Tabletop Warhammer?

Pretty much. GW are actually proud of never doing sales and never doing discounts. You should read some of the shareholder info that is available. Some of the arrogance about their own products is astounding.
 
Spuj1988 said:
Just measured mine as best I could.

3.4cm wide at the base and 4.2/4.3cm tall.
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Thanks for that, sorry didn't reply sooner.

Also after reading a thread over on Warseer had a go at painting with only washes last night.

So this is my first attempt with a Lizard Krox.

1. Started off with GW white spray

2. Washed with Nuln Oil [I need to try this again without this step to see the difference]

3. Dry brushed with white

4. Washed with 2 coats of Druchii Violet

5. I cheated and painted the wooden part of the axe with a normal brown.

6. The spine plates, the head and ball of the axe, claws, bands on arms were done with Sakura paint pens 0.7mm and 1.0mm

7. Washed the Sakura parts with Nuln Oil just to take the edge off.

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I have to say it was a nice way to paint, I know using paint pen's is cheating, but I can not get the finish I want with washes, but I think it has come out ok and I look forward to peoples advice, C&C etc

Thanks

Kimbie
 
I'm visiting the folks and have dug out my old Citadel Miniatures. There are some great old memories attached to them. Now though, I have a decision to make:

  1. Sell them.
  2. Give them away to a really good painter in return for a few painted up nicely.
  3. Keep them for if I have a son.

Choices, choices. I'm off to inventory them. :)
 
Edrof said:
I'm visiting the folks and have dug out my old Citadel Miniatures. There are some great old memories attached to them. Now though, I have a decision to make:

  1. Sell them.
  2. Give them away to a really good painter in return for a few painted up nicely.
  3. Keep them for if I have a son.

Choices, choices. I'm off to inventory them. :)
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Let us know what you have and might have some off ya!
 
Quick update on Maelstrom. I ordered some paints and varnishes about 5-6 weeks ago. Sent 3 e-mails asking why order was still sitting at 'processing' a month later. Phone number given is just ringing wih no-one answering. Then I read about all the shenanigans and e-mail again cancelling my order as I couldn't see a way to do so from my orders page.

Got an e-mail back the day after saying they were splitting the order as some parts were unavailable. I mailed them again saying 'too bad-already cancelled' but they sent a package anyway. So, I'm starting a disputed payment with my card provider as they're obviously just ignoring their e-mails apart from when you put 'cancelled' in the heading.

On a better note - put a paint order in with Models for Sale. Realised I'd got a wrong paint in the order. They offered replacements from paint matching as they couldn't find the one I wanted and couldn't have been nicer (e-mailed me staight back). Turns out Vallejo spells Mahogany as Mahagany in the Air line. So once that was sorted, they changed it with no fuss and sent the order the same day. Excellent customer service.
 
Just totted it all up. I have quite a lot of High Elf (56), some Dwarf (33) and a handful of Skaven and Orc & Goblin (20) pieces. A handful of Space Marines, 1 Terminator, a Commissar dude, an Ogryn minus its head, a chaos marine, and an old Leman Russ Primarch in bad condition.

I also have some plastic Epic stuff, although I never played it; including 22 plastic Rhinos and a battered Imperator Titan. I have entire Chaos, Dwarf and Undead Blood Bowl teams, and a smattering of Man O War.

Out of interest, do people take on commissions for painting pieces? If so what price, roughly?
 
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Loads of people take commissions. Prices vary greatly depending on standard and location. I have seen anywhere from £2 per figure to £300 per figure. It will depend what you are after.

Some of the cheaper involve shipping out to Thailand/Korea etc.
 
As above, prices can vary greatly for commissions. There are usually different levels of painting service from table top quality which is just a standard paintjob with nothing fancy, up to pro painted which are usually pieces of artwork.

Head over to Dakka Dakka and have a look at some of the stuff on there. Some of the commission painters have project logs or showcases of their work.
 
Well Maelstrom have finally come clean:

http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk/

Maelstrom Games said:
OFFICIAL NOTICE

Maelstrom Games Ltd. has ceased trading and will enter liquidation at some point over the next few months.

