Tuesday 23 October 2012

Moving things on

Today has been a rather odd day, Filled with the normal highs and lows but filled all the same, Thing is I'm finally starting to see things turn a corner and something slaps you back down in the face. After celebrating that I'm finally moving not only my hobby tools but my bases I then get a horrid message. the message said that my bases were not fit for purpose and that the buyer wanted a refund.

He didn't want to look at my other ranges but I always had some what of a gut feeling that this particular line of bases was always going to be pain full, Well I say this line what I mean is this subtype of this line. yes they are pants. So I now have discontinued some of my stock (a bad sign for a fledgling company like my own. but that said my others are selling slowly and selling is the word I hope.

What I do have plans for is

General products include
Static grass,
Basing flock,
Basing grit/sand
Clump foliage
Caulk chunks
gravel chips etc etc re bagged and re branded in my own way likely supplying my customers more for there money than my competitors do but what I do want to do is resin as many different forms

Sandbag/trench setups in a modular way so players can build their own command bunkers etc etc, 15mm houses and terrain for ww2 games, Sci fi crates and shipping containers and bombs not to mention alien type drop pods and the likes. In short I want to do more stuff than I do now but I still want people to buy it. I also want to look at it myself and think I would want to buy it if I were to see it in a shop or Hobey store not to mention keeping prices low. So what to do when times are tough well keep going and hope I build a customer base.

As a fledgling company I wouldn't be able to keep going had I not got this gnawing pain in my left leg and back driving me on. Giving me crazy ideas If I hadn't id be working in some dumb ass job now going to work at 6am and finishing at 6pm never seeing my children and being too tired to help my wife. My disability helps me see things differently. Sure at the moment I'm not earning much cash from this job right now its true but what I am earning goes straight back into this venture. You may think that's a fools errand but what I am seeing is something a little different.

For example I already have my first stockist. Some great guy called Martin from a store hes setting up called red giant games. He saw enough in my offerings to order £300 worth of stock from me and darn I cant wait to see it in the store but what I can do with that £300 is spend in to get new products as now its got to the point where my investments in my products are equal if that is the correct business term.

But now I have these moulds and a new pack of !0kg of resin, what should I do? well ill now go and see what I can achieve with this £300 could I spend a fortune on a new flat screen TV and sit back ? no I shall now go and buy some more equipment to make flock, Static grass and clump foliage, Not to mention Ive now started adding tank traps and cargo containers to my product list. Things are starting to expand and instead of EBay I'm contemplating a web store

Things in these tough times will be working out better, I'm going to make sure of that.
 

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