Pick up a bargin at Foundry Miniatures

Any one of my age or older needs no introduction to Foundry but as odd as it sounds many younger gamers have never found foundry on their radar, which is a shame because Foundry's back catalogue has some iconic sculpts. Below is a history of Foundry from the current owner Marcus

""Foundry Miniatures came into existence in 1983

Clifford Ansell was looking for an interesting retirement job that would keep him busy. Cliff had spent much of his life working in the mining industry (apart from a few years away with the Royal Navy in the 1940s) he ended up a mining engineer and an expert on mine safety, ventilation and dust suppression. In the 60s Cliff moved on to a second career as a maths teacher: he taught maths at Bishop Dunn Comprehensive in Nottingham.
Cliff's son was, and is, my father: Bryan Ansell who had made toy soldiers with Skytrex, Tabletop, Asgard and Citadel/Games Workshop.
Bryan suggested that Cliff might like to have a go at manufacturing toy soldiers himself.
Cliff was already experienced in dealing with both stubborn Lancashire miners and wilful, disorganised children: so it was clear that the strange mindset of the confused denizens of the toy soldier industry would be absolutely no problem for Cliff to handle.
As it happened: this was the time when Citadel was starting to change from metal based models to their new "slotta bases", and also ceasing to make historical models. Bryan was able to set Foundry up with a number of discontinued ranges - Barons Wars and Wars of the Roses Medievals, Samurai and the Vikings, Normans and Saxons (these had all previously served as Human forces in Warhammer Fantasy Battle for some years). Also Woodland Indians, Huns and Elizabethans. We still make those models at Foundry today.
Michael and Alan Perry sculpted almost all these models and were keen to continue sculpting historical models for their own painting and wargaming purposes, so they continued to sculpt new Foundry ranges for Cliff for quite some years. Alistair Morrison and Dave Andrews both contributed ranges too.
So, Foundry was up and running very quickly indeed. Cliff first had premises in Sherwood, then moved to a larger unit in New Basford. The upstairs in New Basford was taken by Alistair and Trish Morrison: who sculpted the Marauder range up there.
For a long period, Foundry was making master moulds and production moulds for Games Workshop whenever they found themselves with more moulds than they could handle. Over the years many ex Games Workshop staff worked for Foundry; most notably John "Bones" Ellard, Anthony "Ep" Epworth, Andy Pattinson, Kevin Adams, Colin Dixon.
In 1991 my father left Games Workshop and went off to Guernsey for a decade or so. In Guernsey he had three children, restored four old houses (he does that wherever he goes: not the children, just the houses) started Guernsey Foundry and made Seven Years War, Old West, Pirates and Darkest Africa models. When he came back to England in 2000 he brought those ranges with him, started restoring a house near Newark and took over running Foundry from Cliff. He produced more Seven Years War, Darkest Africa and loads more Old West, then Street Violence, Gladiators, various Romans, 16th century Swashbucklers, huge ranges of Greeks and Macedonians, Fantasy and various odds and ends.
In 2005 my father left Foundry and went back to gardening and restoring houses.
We only re-entered the world of toy soldiers because my cousin Neil Littlewood went to work at Foundry for a while, and it became apparent that there were serious problems that needed sorting out. In the end we stepped in, and the Ansell family are running the factory.
And here we are: nine months in and almost in control!
Cheers
Marcus""

Having spoken to Marcus this week I can say that he has a passion to put Foundry back on top of the pile, he is hungry for feedback from customers and is addressing many of the issues people have had over the years with Foundry.
This brings me to the bargain you can pick up at the moment, when they change the website Foundry dropped the pack price to £10 and did away with the bulk buy offers, anyone who followed me through the Winter Challenge will know I have a love of Foundry bulk offers (I bought more SYW that I care to admit (to my wife anyway)). It would appear alot of other customer felt the same and the feedback Marcus was getting was we did not mind the old pack price but loved the bulk offers.
So for a short period a couple of the bulk offers have returned but with the pack prices staying at £10, the pack price will return to its previous price, the offers are shown below.

1. WHEN YOU BUY THREE IDENTICAL PACKS:
YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EXTRA IDENTICAL PACK FOR FREE.

2. WHEN YOU BUY ANY EIGHT PACKS FROM THE SAME RANGE:
YOU WILL RECEIVE TWO EXTRA PACKS OF YOUR CHOICE FROM THAT RANGE FOR FREE.

This is great new because you can buy 8 pack at £10 and get 10 packs (usually working out at £1 per figure) and £80 gets you free postage. I took advantage of this offer in the winter at the old pack price (all the NWF figure you will be seeing), but I have already made sure my Dad has taken advantage this time to buy some Vikings. If you cant stretch to £80 get together with some friend and put in a joint order.

 

And a last bit of news is that the reason I was talking to Marcus was he has agreed to host the Bloggers Convention at the Foundry, I am just waiting for confirmation of the dates and then I will be posting up details.