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NEWS
BITS AND PIECES
MINIATURE NEWS
Our latest miniatures release is now complete - a little later than planned (not unusual for us!) This month sees the first models from a new fantasy army - the "Temple of the Light". These are the "regular" troops armed with sword, axe, spear and bow. The auxiliary troops (sword and bow) plus the Priestess Guard and scorpion heavy infantry will be following later.
Our next release will be the Tribal Heavy Cavalry. These miniatures are very, very late in arriving and this has been due to production costs being far too high. Happily we have finally found a way to reduce costs and so will now be able to put these miniatures into our fantasy range. As a bonus, we are now close to offering the cavalry mounts (the Forest Walkers) as seperate miniatures, as part of our Creature Range. These models will be available without the ropes and saddle strapping which are part of the cavalry mount miniatures. There are images of these and the Tribal Cavalry now posted on our Workshop Page.
Less than good news is that we have just received word that our casting costs have risen again, due to the big increase in world metal prices. At the moment we are going through the figures to see what effect it will have on us. We have absorbed all increased costs, except postage, over a period of time so have managed to maintain our prices for the past several years. We are hoping that we can continue without a price increase.
We have a lot of images on our Workshop Page and we'll be adding to them as we finalise extra models for the ranges we're currently working on.
ORDERING
We strongly recommend that people read our Ordering Page. This sets out the ways to order our miniatures, has a link to PayPal and now also has a link to a currency converter which should help overseas customers in pricing their orders before emailing us. One other point that we have clarified on this page is that there are MINIMUM postage charges that apply. These minimum charges are the base cost as charged to us by Australia Post.
TOURNAMENT SPONSORSHIP
For a long time now we have been sponsoring tournaments around the world by supplying miniatures
for prizes. At the moment we are re-thinking just how best this could be done in the future. We have an idea which we will be contacting NAF about and will post more information on this soon.
WORK IN PROGRESS
We do have a lot of miniatures in the process of sculpting, moulding
and planning - the following is part of the work we have going at the moment:
FANTASY RANGE
Work is now almost complete for the first of the two new fantasy armies we are preparing, and the second army is well under way. First releases are now out and more will follow shortly. There is also a third army in planning stage which means we still have an awful lot of work in front of us! We will keep you posted as we progress.
CHARACTER RANGE
In 2007 we added three new miniatures to this range. We will be continuing to produce more Character models in between our larger projects.
SCI-FI RANGE
The first of the new Politburo Guard miniatures were released in March. This is a much expanded range from the old Guard we discontinued about three or four years ago. With the 'Elite Guard' and 'Youth Brigade' units there will also be the 'Worker Battalion' - around 40 to 50 miniatures in total. Images of these are posted on our Workshop Page.
GRIDIRON RANGE
At Cancon we did get a lot of very helpful suggestions about new teams. From this we are now looking at a possible new team for later this year and will post more information as time passes.
PAINTED MINIATURES
We have an arrangement with Warpaint Painting Service, based in Melbourne, to have Shadowforge miniatures supplied painted to your requirements. Unfortunately we will have to discontinue this service temporarily as Warpaint is now fully committed to work for the next few months.
We apologise for this and will let you all know as soon as Warpaint is able to provide this service for us again.
To see the quality of their work please visit their site:warpaint.com.au.
CONVENTIONS
Each year we plan to be at several gaming conventions in Australia, hope to see you at one of them!
YOUR COMMENTS
If you have any comments or suggestions about Shadowforge miniatures please let us know. We can take a LITTLE
criticism (and lots of praise) but we would like your input so we can improve the range and maintain
the best possible standard in our miniatures. Also, if there are any figures you would like to see included
in the range, please let us know so that we can see if this is possible.
