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27th May 2009
Ecclescake!
Added a new model to the sci-fi range, one Malcolm Ecclescake, who should make an excellent civilian type or indeed some sort of enigmatic, time-bothering interfering do-gooder. Check him out in the pre-order section now!
11th May 2009
Drags-on!
Updated the WIP page for the dragon - click on the menu to the left or here to see the latest pics. This is proving to take a LOT longer than I thought it would.
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1st May 2009
Gone Sculpting!
I'm taking the week off from Saturday 2nd May to Sunday 10th to do some much needed sculpting:
OK, so it turns out that doing everything myself all the time, like in the old days (Remember, my helper Craig left at the end of march) leaves me with either no time or no enthusiasm to do any sculpting. It doesn't help that, shortly before Salute, I had to remake around 25 old production moulds, and those same replacement moulds turned out to be inferior rubber and all need replacing yet again. It's the time it all takes that annoys me most, never mind the money. I could (easily) rant at length, but you don't want to read about that , you want happy tidings of joy and all that crud. Well, the strawberry plants are coming on a treat, and I've branched out into tomatoes and potatoes, so I hope that gives you a warm and cozy glow. :)
Anyway, the upshot of it is that I'm taking next week off to do some sculpting. I need to make some headway on this dragon for one - doing the scales is so time consuming it's not funny and if I don't get it completed soon, it's going to be a real millstone around my neck. Only way to do it is to take the time to do it, as obvious as that sounds. So no orders are going out next week. Sorry for the inconvenience! Hopefully during the week I'll be able to post some update pics on the dragon, once I've reassembled it from the sections it's currently in, and some pics of my new Time Bothering Vagrant if I get to mould him. (At the moment he's in so many different shades of putty you can't actually see what's going on properly) You never know, I might squeeze some sculpting time in on something else whilst doing the dragon too.
I've also got some new communications type options for you - Facebook and Twitter. I know the traditional Wargamer is something of a luddite but these are really quite useful; ways to keep tabs on people, especially Twitter, I've found. Both are free to use and you can sign up on my Facebook page if you like as one of my Friends, or Follow me onTwitter. I particularly like Twitter out of the two as one can put a series of micro-updates out about anything that comes to mind without a big self-important newsletter - my current followers have already heard about my potential new workshop, how the dragon is going and so on, you can even use your mobile phone with it. And of course, stalk celebrities online (See my list of people I'm following)!
My Facebook page: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=695581924
My Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/Heresy_Andy
If anyone is interested in a job, Mon-Fri 10am to 4pm, £6/hour once trained, then let me know. I need a new minion to take over casting and packing duties!
Have a great weekend!
All the best
Andy
2nd April 2009
New Stuff!
Check out the pre-order page (see menu to the far left)- a new Deathball figure and an apprentice Mage!
Goodbye and good luck to Craig!
YFor teh last two years, I have had the invaluable help of Craig Nunn, who has come in two or three days a week and spent all his holidays helping me out for free. But now, he has decided to move on and start hios own Painting-For-Hire business. I wish him good luck, and would like everyone to share these fond memories of his final two days at work - Salute 2009! Firstly, in the bar at the Premier Inn the night before:
And secondly, in the van on the way back, about five minutes into the journey after the obligatory stop at the pizza hut near the venue:
He's such a gentle snorer.
We didn't have as good a Salute financially as I had hoped for...
Although our friends at Black Scorpion and Hasslefree apparently had a cracking day, we just about broke even. I confess myself disaapointed, but we'll be right back there next year with even more stuff to choose from! You see if we aren't!
The day itself was as fun and crazy as always, of course. I spent most of it explaining about the Dragon, which I brought with me, and about the difference between green stuff, brown stuff and pro-create, which is normal... I only left the stand three times during the day for loo breaks and didn't get to see anything (except the floating wall trying to demolish Hasslefree's stand beside us - see the FOD for details!) yet again!
Dragon Update !
Salute is over and done with so i am trying desperately to get some sculpting time on the Dragon this month! But without Craig to help out, it's going to be even trickier to get him finished quickly, now! I'm hoping to get the sculpting done by the end of May in between everything else, and then get him off to the resin casters. He's probably going to cost at least £100, and will be limited in number - so don't miss out. Something around 80 have been reserved alreadys and I think it'll be 250 at maximum - it depends on how difficult and expensive it turns out to be to cast up, and how many moulds it eats! (I'll be doing some of it in metal such as the end of the tail and potentially snappable wing claws, etc)
21st March 2009
It's almost here! And we're almost ready!
