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Welcome To The Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company
The Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company supplies a unique range of wargames, scale figures, scale models and accessories. Our products are designed by our own team of sculptors and craftsmen, all of whom are enthusiastic and experienced wargamers. Although the Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company is by now a familiar household name, few people remember its obscure and unusual beginnings. Fewer people still can remember how it came to exist in both the mid Victorian era and the present day simultaneously. Almost no-one at all understands why the Company's famous 'Bob' logo is a guy in a diving suit. All of this and more may possibly be made clear. Now read on . . .
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Latest News: July 2008Our continuing commitment to 28mm means that there are now some brand new additions to our 28mm range so head right over and check them out. June 2007It's all too easy to forget the little people as you're making your way up. Here at HLBS Towers we pride ourselves on never making such crass social blunders, so in order to demonstrate our continuing commitment to our own grass roots, as well as our concern over little people, we've instructed our sculptors to take a break from their 40mm work, and to craft us some fine new examples in 28mm instead. So, if you head over to the newest pages of our catalogue, you'll be able to view the results of their efforts in the brand new Great White North range. April 2007Many of you are probably still reeling after the latest raft of legislation issued by the increasingly annoying Union of Wargamers and Associated Traders (U-WAT), and are wondering how the new rules are actually going to affect you. Well, worry no longer: the HLBS Legal Department has managed to extract a summary of the two-thousand pages of small-print from the stuffed shirts at U-WAT by carefully informing them that we know exactly where they all live. Because of this, we can now share with you our findings as follows:
So all you really need to know is that our flagship "1/48th scale" has been renamed as "40mm" to save us typing the extra eight characters. We apologize for any inconvenience. November 2006We hope your preparations for the festive season are progressing well, and you're adequately stocked with holly, tinsel and egg-nog. To help ease you into the holiday spirit, we've put the finishing touches to a series of traditional 40mm Pirates in order to assist your celebrations. So avast me hearties, and ready-yea t'board that mince-pie off the port bough - ahaar! July 2006After establishing the online ordering system ostensibly to prevent the constant stream of enquiries, we've been hoist by our own petard in that people now seem to be actually using it. However, despite the unprecedented level of unwelcome work this has generated, we've decided to continue with the experiment. As only a very few of our staff have been granted the luxury of a few days off, to observe the rare breaks in the cloud base this summer, we've managed to organize ourselves enough to finally bring you pictures of our fine 40mm Plains Indian foot figures in the shady depths of the catalogue. Once the few, the happy few, have been counted back in to their work harnesses our scheduled releases will continue in the Autumn. The first of these will be more modern infantry, more old west (especially civilians), and the first of our patent-applied-for modern conversion sets. These latter products will comprise sets of replacement heads to add new life to those battle-weary veterans already in your possession. Simply snip, saw-off, or otherwise remove the existing head and then pin, glue, or otherwise affix the shiny new pate according to your ghoulish whims. We're proving again that wargaming can be even more dangerous! March 2006There's a well-worn saying in business circles: "diversify or die". Well, this month we're particularly proud to announce that we've finally found a way to do both with the release of our brand new 40mm modern horror range: "Dead Reckoning". So now you can finally breathe new life into your gaming with shambling undead husks of all the contemporary classic zombies from office workers to officers of the law. And in case you tire of pitting these relentless monstrosities against the finest from our ranges of modern armed forces, we've added some suitably modern heroines to assist them. "The horror … the horror…" January 2006To celebrate the New Year we're pleased to announce the biggest news in HLBS history since the launch of our website: online ordering! If you've noticed the shiny new PayPal logo above and the "View Cart" button to the left, you'll probably have already worked out that armed only with a PayPal account you can now order from us completely electronically. Once you've added your choices to your shopping cart you can follow the checkout link to complete your order, including both payment and address details, over the secured link to PayPal. Once the order is completed you will get a confirmation email, including an itemized list of your order, direct from PayPal. No details of any kind will be stored by us on this site. Also, as an added bonus, all internet orders will be shipped at a special flat rate of 10% (with a minimum charge of £1:00). August 2005This month our devotion to duty has brought a dramatic increase in the number of pictures available to view in the catalogue, as well as numerous site improvements. In response to a number of recent queries we've reviewed our ordering details in order to make our products more accessible. And finally, if you haven't done so already, please go immediately and check out our revolutionary new actual size "pond scum" figures, but remember to leave your brain here for safekeeping. March 2005Well this month there have been so many changes that, to be quite honest, we've completely lost track. The main thing you'll no doubt notice is the giant technical leap forwards in our already smashing website. In our tireless pursuit of excellence we've completely redesigned our catalogue to make room for all the splendid new items we just couldn't squeeze into the old one. So be prepared for the odd technical hitch. January 2005White Rabbits! In order to celebrate the new year we've decided to turn over an old leaf and release some sparkling new 28mm products. These can be found in the newly appointed Geographical Society catalogue pages, along with many other changes too numerous to mention. So we're not going to. November 2004It may not snow on Christmas Day. There may not be chestnuts roasting on braziers, nor carollers managing to sing in tune - but at least some stout souls can be relied upon to always make the effort. In order to place ourselves firmly in the latter category, we've introduced yet another 40mm masterpiece in the form of a brand new range of figures from the French Indian War. There's no need to thank us: it was the least we could do. August 2004This month sees an unprecedented expansion in our popular catalogue galleries, with over forty new images covering selections from our 40mm Old West figures, as well as The Paper Street Soap Company range announced in June. So now you'll have something to look at while you're keeping out of the sun. June 2004Good news continues this month for our 40mm collectors, with no fewer than three brand spanking new catalogue pages.
Finally this month, those of you still recovering from the use of the word "spanking", mere sentences ago, can now relax by trying to identify the new members in our strapping line-up of 40mm Buccaneers and Pirates. So welcome to the continually improving HLBS website: it still makes no sense, but at least it's still free! |
