LATEST NEWSKICKSTARTER IS GO! ONE WEEK LEFT!CLICK THE LINK AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE! DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF WORK INVOLVED IN RUNNING THE KICKSTARTER, I CANNOT POST ANY STORE ORDERS OUT UNTIL 4TH SEPTEMBER!
THE RETURN OF OUR BIG MONSTERS - IN RESIN!You would not believe how badly Heresy has been hammered since Kickstarter launched. All those projects being run by big well-funded companies that don't need the money suck the hobby money out of people's Paypal accounts and leave none for us poor one-man shows that could really do with the cash! Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! So I'm taking the opportunity that is Kickstarter to raise the funds needed to pay for the silicon etc I ned to reproduce all the old big monsters that Heresy used to produce in metal before it got silly expensive a few years back.
Including the much sought after and rare Netherlord mk 1 in both winged and spined variants! The main aim of the Kickstarter is to raise enough funds to be able to close the shop for a few months to concentrate on casting dragons and monsters or maybe hire some staff to speed things up, so be warned that if it's really successful, you might not be able to order anything via the shop for a bit... ;) LYING LIARS WHO LIE FORCE SHIPPING COST HIKELast year, a man from Iowa City, let's call him Justin, ordered some figures off me. He then emailed me to say they hadn't arrived. I sent him another box. He then said this hadn't arrived either and claimed the money back from Paypal. No boxes were ever returned to me. He didn't pay for trackable shipping so i had no way to prove he'd had either box. End result, I was out over £100 of stock and £25 of shipping. Now a man called, let's say, Patrick also from Iowa City, has claimed via Paypal that his £84 order hasn't arrived that he wanted in time for this weekend; he didn't pay for express shipping DESPITE WANTING IT FOR A SET DATE. Despite also the fact it's only been three weeks, he has escalated it to a claim on Paypal. Just checked him out on Facebook. Guess who's on his friends list? That's right, Justin. So basically I'm being ripped off for another £100 of stock and shipping, and now I'm going to have to change the cart so that anyone from overseas has to pay the extra £7.00 shipping charge for trackable shipping. Everyone loses. Well done, Patrick and Justin. I hope you feel like powerful manly men playing with your stolen toys. You've made life that little bit worse for me and for all my customers. (Paypal always finds in favour of buyers no matter what proof of shipping one has, they don't even read the evidence.)
I have now added a £7.00 handling fee to orders from 'Rest Of The World' countries, which covers USA, Canada, Australia and The Far East. This means any order from there will pay £7.00 extra which will cover the trackable/signed for service to their country. If you're one of my regular customers from over the years, I will refund the extra fee or give you extra miniatures towards the cost if you wish. I don't see why the people who've kept me in business should suffer for the ones who try to put me out of it. ~Andy Foster Director, Heresy Miniatures Ltd
DON"T MISS OUT! SALE ENDS THIS SUNDAY!THE BIG SALE ENDS AT MIDNIGHT, UK TIME, 13TH JULYThe site-wide 20%-off-all-metal-miniatures Sale ends this weekend! Automatically, at 12 midnight UK time - so don't miss out! Tell your friends if they're thinking of buying anything eg the massive gang deal, now is the time to save a lot of money! There won't be another site-wide sale for a long, long time...
Also, I didn't realise i hadn't updated this News page since Salute. Sorry abotu that; the updates have at least been on the front page, and there's been tons of them on Facebook and Twitter!