Yes, for the first time ever we're in danger of being fully ready for Salute, the Christmas Day of the Wargaming World, the South London Warlord's massive convention show in london's Excel exhibiton centre. We'll be there alongside our old chums hasslefree on stand T104 - the bottom right corner of the floorplan as you look at it - simply turn right as you enter the doors and head for the corner of the room. I'll be bringing the dragon (once I've re-attached its various limbs) for you to look at and maybe even a small amount of pre-release castings if all goes according to plan during the next week. (It may not. Currently, I'm still awaiting some magnetic discs to make our setting up faster and they were supposed to have arrived by now but may not do so until the day before we leave, which means a lot of last minute work atttaching them to the bases of all the figures for the cabinet. Ah, well...it wouldn't be Salute without a last minute scramble to sort stuff out the day before!)
19th January 2009
I'm desperate to pay my Tax Bill of £8,000 - can you help by paying a deposit on this dragon, which will be a limited edition, and finished by summer of this year? Do you know a friend who loves dragons who might like this one? Send them to me! Now!
To give your opinion on the Dragon and what you'd like to see me do with it (Eh?), go post on the Forum of Doom!
New Postage Rates
Sadly, I can no longer afford to subsidise the shpping. I worked out that I lost around four hundred pounds a month on the shipping each month last year. Heresy is in a desperate state financially due to huge loans that suddenly had double interest applied to them by Cahoot (17.9% at time of writing, the interest alone is £200 a month) . For more info on the new shipping rates, click here.
19th December 2008
It's that most wonderful time of the year....ie two weeks off to do some sculpting, eat a fatal amount of chocolate and work out where to get £8,000 from!
From today (19th December) until January the 5th, 2009, Heresy is officially on holiday - no orders will be posted after this afternoon for two weeks. I'll be using the time to finish a few things and generally recharge before the hard slog of casting and packing for the two shows at the start of next year, hammerhead and Salute.
There's also the little matter of finding £8,000 to pay the taxman so i don't have to shut up shop. .Why do I not have the money, you ask? Well, unfortunately I have two huge loans, one from HSBC and one from Cahoot. It's the Cahoot one that's the killer; £15,000 at 17.9% interest. Interest on that one alone costs me £200 a month -although the actual payments I've been making are £400 a month, the total amount doesn't seem to be coming down. HSBC is another £240 a month. Then there's the mortgage, which thankfully has come down to £990 (although Northern rock haven't passed on that last massive interest rate cut, the barstewards) but for the last year has been coming in at around £1700 a month with insurance etc. Bills on top of that are £160 fo rthe electric and gas. Food extra, council tax at £160 a month, yadda yadda... Anyway, the long and the short is I've been scraping through on the bills and stuff but unable to put aside extra for tax. Which leaves me kind of stuck. I was going to sell the house last year but the arse dropped out of the housing market, almost like it knew...
So, if you have a few spare pounds to put my way over christmas, they'd be much appreciated! Along with any ideas for magic figures to raise money - I'm looking for the sort of thing that will guarantee multiple sales on one huge whopping sale per customer. My thoughts are running along the lines of a dragon or some sci-fi army guys. I needs me some units of stuff!
I'm also prepping for a new 15mm scale line of sci-fi figs! You can see the discussion on the FOD here.
Don't forget - the free shipping offer and the multiple item purchase discount prices (eg when you buy 'x' of one figure,the price comes down) are ending at the start of January - this is your last chance to get those offers! (As an example, in october I took £260 in postage from orders, but it cost me £900 to post all the orders - I just can't afford to subsidise it to that extent any more!) I will probably be putting in place shipping as a % of the order for the various countries.
27th November 2008
Loads of new stuff to pre-order! Some of it gross!
Go check out the pre-order page now!
26th November 2008
New home for the FOD!
The Forum of Doom has now moved to its new separate server and web address - make sure to update your bookmarks!
Let's hope this means the end of the Heresy site being down at the same time as the FOD!
25th November 2008
We're under attack!
The Forum of Doom suffered some sort of (assumed) hacking attack last night which obliged my webhosts to suspend the site entirely, temporarily - for the time being, the FOD has been removed whilst I transfer it to a separate server so that the Heresy site won't be lost at the same time and thus lose me precious, precious sales. Sorry for the inconvenience! Normal FOD service will be resumed once Chris K has had a look at the database to see if he can tell what exactly happened...there will be a new Forum of Doom web address so you will need to update your browser favourites once it comes back - stay tuned!
25th October 2008
"The Heretic's Ball Winners - Wave 1!"
