When we took over Imperial Miniatures we ‘inherited’ quite a number of already painted sets of figures. Over the Christmas break we decided that we would rather that these painted sets be in the hands of collectors rather than sat on our shelves in the workshop.
Starting tomorrow, 11 January 2022, the price of ‘Painted Sets in Stock’ will be reduced by 50%. Laura is photographing more of the sets we have. They will be posted on the website over the coming days/weeks.
Please note that any orders placed with us from 3rd December 2021 will not be processed until 10th January 2022.
This is because in December Antony (the ‘Chief Casting Officer’) is going to be very busy as he is leaving his current full-time job to focus fully on Imperial Miniatures in the New Year. Most of the month will be taken up with handover activities, clearing out desks, leaving do’s, and a break in Northumberland that was arranged before taking over Imperial Miniatures.
Orders for castings placed before 3rd December 2021 are currently being worked on.
We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank you for your continued support and encouragement and we are looking forward to supporting you in the New Year.
Imperial Miniatures buys Graham Mollard’s Napoleonic range. We are picking the moulds up after the London Toy Soldier Show. The figures will be available on our website in the New Year. A great honour to be able to keep Graham’s excellent figures available to collectors.
We are pleased to say that orders are being sent out to customers. Thank you for your support and patience. It was a great feeling for Anita, Laura and I to see the first packages go to the Post Office.
The last week has seen a lot of progress in organising the workshop. We were able to start looking at orders and get ready to fire up the casting machines. All of the current orders that customers have placed are on the packing bench. We have picked what we can from stock but almost every order needs something casting.
That is the great news. We turned on the casting machine and melting pots yesterday and have begun to spin the moulds and pour metal. We are getting used to how the equipment it ‘feels’ but figures, arms etc are being cast. It appears at the moment that I am good at casting arms, the rear quarters of a horse and figures that customers have not ordered. Casting continues and we are looking forward to sending out customer’s orders very soon. Thanks to everyone for their messages and support.
Hi everyone, I just wanted to give an update on where we are with moving the operation from Woking to Bollington. If you have been following us on Facebook then you will know that all of the equipment, moulds, stock (both white metal and painted) and a whole lot of other material has now been moved to our new workshop (Mike now has a lot room for his wargames table!).
We have begun the process of organising moulds and putting them on to shelves, 700 down and a lot more to go!
This week will see us complete the organising of the moulds and then begin to organise the stock, once the new shelving has arrived. Casting cannot start as yet, as the machines are buried under boxes and bags of foam.
Hopefully, we will have them unburied and begin to look at fulfilling orders by the beginning of next week. Thanks to those of you who have already placed orders through the website.
It will take some time to arrange the sale and handover of the business and to move everything to the new unit in Cheshire and while that is being sorted, this website will be open for browsing but you will be unable to order anything. Normal service will resume on October 1st.
Mike Lewis will finish off all outstanding casting orders in the next couple of weeks and painted orders will be completed in October.
Please note that our prices have risen as I have had to register for VAT as of March 1st.
This does mean that overseas customers will have the 20% VAT removed from their orders.
EU customers may have to pay their own country’s VAT and import tax on their orders.
