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A long time ago in a pub (not so) far away.
The Assault Group were finally formed late in the autumn of 2001, but firstly were just an idea, years before when both the main protagonist of the story were young men, a pact was made to work together on a range of Wargames miniatures, but when opportunity knocked, both jumped at the chance to do what is a dream for most.
Steve Clark is a mild mannered office worker by day, but always wanted to run his own Wargames firm, a published author for the Wargames Research Group, Steve has had a long standing passion for ancient history and china in particular. His miniature collection (despite recent loses) amounts to a huge pile of minis from all ages.
Peter Brown has worked making toy soldiers for 22 years, in which time he was lucky to work on some of the best know miniatures made in the UK. From 1983-2000 he worked for a string of miniature manufacturing companies based in and around the Nottingham “Lead-Belt”, centred on Games Workshop.
The Beginning…
In early 2002 I (Pete) was keen to get a project off the ground based around the excellent sculpting of Nick Collier. These non-Wargames miniatures could be Nick’s side-project, whist he was employed full-time by someone else. Steve was very keen to make wargames miniatures but didn’t really want to get involved with the non-game based project. Sculptors are the heart of miniature companies and with out them nothing happens. This is when fortuitously, in walked Seth Nash.
Seth had made very few minis when he started making them for what was, at that time an un-named project. He had immense potential but had not made many finished miniatures.Starting working part time, his first 48 miniatures were in effect, a test piece to see whether he was able to make, what Steve and I had always wanted in our miniatures; detail and character.
The natures of the first release of TAG miniatures were in direct response to the war that had just been concluded between the USA and the shambolic reign of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Skirmish size gaming was becoming increasing popular, with small numbers of minis needed to play raiding and counter-insurgence games.
Both steve and I had played modern skirmish with 20mm scale in the 80’s and we now gambled that people would turn to the larger scaled 28mm, when they wanted to game these actions.
Late in October 2002, after 3 or 4 months of planning we were at a point where we had our first miniatures ready to show. The plan was to remain as low key as possible about how we would promote our miniatures. High cost magazine advertisements were too expensive, giving no real impact for tiny companies like TAG. On the new medium of the internet a little goes a long way and we had planned to use this essentially free resource as much as possible.
Launch was 24 US marines sculpted by Seth Nash, painted by Matt Parkes and advertised by the 6 pages of HTML, which was our original web-site. |
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