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Title: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Paul Davies on 19 October 2016, 06:16:01 AM
So, looking back overy previous posts I note that it was hoped that an Indian Mutiny range would be available at the end of 2016.

Well, I've been saving my money, and avoiding being too tempted by other 'shiny metal' or 'dull grey plastic', but has keeping my hands in my pockets and my credit card nestling amongst the moths in my wallet been worth the wait and about to be rewarded. ..?
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: FierceKitty on 19 October 2016, 06:30:20 AM
You could try a few posts implying that the moulds were lubricated with lard and beef fat.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: d_Guy on 19 October 2016, 12:27:33 PM
@Kitty  ;D ;D

@Paul I feel your pain! I myself am awaiting the arrival of my fine feathered friends*





*AKA - the Aztecs.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: FierceKitty on 19 October 2016, 01:11:41 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 19 October 2016, 12:27:33 PM
@Kitty  ;D ;D

@Paul I feel your pain! I myself am awaiting the arrival of my fine feathered friends*





*AKA - the Aztecs.

Aren't all right-thinking gamers?
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 19 October 2016, 01:20:33 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 19 October 2016, 12:27:33 PM
@Paul I feel your pain! I myself am awaiting the arrival of my fine feathered friends*
Duckmen?
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Techno on 19 October 2016, 02:05:36 PM
OIK !!

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: FierceKitty on 19 October 2016, 02:20:20 PM
Well said, that man.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Leon on 20 October 2016, 02:38:11 AM
Quote from: Paul Davies on 19 October 2016, 06:16:01 AM
So, looking back overy previous posts I note that it was hoped that an Indian Mutiny range would be available at the end of 2016.

That was the original plan but with the website issues and subsequent tightening of the sculpting belt these past few months, we've not been able to work through the schedule quickly enough and get to the Mutiny range.  We're currently finishing up the WW1 additions, then it'll be a full revamp of the 1860's Italians, followed by the Indian Mutiny range.  So we should be hitting them sometime around April/May of next year I'd think.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 20 October 2016, 06:44:22 AM
Awesomeness!
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 20 October 2016, 06:53:25 AM
Quote from: Leon on 20 October 2016, 02:38:11 AM
... but with the website issues and subsequent tightening of the sculpting belt these past few months, we've not been able to work through the schedule quickly enough ... 
Wow! I didn't realise the impact was that dramatic. Hope everything is getting back to what passes for normality in the Pendraken world. Must have been a worrying time.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: cameronian on 20 October 2016, 06:57:37 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 October 2016, 06:30:20 AM
You could try a few posts implying that the moulds were lubricated with lard and beef fat.

Oh very good.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Leman on 20 October 2016, 07:40:19 AM
Beef up your armies so you can pork a victory.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Steeleye on 20 October 2016, 08:09:14 AM
Don't cheer just yet...I seem to remember being promised the revamped sci-fi range 'in April'...two years later they finally appeared.

I'm also sure someone said something about Dragonmen being released in the near future, like this month! But so far nothing.

I really think we need to start taking these release dates with a very large shovel of salt.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: cameronian on 20 October 2016, 10:47:42 AM
... yes but ... it's a small family run company the members of whom wear at least three hats each, and they're pretty good by and large, you'll get your star troopers eventually  ;)

@leman
That was truly awful  ;D
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 20 October 2016, 11:08:01 AM
Thought Duckmen were what you were working on Phil. That and Wombles with AK's

Not wasting your time with native americans

IanS
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 20 October 2016, 11:38:02 AM
Quote from: cameronian on 20 October 2016, 10:47:42 AM
... yes but ... it's a small family run company the members of whom wear at least three hats each,

Do you think productivity could be improved by dispensing with the headgear and perhaps just some sort of badge system? I think wearing three hats must be a frightfully difficult balancing trick.  :-\ Quite distracting. Especially if you've got two bonnets.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: d_Guy on 20 October 2016, 01:20:07 PM
The three hat thing. Isn't that what you lot call a "hat trick"?

Always amazed by the scope of product and congeniality of service provided by Pendraken.
Especially Leon, whose spirit quest name is "Owl-who-never-sleeps"
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: cameronian on 20 October 2016, 01:25:17 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 20 October 2016, 01:20:07 PM
The three hat thing. Isn't that what you lot call a "hat trick"?

