Grekwood Miniatures

Friday 4 January 2013

Coming up in 2013

Happy new year everyone!!! Ok, this is a very text-y blog, outlining a few of the things I have planned for the coming year. There is more planned but that'll be announced nearer the time when work begins on it. So for now, here are a few things to look forward to :)


1. Go to Crusade (not that type of crusade... it's a war game show in Cardiff).

2. Launch Supermarket zombies (They will launch at Crusade, and will be available on the website after that).

3. The NEW hospital bed undercarriages will also launch at crusade and will be available on the website with the beds thereafter. A price increase will occur, but it will still be cheaper than a figure.

To help with a comparrison of pricing the beds, heres the calculations:

Our figures sell for about £2.37 each (which is quite cheap-ish in the wargaming world), so for two figures it would cost £4.74 and for 4 it would cost £9.50.

Hospital beds are sold in packs of 2, and currently sell for £2.75 per pack. So this works out at £1.99 cheaper than 2 figures. Also, keep in mind each bed has 2 parts, so you're actually getting 4 parts and not 2.

Each undercarriage (in metal) weighs the same as an average figure. If we sold them for the same price, we would therefore have to sell them for £4.74 (2 x £2.37) and then add the price of the bed part on top of that price.

So per pack, they would cost around £5-6 per pack of hospital beds/carriages.

So back to my main point; Currently (old carriages) sell in a pack for £2.75 (which gets cheaper as the deals get bigger). Which is WELL below the £6. So as they are now costing more to produce, I will have to increase the price. I will most likely make the packs £3.50 which will decrease with the more you buy.

I hope you understand, as I can't make them any cheaper without making a huge loss (which would be bad!)

4. A Supermarket/ local store PDF. Made so you can make it as big or small as you like, with all the extra trade rooms (bakery, butchers etc).

5. Hospital Expansion Pack

Bad news here... I have lost all the files due to a corrupt hard disk. They are the original files that I used to create the hospital. All the colour wards I did have been lost, and the expansion stuff. So I need to replicate everything (rebuild almost from scratch). At least I still have the PDF files for reference which will speed things up immensely. But not to worry, it can be done! (positive thinking and all).

6. Another batch of figures will be started this month. They will not be zombies, well, kinda but not. I plan to do a range of minis, but some of them will be zombie-ish (more undead...same thing?!). More like a walking dead/zombie army (with weapons). So I guess they could be used for zombie games if you wanted to, but they are mainly a walking dead army who are able to fight.

7. More roads! Yes there are more. It's all part of making it super customisable, and you only have to buy the sections you want :)


Ok finally... personal news. Kate (the misses) went into hospital on the 27th of December, but she came home yesterday. She has a hole in her intestine (I know how that feels, I had two back in 2005!). She needs it stitched up, which is scheduled for later this month. She feels fine, which is the main thing, and it'll all be sorted soon. Until then, plenty of rest!

Righty oh then, that's all for now.

Happy new year once again to everyone, and here's to 2013 :)





9 comments:

  1. Bad luck about the pc, Do Backups in future and store them away from the main pc every two weeks or something.

    Lots going on then, the undead army sounds interesting look forward to that as well as the release of the supermarket zeds

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    1. That's the weird thing, I backed up everything Grekwood Minis related about a week before it happened, but somehow I overlooked that one file with all that in.

      Yeah it should be good, a nice challenge to sculpt something a little different too rather than modern day stuff.

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  2. Happy newyear mate!

    And good to have Kate back! We can be thankful for the real hospitals are not crowded with zombies like in our games!

    Looking forward to the zombies and supermarket.

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    1. Happy year to you too! :)

      Haha I dunno, some of the patients look a bit zombie ish at times!! But luckily they don't eat humans!

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  3. Happy New Year, hope your better half recovers quickly.
    Bad luck on the PC thing but sounds like you have it all under control now.
    Have you ever considered doing some casualties ? Could you be able to use some of the figures you already have ?

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    1. Happy new year to you too :)

      Yeah I have most of it under control now. I haven't really given it too much though to be honest. It's something I could do one day, so that's not a yes or no lol

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  4. Best of luck for 2013, Carl. I hope it is hugely successful for you. I like the sound of your plans.

    Kind regards to you and Kate from Bryan.

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    1. Thanks Vampifan! I hope 2013 is a great year for you too :)

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