On the Tenth Legion workbench

This week, I’d like to share a behind-the-scenes photo with you of our mould maker Andrew’s workbench.   This is usually a litter of various bits and pieces, but this time he has excelled himself in both the diversity and the number of projects on the go.

New Napoleonic releases

I am absolutely delighted to mark a real milestone in our work on overhauling and representing the Magister Militum Napoleonic range.   Firstly, the Austrian infantry codes have now all been converted to strip format.  This means that of the ‘Big Five’ nations of the Napoleonic war we are over half way, with just the Russians and Prussians to do.

Highlanders two ways

One of the deciding factors in persuading this maker of 6mm figures to take on the Magister Militum 10mm ranges was that we shared a sculptor in common.    Martin Baker has been a mainstay of the Baccus ranges for the best part of two decades and in that time has been behind most of our 6mm Napoleonic ranges.   As it happens, he has also done the same in 10mm.   This photo shows Napoleonic British Highlanders sculpted by Martin in both scales.

It also highlights why when I am painting Tenth Legion figures I find them to be HUGE, which must sound strange to those of you who are used to fielding the, ‘How can you paint something so small’ question about your 10mms!

Something Napoleonic to start the year

Welcome to the first Tenth Legion post of 2026, and the first new-ish releases of the year!    As I have posted previously, we are working on a methodical inspection and reorganisation of the Magister Militum range, and this time round, it is the turn of the Napoleonic British to get the treatment.

What we did in 2025 and what is planned for 2026

One thing that I do with Baccus every year is look back at what we did over the previous twelve months and attempt to put some sort of projected framework of what we would like to achieve in the coming year.   I thought it would be interesting to see how a similar review would turn out for Tenth Legion.   So, let’s give it a go.

Refurbished Napoleonic French now available.

Hi All,

It’s been fairly quiet from the Tenth Legion team, but that doesn’t mean that we have been idle.  Far from it!  One of the tasks that we have set ourselves is a comprehensive refurbishment of the mould stock and we have started with the major task of overhauling the Napoleonic infantry codes.

More refurbished Crusades codes.

We are really pleased to be able to announce that the latest batch of our remoulded and refurbished Crusades codes are now available.

Coming soon...

Hi All, many thanks for all the kind words and emails about our revamped Crusaders range which we released last week.   We aren’t resting on our laurels and the work on their opposition has been progressing apace.    The new style Saracen codes aren’t quite ready to be unleashed, but here’s a preview piccy of some of the spectacular Mameluke cavalry.

But…we aren’t stopping there and we’ve set our sights on the extensive Magister Militum Napoleonic ranges.    This is all part of the  continuing Tenth Legion strategy of presenting these wonderful 10mm sculpts in the best possible manner.

Crusaders given a make over!

When we took on the Magister Militum 10mm ranges, we quickly decided that our work would fall into two parts.  Firstly, to ensure that the supply of these wonderful sculpts would be maintained, and secondly to expand and, hopefully, improve and expand the available offer.

Both are huge tasks, but the second part is very daunting.  I am delighted to say that the results of our first efforts are now available in the form of the Crusaders range.   What you see here will form the template of how we see Tenth Legion ranges will be presented in future.  The most important feature is our move to supplying figures in strips.   Yes, it’s a wee bit controversial in some quarters, but this really does make things a lot easier at every stage, from painting to basing.  Here is an example of what to expect:

New Crusades figures

Hi All, as you may now, we are working on the 10mm Crusades range as the first to be overhauled and reformatted on to strips.