A creditor of Maelstrom Games Ltd., Wayland Games Ltd., issued a Statutory Demand under section 123(1)(a) or 221(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act, 1986 on the 17th of October, 2012 for £99,773.61 plus costs of issuing and serving the demand.

This debt was purchased from Simple Miniature Games by Wayland Games Ltd on the 1st of October, 2012 and payment of this debt was demanded in full by Wayland Games after seven days had elapsed. Unfortunately, Maelstrom Games Ltd. could not pay Wayland Games Ltd. this debt in full within those seven days.

Previous to the debt purchase, Maelstrom Games Ltd. was servicing the debt owed to Simple Miniature Games at the rate of £500 per working day, claimed by the creditor when convenient for him by charging a credit card owned by Maelstrom Games Ltd., which had been occurring since mid-June and continued to late September, the last payment being taken on the 25th. Maelstrom Games Ltd. did not cancel these payments and were not aware that this debt was being transferred.

Maelstrom Games Ltd. offered to pay the debt purchased by Wayland Games Ltd. in the same manner as it had paid Simple Miniature Games, but this was not taken up by Wayland Games Ltd.

Maelstrom Games Ltd. can only apologise to those customers whose orders have not been fulfilled as it is now impossible for Maelstrom Games Ltd. to fulfil them, excepting those for Mierce Miniatures products (fulfilled by Mierce Miniatures in November) and Battlefront Miniatures products (fulfilled by Maelstrom Games in partnership with Battlefront Miniatures and Maunsfeld Gaming in November), all of which will be sent by Maelstrom Games Ltd. Other customer orders for certain ranges may be fulfilled in the future and any customers whose orders can be fulfilled will be contacted by Maelstrom Games in due course.

All creditors will be issued the relevant notices by the assigned Insolvency Practitioner when Maelstrom Games Ltd. enters liquidation.
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Maelstrom are blaming Wayland but Wayland have issued a statement themsleves:

Wayland Games said:
Some time ago we became aware of discussions at various events where there was a constant chatter about the financial situation that Maelstrom Games found itself in and the significant debts it suffered from. We ignored them to begin with but it seemed that in the events scene in the UK it was being discussed openly. We noticed that tickets were being sold a year in advance for some events. We then see hundreds of thousands of pounds being pushed into a miniatures line whilst Maelstrom Games still owed significant monies to suppliers. Suppliers we (and countless other retailers) share and rely upon for the timely distribution of product to fulfil our customer orders.

This industry is in our opinion, too small and too close for such a situation to occur, as the wider implications would mean hundreds of people – customers – you – potentially losing the money you had paid out for product and event tickets.

It was clear that Maelstrom Games Limited were in significant trouble, yet they continued to invest in other areas despite still owing very significant and growing amounts to suppliers causing a great deal of pressure on the supply chain.

In early May we decided to offer to buy Maelstrom Games, including honouring all liabilities for the business. Our email was ignored. In late May a follow up email was sent and again that was ignored.

We therefore looked to protect our customers by looking to protect the supply chain and also ourselves (as well as any of the other independent retailers who rely on this same supply chain) from the collapse of a major retailer, and managed to purchase the main debt that Maelstrom owe, in an attempt to force a resolution, rather than allow an uncontrolled collapse and all the knock on effects that would unleash on the industry.

The situation is complicated and there is quite a process to move through, but we are undertaking this action with the best of intentions for our customers, customers of Maelstrom Games and our supply chain, and will endeavor to keep all affected notified of developments as they occur.
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and to back up Waylands side of events the distributor Simple Miniatures have also issued a statement:

Simple Miniatures said:
Statement Regarding Maelstrom Games Ltd

On the 1st October we made the difficult decision to assign the debt owed to Simple Miniature Games to Wayland Games Ltd for a nominal fee.

