News
May 4th I apologize for the slowdown around here recently. I was in the hospital unexpectedly for a while and am still facing some tests. Thanks for the calls and e-mails wishing me well.
Baccus Franco-Prussian Polemus rulebooks are in, as well as boxed sets and packs. We have more on the way, so if the web store shows we are out go ahead and order and we will ship as soon as our next re-supply arrives.
We are excited to announce we have the Beneath the Lily Banners rulebooks on the way. Available now for pre-order on the main page. We are also as excited to be adding the Legio Heroica lines, with our first shipment arriving in about a week. I am in the process of adding their first 40 packs to the pre-order page. Their current lines include 15mm Vienna 1683 Poles and Ottomans, and 20mm Sardinians and Austrians from the 1848 First Italian War of Independence.
We need to make room for these and more new lines we will be adding soon. So, we have decided to discontinue the Derivan paint line. Already a great bargain at $4.25 per bottle, we are marking these big bottles down to only $2.50 retail. Tell your bargain hunting friends, and tell shop owners if they want quantities at even better savings to contact me. We have store racks available as well.
As always, thanks for your business. Dave Tepool, Olde Rivertowne Miniatures LLC
April 3rd Large shipment of Venexia added, especially in the Italian Wars (GI) series. Baccus increased several hundred items from the last two shipments, including the new Napoleonic Wurrtemburgers and the FPW Bavarians. The new Polemus Franco Prussian Wars rulebooks and Polemus items are on the way soon! Get your pre-orders in so that we make sure we get enough sent to us for you. Large Kingmaker shipment should be here any day, which will give us stock of ALL items. Large Raiden shipment in about 10 days, which will give us good quantities of ALL of their planes, also.
Feb 3rd Just added about 450 packs to the Baccus inventory. Command Horizon and Fantasy will be in the next shipment due in about 10-14 days. Our e-mail provider was bought out and we have been having some issues. They are trying to resurrect all of the mail that was lost in the last 2 weeks. If you are waiting on a reply, hang in there. As soon as they get everything sorted out, we will get back to you.
Jan 18th After some delays because of tests in the hospital, I finally have all the new Command Horizon items loaded. Baccus Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and Ancient Huns are up for pre-order. My first shipment should arrive around the 27th. Get your orders in for first shipments. We will get another shipment about 2 weeks after this one.
Jan 12th We received a large Venexia and a large Baccus shipment this week. Finally got all the quantiies updated. The baccus shipemnt was late because US Customs at JFK confiscated it for 10 days. Oh, well. We received @200 Venexia items, and @550 Baccus items. We expect our next Baccus shipment in about 10 days. Hopefully the new Huns will be in that shipment. If not, all the new Baccus items should be in the shipemnt after that, which should just be a week or so later. We also recievd a huge re-stock and new items from Raiden, including the 1/300th scale USS Enterprise WWII carrier deck kits. Hope to have these on the store tomorrow or Monday. Hope you all had a great Holiday, and thanks to all for a great year for us. We will be adding new lines in 2008, and adding more inventory to the existing lines. Thanks again.
Nov 25th We are finally recovering from FallIn - all three of us came down very sick upon our return, and are just now getting back to work. I have today updated the new Baccus and Venexia shipments received. Hundreds of items recieved and in stock quantities have been updated. Still waiting for New Testudo shipment. We have re-ordered Raiden aircraft, including their new releases and their aircraft carrier decks. We are now stocking Kingmaker and Little Big Men Studios, and I hope to FINALLY get started adding these items tomorrow night. We are also adding I-94 1/285th aircraft decals and 15mm armor decals, and Scotia 1/285th aircraft. So much to do and so little time...
Oct 14 Finally found the time to get the rest of the Manorhouse items listed. We now have EVERY Mindstalkers miniature in stock, ready to ship!! And, for now, they are still 20% off!!
oCT 2 Baccus shipment in! About 400 bags of minis added to store. Lots of back-orders boxed to ship in the morning.
Sep 27 Manorhouse shipment has arrived. We will work to get the new minis listed this weekend. Baccus shipment is on the way, but Peter could not get the new Romans cast in time to include in this shipment. Anyone having Baccus items on back-order through about the 20th should have their items in this package. We will ship out as soon as the shipment arrives. We are preparing boxes and envelopes now for those items. The Romans will be in the next shipment which will leave England late next week to us, and travel time is usually 5 business days to us. Venexia is getting our order ready, and we are still trying very hard to get New Testudo to get our order to us. We will keep you posted here.
