Just a quick announcement, this Friday will be our last day in the office, so we'll be closed from Saturday 20th December. We'll be back behind the casting machines on Monday 5th January, so any orders placed over the break will be processed on our return.
We'd like to thank all of our customers who've supported us through 2014 and we wish you all the best for the new year!
We've got lots of stuff planned for 2015, some of it very exciting indeed (and a first for Pendraken... :-\ ;) ) so keep an eye out for all of that!
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Thanks for the great service over the year Leon, looking forward to the surprise next year ;)
PS Did you see my PM?
Have a great break all.
While I think, given the excellent service and wonderful products you provide, that you more than deserve a break, Saturday 20th January (presumably 2015) to Monday 5th January (presumably 2016) does seem a little excessive. ;) :P ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Hope all at Pendraken have a great Christmas!
HOLIDAY - you want a HOLIDAY ???????
have fun
IanS ;) :D :D
Will you be able to get out all the pre-Christmas orders before then?
Have a great one, Leon !
Cheers - Phil.
Have a great break and I will be thinking off you as I work on Xmas Eve and over the festive period :D ;).
Have a good break
Alan
Time off for Christmas is for wimps
I will be working 12 hour day shifts Christmas day and Boxing day followed by 7 x 12 hour night shifts commencing on 29th Dec :'( :'( :'(
"No rest for the wicked" - So i suppose I should not be surprised
Have a good break all
Have a well-deserved break and enjoy the festivities.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Andy :)
Have a great break, chaps.
See you in 2015!
As for the "first for Pendraken" I'm guessing delivery by drones, the Top Totty thread into a range, or a web cam so we can watch you all work and play X-box ... maybe not ... or a bulk discount or chariot armies or Byzantines or .... or an open evening (black tie) at Pendraken Towers, or ships and trains or signed photos of Leon with every order ... or a drone range or delivery by Top Totty ... or base boards or ... Korean war infantry .... or more League of Ausberg ('cos that's what is needed) or 1946 or oh no! not Aztecs! or Techno doing live performances in your home or Pendraken rule sets or ... 6mm or 15mm or 20mm or ... Top Totty doing live performances in your home or ... or ... most things are already covered ... Oh! A shop selling Pendraken goodliness ... or a taste-meter on the Forum (no, silly) or no more kneeling figures pre 1900 ... musicians, civilians, ... or delivery by a barber shop quartet singing "Daisy, Daisy" ...
I don't know. Give us a clue!
Are you all bringing games in on the last day?
That I would like to see!
Quote from: paulr on 15 December 2014, 03:53:35 AM
PS Did you see my PM?
I did yes, I'll get a reply sent through.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 15 December 2014, 08:15:14 AM
While I think, given the excellent service and wonderful products you provide, that you more than deserve a break, Saturday 20th January (presumably 2015) to Monday 5th January (presumably 2016) does seem a little excessive.
You spotted my deliberate mistake there, well done! ;) :-[ Changed it now...
Quote from: Steve J on 15 December 2014, 08:50:04 AM
Have a great break and I will be thinking off you as I work on Xmas Eve and over the festive period :D ;).
:D
I've been there, so I'm taking advantage of it now! From 2001-2012 I worked Xmas Eve, Boxing Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day every year, and also Christmas Day on several occasions, so it's nice to be able to have those days off now.
