You may
have noticed some of the ranges disappearing from the "Getting Some"
section on the blog.
As it is, the range has gotten too big for me to keep
everything available and some moulds have indeed reached the end of their
natural lifespan and need to be replaced. Now as I don't want them to go to the
place that miniatures go to when they become OOP and since I'm not done adding
to the range, I found another way, thanks to a throwaway comment from my
trusted mouldmaker.
From this
day forward, the production and
distribution of the Dwarf and Plump Halfling ranges will be taken care
of by my friends at The Assault Group. Since they use the same mouldmaker, this
means there will be no change in the quality of the castings.
The
advantages of this arrangement are legion:
- faster turnaround on restocks as moulding and
casting will be done in-house;
- online shopping facilities that mean you no
longer have to search to the blog and copy-paste your wants list and personal
info into an e-mail;
- online payment options shouldn't be limited
to Paypal any longer;
- shipping will be straight from the source, no
more middleman;
- I free up a lot more time to focus on
expanding the range!
That's
right, this is by no means the end of those ranges. I will keep adding new
releases to both the dwarf and halfling range, we're far from done yet. I'll
just have to worry less about moulding, casting, stocking and processing orders
(even though the magnificent Svennn took a large share of the load on that
one).
Downtime
for the back-catalogue should be reduced to a minimum, while the good people at
TAG sort through the mould and start adding the sets to their webstore (I'm
told this has already begun). So normal service should be resumed before long,
with a little more added comfort. Their aim is to have them up for pre-order
shortly, for delivery in January.
Meanwhile,
I'll be showing off some more additions to the range here in a couple of days.
