One year in the Asylum - Lillie Poots vs the Frothing Loonies returns!

It's one year today since I moved to the grounds of Statuesque Asylum* and to celebrate, we have the return of Lillie Poots versus the Frothing Loonies!

Featuring the little girl Lillie Poots and two sets of Frothing Loonies, this special offer is priced at £21, saving you £2 over buying the items separately.

This offer will run until Sunday 8th of June or while stocks last, so don't delay and catch some loonies while you can!



*Ok, it's really the Argyll and Bute Lunatic Asylum, but it'll always be the Statuesque Asylum in my imagination...

Statuesque Miniatures and Pulp Alley are pleased to announce the first releases from our new joint Pulp Alley Miniatures range.

First out of the blocks are Pulp Girl and Phantom Ace, two daring pulp heroes ready to fight villainy wherever it raises its head. As a special pre-order launch deal, Pulp Girl and Phantom Ace are available for only £7/ $11.75 for the pair.

These figures are available from both the Pulp Alley Webstore in the USA and the Statuesque Miniatures Store in the UK.

Also available from both sides of the Atlantic is Lillie Poots. Bravely venturing in the the darkness armed only with her grandmother's lantern, Lillie has a starring role in Statuesque Miniatures' new Statuesque Asylum pulp horror range.

Lillie Poots is priced at £3.50 or $5.75.

Also escaping through the gates of Statuesque Asylum are the Frothing Loonies! These crazed individuals are the unfortunate victims of Dr Strukov's nefarious surgical experiments and they roam the wards and grounds of Statuesque Asylum, a danger to all they meet.

The Frothing Loonies are priced at £10.50 for three figures with six, poseable head options for greater variety, and are available from the Statuesque Miniatures webshop.

Finally, for a limited time only you can get Lillie and two sets of Frothing Loonies for only £21 with the Lillie Poots Versus the Frothing Loonies Special Offer, saving £2 over buying the items separately.

Please note all the new releases are pre-orders and will not be shipped before the 3rd of March 2014. All limited offer run until 3rd of March or while stocks last.

Unfortunately, Sod's Law has dictated that we have sold out of the Pulp Alley Rulebook just before the new miniatures range goes on sale. The book will be restocked in due course, once I've checked the old finances and paid what will be a rather hefty moulding and casting bill this month! I apologise for the inconvenience. In the meantime, the Fortune Deck and the Perilous Island expansion are still available.

Finally, the rather popular Hong Kong Killer Fembots are also currently out of stock. However, I have decided to keep them on sale as a Restock Pre-Order, so if you wish to purchase Fembots and any of the current special offers, you can do so without paying twice for postage.

Please be aware there could be a two to three week (or more) wait for me to receive the Fembot restock, and any orders containing the Fembots will not be posted until I have the new stock. Do not order the Fembots if this is an issue for you.

As you can probably tell, restocks are an issue for a small company like Statuesque. I had wished to order more stock of the Fembots at the last restock, but I had various other codes that also needed to be restocked so I had to order what I could afford. Now that we're getting through the backlog of new releases cause by the Fembot production delay, I hope to be able to keep on top of stock levels. Also, apart from the Fembot Restock Pre-Order mentioned above, we do not sell items that we do not have in stock at the time of order.

Statuesque Asylum

A preview of our forthcoming attractions:

Lillie Poots, aged seven and a quarter

Here are some photos of a figure that I hope to have on sale in the new year. This is the 3D print and she will be going away for moulding tomorrow, along with some other Statuesque figures and the Pulp Alley duo.

Lillie Poots is the heroine of my forthcoming pulp horror range Statuesque Asylum...

She's very small - around 21mm tall. I'm really pleased with how she turned out. I originally started her in Fimo almost two years ago for my old fantasy range, though I'm glad I redid her digitally as she's turned out much better. She's been transplanted from a fantasy world to a pulp horror setting. The Malinquents will also return, though this time as patients at Statuesque Asylum...

She's my favourite figure I've sculpted and I think one of my best!

Ezmeralda Tyke is released!

Finally, after months in the wild wilderness of a fantastical land, Statuesque Miniatures is proud to announce the release of Ezmeralda Tyke of the Malinquents- a diminutive elf-like creature infamous across the land as the alleged abductor of one Lillie Poots, age seven.

Ezmeralda is available in metal for £4.75 and in very limited numbers in resin for £5.75. She measures approximately 20mm tall as posed.

Visit the Statuesque Miniatures Online Shop now to pick up your own Ezmeralda.

Regards,

Andrew Rae

Lillie's Shoes (red, buckled, very worn, no good for puddles)

Old Gow turned to Lillie suddenly: “How old are you, child?”

“Seven and a quarter”answered Lillie.

“But you were seven and a quarter last year” said the wizard, stroking his long white moustache.

“Well I haven't had a birthday, have I!” exclaimed Lillie, folding her arms grumpily. “Or a birthday party.”

“No. No you haven't” said Old Gow, seemingly distracted. “Very odd”. He stroked his moustache again. “Do your shoes still fit?”

“Yes” said Lillie, scuffing at the ground with the soles of her rather worn shoes.

