Pendraken/Minibits acquires REDvectors!

[Leon]

As many of you will be aware, we've been working with Mick at REDvectors for many years now, running the production and sales side while he created more excellent MDF designs. We're now very pleased to announce that we've reached an agreement to take over REDvectors entirely, bringing all of the remaining designs over to Pendraken Miniatures / Minibits, as well as the REDvectors brand itself.

We'd like to place on record our thanks to Mick for this opportunity and for allowing us to license his designs in the first place. It's always nice to work with professional and enthusiastic people and Mick has been a great guy throughout our partnership. He'll now be enjoying his retirement with Gill in their campervan and rolling some dice when not touring!

Moving forward we've recently hired two new people to take on all of the 2D design aspects of our business, so the new guys will be working through all of the remaining REDvectors designs and getting them ready for production over the rest of this year. We'll also be looking to rescale some of the designs and provide more variety across the ranges.

The REDvectors brand will continue to be used for all of our MDF products going forward and you'll be able to find all of them on the Minibits website here: https://www.minibits.net/red-vectors/

If there are any existing REDvectors designs that you'd like to see pushed to the front of the production queue, let us know. And if you've got any ideas for new products, give us a shout and we'll see what we can do!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Wow, quite a scoop, well done all.

[John Cook]

Diversification is essential these days, is it not?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

And multi tasking

[Orcs]

Excellent news.

Will you be producing the MDF stuff he does in other scales ie 20mm WW2 buildings Etc.

[jimduncanuk]

No Sudan buildings in 10mm so not interested at the moment, that may change.

[Ithoriel]

I need more 15mm Eastern Front stuff like a hole in the head ..... but I do like the Red Vectors sets.

[paulr]

Great to see, this will help recoup those maintenance costs of the laser cutters

[Leon]

Will you be producing the MDF stuff he does in other scales ie 20mm WW2 buildings Etc.

We're going to do some experiments and see what we can do.  The problem with MDF buildings in the smaller scales is that the thickness of the material becomes more of a factor and you've got to tweak the design to make it work aesthetically.  We've started with the Medieval/Fantasy ruins that we're currently producing in 15mm, to see how they look.  If those work then we'll try the Eastern Front houses, the WWII ruins and the African/Afghan adobe buildings.  The squared designs of the latter should be work quite well in a smaller scale.