8)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 15 December 2014, 09:32:19 AM
Time off for Christmas is for wimps
I will be working 12 hour day shifts Christmas day and Boxing day followed by 7 x 12 hour night shifts commencing on 29th Dec :'( :'( :'(
:D
See above... ;D
Quote from: fsn on 15 December 2014, 12:12:42 PM
As for the "first for Pendraken" I'm guessing delivery by drones, the Top Totty thread into a range, or a web cam so we can watch you all work and play X-box ... maybe not ... or a bulk discount or chariot armies or Byzantines or .... or an open evening (black tie) at Pendraken Towers, or ships and trains or signed photos of Leon with every order ... or a drone range or delivery by Top Totty ... or base boards or ... Korean war infantry .... or more League of Ausberg ('cos that's what is needed) or 1946 or oh no! not Aztecs! or Techno doing live performances in your home or Pendraken rule sets or ... 6mm or 15mm or 20mm or ... Top Totty doing live performances in your home or ... or ... most things are already covered ... Oh! A shop selling Pendraken goodliness ... or a taste-meter on the Forum (no, silly) or no more kneeling figures pre 1900 ... musicians, civilians, ... or delivery by a barber shop quartet singing "Daisy, Daisy" ...
I don't know. Give us a clue!
Correct! But which bit... :-\
delivery by Top Totty - If this is true I will be ordering regularly - Provided you can schedule delivery to when I am home alone :d
Is it delivery by drones?
Have a fabbo break one and all <:-P <:-P <:-P
I'm plumping for "a taste-meter on the Forum" ... bad taste ramped up to 11 :)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 15 December 2014, 06:19:03 PM
delivery by Top Totty - If this is true I will be ordering regularly - Provided you can schedule delivery to when I am home alone :d
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Not sure which one I want to deliver first ....... :P :P :P
Leon posted a picture! It's Top Totty delivering! <:-P <:-P
Aw! I wanted drones! - FSN
Quote from: Leon on 15 December 2014, 01:36:55 AM
We've got lots of stuff planned for 2015, some of it very exciting indeed (and a first for Pendraken... :-\ ;) ) so keep an eye out for all of that!
<:-P <:-P <:-P
Anyone taking any guesses at this?
No..... :P ;) :-$
Cheers - Phil.
I'm sticking with delivery by totty.
Failing that ... there's so little that can be called a "first" fro Pendraken. They've already done most things.
Biblical, that's my bet...
Chariots! =P~
I wouldn't be surprised if it's the long heralded LOA supplementary rage. I think the absence of coach screen washers has been lamentable, and well as dung scoopers, grenade primers and artillerymen in a state of surprised undress.
Famous characters from the Beano...
10mm plastics? A range of 30mm figures? Pendraken: The Board Game? An actual Kickstarter? Pre-painted 10mm? The Virtual Pendraken MMOWG (Massively Multiplayer Online War Game) for all those forumites currently stuck with solo gaming?
An extensive range of meso-Americans that is only available directly from Pendraken HQ ... in person .... on a Tuesday .... when it's raining ... if you have proof of British citizenship? :d
So many options.
fsn had it within his pile of guesses earlier on, so you just need to work out which one... :-\
I'm hoping for Korean War infantry. Mind you my guesses are always wrong....
Quote from: fsn on 15 December 2014, 12:12:42 PM
As for the "first for Pendraken" I'm guessing delivery by drones, the Top Totty thread into a range, or a web cam so we can watch you all work and play X-box ... maybe not ... or a bulk discount or chariot armies or Byzantines or .... or an open evening (black tie) at Pendraken Towers, or ships and trains or signed photos of Leon with every order ... or a drone range or delivery by Top Totty ... or base boards or ... Korean war infantry .... or more League of Ausberg ('cos that's what is needed) or 1946 or oh no! not Aztecs! or Techno doing live performances in your home or Pendraken rule sets or ... 6mm or 15mm or 20mm or ... Top Totty doing live performances in your home or ... or ... most things are already covered ... Oh! A shop selling Pendraken goodliness ... or a taste-meter on the Forum (no, silly) or no more kneeling figures pre 1900 ... musicians, civilians, ... or delivery by a barber shop quartet singing "Daisy, Daisy" ...
Quote from: Leon on 28 December 2014, 11:03:45 PM
fsn had it within his pile of guesses earlier on, so you just need to work out which one... :-\
Delivery by drone - not practical. Ditto Barber Shop Quartet.
