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Pendraken News & Info! => General Pendraken => Topic started by: Leon on 23 August 2025, 10:35:09 PM

Title: Pendraken purchases Battlescale 10mm ranges!
Post by: Leon on 23 August 2025, 10:35:09 PM
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We are excited to announce that we've purchased the rights to the 10mm Battlescale range of buildings and scenic items, sculpted by Steve Clay. With his recent acquisition of the Leven Miniatures 6mm ranges, Steve is going to be focussing on the 6mm market going forward, so the opportunity arose for us to purchase his 10mm range.

The purchase includes all of the 10mm items in the current Battlescale ranges, except for the walls, hedges and bridges, will be retained by Steve to go with his 6mm buildings. All of the masters and moulds will be heading up to Pendraken HQ next month, ready for us to start production in our new resin room later this year. Steve has kindly agreed to send us a big batch of stock to keep us going until we're up and running with things at our end.

These buildings will all be integrated into our own 10mm scenery ranges and assigned new codes. We'll make sure to add a note to them all to show what the previous Battlescale product code was though, so there's no confusion when buying.
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 24 August 2025, 06:46:44 AM
Nice one
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Post by: fsn on 24 August 2025, 08:16:20 AM
Excellent!
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 24 August 2025, 08:36:44 AM
Good stuff.
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Post by: Orcs on 24 August 2025, 09:16:13 AM
Brilliant acquisition, they are really lovely buildings
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Post by: paulr on 27 August 2025, 08:30:14 AM
 =D>  =D>  =D>
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Post by: d_Guy on 27 August 2025, 03:35:09 PM
They are lovely buildings and I'm glad they found and excellent home.  :-bd
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Post by: Corso on 28 August 2025, 10:18:14 AM
That's great news for you and BS I'm glad the leven range won't disappear
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Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 28 August 2025, 11:19:50 AM
It's great to see the best run business in Wargaming continue to grow and innovate.

I must admit, Pendraken had such a good Battlescale range that I throught they already were the owner.
Title: Re: Pendraken purchases Battlescale 10mm ranges!
Post by: Leon on 28 August 2025, 10:50:08 PM
Thanks for the kind words guys!
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Post by: far4ngn on 31 August 2025, 08:24:07 AM
Leon, when will the resin workshop be up and running for this and the existing resin products?
Title: Re: Pendraken purchases Battlescale 10mm ranges!
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 31 August 2025, 10:05:51 AM
A suggestion:

The Battlescale walls don't state the length of a section (Unless I missed something).
That would be a useful amendment to the catalogue.

Dimensions of buildings and other terrain features are helpful.
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Post by: Orcs on 31 August 2025, 10:25:58 PM
Quote from: far4ngn on 31 August 2025, 08:24:07 AMLeon, when will the resin workshop be up and running for this and the existing resin products?

I love the smell of resin - You could run visits and allow paying visitors to take in the wonderful smell.

Sadly that's probably banned by the health and safety spoilsports. They have banned most nice smells

Title: Re: Pendraken purchases Battlescale 10mm ranges!
Post by: Leon on 31 August 2025, 11:22:40 PM
QuoteLeon, when will the resin workshop be up and running for this and the existing resin products?

Before the end of the year, but not sure exactly when just yet.  The new room has been built and fitted out, so we just need to get the resin casting equipment and then we're good to go.  I'm going to talk to a guy next weekend about that and make sure we get the best quality kit. 

The learning curve shouldn't be too difficult as we used to cast our own resin years ago, the only difference this time will that we'll be using a vac chamber for better quality castings.


Quote from: Orcs on 31 August 2025, 10:25:58 PMI love the smell of resin - You could run visits and allow paying visitors to take in the wonderful smell.

Sadly that's probably banned by the health and safety spoilsports. They have banned most nice smells

I'm not sure on that to be honest, we do workshop tours during our annual game day so the new resin room would be included in that.  We let folks do some metal casting but I'm not sure about letting them loose with resin and vacuuming!