Sit Rep

Firstly, I would like to thank all those of you who have left get-well comments on the blog and those who have e-mailed their best wishes. It is truly appreciated and my wife, who came out of hospital yesterday, was amazed at how many people who did not even know her, were wishing her well. I told her wargamers are like that :-) Thanks again everyone.

Well, as I said, she came home yesterday, with the surgery being successful and everything going according to plan so far. She is currently sunning herself in the back garden, while I snatch a few minutes to write this. My, this domestication lark is bloody difficult isn't it? An hour nearly to change a double bed duvet cover? I thought it would be a 2 minute job dammit, but it's not easy at all. I'm learning a lot these last couple of days, just exactly what my good lady does every day and I'm more than a little embarrassed at how little I seem to have contributed in the past. I think I need to reform . . . .

Anyway, back to the toys. The Jägers are here and available, but if you place an order, please be a little patient with me if things don't turn around as fast as they usually do, for obvious reasons.

Richard has finished sculpting the "secret" project and the masters will be here tomorrow, if all goes as planned, but I think I will have them cast before I show them to you, so I can black wash them, like the last ones. Greens don't always show things up nicely.

Thanks again for all your good wishes.

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Stewart at Griffin Moulds informs me that the Jägers will be with me on Monday, but please don't rush to order, as I have a bit going on from Monday, as my wife is going into hospital for surgery. Hopefully, if all goes well, she will be coming out again on Tuesday, which is our 30th wedding anniversary. What a way to spend it eh?

Anyway, she will require 6 weeks complete rest following the op and I will be stepping in as mum, dad, housekeeper, nurse, taxi-driver and whatever other role comes up during that time, so my turnaround of orders is going to be hit quite drastically I fear for a few weeks.

Feel free to place orders as usual, but please be patient waiting for them to be processed, as I am obviously going to be quite busy and distracted, as my wife is much more important to me than the toys and her care is going to be my highest priority.

Thanks for your understanding.

Frank

Oooooooo They're here . . ..

The Grenz arrived late yesterday afternoon, but I didn't have time to sort through them as I was getting ready to go out last night.

My good lady and I went for a trip back through time, to watch a live performance of the 30th Anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds. It was fantastic !!! Justin Hayward singing "Forever Autumn" was like listening to him 30 years ago. A night to remember.

Anyway, back on topic, the Grenz are here now and available to those who want them :-)

Just a bit of an update

After much deliberation, I decided that the best way to go with the Grenz and Jägers was one figure in one mould, because wargamers being what they are, probably wouldn't want these in packs or sets.

I did consider putting the Officers and Drummers in one mould and the rest individual, but even then people would probably want uneven numbers which would leave me with multiples of officers or drummers every time I ordered more. Also a lot of gamers don't like kneeling figures etc and as these particular figures could operate as small skirmish groups or formed units, I'm sure there are some out there who would want all the same figure in multiples so that they looked right in a formation and wouldn't want some of the others at all.

All this taken into consideration made me opt for making the figures available individually and to this end, I have sent off the masters for the Grenz to Griffin Moulds today, so they will be the first available. As soon as I can afford to, I will follow this up with the Jägers and will announce here when this happens.

With mould making time and casting time, I would imagine that the new figures will be ready within the next fortnight, but of course I will post when they are ready.

I have also been looking at the bigger picture of the SYW and after consultation with Richard and my uniforms guru Yanni (Ioannis), decided to add another element to the range, but I will elaborate more on that another time.

I am adding the Grenz to the list of available figures on the right, but please don't order any yet as they aren't actually available yet obviously. I will let you know when they are.

Happy painting and gaming, guys :-)

Frank

Forthcoming Light Infantry

I got the metal masters for the Grenz and Jägers back from Griffin Moulds the other day and I have given one of each the black wash treatment, so you can have a look at them. These are some way off being produced yet, so please don't e-mail me any orders for any. I think it is going to be a case of one unique figure per production mould with these, in order to offer the variety that people will want, other than whacking them all on one mould and saying it is a set of skirmishers, as I can't see many people wanting multiple drummers and officers etc for these.

Consequently, it is going to be a very expensive setup and will take some time for me to get round to it, because I have family birthdays and my wedding anniversary (30th), all coming one after the other, starting in July through to September and I anticipate being broke for the duration :-)

Anyway, here are the piccies of the forthcoming Croats and Jägers and I hope you like them. Click on pics to see an enlarged version.

Ok, thats your lot for now, so I guess it will be a period of famine for a while, until I have something new to report. Have a nice weekend everyone. I'm off to the Partizan show at Newark tomorrow and am really looking forward to it.

New Figures Ready Now

The shipment of Civilian Labourers, Drovers and Wagon Drivers has arrived and are available now. Please note that the labourers tools and all other items of equipment/accessories are not available seperately.

Coming soon :-

As usual, click on the images to see a larger version.

Partizan May 24th 2009

I will be attending this show, as it is one of my all time favourites and just wanted to say that if anyone else who reads this is going and wants to order anything and save on postage, I will be happy to deliver in person on the day.

All I would ask is that if you do want to order anything for Partizan, please allow enough time for me to order anything that may be low on numbers from the caster, in good time for it to be delivered and for me to make up the order.

I would hope to have the drovers, drivers and labourers in time for Partizan too, as I am sending them off this week.