Always amazed by the scope of product and congeniality of service provided by Pendraken.
Especially Leon, whose spirit quest name is "Owl-who-never-sleeps"

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Leon on 20 October 2016, 03:23:29 PM
Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2016, 06:53:25 AM
Wow! I didn't realise the impact was that dramatic. Hope everything is getting back to what passes for normality in the Pendraken world. Must have been a worrying time.

Unfortunately it was quite bad, we weren't able to pay ourselves a wage in August because of it. 

Quote from: Steeleye on 20 October 2016, 08:09:14 AM
Don't cheer just yet...I seem to remember being promised the revamped sci-fi range 'in April'...two years later they finally appeared.

I'm also sure someone said something about Dragonmen being released in the near future, like this month! But so far nothing.

I really think we need to start taking these release dates with a very large shovel of salt.

The Sci-Fi range was quite delayed, and I'm sorry about that one.  Unfortunately real life has a habit of getting in the way of things though and causes everything to slip.  The past couple of months we've had birthdays, weddings, illness and one of the casters away for a fortnight on honeymoon, so we've been slowed down quite a bit.  Plus the other caster has got himself a full-time job and isn't able to work as many days for us, and Dave's decided to go back to the college day job full-time as well. 

In a normal job, if you were off ill for 3 days, you'd just work overtime when you returned to catch up.  But when the working week is already 80-90 hours, overtime becomes quite difficult and you have to delay things instead.  Moulding, new releases, BKC, Dragonmen, all those are things that have to take a back seat when we're busy as the priority is getting customer orders cast up and getting prepped for the shows. 

I hope people know that these delays are just as frustrating to me, if not more so.  I hate the fact that BKC isn't finished yet, I'm annoyed that we've missed our own deadline on the new Warband ranges, and the number of sculpts sitting in the drawer here is a constant reminder of my ridiculously large To-Do list.  I'm hoping we can hire a new caster over the next couple of months, so that they can come in and take on some of the workload there.  We've also been spending some time trying to better organise the unit and streamline a few areas to make them more efficient.

Apologies for the long reply!
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 20 October 2016, 03:30:42 PM
Don't apologise!  >:< hugs!
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Techno on 20 October 2016, 03:49:03 PM
Quote from: Leon on 20 October 2016, 03:23:29 PM
Apologies for the long reply!

I think it needed saying, Matey.

What's the old saying ?
"You can't fit a quart into a pint pot."

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 20 October 2016, 07:50:27 PM
Quote from: Leon on 20 October 2016, 03:23:29 PM
Unfortunately it was quite bad, we weren't able to pay ourselves a wage in August because of it. 
That is very distressing. I trust things have picked up since.

Quote from: Leon on 20 October 2016, 03:23:29 PM
But when the working week is already 80-90 hours, overtime becomes quite difficult and you have to delay things instead.
Perhaps, and I hope this is taken in the spirit in which it is said, you could ease some of the pressures on yourselves? I'd rather that Kitty waits another 12 months for his Aztecs than have one of you good people laid low with exhaustion and stress. Perhaps a review of your planned releases in light of your current circumstances.*

Ultimately everyone suffers if Pendraken Towers crumbles. 


*Next week, FSN teaches Techno about using a Dremmel


Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: d_Guy on 20 October 2016, 08:00:03 PM
Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2016, 07:50:27 PM
Ultimately everyone suffers if Pendraken Towers crumbles. 

THIS!

Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2016, 07:50:27 PM
*Next week, FSN teaches Techno about using a Dremmel



MedEvac standing by!
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Steve J on 20 October 2016, 08:18:28 PM
I don't think anyone minds if things get delayed. We all understand what a tight ship you guys run and any small thing has a disproportionately large effect on your operations.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Ithoriel on 20 October 2016, 08:20:37 PM
I think (hope) most of us realise that those who make the toys we play with are by and large walking a financial tightrope ... lets face it many of us who buy them are too from time to time!

And I certainly look at peoples projected release dates as aspirations rather than promises.

So I'm with Douglas Adams - "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." :)

Lang may yer lums reek!
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2016, 11:24:05 PM
Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2016, 07:50:27 PM
I'd rather that Kitty wait another 12 months for his Aztecs....



Get friggled, Mr fsn! There are FAR worthier things to go on hold.

Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: paulr on 21 October 2016, 04:12:05 AM
Well said FSN =D> =D> =D>

Perhaps only 3 months delay for the 'Duckmen' ;)

Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: d_Guy on 21 October 2016, 01:34:00 PM
Thinking of adding eiderdown to the new AGA range  :D
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 21 October 2016, 07:24:11 PM
I've decided to give myself an early Xmas present, and put in an extra Pendraken order for some "odds and sods" that I've been wanting to get for a while.

Centurion AVRE. Centurion ARV. Few bits of extra scenery.

Double Pendraken day this month!
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Steeleye on 22 October 2016, 07:23:44 AM
I quite understand that this is a small company and how many hats people have been forced to wear. Perhaps it would be better not to make promises that can't be kept? Why not say that new ranges/models will be coming out as soon as possible without giving a date?

Actually, now I think of it, no matter what you do its not going to please eveyone.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 22 October 2016, 07:25:36 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 October 2016, 11:24:05 PM
Get friggled, Mr fsn!

Friggled? That's a new one on me.  Surely FK wouldn't resort to making up his own word so I looked it up:

Not in the Oxford. 

Not in the Cambridge. 

Perhaps, I pondered, it's a word from the colonies.

Merriam-Webster said they knew the word, but would only tell me if I signed up. (Fat chance.)

Wiktionary defines friggle as
     1) (rare) to wriggle
     2) (rare) to fiddle, fumble

Hmmm. Is FK suggesting I get fiddled? Well, it's been a while ...

Urban Dictionary, the last resort suggests friggled means:     
     1) to be out of sorts

This I take to be the meaning of friggled as used by FK. Since that post has been made, I have in fact had a bit of a sniffle and a ticklish throat. This has put me out of sorts. The timing cannot be coincidental, FK has put some sort of spell, hex or geas on me.

I accuse FK of witchcraft and demand that he cannot access the forum unless he is wearing a black pointy hat.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 22 October 2016, 07:34:12 AM
Quote from: Steeleye on 22 October 2016, 07:23:44 AM
I quite understand that this is a small company and how many hats people have been forced to wear. Perhaps it would be better not to make promises that can't be kept? Why not say that new ranges/models will be coming out as soon as possible without giving a date?

Actually, now I think of it, no matter what you do its not going to please eveyone.

Indeed. If Pendraken refuse to say when a range will be released, then they will be bombarded with "are they there yet?"

Perhaps Pendraken could do the same sort of thing as HaT. HaT include on the website future releases, with a scale of 1-10 indicating how far advanced the project is.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: FierceKitty on 22 October 2016, 07:40:51 AM
A schoolfriend and I devised the term as an insult to our maths teacher in 1976. We made his life a living hell.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: d_Guy on 22 October 2016, 12:48:12 PM
Not sure what is means but this site will conjugate it for you:
http://conjugator.reverso.net/force-conjugation-english-verb-friggle.html
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 22 October 2016, 12:57:52 PM
Excuse me, g_Guy! I do not conjugate with verbs that I do not know!

It's like we haven't been properly introduced.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: FierceKitty on 22 October 2016, 01:05:20 PM
Quite right. On a first use, only a little mild inflection.
- Miss Manners.
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: d_Guy on 22 October 2016, 01:06:06 PM
Allow me.
fsn this is friggle, friggle, fsn.

fsn conjugated:
http://conjugator.reverso.net/force-conjugation-english-verb-fsn.html
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Fenton on 22 October 2016, 01:22:17 PM
Quote from: fsn on 22 October 2016, 12:57:52 PM
Excuse me, g_Guy! I do not conjugate with verbs that I do not know!

It's like we haven't been properly introduced.


Is that in case you suffer an adverb reaction ?
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: fsn on 22 October 2016, 01:27:25 PM
 =D> =D> =D> ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Indian Mutiny
Post by: Leon on 22 October 2016, 09:59:02 PM
Quote from: Steeleye on 22 October 2016, 07:23:44 AM
I quite understand that this is a small company and how many hats people have been forced to wear. Perhaps it would be better not to make promises that can't be kept? Why not say that new ranges/models will be coming out as soon as possible without giving a date?

Actually, now I think of it, no matter what you do its not going to please eveyone.

It is a tricky one and I'm not sure there's an optimum solution.  I've tried to overestimate on all the latest sculpts that have arrived, so that we don't end up with those really long delays anymore.