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The Vendio cart is finally fixed

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:48:20 +0100

Finally after 4 months the programmers have bothered to find out what went wrong with the shipping service changes that occurred in April. I guess I can't say much else as I only got 2/3 of the way through moving everything to a new cart provider in that time.

To many things have barged there way into daily life here this year and nothing at all has gotten done. I didn't get any of the goals I set out in January even started.

I did get the Amazons and the Wolfen into the Mighty Armies Rules, those army packs are available at
http://rebelminis.com/ Hopefully we can add the other two races this year.

I need to post the new painted pics of the Modern Heroes figures as well as pics of some of the greens that I bought this year. Will check my finances and see if there is still money available to get them molded at least before the first of the year.

Again problems with Vendio....

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:30:28 +0100

Vendio has again changed there Service set up and the cart is currently refusing to ship international orders. Please contact us via E-mail if you wish to place an order outside the US.

We will be moving everything to a new cart provider shortly.

goals for 2011

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:49:25 +0100

Now with the economy picking back up again I am looking to do some new things for the company this year. I have purchased a few more sculpts from Whiffwaff, they should be available this summer for release.

I have some terrain projects planned as well as other sculpts that I want to release this year.

Preparing the miniatures for retail store sales is also top of my list this year.

The final thing I want to get done is some army lists for Rebel mini's Mighty Armies game system.

Don't give up on us, we may be small, but we intend to be here for years to come.

Were still here...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:03:45 +0100

I know its been rather quiet here this year, but we are still here and all the figures are in stock and ready to ship out if you need them.

Be sure and check out our facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lone-Gunman-Games/123415244353700

Were now on Facebook....

Sat, 29 May 2010 17:48:25 +0100

We now have a fan page on Facebook, come check out the page and add us to your like'd sites. We will be doing special exclusive promotions for our Facebook fans, so join us there at...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lone-Gunman-Games/123415244353700

Vendio Cart problems resolved.

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:29:12 +0100

Ok, the cart problems are fixed and the Modern heroes minis are at a reduced sale price of 20% off MSRP until memorial day in honor of all the figures that didn't get a chance at a second life...

Vedio cart problems

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:08:54 +0100

Today I tried to edit a few items in the vendio store and there was a server error which has knocked the Armies of Arcana rule book and the Modern Heroes miniatures off the store. We do still have these items instock, so please fee free to e-mail us so that we can get these items in an invoice for you.

Sometimes miracles do still happen...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:38:23 +0100

This month were launching a new line of products for us here at Lone Gunman Games. I say new for "us" as 6 of these figures were briefly availible in early 2003 from another company, more on this in a moment.

The new line is a 28MM modern themed line of miniatures called collectively Modern Heroes. They are suitable for modern, Cyberpunk, Post Apoc, and other near future game settings. Full information on the line can be found on there dedicated products page. The manufacturer's suggested retail price will $3.00 each for the first 12 figures in the line. I have lotted these up so that anyone who had previously purchased the original six miniatures can purchase the new six sculpts without worrying about any duplications...

http://www.lonegunmangames.com/modern-heroes

Now for the history of these figures. In 2003 a new company called Eclipse/4G Enterprise's was started by four friends who all had various experience in the hobby and joined forces to start a new company. This was at the time before the release of D20 Modern or any of the recent modern skirmish war gaming rules. The only RPG line at that time that these might have been used for was Cyberpunk and it was languishing due to the lack of new material being released. So the company decided after the first initial release to stop production and cancell the proposed future releases for the company.

I had some of these miniatures instock from the lines liquidation at the distributors level and they sold well as long as I had full sets to offer, but those soon dissapeared from the shelves as customers purchased them. For a long time I wondered what happened to them and were they lost to the gaming void.

Jumping ahead to last year when I bought the Armies of Arcana line health issues with the castor holding the molds forced me to find a new one. After speaking to a few friends I had aquired in the industry I found out that this new caster was a former member of 4G enterprises. So the pertinnent questions were asked about there plans for the line.

So after many phone calls by the caster he found that no one had any future plans for these miniatures. So the next phase was to find the molds and begin casting again. Then I get the dreaded e-mail that the member who was to have taken possesion of the molds did not and they were thrown away during a move by another member. So there went my hopes of getting them back into production. They were gone forever...

Then a miracle happens the caster moved to a new office and he found the master mold that could be used to make new production masters and molds. So we are back in business for the costs of a few new molds. So I get six samples mailed to me before the molds are made and to my surprise there are two figures in there that I have never seen in my life. So were these someone else's sculpts and what happened to the two missing miniatures I had pictures of?

So more phone calls were made and the member who was in charge of promoting the line said those were the only 6 that were ever offered, but I had proof to the contrary pictured in there retail packaging. So more searching was done at the castors investigating master molds that had not seen the light of day in a decade. Finally he found the missing two miniatures and four more that had never been production molded at all hidden within another companies master molds.

So now much to my delight I managed to not only bring six miniatures back from the abyss, but also to discover there were six more unproduced figures that the gaming community have never even seen before.

I know it doesn't seem like a huge miracle to some people, but for me it was the thing that made my year special...

Things are finally moving forward again...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:20:58 +0100

After a much to long pause (my other companies required my attention) things are finally moving forward again for Lone gunman games. I have given the website a major overhaul by adding pages for the new lines of miniatures, updating the site graphics to correspond to the new retail packaging that was designed by our good friend Wyatt the Odd that will be printed this year.

I have also due to customer demand added the dimensions to the 15MM lines so that the size of the figures can be compared to the figures of other manufacturers. I have had many requests for figure heights and this will hopefully be a valuable feature for our customers.

Goals for this year will also include finally getting the miniatures into the hands of convention dealers, local gaming stores, and adding more figures to our ever expanding catalog.

I also want to take a moment and thank those who have placed orders with and supported us this year. Without your continued support none of this would be possible...

Thanks you

The Armies of Arcana 5th edition Rule books are in....

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:03:04 +0100

Everything about launching the new company has taken longer then I had planned. That includes stocking the Armies of Arcana 5th edition rule book by Terrain Warehouse (uk).

They are now in the store and availible for sale. I am having problems with the webstore cart though. The system does not recognize that the US postal service has flat rate envelopes availible, so I will need to issue refunds on these orders to correct the overpayments on shipping.

I am going to be heading the US push to promote the AoA brand and products here in America. Hopefully in this next year I can finally get the miniatures and rules into the hands of convention vendors and possibly FLGS across the US.