Delivery by Top Totty - one half of the Pendraken clientele would die of a heart attack and the other half would die at the hands of their SO.
A shop? Possible but in this day and age aren't businesses getting out of bricks and mortar?
Open Day at Pendraken Towers? Not really "a first". Though a first for that iteration of PT, I believe.
Photos of Leon? Feasible, affordable but perhaps not a great draw. Sorry Leon!
Korean War, Byzantines, Chariot Armies, LoA or Aztecs? Again not quite "a first" - new ranges always welcome though. Ships and trains are not "a first" either.
Quite like the idea of Phil doing live performances in your home - not quite sure what of though :)
New scale? Possible and deffo "a first."
Pendraken rules - possible, other companies do it and it would be "a first".
Then there's the web cam. Orders by Skype? Again a possible.
Finally, base boards? Would be a first. Pendraken have been doing a lot more terrain.
So ... ordering 6mm scale base boards by Skype to use in Pendraken Chariot Wars rules games anyone? :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 29 December 2014, 12:07:07 AM
Quite like the idea of Phil doing live performances in your home - not quite sure what of though :)
How to muck out a stable in double quick time....But Leon vetoed
that suggestion. :'( :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil (The Barber Shop Quartet demo sounded appalling....I'm sorry, but that one just
isn't going back in the CD player.)
Hmm, think I'll go with "rules".
10mm would be good but I guess would be cheaper and thus cut into the profits - and we don't want Pendraken going bust guys!!
Do we have to tie this new venture in with the top secret sculpting job Techno is doing for Dave?
I don't think so. That's for Dave's "private" collection. I believe it is so secret that Techno has to wear a blindfold whilst sculpting.
Hmmm you could be right
In the same way the Perrys sculpted a private WW1 range for Peter Jackson, Techno is doing something similar for Dave?
I wonder what it could be?...Anyone think of anything?
I can't.....There are two webcams in the room.....One pointed at me....One fixed to the optivisor.
The phone rings...I put it on hands free....Get told to put on the blindfold and then I'm told where to push the putty, by a remote voice.
An awful lot of simply feeling around the desk at this point.
Got through an awful lot of elastoplast to start with. (I think Dave thought it was a merry jape to have me pick up the scalpels by the blade end, until I cottoned on to that !)
At the end of the day I have to put 'whatever it is' in a sealed box in front of one of the webcams.
I think I've only been making parts of models....I expect my colleagues have been doing the same thing....and we're forbidden to contact each other at present to compare 'notes'.
I assume all the bits will be assembled at Pendraken Towers.
Cheers - Phil
Typical welshman - using terminological inexactitudes - no doubt whilst as tried and emotional as a newt.
ianS :d
Quote from: ianrs54 on 29 December 2014, 12:34:01 PM
Typical welshman - using terminological inexactitudes - no doubt whilst as tried and emotional as a newt.
ianS :d
I thought the stereotype was:
"The Welshman's dishonest and cheats when he can
And little and dark, more like monkey than man
He works underground with a lamp in his hat
And he sings far too loud, far too often, and flat!" :) :) :)
Dare you to stand in the middle of Cardiff Arms Park and say that!
Quote from: fsn on 29 December 2014, 12:59:39 PM
Dare you to stand in the middle of Cardiff Arms Park and say that!
I said it was a stereotype not that it was true :)
But I'll get on to that just as soon as I finish singing
"The Scotsman is mean, as we're all well aware
And bony and blotchy and covered with hair
He eats salted porridge, he works all the day
And he hasn't got bishops to show him the way!"
in Glasgow's George Square at midnight on Hogmanay to redress the balance :D
At one a.m. on a wet Thursday in August - no problem.
And now the chorus:
"The English, the English the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest!" :P :D :P :D :P :D
I'm guessing 1946 range (doubled up for Korea).
Well, I'm still waiting for the Italian CVT to complete the SCW. He's only had the master for 18 months >:(