Behold! The first batch of winners from this year's sculpting contest are now available to pre-order! The first three models to be released are The Space Adventuress, the Wraith and The Colossus! Congratulations to the sculptors - Andrew Rae and Justin Hackett - they were not only my favourite three but also the favourite three from the FOD poll too. There'll be more new figs in a week or so's time, once I've sorted out all the moulds etc for this lot and had a chance to master up the next wave. I'll also be bringing you some cute halfling militia with spears by Warren 'Vermis' Beattie, and a spiffy mage from Matt Lord. It's great to have a few new sculptor names in the range as well as some new models!
If you think you can cut it as a sculptor, why not send me a pic of your model? If it's good enough to go in the range, I'll be happy to make that happen! Email me at one of the usual addresses...
"Uh-oh. Taxes !"
Seems the Inland Revenue have brought forward the date for submitting taxes this year, which was something of a surprise. Fortunately the payment date is still the end of January next year. Unfortunately, I have no idea where I'm going to get the money from this time around - I need £6,000 to cover it, I reckon, so if you see anything at all that you fancy on the site, please buy it now so I can try to put some money aside. (I've been trying to do so all year but the blasted mortgage is through the roof and my £36,000 of loans are eating my income up. Thanks to Cahoot for putting the interest rate up to 16%. Cheers, much appreciated. Arse.)
I have several plans. One is to do a runner and live like a tramp. A second is to give up and get a real job doing something else. Another is to sculpt some massive figure that will cost £100 and hope 100 people buy it. Or some figures that everyone will need hundreds of to make armies with. Suggestions via the FOD, please!
10th October 2008
"All orders caught up with. Sale officially over!"
I have done nothing for the last three weeks but stare at a small area of white plywood behind the casting machine. Casting, casting , casting. And in between, mouldmaking to replace old crappy moulds that just won't hack it any more. The casting machine seems to be working well enough, although to my paranoid ears it doesn't sound quite sure of itself. But the important thing is that all the orders that were delayed, to the best of my knowledge, have been packed and sent. Huzzah!
If you don't receive your order in the next few days or so, please do let me know!
"And the winners are..."
The Heretic's Ball is over, and the winners are being chosen. I've got four so far, with the possiblity of two more. To see all the entries, click here . This weekend I hope to master up some of the first winners to be released, as well as make a production mould for one from the last contest I ran, one very Fat Ogre by Mark Craggs. It never stops, round here... Must finish off ome of my own sculpts as well, before it's back to the casting next week to catch up with the delayed Trade Orders...
9th September 2008
"Something expensive has gone wrong. It must be autumn!"
Yes, tomorrow scientists in Switzerland are switching on a machine that may or may not cause black holes to be formed, that may or may not dissipate instantly depending on if Stephen Hawking is right or isn't. If they do, all well and good. If they don't, whoops, sorry, there goes the planet. Still, at least that means I won't have to worry about the casting machine having broken down. Which, this being autumn, it has. Yes, every year around this time, for the last four years, some piece of machinery I won has broken down and needed fixing at precisely the same time as I have no money. It was the car, then the PC blew up, then the casting machine last year and, in a slight alteration to established protocol, this year it's the casting machine for the second time in a row. Yes, the new casting machine that I got one year and one crucial month ago, ie it's outside its twelve month warranty, yah-boo sucks to you. At least the manufacturers are giving me free collection and delivery but I'm still looking at several hundred pounds in repairs cos it's either a control board or the motor (and it'll take two weeks to get a new one of the latter). It has occurred to me that if I had a pound for every time a casting machine has broken down on me in the last 6 and a bit years of trading, I'd have four pounds. That might not sound like a lot, but it's four pounds too many.
So, with a sense of wretched anger and without banging my head on the desk too many times, I must yet again announce an impromptu sale to cover the fact that I'm not going to be able to send out many orders for the next two weeks - we were in the middle of casting up stock of everything in time for Salute next year, but half the drawers are empty, so chances are that a lot of people are going to have to wait for alot of things. if you're lucky, you might still get your order in good time, but you should expect to wait a couple of weeks until the machine comes back from repair. Sorry, it's unavoidable at this point.
Thus: it's free shipping and 20% off time again! I really need the cash, so please spread the word amongst your friends and get those orders in. Anyone ordering £25.00 or more gets 20% off, no questions asked. This offer only lasts as long as the machine is away, so if it comes back in a couple of days time, then you'll have missed your chance. My money's on the two weeks or more, though.
The first five people to spend £100 (after discount, ie the order total must be £100 or more) will also get a master casting of the trenchcoat ganger with mini-gun I've been working on. That's as many spare castings as I've got, so first come, first served!
Cheers
Andy
4th July 2008
Happy Birthday to my nephew, Alex!
