Tarn Model Foundry

All orders are being slowly processed, so please be patient, you will get your figures.

Casting in resin is proving to be painful and slow,  with some moulds proving to have a success* rate of less than 10% in gravity casting. The commercial solution is to invest in a vacuum resin casting machine, but initial estimates came to about £2,500+VAT, so that was a non-starter. The alternative was to spin cast, and a suitable spin casting machine is close to £1,000. So I’m now getting some MDF discs cut to size, and will be trying spin casting as soon as I get the discs back and I can assemble my own machine and create the first mould. Using 9in (23cm) discs should mean that I can cast about 8 to 10 figures in a single spin and get production back on track.

For those people who have already ordered,  I will also be including a new, as yet unreleased,  figure in your order, to make up for the delays.

A new figure will be released this weekend, but all other mastering has taken a hit whilst I concentrate on casting duds – or it feels that way anyway… 

* Success = Figure free from surface bubbles.

The banner image has been changed to reflect the 2009 goal of Tarn Model Foundry – To be producing 50+ different figures by the end of the year. As each new figure is released I’ll be filling in the white boxes with grey, and hopefully you’ll be able to see some progress towards the goal.

To keep on track I need to produce a new figure every 2 weeks, but in practice the target is closer to 3 figures every month for 9 months, to allow for holidays and other family things.

Early 2009 will be spent concentrating on completing all the figures I’ve already promised! Yes, more spectators on the way, and more modern media as well.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays so far, and a happy new year to you all.

Lawrence.

I’ll still be taking orders via the website over the Christmas break, but whilst I will try to post reasonably quickly, delays may occur in delivery. Something about the post office workers wanting some time off!

Generally expect normal service not to resume until the new year.

Having updated the sites to the latest version of WordPress, and updated the shopping cart module, I took the lack of any “We’ve changed settings – you need to modify your setup” as just that – hence the utter garbage shown to you at the end of the checkout process and a broken link  to PayPal. I’ve got the current orders logged, and if you could be so kind as to manually pay me through Paypal that would be much appreciated.

That will teach me to trust programmers!