Current State of Affairs 18th November
We have been casting orders and will continue to do so until the backlog is cleared. Once this is achieved the store will reopen for new orders.
Currently we have some 52 orders to complete, some are huge.
We will keep the site up to date with the situation each Monday.
Sorry but ill health and the number of orders we received leaves us no choice.
Back to work 29th October
I have started back casting but slowly for now. Orders processed asap.
Currently we have around 65 awaiting our attention.
Current workload Update
The Store has been closed this morning Monday the 14th October.
Once again the orders have overtaken my casting rate and to compond the issue I have done my back in.
I will start casting asap and re-open once I have caught up a bit, sorry folks.
We have agreed a takeover so the figures will be around for the foreseeable future,
Please keep the size of your orders down, we have had many huge orders and this means others have to wait on their being done.
Starting today's casting with around 20 still to do so there will still be delays.
We are remoulding some of the older ranges and they have remained down for now.
Cheers Keith and Adam
Massive Increase in orders
We have been overloaded with orders and are now alerting folk that they can expect delays in shipments of 3 to 4 weeks on orders placed now.
I have also been summoned to do Jury duty this Friday 3rd May and if selected will have to sit for a trial. This will be a disaster for us as there will be no casting done while it proceeds.
Sorry but it is what it is.
The Future of Aventine Miniatures
We are finshing up in Setember 2025 ie in18mths or so.
We are just getting older and reaching OAP time.
We will finish the current range and add a few packs suitable for the start of the 1st Century AD.
We will alo renew some of the older ranges by fixing things we think can be better and making new moulds where needed.
Thank you all for 15years of fun and friendship, for all the support and encouragement.
This is being anounced now to be fair to all, those that need a few bits to complete things and to prevent anyone starting a big project only to discover we are shutting up shop before they get it done.
We are open to offers for a solid well performing business.
Cheers Keith and Adam
New Command pack for Caesarean Romans and 4 more legionary packs.
10th April 2024
CS7 tto 10 Legionaries in later helmets and CS24 a 5th command set have been addedd to the store.
Caesarean Romans
Having added the first 6 packs of Legiionaries we are hoping to add 2 more packs before Christmas. The range will continue to expand and will include a small number of allied packs necessary to field a full army on table.
Last packs for the Allied Legion added
We have added AL11 Allied infantry advancing with Roman helmets and an advancing Command AL12.
We also added the Allied cavalry AL20-23.
That completes the Allied legion section.
Next will be Casearean Romans.
UPDATE 30th May 2023
I have the old store now shut down for ordering (all out of stock status) and currently adding all the transfers to this site.
Adam has the allied legion ready to mould so they should be added next week.
We have around 30 orders to cast working at 7 to 8 per day depending on size meaning we should be back to the normal turnaround times in about 2 weeks.
Cheers Keith and Adam
UPDATE 23rd April 2023
Adam has most of the figures prepared for the Allied Republican Roman Legion. They are based on Samnite armour and headgear. We intend to list them under the Later Samnite heading with appropriate shields etc. for use on their own.
Lots of very large orders have come in so I will be busy for the next few weeks, please be patient as I will do my best to keep delivery times down to the minimum.
We are now printing the African elephants in one piece, finalising the printing files and they will go in the store in the next day or two.
The armoured Indian elephants are now back in stock, we received limited casting which are now in the stores.
Post seems to be back to normal for now, still some delays but most getting through okay.