THEFT - Ainsty castings

[Chris Steadman]

"This was posted on the MH forum yesterday, and indeed has appeared on may forums since, and rightly so.

While preparing for his weekend shows, Andy Lyon of Ainsty's van was robbed:


"All my boxes of show stock are gone, all my display models and figures are gone and all my boxed pieces for on the bottom of the racks are gone. Two racks of blistered minis are gone too."
It has a substantial retail value plus is about a years worth of stock that he's built up. It was stolen near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.
If anyone sees Ainsty, Crooked Dice and Rogue Miniatures blisters for sale on the cheap can they let Andy know.
http://www.ainsty-castings.co.uk/


Please pass this on to any other forums your frequent."

[Leon]

Thanks for posting this Chris, we spoke with Andy yesterday at Phalanx, asbolute disgrace when this kind of thing happens.  If they find the culprits, they should tie them up for stoning at the next wargames show, before carting them off to prison.

The real shame is that anyone stealing wargaming stock will most likely dump it somewhere, when they realise that it's so hard to shift on.  We're a very tight-knit community, and if it appeared in a shop, or eBay, etc. then someone would immediately see it and they'd get caught.  I remember Baccus had a load stolen years ago now, and I think some of that surfaced on a local car-booter if I remember right.

I hope the police have some luck catching them, and that Andy is able to recover quickly without too much damage to the business.

[Maenoferren]

not good at all