News, Views Etc . . . White Tower Miniatures

Matt posted this yesterday;

"Sad day, we have done our quarter one review. Sales are down quite a bit. It must be a combination of three things, firstly the world climate is stopping people buying due to costs and fear. Secondly ebay has added costs to our products, more of that later. Thirdly we are possibly making too much.

So something will be changing, our products will no longer be on ebay. It is marking up prices, gouging on postage and making listing very difficult. Its not worth it, so go to our website to gain free shipping cheaper prices and the full range of our products. Secondly the price of metal has skyrocketed so production costs are beyond sales, so we need to tread more carefully. This means we will still release the next two batches but after that until we start to break even I will use you good people to pick what gets made, I will sculpt figures and put them to a vote.

Sad but needs must till things balance out. Please help me find new customers by sharing our Facebook and website with people you might think will be interested. And you at least will have a say in what goes into production as I will not be able to subsidise the width or figures I sculpt into production. A bit gloomy I know but as a one person operation I can not bankrupt myself for a hobby."

So grab anything you need off of evilBay if you use that platform, before he delists it, or remember to use the website from now on; https://whitetowerminiatures.co.uk

 

You can get hold of him on Faceplant too; https://www.facebook.com/whitetowerminiatures

W is for Wild Wild White Tower West!

At the last London Show, just before Christmas (next show now is Sandown on 22nd Feb.), I caught up with old friend Matt Their, who - like many of us - is going through life's ring of fire at the moment, but he retains his sanity by continuing to add to his ranges, and the Wild West were centre-stage that Saturday, so below is a partial catalogue of the Wild West highlights, real catalogues and the range can be purchased from the usual site;

 

https://whitetowerminiatures.co.uk/

 

"Ah Soh! Grasshopper!"

Brilliant!

"They were in a big tin saucer, which was this wide! Hic!"

 

 

 

The buildings are a partnership/scale-up with 28mm role-playing stuff from somewhere else, if I recall the conversation correctly, and are built in sections so you can place figures inside their spacious interiors. They are manufactured in one of the new lightweight foams, but dense enough to hold shape and detail like harder polymers.

 

 

 

Pancho Villa's firing line!

Elements of the Bounty Hunter line

 Native leadership!

Trappers and 'Backwoodsmen'.

The growing 'Saloon' line.

If I had the money, if I had the space, if I had the time . . . but, you know me and my lack of knowledge on new production solid metal (Gareth (Morgan Miniatures) has some new Highwaymen - see Blog link list, on left of page), however, Matt can answer any questions you may have.

T is for Tipi's, Teepee's and Townsfolk!

The last of the White Tower Miniatures shots, I could have taken more, but I was really only passing through, and if I showed them all now, you'd have nothing to browse on the website, and what would I shoot next time!

The wigwams (teepees or tipis) are the old Elastolin sculpts, 1st and second type origianlly in composition, Matt does a few old and out of production items, both in the metal figure range and the resin scenic range.

 

While the Wild West looks a lot less wild in the townsfolk lines, with lots of useful bits, a full-length bar and pool-table being the obvious stand-outs here, however the blacksmiths forge is also a nice piece, and you can see the Lone Star kids in the first shot, their tool never turned-up in the Marlborough-Dorset production, and seems to have been lost.

White Tower are still here;

https://whitetowerminiatures.co.uk/

 

D is for Dark Ages

Some eye-candy I shot on Matt's stall at the London Toy Soldier Show the other day, some Dark Age/Early Medieval/Norman cavalry types, as sold painted, you can always purchase the bare castings instead.

All available from White Tower Miniatures, where you will also find lovely Saxons and Vikings as well, many designed to make a shield-wall, along with scenic accessories and buildings. White Tower are here;

https://whitetowerminiatures.co.uk/shop

 

C is for Card Game, Card Table & Card Players

Matt Thier was at the show on Saturday last, and had his new card player's set for the saloon collection of White Tower Miniatures, the painted figures aren't available yet (but it should only be weeks or days now, keep checking the website), but the castings were there, for those who still have the eyesight to paint their own figures!

 

And they were being displayed on what looks remarkably like the water-butt cover I used to shoot the rocket-launchers, Jean stuff and a few other bits in the garage during lockdown! . . . Where did those four years go?

They are lovely, and I particularly like the standing figure, who could be Lee Van Cleefe, quietly sliding his hand to the six-gun's pistol-grip! Between him and the Moll and an eyebrow code, they've got the game sewn-up, but who's their man? My money's on the old bearded mule-poke, pretending to be a drunk!

They're not on the website yet;

https://whitetowerminiatures.co.uk/

But should appear soon under the Wild West Town folk heading near the bottom of the shop list. And the Windsor Chairs, previously available as part of the saloon range, are delightful!

L is for London Toy Soldier Show - December 2022 - White Tower Miniatures

While I was at the London show I shot a few things, and these are some of they, from Matt's White Tower Miniatures stall, while I umm'ed and err'ed over what to purchase! Blurb-light because the images speak for themselves'.

Normans and vikings, all buildings are also available from White Tower

Round stone-walled hovel

Kievan Russ

Not Russians; early Cossacks - Slava Ukraine!)

[Moscow was still an uninhabited fen-land swamp]

Mounted Normans

Pirates, the third time we've had a pirate ship in January!

Close up of the rascal's vessel!

Wild West - lots of character figures

Townsfolk

A cowboy band!

Annie Oakley (R), Buffalo Bill Cody (L) and Calamity Jane (behind/between)

Medieval Fort

Robin Hood and his Merry Men!

Harrying the North?

And White Tower Miniatures can be found here;
https://whitetowerminiatures.co.uk/