The Alfold Arms

New Embossed sheets - SBP Updated

Anbar — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:06:09 +0100

We have added 11 new stamped/embossed styrene sheets to the site.
These are actually vacuum-formed styrene so that they have a slightly more pronounced "depth" to the detail from the usual styrene sheets. They are also of a larger size (14x9) which makes them ideal for larger projects.

Each sheet costs £2.95p and we have taken a number of sheets from different (railway) scales which complement various wargames scales: we've then photographed them against a 30mm, 15mm and 25mm figure to give a more exact idea of size and appearance.

You can find the new sheets here.

Please note that we have also made some changes to the Scratch-Builders paradise pages and you may want to force-refresh your browsers (ctrl-F5) to ensure that you have the latest pages.

Crates, buckets, barrels, doors and windows

Anbar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:37:32 +0100

We've uploaded the first sets of the Fantasy & Historical scenery section (for 25mm - 32mm) now, which can be found here:

To start with we have five sets of Hirst-Arts items, then the start of our own selection including leaded windows, bay windows, doors and so forth. Double-sided metal-cast windows will be added shortly along with an expanding range of windows and doors as well as other scenic components.

All resin items are pressure-cast as usually which ensures that the very finest detail is picked out during casting - this enables us to produce the extreme detail such as the leading in the leaded windows, reliably and without flaws or air bubbles.

Most pieces are drop-cast and as such you may need to sand flat the bottom/back of doors and windows etc.

Packs start around £3.00

Aves now in stock

Anbar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:23:34 +0100

We have added a larger range of Aves products to the store which can be found here.

These include 4 colours of the excellent Aves Apoxie Sculpt in the 1lb and 1/4lb sizes, the Aves Paste and the safety solvent. Prices range from £3.00 to £12.99.

Aves Apoxie is a synthetic clay which acts very similar to green stuff/brown stuff and other epoxies such as magic Sculpt. Aves can be smoothed with water, drilled and wills and without clogging up sandpaper and it is an excellent material for making models and scenery/terrain.

Aves is extremely well known in the USA but is fairly new to the UK; its well worth trying it out though for making anything from sci-fi models to sandbags to zimmerit.

New Zap Glues

Anbar — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:55:24 +0100

We have added a number of new glues and accessory items to the Glue section of Scratch-Builder's paradise:

Canopy Glue - £2.30

Zip-Kicker Aerosol - £4.80p

Zap Debonder - £3.00p

Plasti-Zap - £2.50p

Slo-ZAP - £5.00p

Poly-ZAP - £3.25p

Zap Odourless - £6.49p

New Higher Quality Needle Files

Anbar — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:02:05 +0100

We have a new set of high quality Needle Files added to the store:

These are German made and of a much higher quality than normal files - they are each 10cm long and are very useful; i've had my set for over a year and can wholeheartedly recommend them for use with figures and plastic models, resin and similar materials.

They come in a plastic wallet of 8 files each of a different type and cost £11.75p

Noch Grass Tufts are here!

Anbar — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:45:25 +0100

After a 3 month delay the Noch product that intends to take on Silflor is now available.

Noch Grass Tufts are slightly different to Silflor in that they are made into precise individual tufts protected individually beneath a rigid plastic cover - which means that the chances of them being crushed in the post are massively reduced.

Noch put 105 tufts in each pack and have chosen to make them varied in colour; the Spring pack, for instance, has grass ranging from a very pale yellow-green through to a pale light green. This means that you get a lot more variance in tuft colours for far less money than having to buy 2 or 3 packs of Silflor.

The tufts are in four packs: Spring, Summer, Autumn and a final pack that has three colours of flowering tufts (White, Yellow and Red). The first three packs are £9.50 each and the Flowering pack is £10.50p.

The tufts can be found here and provide a real alternative to Silflor tufts.

WIP - Weapons Lockers

Anbar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:30:45 +0100

Some images of our new "Weapons Lockers" for 25-32mm Sci-Fi gaming:

These should be available at the end of July priced around £2.50 for two, or a pack of all four for £5.00 or so (Prices to be confirmed at time of release).