This debt at the point sold stood at just under £100,000 and has been outstanding at that level and higher for over 12 months. This debt built up during a short space of time during the busiest period in our 10 year history just after significant amounts had been paid for other invoices. Promises were made to clear a large portion of the debt within a short space of time but that payment never materialised. A repayment plan was then agreed which should have seen the debt reduced significantly beyond the point that it actually has been. Unfortunately many of these payments were consistently declined and at the last the payments were continually declined.

It was around this point in conjunction with our reading into the accounts of Maelstrom Games that we contacted debt recovery and debt purchase specialists in order to take further action and begin the recovery of assets to cover some the debt.

Demands for the reimbursement of the failed payments and for payment of stock supplied on the 12th September for Maelstrom Games customer orders were completely ignored. As such on October 1st 2012 the debt was sold to the company which offered the best solution, not immediately for us, but for what I considered the best long term solution for our industry in the UK. We chose Wayland Games as they have a vested interest in the hobby and industry and will offer better protection to potential customers, suppliers and manufacturers, other companies would not.

We have continued to trade as normal during the entire period of this debt and continue to order from our suppliers and pay them on time. Maelstrom Games are only one customer out of several dozen and our whole customer base is far, far greater than any one company.

You should understand that Simple Miniature Games have supported Maelstrom through the last year even though we knew they were struggling but with our support they would continue to trade. However there are only so many broken promises that you can listen to and it became perfectly clear that assets of Maelstrom Games were being moved to other companies that had been funded by monies which should have been paid to suppliers including ourselves. There was no way Maelstrom Games could pay the debt and it would appear that steps were being taken to avoid the debts and protect other assets.

This debt has not adversely affected Simple Miniature Games as a company as we can afford to continue to trade with this debt outstanding due to the reliability of our customer base and strong product lines. It has however affected myself and my wife personally as the reserves we have built over 10 years of hard work have had to cover the debt. It was always our intention to use around half of this profit to expand our warehouse and bring in another two or three new ranges including manufacturing our own. However this will now have to wait whilst we consolidate and build up the reserves for our future once again.
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Just seems like more evidence that Maelstrom were essentially running a ponzi scheme to fund fake expansions and false product lines. I hope everybody on here got any outstanding orders in time. The one thing I find totally abhorant is how Eye Of The Storm is still allowed to trade particularly in light of the asset transfers that were going on in Maelstrom in the months leading up to their collapse.

I have to say I have been increasingly using Wayland over the last 18 months as their service and website was just so much better than Maelstroms.
 
I have to say I was lucky. I was going to place an order with Maelstrom not too long ago. However at the same time I signed up on Dakka Dakka and found the huge thread about ongoing issues. It seems that thread saved me from a lot of hassle.

I haven't used Wayland yet. There is a company that is local in Wiltshire that I found that have the same prices as Wayland so have been using them but I'm sure I will use Wayland at some point.
 
I do wonder how well the Eye of the Storm will do as its the same bloke and I know a lot of people will not buy from him now.

I also think other sites might have issues, I had an order with Total Wargamer for some CSM stuff after a week of hearing nothing and sending emails, took me posting on their Facebook to get a response, and told they can only order a few things a week from GW and they could not give me a delivery date, so cancelled the order.

Apart from Forge World stuff I get all my GW needs from a local shop who runs a gaming club and gives us discount on GW stuff so that is good, and FW stuff we just nip over to Nottingham to get it as its cheaper than having it posted since postage is something like 12% of the order

Kimbie
 
Board-game Talk

Been playing Forbidden Island with my 6 year old daughter. Would highly recommend the game to anyone into Board gaming.

Its on sale at Amazon for around £12 all-in. brilliant V-F-M and we have yet to "beat" the board yet :)
 
TheMightyTen said:
Thanks for that, looks a perfect game for the Christmas break with visitors :), purchased!
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Good man :)

The game is really good if you have a spare 30 minutes. Its perfect for the kids as they do not lose concentration and it encourages team co-op. Ignore the Ages 10-up.

I love boardgames and bought Castle Panic for my daughter for Christmas. That has really good reviews although we have not played it yet.

Anyone interested in real boadrgames (and not your Toys R Us "MB Games" ones :)) should make there way to http://www.boardgamegeek.com
 
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