DRAGON UPDATE 2 WEEKS OF HELLSalute is upon us, and there's no way I can get everything (possibly anything) done unless I ignore the orders from now until after the show. So unfortunately, due to the immense workload, I am now not posting any orders out from Thursday 27th until April 15th 2014 at which point I'll have to catch up on the backlog. Man alive, how do I have so much work and yet no money to pay myself? It's daft. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook etc for news of all the things I'm working on (large/bulky resin things for the most part) and when orders start shipping again... If you're coming to the show, (April 12th London Excel Docklands), I have prepared a handy map to get you to the Heresy stand, for which I have adopted the attitude that certain big miniatures companies have towards the existence of us tiny independent ones:
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DRAGONS THIS YEAR
For those blissfully unaware, the Dragon has been a millstone around Heresy's neck in the swimming pool of business for the last three or four years, due to to constant problems firstly with finishing the damn thing and then with getting production castings of it meaning that every time I made a promise it ended up being broken due to lack of Dragons to send out. This ended up with 170 people waiting for a Dragon at the point of time in writing. THIS MEANS YOUR ORDER MIGHT GET DELAYED BY A FEW DAYS. But look at it this way, you won't have been waiting four years to get your frigging Dragon, like the people who have. I apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused in the intitial stages of this Dragon rescue operation that results in delays to your own non-Dragon orders. Once all the moulds are made and casting is a regular thing that I don't have to even think about it anymore because it's as natural to me as casting metal figures, there shouldn't be very much impact on the regular orders at all. Until then, I'll keep the 20% discount in play so at least you're being compensated for any delays! Please note, if you choose Recorded Delivery, Special Delivery, Airsure or International Signed For as your shipping options, that doesn't mean you get your order packed faster, unfortunately (unless you email me and tell me it's for some ultra urgent occasion) - but it does mean that once it IS shipped, it will arrive faster (except Recorded Delivery, that's still only as fast as Royal Mail's First Class service pretends to be) All the best Andy Foster Heresy Miniatures Ltd PS When you place an order, you can check your customer account online to see if it has shipped yet - I will update the order status from "Paid For, Awaiting Packing" to "Shipped" when it has. Please allow some extra time due to the delays! 17th January 2014: SALE STILL STILL ON!I have in fact caught up with the backlog of orders from the Christmas break, but now I have to take another week off to pay proper attention to the Dragon moulds again. Been ages since I've had the opportunity and money to try a new mould, so I'm doing that next week. I was doing this once a month or so before the Christmas gauntlet period began, and have been itching to get back to it. So with Salute fast approaching (12 weeks today until the big show!) I have one last chance to take a week to do Dragon stuff before I have to then spend my time casting stock of everything else, to take to the show... So in summary: NO ORDERS SHIPPING THIS NEXT WEEK but you still get 20% off on any miniatures you order during this time.
6th January 2014: SALE STILL ON!I'm back at work, there's a big pile of orders to get through, so until I've caught up I'm extending the 20% sale offer! I'll let you know nearer the time when it will now end! I suspect there's a good three or maybe four weeks of catching up to do... please bear with me whilst I work my way to your order, there's only one of me... Happy New Year! UNTIL WE RETURN, THERE IS 20% OFF ALL METAL FIGURES IN THE RANGE!WE ARE CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS FROM FRIDAY 20TH UNTIL MONDAY JANUARY 6TH!Heresy closes on Friday the 20th 2013 until January 6th 2014! NO ORDERS WILL SHIP BETWEEN THESE DATES. WHEN 'WE' GET BACK TO WORK ON JANUARY 6TH, YOUR ORDERS WILL SHIP IN ORDER OF RECEIPT AND WE WILL UPDATE THE ORDER STATUS TO 'SHIPPED' WHEN THEY GO OUT. DON'T PANIC UNTIL THEN. We wish all the customers who supported us by buying stuff this year the most merriest of all Christmases and happiest of all New Years!
LAST ORDER DATES FOR CHRISTMAS 2013These are the official dates supplied by Royal Mail, however, I'd recommend you get your orders in as soon as possible as they can be somewhat random. Best deduct a week extra from these for safety! Be sure to watch out for a card from your local post office, they may ask you to pay customs charges for overseas customers. Sometimes they don't let you know they've got a parcel waiting - you should check with your local office if you don't hear anything within 3 weeks of the update from Heresy saying your parcel has shipped. Especially the USA, your lot are awful at letting you know that you have parcels waiting to be collected!
