About Us
Garrison Miniatures pioneered 25mm wargaming when sculptor John Braithwaite first unveiled his new miniatures in 1966. Since the 1980's Garrison has passed through various owners (Greenwood & Ball, SKT, Paisley Miniatures, Amazon Miniatures).
In 2008, we intend to redo as many moulds as possible in order to both improve delivery times (by making the mould composition more efficient) and possibly decrease costs for multiple/army orders. However, some ranges that are not part of this programme (ie: unpopular ones) may be deleted or increased in cost to take account of the disproportionate amount of time it takes to produce them.
We hope to send the vast majority of orders out within 7 days of receiving them. However, for some of the unpopular ranges described above this time may be increased - I will not be keeping stocks of most of these figures and they tend to be scattered in small numbers across lots of moulds.
Incidentally, when sending an E-mail to Garrison, please do not put Paypal in the subject line - we get a lot of phishing attempts like this so they are automatically forwarded to spoof@paypal.com!
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19 July 2008 Dr Steven Young
Just to let everyone know that our son has changed his name from Mr Steven Young to Dr Steven Young....
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15 July 2008 Holiday period
With the approaching school holidays, delivery times will be erratic for a while - holidays, trips, days out, etc - so until the end of August delivery times will be longer than usual, possibly up to 3-4 weeks from receipt of order. Things should be back to normal the closer we get to the end of August.
Quite a few new moulds are on order, so likewise should be a few extra figures coming out in August.
I'll also do a review at that time, coming up to second anniversary of taking Garrison on.
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26 May 2008 Napoleonic 20mm figures
Or how to fill in a couple of days.....
Trying to get them sorted, but lots of figures I can find are not in either my 1972 or 1975 catalogues - found a few Austrians I didn't know existed, plus a Russian cavalry man - I think he is a Dragoon. Plus a range of Dutch-Belgians, also British and French artillerymen......etc!
Cavalry identification nightmare, got a few figures I'll start working through. I'm using Funken as my major source as I assume this would heve been the main source for uniforms when they were originally made. When I do get figures out, I will certainly have to use 'best fit' horses for a lot of the cavalry though.
Figures I already have on moulds only exist as 1 per mould, so I'll have to get some new moulds made. This will limit what I can do - to get even the things I've found so far on production moulds would cost several hundred pounds, probably far more than I would ever get back in gross sales.
Oh, with the artillery figures, I'm going to reintroduce the Rose Napoleonic guns from their 1965 catalogue - they are are actually very nice pieces, far better than Garrison guns.
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13 May 2008 American Revolutionary War and Napoleonics
Firstly, following an exchange of emails with various people, I am now getting the Barry Minot range of 30mm American Revolutionary Wars figures together for issue. These figures originally formed (I think) part of the same range marketed by Spencer Smith Miniatures, http://www.spencersmithminiatures.co.uk/ , in their 'CONNOISSEUR FIGURES (sculpted by Barry Minot)' range. Basically, I seem to have about 40 of the originals, Spencer Smith the other 20 or so. I will be issuing the Highlanders and Artillery crews first, partly because they are easiest to identify from the listings in my 1993 SKT catalogue and partly because Spencer Smith only have one Highlander and no artillery crew figures.
Next, I've also been talking to the people at Napoleon Miniatures, http://www.napoleon.com.es/ , whose figures are just about totally compatible with some of the early Garrison 20mm and 25mm Napoleonics. As I'm going through the Napoleonics at the moment I'm starting to reissue some of the early 25mm figures from the 1975 (I think) catalogue. Frankly, there seems very little difference between infantry in the early 25mm figures and the 20mm ranges!
So far, I have been able to distinguish at least 4 different Garrison Napoleonic ranges:
20mm. - original small figures, though many still 'true' 25mm in size.
25mm (1975 catalogue?) - seem virtually identical to many 20mm, cavalry still seem to be on smaller, 20mm horses.
25mm early version - from cavalry. Large horse, waving swords around like 20mm ranges. Also linked with some figures 'discontinued'?
25mm later version - cavalry in an 'at ease' type position with sabres on the shoulder.
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