Got bogged down with the sculpting. Been a bit depressed due to lack of money and social life, and the tax man wanting a couple of thousand I haven't got, etc,etc. Every time I picked up a sculpting tool I alowed myself to get distracted by something else instead, and then got angry about not sculpting, and then was too angry to sculpt. Vicious circle. But coming out of it now and to cheer myself up I've got a demon underway. Should be some pics in the next couple of weeks.
Orders have been a bit thin on the ground in the last couple of weeks - at one point I was getting around £11.00 a day, which will quickly put me out of business. So I'm begging you - if you fancy something, don't 'wait until later', buy it now!
21st May 2008
On Holiday!!
Special offers: Netherlord II
Only whilst we are on holiday!
PLUS:
Free Shipping on all orders over £10!
10% off all orders over £30!
20% off all orders of £100 or more!
Remember, no orders will be posted between now and 2nd June 2008 when we return!
See you then!
14th May 2008
On Holiday!!
Annoyingly, Craig has decided to take 2 weeks off starting 16th May and coming back to work on June 3rd! This means I won't be able to do anything other casting and packing so instead I am taking some time off myself, to catch up on my sculpting. It'd be nice to have a proper holiday but I can't afford to go anywhere again. No orders will be posted after Wednesday21st May until Tuesday 3rd June. if you have something urgent to order, please do so in the next few days! There will be free shipping on offer between the 21st and the 2nd to compensate for the delay. Hopefully at the end of it I will have some trenchcoat gang members and maybe even a new demon of some sort for you to pre-order.
Who'd have thought miniguns would be so hard to get one's sculpting head around?
30th April 2008
Yay! Salute's out of the way and I can get on with sculpting some stuff instead of casting and mouldmaking! On with the sci-fi!
New stuff in the Pre-order/Latest releases section - Paul Muller's Necromancer, Familiars and some HellHounds by yours truly are all available to buy right now! Go take a look!
26th February 2008
As you all know by now, I hate doing shows. It's been a long, long hike getting ready for Salute and a close run thing to even get any of the sculpts i've been working on finished in time for the show, never mind cast up!
26th February 2008
Here we are at the end of February. I'm now officially 33 and a bit, and still not rich. Not by a long shot. Oh, no. Bloomin' taxman...I hate January...
Dr Masterson has escaped government custody and can now be found in the sci-fi range where you can get him either individually or as part of the usual 2 for £5.00 deal. Click 'Sci-Fi' on the menu to the left.
If you go to the FOD and have a look in the sneak peek section you can see the new Hell Hounds I'm working on. I'm quite excited about these little puppies and hope to get 5 or so done for Salute in April, time permitting, as ever!
20th January 2008
Sale ended! Phew, what a lot of orders in the last twelve hours. If only I had that many orders every day, I'd be able to take on a full timer and get on with the important stuff like sculpting most of the time... There may be a slight delay in receiving your order as I work through this pile...! Thanks to everyone who chipped in!
16th January 2008 - Happy New Year...!
Sale ends soon! This weekend, (19th/20th January) in fact! This is your last chance to get 20% off all the miniatures regardless of order size, after this weekend we'll be going back to our usual "Spend '£50' to get '10% off' or £100 to get 20% off", approach. The free shipping levels will remains the same - i.e. spend £25.00 and the order goes post free, worldwide...
Don't miss out - order before Sunday - 20th January!
I'll be updating the site when I get out of bed on Sunday morning...
A slight delay on the Angel but he's almost ready to go into his final master mould. Needed to alter the bits so that he fitted together better - there were too many big gaps and twisted limbs that would have had people banging their heads in despair - but they seem to be fixed now. I'm putting the final touches on his alternate flaming sword and the pillar, should have them mastered this weekend and then it's straight into production casting to fill the dozens of pre-orders that are waiting! And after that I have to cast up even more for the Hammerhead show at Kelham Hall on February the 10th! (Hey, this year I get to take my birthday off - the 12th - for the first time in three years! Great!)
Goblins! I spent several weeks before christmas sculpting some goblin archers in between sorting out the Angel and the other models you saw in the sneak peek section, only to have said goblins wrecked during the moulding process, and due to an experimental new mould that i didn't realise was very soft, I didn't get any usable masters out of it all! Happily, I think I have managed to salvage something, and I am currently also cleaning up around 90 goblin related components, in between sculpting angel bits, which I am hoping to get sorted out for Hammerhead, but it'll be a very tight squeeze to get them done in time - stay tuned! As soon as I can get some usable pictures I'll let you know. If you come along to the show, ask me if I have any Goblins for you to see or buy!
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