What are people buying?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Was that one of the Shotton Colorcoat products ?

Yes!

[Paul]

If you can bear plastic Fireforge are pretty good.

Unfortunately, whilst I'm fine with plastic, they don't seem to be as widely available anymore, even their own webstore is sadly lacking!

[Jeremy]

Given Footsore is going up 10% to 15% and they currently have 20% off, I may or may not have just placed a very substantial order from their Barons War Range to go with the latest Kickstarter

[Wg Cdr Luddite]

Was that one of the Shotton Colorcoat products ?

Yes!

Thats the stuff I use to make my bases !

[Paul]

Given Footsore is going up 10% to 15% and they currently have 20% off, I may or may not have just placed a very substantial order from their Barons War Range to go with the latest Kickstarter

Shame they don't have any Medieval Russians
I already have more Barons War and "Dark Age" figures than i'm likely to ever paint!

[Buff Orpington]

Was that one of the Shotton Colorcoat products ?

Yes!

Thats the stuff I use to make my bases !

These days Shotton is a small specialist operation. I don't miss the end of steel smelting here. The first time I got posted here was in 76 when it was still smelting. I lived up the hill and you could see traffic descending into the brown haze that lay across the area.

[goat major]

Yep it’s pretty much concentrated on coated steels since the cutbacks of the 80s with the strip supply coming from s Wales.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

We handled PR for the South Wales operation - British Steel Strip Products - which also researched and manufactured a range of rather impressive automotive steel products. I can recall our team being summoned to BS head office near Waterloo station one day to be told that, under no circumstances, were we to allow any details of a new order from Mercedes, Germany, to get into the press, as it would cause uproar in the German car and steel industries.

[goat major]

Yeh some impressive inroads were made into the European car industry until the Coruscating merger when the Dutch plant was allocated most of the continental Europe markets and S Wales struggle to make profits again.

I visited that HO on Albert Embankment a few times - it was known as AlbertStrasse . Later they moved to Millbank tower complex where - being in between the two floors occupied by the Conservatives- it got trashed as part of the student fees protests. Still I got to work quite a few times in an office overlooking the Thames at Millbank, possibly the most expensive floor space I’ve ever sat at.

[World2dave]

This is a thread for posting about wargaming stuff people are buying, there are plenty of other places on the web where people can reminisce about faded UK industries.