Old Gow gave Lillie a long stare. “Very odd indeed.” And with that he wandered off to inspect a weed growing at the side of the road.

Exerpt from 'Lillie Poots' New Shoes and Other Tales', Anon.

(Nearly finished the small girl; I got distracted by the wonders of the 21st century. It's so shiney!)

Fairies' Tails

“So you see,” said the mother to her young son, “if you don't go to sleep when I tell you, the Malinquents will come and steal you away, just like they did that girl Lillie Poots. ”

Ezmeralda Tyke slumped down under the window through which she had been watching the mother put her child to bed.

“But we didn't steal her!” she sighed.

“We did steal her.” mumbled Hogart. The big oaf was sitting toying with a beetle that had crawled up his boot. “We stealed her 'cos Malink told us to, for that Leech Lady.”

“Well yeah, we did. But then we saved her - saved her from whatever the Leech Lady was going to do to her!”

Suddenly a small ragged girl skittered round the corner of the cottage, skidding to a halt in front of them.

“Are you coming?” she gasped, grinning widely. “We got the cellar door open and Kittlewick found the biggest cheese!”

Hogart lumbered to his feet and ran off excitedly with the girl.

“Brat!” hissed Ezmeralda.

Excerpt from 'The Tales of Lillie Poots', Anon.

(Currently sculpting a small girl.)

Ezmeralda Tyke of the Malinquents

Ezmeralda Tyke is a diminutive, elf-like creature, infamous across the land for the alleged abduction of one Lillie Poots, age seven and a quarter.

So here is the first of my fantasy offerings. As you can see she measures approximately 20mm to the top of her head as posed, so she's a pretty small elf. If indeed she is an elf. I deliberately didn't make her too pretty, as I wanted something slightly unsettling about her face, though I still think she's a little cutie. Don't tell her that to her face!

I'm planning a four figure adventuring party, along with Lillie Poots herself. It might take a while for Ezmeralda to go on sale in metal as I'd like to release the Malinquents as a set, though she'll likely be available in resin before that.

Keep an eye on the Statuesque Miniatures website or the Facebook page for the upcoming figures!

Fairy Tales

“And that is how, having spirited away little Lillie at the bidding of the Leech Lady, the Malinquents did defy their leader and swear to protect the girl from all evils. In her wrath Malink the Ostrich Knight slew her former followers, save the four brave heroes of our tale who, along with the child, escaped through luck and cunning.”

Excerpt from 'Lillie Poots and the Malinquents', Anon.

(first Malinquent nearly complete- photos soon)

Entering a fantasy world...

Well, Christmas and New Year (as well as a 'significant number' birthday) have been and gone and while it wasn't the most productive of festive periods, I do feel refreshed and have been really enjoying sculpting lately. I'm quite excited about some figures that are a bit different from the current Statuesque Miniatures line up.

For a while, I've had the urge to sculpt some fantasy figures but until now I hadn't been able to pin down quite what angle I was going to take. The sci-fi figures I do are fairly generic, though hopefully with a little twist or a nice pose to keep things interesting, and I find it easy to come up with ideas for that kind of figure. I guess I could do a similar thing for fantasy, making generic figures (most probably female and sexy...) in various styles of fantasy outfit, but to be honest I'm not really sufficiently interested in or knowledgeable of fantasy/historical armour and clothing to pull that off. Tre Manor of Red Box Games is for me the master of this type of figure and has created a brilliant range of figures. He's clearly know his stuff when it comes to the fantasy genre and I know I don't have the knowledge to do something similar. Plus, why would I try to compete when he's created such a comprehensive range?

No, I need to find my own way in the fantasy world. Part of my ugre to create some fantasy characters is a desire to sculpt some weirder and more unusual figures; scary monsters and gribbly creatures that are a world away from my sci-fi girls. Jody Siegel's amazing Imbrian Arts goblins and Dave King's rather joyful Bederken figures have captured my attention, as well as various  'old school' Citadel Miniatures blogs that showcase the charms of the often eccentric but always characterful nature of many older figures. I've also been pouring over artwork from the likes of John Bauer and Brian Froud, surely sources inspiration for many of the figures I've been admiring.

One thing that has been impressed on me is the story telling aspect of much of what I've mentioned above. While I do indeed have an elaborate, overarching story behind my sci-fi range (though it's all a bit shoehorned in...) it's not really necessary for me to convey that. Sexy girls with guns will be popular regardless of what history I have invented for them!

For my fantasy range, I really want a story to hang everything on from the beginning and I've had fun trying to create what is essentially a fairytale told through miniatures and various vague and cryptic passages of text. Through this, I hope the rather disparate range of figures I have planned will work together as a whole and allow the customer to invest some imagination in them beyond what the figure immediately portrays. The theme I have chosen to work around is the classic 'girl lost in a fantasy land' à la Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Labyrinth and much more. So, sure it's not original but there nothing wrong with an archetype!

Apologies for the lack of pretty picture but hopefully I'll have something to share soon. In the meantime, here's the first piece of the story puzzle:


Malinquent /mə'lɪŋkwənt/ (n.)
1. A malingering delinquent.
2. (The) Malinquents: A band of rogues formerly led by Malink the Ostrich Knight.