Heresy will be closed from Friday 20th December until January 6th 2014, for Christmas and New Year holidays. 25th October 2013VOTE NOW!I'm looking for your input about which plastics I should make first, please vote now on this poll on the Forum Of Doom!
Dragon Update:Things haven't been very successful so far, but my hopes remain unbowed. However, I have had to take a step away from the Dragon temporarily to try and sculpt some new figures to get some actual sales in - things have been dire the last few months and I need to raise some actual cash to pay the bills, as much as I'd love to do nothing but Dragon stuff it doesn't make ends meet! Don't worry, I will turn my attention back to it as soon I can, need to get this thing off my back!
30th SeptemberWe're back! I say 'we', I do of course mean 'I' as there's only me here due to everyone spending all their money on Kickstarters, and me not making any new figures due to this bloody Dragon. Spoeaking of which, slowly getting there but have run out of rubber. Buy something so I can order more rubber to finish making the moulds!
IT'S A DRAGON WEEK AGAIN! (UPDATE: This particular week has ended)As part of the on-going attempt to get The Great Dragon Queue moving, this week (21st to 29th September) is one where we won't be shipping orders! We'll be spending the whole week making moulds of wings, legs, arms, etc instead. Sorry! Orders placed this week will begin shipping on September 30th!
SUNDAY, 1st September 2013
A BIT INUNDATED, SORRY FOR THE DELAY! Although the dragon casting sabbatical didn't quite go as dreamily as hoped, (SEE POST BELOW) Andy learnt a lot of things and realised a few ways around some problems that he hadn't known existed and better ways to do things that he would have liked ot have known about a year or two ago before he embarked on cutting th edragon up in to tiny bits, thinking it woul dmake life easier. Anyway, putting ol' scaley aside for the nonce, Andy is back at work on the 'regular' orders that have accrued during the 3 week absence. Weirdly, there appears to be quite a lot of them for a changfe, and he's inundated with casting all the gangers, blights, goblins, minotaurs etc that everyone seemed to synchronise their efforts to order. He's hoping to catch up by the end of next week, but in the meantime the Sale prices will remain in force! Don't miss out on your chance to pay a lot less for a solid metal figure! Apologies for the delay in sending out some of th eorders, if you're waiting for yours, rest assured it is forthcoming as soon as possible! It is Bank Holiday Monday in the UK on the 26th, so no orders will be shipped that day. All this stress has made Andy speak in the third person, too... Cheers Andy Foster
FOREWARNING: AUGUST 19TH 2013 IT"S ME OR IT The question a lot of people are asking, hten: How many dragons did you manage to cast up in your intensive 3 week sojourn to the land of resin, Andy? And the tragic answer is: none. It's been a long three weeks. I've been in at 8am every day, and left after 10pm every night, including weekends. I've not seen anything of my wife, except to say good bye in the mornings and good night at bedtime. I haven't been slacking, put it that way. The learning curve for resin production is extremely steep. There are fine nuances to absorb and understand. There are crazy 'pot life' issues related to 'amount of stuff you want to use' that if you don't grasp straight away, it turns out will cost you a couple of hundred quid in lost materials. Whole jugs of resin soldified in a fraction of the time that the official pot life tells you (I even burnt my thumb on one batch, it set so fast that it gave out nearly enough heat to fry an egg) and at least two batchs of silicon that set mid-way through the vacuum process to remove bubbles. Even so, I think i'm about there for the basics of it, I know now that I shouldn't keep vaccing until the bubbles are gone because the resin or sillicon boils itself solid after a minute of vacuum. I know that whilst it's a great idea to spend hours gluing tiny bits of plastic rod to the end of each and every spike on the dragon's back and tail so that they all come out without bubbles, retrieving the said tiny bits of plastic rod form teh silicon after moulding can in fact cause damage to the mould thanks to the fragile nature of the rubber and the heavy-handed nature of forceps. I soon realised that making mould boxes out of plastic sheet is a stupid, time-consuming, messy and highly wasteful process that may be better served via using LEGO. (I ordered