The Move Pics and Updates!

[d_Guy]

Sadly the plasterer is me!  

Gad, is there no end to your talents! We already know you don't sleep but finishing drywall in your spare time is over and above (literally).

I received an order of bases yesterday and have (for reasons surpassing all understanding) a small order for Napoleonics placed. You don't seem to be missing a beat. Your products and service remain nonpareil.

[fsn]

... a small order for Napoleonics placed.

That's how I started.

[Leon]

Today was more work upstairs with plasterboarding and stud walls for the office.  We've got the carpets coming up there in about 10 days so we need to get this all finished off next week.  I've got the electrician back next Tuesday as well to put the lights and sockets in for us. 

Yesterday was officially the final postage day from Old Pendraken and today we broke down the whole packaging area and brought it all over to New Pendraken.  There are a lot of orders in the system at the moment (with quite a few waiting on paints/decals/resin deliveries) so we decided that the safest way to get them moved over was to lay them all out in a mosaic on the van floor!  There's some little sneaky new things hiding among these as well, for the eagle-eyed among you...

VanOrders by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


We managed to get the first row of mould racks secured to the walls today so we went and got the first batch of production moulds as well, which fills in almost everything from Ancient Greece to around 1812.  The next lot will come over on Mon/Tues and then the machines can be cleaned down and prepped for the move later in the week.

VanMoulds by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

MouldsOnRacks1 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I spy with my little eye...
Mon6!

[Leon]

And for folks who prefer a bit of video with my inane waffling...

Week 1 Update:

Week 2 Update:

[steve_holmes_11]

I'm incredibly bad at visualising the innards of hollow things.
But those mould cylinders on racks remind me of the bad old days of open reel half inch tape storage.

"Dammit Jim, the Architecture Vulcan has corrupted his autocads again.
Uhurua, fetch me reels 079, 084 and 257 from the vault".

Work was so much more enjoyable in those days.

[paulr]

Interesting videos, shows how much thought and effort goes into organising just the packing room and keeping orders straight

[Techno II]

I want to know which vacuum cleaner(s) you're going to get......Or is the mould room going to be hermetically sealed, to stop all of the talcum powder getting into every nook and cranny throughout the building.

Ooooh !......What IS the new address, Leon ?........I'm not sending all of the masters to the wrong place.

Cheers - Phil.

[Raider4]

But those mould cylinders on racks remind me of the bad old days of open reel half inch tape storage.

$DEITY, yes! Flashbacks to my first proper job, with a room full with racks containing >2k 2400' mag tapes.

[Raider4]

Ooooh !......What IS the new address, Leon ?........I'm not sending all of the masters to the wrong place.

Good point. Where do the few of us who still post orders (with cheques!) to you send our money to now?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

$DEITY, yes! Flashbacks to my first proper job, with a room full with racks containing >2k 2400' mag tapes.

Only 2000 ? We had over 10000 at JM Centre, and horrible things they were.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Anyone else spot the can of coke halfway down the stairs?

[Techno II]

I'm incredibly bad at visualising the innards of hollow things.

Don't worry, Steve....I'm sure I said this YEARS ago.

When I was 'Miniatures coordinator' at GW I was sent on a crash course of 'how to make moulds'.....So I had some idea of 'what would work...and what wouldn't'..

I was making one of the half dozen, or so, moulds that I did that week, when some visitors walked in.

At that point I was cutting into the rubber, ..to make a rough shape of where the Green Stuff masters would go into the mould.

The 'visitor' thought I was making a negative in the rubber to produce a model.

Cheers - Phil.

[Gwydion]

The 'visitor' thought I was making a negative in the rubber to produce a model.

Cheers - Phil.

Quite a skill if you could do it!
Talk about cutting out the middle man.

[steve_holmes_11]

Quite a skill if you could do it!
Talk about cutting out the middle man.

It'll be the future when the 3d printers get their act together.

[Techno II]

Nah....There still needs to be a truly huge leap, before that happens......It'll be 10-20 years after I'm pushing up the daisies before that becomes a commercial reality.

Cheers - Phil. 

[jimduncanuk]

Only 2000 ? We had over 10000 at JM Centre, and horrible things they were.

Don't know how many we had but there was a member of full time staff permanently assigned to fetching tapes on demand for transfer to the machine room.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Don't know how many we had but there was a member of full time staff permanently assigned to fetching tapes on demand for transfer to the machine room.

From memory we had 3-4 for that. Used to get ape like arms on night shifts shifting the bloody things from library to read use racks.

[steve_holmes_11]

Nah....There still needs to be a truly huge leap, before that happens......It'll be 10-20 years after I'm pushing up the daisies before that becomes a commercial reality.

Cheers - Phil. 

It did occur to me that printing the negatives would reduce the need for all those supports and risers.
But that doesn't answer the many questions about castability in the printed medium.

[d_Guy]

That's how I started.

Such is the Way of the Lead.