Future Car available from June 1st

Anbar — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:34:13 +0100

Our Future Car will be available in very limited numbers from June 1st priced at £9.50p.

We've literally been swamped with demand for this vehicle and have already worn out the first production mould, as such we need time to prepare a new mould and in the meantime have only around 12 or 13 available for immediate sale.

They will be made available on the 1st of June from this page

You'll also note that we have a few of the grav-tank left - that also requires a new mould which should be done during June/July....

and finally, just to whet your appetite... the first of our City Hopper vehicles is sitting on my desk waiting to be painted and then immediately on sale.... no more than a couple of weeks at most!

Panzer Aces are here!

Anbar — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:46:45 +0100

We have added the entire range of individual paints from the Vallejo Panzer Aces range.

"A color system designed in collaboration with Panzer Aces Magazine for reproducing the colors of the uniforms of tank-crews and general armed forces in WWII.

In order to simplify the method of painting the uniforms of the crew of military vehicles in the Second World War, the specialists on the staff of Panzer Aces Magazine have created a series of colours which coincide with the standard shades of these uniforms.

All uniforms consist of a base and a lighter color for highlighting and grading. Three colors have been selected for the fleshtones, as well as a series of colors to reproduce the design of Splinter Camouflage, printed on many of the garments and canvas equipment of the German Army".

Many of the colours are ideal for non-uniform options, especially the rusts, muds, rubbers and woods.

Highly recommended paints and colours RRP is £1.80p our price only £1.62p

Massive Website Overhaul

Anbar — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:27:22 +0100

We're having what we hope is out last (for a while) major website overhaul - this is required to get the Search facility up and running and involves some major re-structuring and a lot of coding.

We do anticipate some problems for users during this period as many of the changes are being done "on-the-fly" rather than shutting down the entire site for a week or so.

So please bear with us and any problems finding stuff on the website for the next week - if you do find dead pages or dead links then please email us - we may know about it and be fixing it, but equally so we may have forgotten to put something back up!

After this is all done every single product will be included in a search facility that will be able to take you to the exact page for that product which should make life a heck of a lot easier for you folks when trying to find certain products!

Tamiya Masking Tape now in store

Anbar — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:25:02 +0100

Two types of the excellent Tamiya Masking Tape are now in store here
Available in 6mm and 10mm widths, priced at £3.28 and £3.50 respectively.

Laser Decal Paper

Anbar — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:11:12 +0100

We now have single sheets of Laser Decal Paper (White and Clear) available in the store here.

These can be used with rub-down lettering, photocopiers (B&W) painting and Laser Printers.
Cost is £3.00 per sheet and sheet size is A4

Vallejo Panzer Aces In individual pots

Anbar — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:14:03 +0100

We're happy to say that we will soon be getting the entire range of the new Vallejo Panzer-Aces paints in individual pots.

They should be available within the next week as a price about 10% under the RRP (RRP £1.80p)

Postal Price Changes

Anbar — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:02:55 +0100

Some major updates that customers should be aware of:

First off we have sadly had to change all UK postal services to Recorded Signed For. This means an additional 72pence for all UK mainland deliveries including both 1st Class and 2nd Class packages.
The reasons for this are specifically down to the increasing number of Paypal Scams that we have been encountering within the UK (Customers claiming a non-delivery and having Paypal reverse the payment.)

The rate of 'missing parcels' for Paypal customers was seven times higher than that for non-Paypal customers, clearly given that everything goes via the same service (Royal Mail) the chances of this being anything other than a deliberate scam by Paypal customers was extremely remote indeed.

Whilst we understand that such scams are only perpetrated by a minority of Paypal users it has still meant losses to us of hundreds of pounds a year which has meant that we can no longer afford to keep using Paypal as a payment system without making some changes.

Therefore as we are not covered by Paypal's Seller protection Policy unless we use a recorded service, then we have been forced to adopt the Recorded Signed For service for all of our UK mail and International Signed-For and Airsure only for International Mail.

