The Emirates Towers - not as impressive as you'd think once inside...

Excellent Pics!    Thanks for sharing the view.

Dave

Which side tower is Leon in ?   

Pendraken central! Nice peek at the powerhouse (coke fuelled) of 10mm gaming.

I was thinking it was some designer workshop/high end factory with the qaulity of your minies and their far reach (I heard of them all the way from california). amazing that you can do what you do without such things..

Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 September 2011, 11:11:09 AM
Suspect it's selfish, not a genuine concern.

IanS 

There's no sneaking anything past you Ian, eh? 

Leon - that's a great tour mate - really interesting [not to mention amazing] just what can be achieved in a garage...Awesome cottage-industry-ness. Nice to see the upgrade as well 

Oh - and [one day] I am going to come & sign that desk 

Quote from: goat major on 16 September 2011, 04:45:57 PM
must admit i'd always envisioned the Pendraken offices as being something more like this;

That is the outside.  Its more bare inside, where the sculpting slaves are kept.  The top half of the left hand tower is Leon's Penthouse/suite (the only man to have a 15 floor penthouse)

Floors 25-37 are where the jacuzzi floozies live, floors 38 and 39 are the cocktail bar.

This is Leon's week end flat

http://www.pentominium.com/vt.html

http://www.pentominium.com/

Quote from: KOVAV on 17 September 2011, 08:16:33 PM
I was thinking it was some designer workshop/high end factory with the qaulity of your minies and their far reach...

I speak to a lot of folk who think the same thing, but we started out working from home 20 years ago, and have gradually customised the space as we've gotten bigger.  Any more growth though and we'll need to start looking at units!  I do have grandiose visions of one day soon having a nice big unit with three casting stations, a resin room, a front end reception area with the computer, and a couple of nice displays, etc!

Quote from: nikharwood on 17 September 2011, 10:14:08 PM
Leon - that's a great tour mate - really interesting [not to mention amazing] just what can be achieved in a garage...Awesome cottage-industry-ness. Nice to see the upgrade as well 

Oh - and [one day] I am going to come & sign that desk 

We do OK, and it saves us the huge expense of leasing a unit! 

I'll set aside a space on the desk ready for you...   

Quote from: Last Hussar on 17 September 2011, 10:30:08 PM
That is the outside.  Its more bare inside, where the sculpting slaves are kept.  The top half of the left hand tower is Leon's Penthouse/suite (the only man to have a 15 floor penthouse)

Ah, if only... 

That jump to a unit will be a tricky one - I assume the current workshop has low overheads if its an old garage.  Dave has posted before about how slim the profit margins for you are, and the cost difference per square meter will be hard for you.

(On a related point - this is why I always offer a 'being sodded around' amount on anything you do for me outside of normal packs.  If I need 4 figures to complete an army I expect to pay a fair price, not get them free with the 3 packs I ordered at time of enquiry.  The craftsmen are worth their wages.)

Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 September 2011, 02:12:09 AM
That jump to a unit will be a tricky one - I assume the current workshop has low overheads if its an old garage.  Dave has posted before about how slim the profit margins for you are, and the cost difference per square meter will be hard for you.

You're completely right, and if it came to that, we'd have to look at the figures and see about increasing prices to allow us to make that step.  It's not something we like doing, but there would be benefits for everyone, as we would be able to despatch orders faster, we could look at doing more shows, and taking more stock to them, etc.  If we could get another caster as well, it would free me up to do more on building 10mm within the hobby, through magazine articles and the like.  

Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 September 2011, 02:12:09 AM
(On a related point - this is why I always offer a 'being sodded around' amount on anything you do for me outside of normal packs.  If I need 4 figures to complete an army I expect to pay a fair price, not get them free with the 3 packs I ordered at time of enquiry.  The craftsmen are worth their wages.)

We don't really mind the odd orders, as we keep a certain level of spares for a lot of codes, and most of the moulds contain 35-40 figures anyway, so there's always a few left over.

Quote from: Leon on 19 September 2011, 03:02:30 AM
We don't really mind the odd orders, as we keep a certain level of spares for a lot of codes, and most of the moulds contain 35-40 figures anyway, so there's always a few left over.

Phew, that's alright then!  As a role-player all my orders seem to compries odds-and-sods!   

Quote from: Leon on 17 September 2011, 11:32:33 PM
I speak to a lot of folk who think the same thing, but we started out working from home 20 years ago, and have gradually customised the space as we've gotten bigger.  Any more growth though and we'll need to start looking at units!  I do have grandiose visions of one day soon having a nice big unit with three casting stations, a resin room, a front end reception area with the computer, and a couple of nice displays, etc!

We do OK, and it saves us the huge expense of leasing a unit! 

Having worked in the early days for another Empire in NZ (read BF) stay small mate moving into units with all the additional costs just ain't worth it sometimes.   

Quote from: rexhurley on 22 September 2011, 10:37:00 AM
Having worked in the early days for another Empire in NZ (read BF) stay small mate moving into units with all the additional costs just ain't worth it sometimes.   

Yeah, I think that at times, but there's only so far we can expand where we are.  It's a few years down the line yet though, so nothing to worry about yet!