Sept 23 OK, OK, I know I told a lot of you in e-mails or on the phone recently that I would have the new Baccus packs added yesterday (Saturday). Well, I got started a little late, but as I was taking a phone order from a customer, the power, tv, and phone all went out. I thought maybe it was just us, but when I went outside, I discovered it was the whole neighborhood. We are in a drought situation here in SW Indiana, so I knew it was not lightning hitting a tree or utility pole. When I walked down the street, though, amid the sounds of sirens approaching, I discovered a fifty foot maple tree had fallen across the highway just down from us, blocking the road and taking the utility lines and three utility poles with it! We had no electicity, tv, or phone for almost seven hours. So I apologize, but I did finally get all the new Baccus items added today.
The main items of interest are the nine packs of Late Imperial Romans, and their related DBX and Warmaster army sets. But we also added the camels to the Parthians, a lot of new Colonials, Cattle, rivers, and the long awaited Franco Prussian War generals for the French and the Prussians both. I thought we might have these late this week, and we still may receive some on this shipment. Whatever does NOT make it in on this shipment should be on the next one. However, please remember that unless you order these items before Peter sends that next shipment to me, you may have to wait until the third shipment from now before I receive yours. I am trying to build up inventory, in fact, every penny goes right back into expanding the lines we stock. My problem is that even though I may have 20 or 30 of a certain pack on the way, I am not really sure of demand without advance orders. There are occasions I have a single customer order 7 to 10 of a pack. So please, advance order if you want to be assured of getting these items soon. Also realize that Peter is casting these as needed, so a re-stock is not something that happens overnight.
In other news, we have confirmed a Manorhouse shipment should be here any day. I paid extra to have this shipment sent by air, as we have had some customers waiting very patiently for a while for some of these items. We have some boxed sets in this, and some of each of all new figures available. If it clears Customs, it should be here by mid-week. Please check our link to the free rules at the Manorhouse website, as they have now posted the rules and some of the cards for cavalry. The rest of the mounted character cards should be posted there soon.
We have picked up some new lines: Raiden Miniatures of England, with their great 1/300 scale WWII and post-war aircraft. These should be here in a few days, and I will work to get them added ASAP. We have some of every aircraft they currently have available on the way. These are great sculpts for the price, and if you play aircraft dogfight games you will want to check into these.
The other new lines will have to wait a bit to be announced, as I want to wait until I have shipments actually on the way.
I have been in contact with Venexia, and we have a large re-stock they are trying to get together for us. I have not had answers back from New Testudo, but I e-mail them every couple of days and hopefully we will have a status update soon on a large re-stock and new items from them.
That’s all for now, please stay in touch, and to get this info e-mailed to you please sign up at our web site for the updates. I will try to start getting them done a little more frequently, but I do not want to stuff your in boxes with junk either.
Thanks for your business – Dave, Patti, and Kira Tepool
AUGUST 21st: We have shipped a lot of back orders out tonight, after receiving a shipment from Baccus. If you had a backorder dated before Aug 8, it is on the way. A few other back orders were filled where we had items coming in for stock and were able to fill. We will be placing another order with Baccus in a couple of days, so if there is something you need, order it now to get into the next shipment. We also have a lot of Baccus items in now that we did not have before, and will strive to get those added into the "quantities" tomorrow. Peter also has some new items listed in his "news" and we will get those added in the next day or two, so that you can get your pre-orders in.
AUGUST 12th: We now have most of the Command Horizons range from Baccus in stock. Most of the rest of this range should be here in a week or so. Peter shipped an order to us on Friday so it should be here in about seven business days, if customs does not play their fun games with us. This shipment contains items to fill most of our current back orders, along with items to "fill some holes" in our regular Baccus inventory. If you are looking at placing an order, and there are items you need that we are out of stock on currently, PLEASE place your order soon, and we will have those items sent in our next shipment from Peter.
July 17th: We have received our first major Baccus shipment. Quantities have been updated on the new web store. Please remember that you can order items shown as "out of stock". These items will be shipped as quickly as we can receive shipments from Baccus, which usually take 1 to 2 weeks to get to us. We will increase stocking levels as we go along.
July 16th: We have added another new manufacturer, this time from Spain. Resina Planet makes great resin buildings and the prices can't be believed! We have buildings and accessories in 6mm, 15mm, and 25-28mm scale. These buildings are great for historical, science fiction, or fantasy games. For all you new Baccus customers, check out the great houses at only $2.75 retail! I personally like the tavern and the tower. We have pretty well their entire line in stock and ready to ship today.
April 8th: Customs has finally released our Manorhouse shipment!!! We have added the 7 new miniatures and the Fast Mindstalkers boxed set (see at left) And to celebrate the fact that Customs finally let our shipment free and that we have received a few of the boxed sets, we have put ALL the Mindstalkers blister minis on sale at 20% off!!!! And this includes the new arrivals. This is for a limited time only, so now is the time to stock up on these great figures. Prices are already discounted in the web store.
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