gals to help us out and let whatever forums, you are members of, know it's their last chance (or first chance if they hadn't known before).

We don't do big sales very often and it's always a little disheartening to have to let someone know when they ask whether there's a sale coming soon that it was last week, last month etc. and the next big one will be quite a while.

In fact, if anyone makes an order with the Halloween code after this newsletter comes out, and names you in the comments box, I'll throw a freebie in your next order (or your own sale order). One for every time someone names ya!

**BrookM**

Some more nice expensive resins are up for pre-order:

Foster is the stereotypical 'trucker with a heart of gold' (What? That's a real stereotype!). A tough guy on the outside and marshmallow on the inside, seen here with his trademarked snarl, a Tec 9 and the most feared weapon in the truckers arsenal, the mullet.

He'll probably go through a change before metal, we're thinking about giving him a mutliple choice for his left hand, which means this'll be the only way to get him in single piece and that it'll be a while before he makes metal, more than our usual while.

Carol is ... well, she's Carol. The Zombocalypse didn't really change her much. She sees no need for any of those dirty, smelly, military clothes when a nice wool cardigan s good for most weather. She needs nothing she can't fit in her handbag and there's nothing about Apocalypse hair that a good set of curlers can't fix. In fact the only real change to Carol's life is she now has a little more space in her purse as she tens to keep her gun in her hand these days.

Tina "Bomb" Bomassini, likes include strawberry flavored bubblegum, Def Leppard and live fire exercises. Seen here about to change mag's and with the modern trooper 'Engineer' backpack.

This was sculpted by Patrick Keith, who many of you will already know from Bombshell Miniatures. It was part of a sculpt swap arranged with Kev (Who made a Sorceress for Patrick's last Kickstarter).

She, like Foster above, will also be going through some changes before metal. She may get an integral backpack or an extra gun choice or something.

**Mymearan**

Bomb looks awesome, love the Bombshell minis in general. Really looking forward to more moderns as well, I've been planning a purchase for a long time but never quite get around to it...

**BrookM**

I'd wait until the metals come out then, they're a bit easier on the wallet than the resins.

The pose is alright, though I'm sure people will give it gak for lacking the same trigger discipline as the rest of the range done by Kev himself.

**B0B MaRlEy**

Nice, I think with Bomb I now have enough minis I want to make a reasonnable order. I'll wait for her metal version though

**BobtheInquisitor**

Jack Burton is one of the few minis I'd buy in metal. I didn't know I even had that Jack Burton-shaped hole in my life.