a stupidly expensive amount of LEGO to try to spped things up and it still hasn't arrived a week later.) Most importantly, I realised that the layers of scales on the dragon were not how they should be. Basically, last year I spent several months of my spare time cutting up teh Dragon to get it ready for spincasting in the USA. By th etime I'd finished doing this,. the chap in the USA who was supposed to be doing it had run a successful Kickstarter campaign and was now far too busy to help out. Simialrly, the companies in the UK who I might normally have had the Dragon made via were liekwise engaged with Kickstarter-related work, and booked thorugh until 2014. I would have to do it myself. Thus, I purchased the equipment and tools I needed using the sale of my house for the funds, and took 3 weeks off to get sorted out. Sadly, most of this time has been spent undoing the work I did to prep the Dragon parts for spincasting. Putting it back together means re-sculpting huge areas of scales, and one thign I learnt from my first four silicon moulds is that the blending between new putty and metal casting (I cast the dragon up in metal to provide non-movable parts for the process over the pond) was not good enough - the layers were utterly obvious when viewed in resin and thus the last four days of my time has been spent re-sculpting yet again, trying to make the dragon look wholly unsculpted, or at least as much as that's possible. I've also realised that because of size-related shrinkage issues it makes much more sense for the body, neck, tail and legs (well one leg) to be connected together in one large piece rather than have a neck that doesn't fit properly onto the body as a separate piece, so I've done that. This means that the five moulds I've made so far are 60% pointless - two can still be used but the other three are redundant now that I've made the decision to merge the larger parts. On the other hand, assuming I can make the mould successfully, which I am confident of, I will now need one mould where previously I would have needed nine. Fingers crossed that it does indeed work and that it doesn't lead to huge chunks of resin being discarded bedcause of a tiny air bubble on a spine... So, at the end of the three alloted weeks, I find myself in need of another week off to get to the point I had hoped ot be at by the end of week one originally, with all th eparts sorted out and ready to mould. Sadly, I said that today was th eday when I'd sort out the orders that have accumulated over the 3 weeks, so now I'll be spending all of this week, 8am to 10pm, attending to those orders before I can get back to the Dragon again. At which point I may well take another week or two off. Honestly, the frustration and pressure is immense. This Dragon nearly made me have a nervous breakdown at more than one point over the last year or two, and not getting a full dragon cast up by the end of what seemed like a large window of time has almost left me weeping with rage and frustration again. The sooner I get the Dragon out of th ewya, the sooner I can get back to making actual new figures for the first time in ages! Keep up to date with the Dragon news by following me or the 'official' Heresy feeds on Twitter or Facebook (see the Contact Us page for details) and I'll let you know how things progress as and when they do.
THE BIG DRAGON-RELATED SALE IS NOW ON!PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY 'CLOSED" AND NO ORDERS ARE BEING SHIPPED! Heresy Miniatures is temporarily closed whilst Andy gets to grips with making moulds for and casting up the Dragon in-house. This is expected to take at least two or three weeks of dedicated work before he can return to filling the regular orders. This is why there is a big sale on. You can place an order, please do, indeed, but it won't be shipped yet. Sorry! NO ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED UNTIL 19TH AUGUST 2013. They will then be packed and be shipped in order of receipt. This will mean unavoidable delays, for which we can only apologise. but that's why you're getting hefty discounts in the first place! There is 20% off all the metal miniatures, and in some cases Special Offers are in place that give even more off! Ideal time to pick up that Complete Gang Deal or Blight Horde you've been thinking about getting! All orders will be packed and shipped in order of receipt upon our return to normal duties... follow us on Twitter, Facebook, the FoD etc to keep up to date!
24th July 2013
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