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Hi all,

True, I've got Minairons miniatures website temporarily shut down, while my wife is taking both chemotherapy and radiotherapy at a Hospital in Barcelona. Once those treatments are over (by mid August, let's say), then I'm going to briefly reopen website for a final clearance until end of stocks. My timeline is to have it all cleared before New Year.

This isn't the retirement way I had envisioned so far. I hoped to handle over Minairons management to a couple of friends who were willing to do so, but a disagreement with one of my sculptors has prevented the operation to complete. Unwilling to get involved in potential legal issues, I've just given up, so Minairons miniatures is going to die here.

It was an exciting adventure while it lasted. I'm happy with it --besides of quite proud, too.

Lluís

Minairons' ever growing collection of 1:600^th scale Age of Sail ensigns has added three new titles to their list, that you can see in the photo above - this time covering the Republic of Genoa from mid 13^th to late 18^th centuries, as well as the Duchy of Savoy during 18^th century and its heir, the kingdom of Sardinia in Napoleonic times.

They're all already available at Minairons' website, as usual.

All the best,

Lluís Vilalta
minairons.eu
Minairons blog

Yes they do. Some more tightly than others.
Check my personal blog for samples: https://soldadets.blogspot.com/p/grand-prix.html

Lluís

Quote from: Smiley Miley 66 on February 04, 2025, 02:40:08 PMHow big are the models please ?

Miles, if looking at the first photo above, the stand where the cat sits upon measures exactly 40 x 20 mm.

Regards,
Lluís

I'm happy to share Minairons' latest release, the 1935 Miller-Ford racing car in 1:100^th scale.
Once again, this new model comes as a 3D-printed product, so requiring no assembly except for the white metal driver to be attached in cockpit.


As for our current family health issues and consequent Minairons miniatures' status, if interested please check the following thread in Minairons' blog.

All the best,

Lluís Vilalta
minairons.eu
Minairons blog

Average dice - I mean, those D6 marked 2-3-3-4-4-5, with no 1 or 6.
I miss those 

Some of you having recently visited Minairons miniatures website may have eventually noticed this was shut down for a period of time --one or two weeks, usually--, allegedly due to family health reasons. Such closures have happened two or three times in the last two months, and I must admit it to be expectable for several months else, while Minairons miniatures still goes under my management.

The reason behind these intermittent closures is my wife's health; she's affected by a serious disease requiring both oncological and physiotherapeutic treatment, so that her full rehabilitation is probably going to take a long time.



Therefore, the fraction of my time currently available for Minairons business has decreased significantly --enough for making me decide to close the website from time to time, if eventually overwhelmed by the amount of orders, in order to keep taking care of her as well as household stuff as a priority.

This setback also affects our releases schedule, as still shown in our blog's pipeline page. I'm not going to release any new item for a while, maybe one or two months; so everything in pipeline stands there in some kind of standby, even those items potentially ready for an immediate launching.

Hopefully things may start to run better soon, as while as my wife's health starts improving and I become able to retake halted projects and serve customers as they deserve. Otherwise, I recently started a conversation with someone interested in taking over the management of Minairons miniatures, now that I am theoretically retired --I hope to bring great news about Minairons survival soon!

All the best,

Lluís Vilalta
minairons.eu
Minairons blog

I just satin varnish them - because I use to reserve gloss varnishing for windows and lights.

My wife's, rather than mine own.

These last five or six weeks have been very complicated for me, due to an unexpected family health problem; a problem that made me decide me to close Minairons' online store for most of the month.

Now that we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel, I would like to take the opportunity to let you know the new products released during this long period of time:



War of Spanish Succession times regimental flags of the Marquis of Rubí Infantry Regiment, raised in 1713 by himself as Charles Habsburg's viceroy of Majorca. Made in 1:100^th, 1:72^nd and 1:56^th scales.



18^th and 19^th centuries 1:600^th scale naval flags - those of the Russian Vanguard Fleet between 1700 and 1865, as well as ACW early flags of both sides, from 1861 to 1863.



1:144^th scale Bristol Bulldog fighter, for Interwar or early SCW gaming.

All the best,

Lluís Vilalta
minairons.eu
Minairons blog

Quote from: Smiley Miley 66 on October 01, 2024, 06:04:46 PMHow big are the models please ?

All models in this collection are based on 4 x 2 cm stands.

Lluís

As the icing on the cake of my projected 1/100 scale Grand Prix circuit, a set of "pit boxes" for my 1930s cars was a real must. At first I thought of making them entirely from scratch, because their general profile would have been easy to reproduce using styrene card. However, in the end I decided to design the thing on Tinkercad, using their library to complete a few details. Then a gaming mate printed six units on his Elegoo Mars 3D printer.



The standard team colours used in the Formula D are red, yellow, green, blue and white - most of which could be matched with the national liveries of historical racing teams. I also added a sixth one, which is black.



My current Minairons miniatures racer collection includes two Italian models (red), two German ones (white, later silver), one British car (green) and a French one (blue). I'm about to add a further American model (white and blue). Not all liveries do match with the pit boxes repertoire, however, so I've had to force some arrangements: for example, since all Italian teams wore red, I left as red the Alfa Romeo pit box, but then I had to assign the yellow one to Maserati. Similarly, as all German teams wore silver in Nazi times, I assigned the white pit box to Mercedes-Benz while the black one to Auto Union.



A particular feature of the white pit box is that I can use it for two different teams (Mercedes-Benz and Miller-Ford), just by replacing signboards and making the flags interchangeable. All signboards are magnetized, by the way.

Hope you like these!

Quote from: martin goddard on July 15, 2024, 08:15:01 AMIf you are gaming with them, what game rules are you going to use?

Well, we did already give a try to Ganesha Games' Galleys & Galleons ruleset, whose Fayre Winds & Foul Tides supplement gives indications for fantasy and ancient warfaring.

Quote from: sukhe_bator (Neil) on July 17, 2024, 07:20:40 PMOne thing I know galleys never went in to battle under full sail... they stowed their mainsail ashore at camp and manoeuvred using the sprit sail and even then took that down before engaging.

Yes I also knew that. But I also want my models to be colourful and nice looking - and this is prioritary to me.
Otherwise, an ancient trieres 1:450 scale model readied for battle would look just as a huge floating timber.

The 1:100^th scale version of Citroën C14 saloon car is already here. Unlike its larger 1:72^nd scale sister, this one comes as a single piece, so requiring no assembly at all.



This new civilian vehicle has a few variants depending on spare tyres location and presence of fog lights, supplied at random.

Lluís Vilalta
minairons.eu
Minairons blog