Secondly we are bringing our postage prices in line with the current Royal Mail prices, this will mean a small increase in the postage prices within the UK (and later Global prices). For the last few months we have been running the postage at a loss but have to now bring them up too date.

Similarly all International mail now has to be sent by a Signed-For service; either International Signed-For or Airsure and standard Airmail and Surface Mail have had to be withdrawn as viable services. In the meantime the actual cost of International Signed-For has gone down slightly.

We were loathe to make these changes, as any increase in postal prices obviously impacts our sales, however over 90% of our customers use Paypal to buy their items and removing paypal as a payment option was clearly not something that we could do.

We do understand that this means that a minority of unscrupulous Paypal customers have made this necessary and that the overwhelming majority of customers are entirely legitimate. it is worth pointing out that the UK Royal Mail service is extremely efficient and reliable: in an average month we send out around 50 packages within the UK to people who have paid by Credit Card or other non-paypal methods and of those the average loss, or non-delivery, is just one package a month (at the most).

In the same time though we can see 6 or 7 Paypals claims of non-delivery from the remaining 450 packages: seven times the failure rate. When these orders are often in the £50 -£100 region it becomes obvious that we simply cannot afford to let the situation continue.

We are looking at alternative means of delivery within the UK and Europe and hope to be able to find cheaper traceable or signed-for services sometime in the near future.

In the mean time please remember that if you receive a parcel that you think you have been charged too much for then please do not hesitate to get in touch with us - the postal pricing system is fully automated and cannot be checked on every package to ensure that it is doing its job correctly - if you have been over charged then let us know ASAP and we look into it with the aim of refunding any excess postal charges that are not correct.

New Stuff! Wire & Thread.

Anbar — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:42:50 +0100

We've added a small new section to the Scratch Builders Paradise section: "Wire and Thread".

This is a collection of Lead Wire 0.2mm to 1.0mm thickness, copper wire (0.3mm and 0.5mm) and rigging thread (0.2mm, 0.5mm, 0.8mm and 1.2mm).

There's also some extremely realistic stainless steel Towing Cable in thicknesses of 0.6 to 1.2mm.

and lets not forget the Rigging Thread in 4 thicknesses!

Put together you should be able to find one way or another of using these for all your needs for rope, hawser, towing cables and the like. Remember that the Rigging Thread makes for superb rope at many scales due to the way it is wound, and by colouring it with a thinned metallic paint you end up with excellent and very cheap "steel able".

Lead and Copper wire are the easiest way to add lots of detail parts, inside engine or outside of sci-fi buildings, fantastical pulp engines and anything else you can think of!

We will soon be adding a tutorial on making various "cables" from the historical through to 41st century, keep an eye out here for further announcements.

15mm Church for FOW

Anbar — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:13:11 +0100

Recently finished a Church for the FOW game (15mm).

It is a heavily converted n-gauge model by Kibri and came out OK.

Check out our Gallery on the main site for lots more images: click here

Sorry!

Anbar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:52:44 +0100

Apologies to one and all for the unscheduled closure at the start of this week; we had some major issues with our server that hit email, the shopping cart and stock control.

All back online now though and should have caught up with all outstanding emails. If you haven't received a reply yet it means that we haven't had your message. Try re-sending it or drop us a line by telephone.

cheers

Jed

SALUTE

Anbar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:24:05 +0100

We will be attending SALUTE on stand TA17.

Please also note that we will be closed on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th whilst we attend the show.

More Web-Work iminent

Anbar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:22:10 +0100

We will be doing further work on the website after our return from SALUTE this weekend.

Work to be done includes the new search system and the section for Airbrushes and Airbrush accessories and should take 2-3 weeks.

FAO Adrian Arcidiacono

Anbar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:16:33 +0100

Can Mr Adrian Arcidiacono please contact us using a different email address - we've been trying to contact you but it appears that our emails are not getting through to you and we have no other means of getting hold of you.