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Our end of the Summer 2025 sale is going on now! Here is a quick run down on the details:

- Get 15% off on your ENTIRE order of over $100 in merchandise, the more that you buy, the more that you save

- Sale runs through September 16th, 2025

- Use the dsicount code SHAZAM when checking out

It's really just that easy!

Please help spread the word by telling your friends, and anyone else who you think may be interested. Feel free to post it on any forums, bulletin boards, groups, etc.

Thank you for your support,
GHQ

Together with some friends involved in naval wargaming, I'm putting an order together, so far up to 19 packs. I realize inflation has hit hard, and prices have to go up, but when some new releases are wildly out of line with previous pricing, it is a real disincentive. I refer particularly to the two recent UK pre-dreadnought releases. They are priced the same as large WW2 BB like the Littorio or Bismarck, and way above the previous UK pre-dreadnought from several years back. I would suggest some consideration be given to finding intermediate pricing levels that balance the cost of creating a new model with the reduced production cost from a much smaller model.

What are the reduced prodution costs of producing a pre-Dreadnaught? A pre-Dreadnaught is usually about the same number of parts as another battleship...sometimes more. Some of the biggest expenses of putting out a new release are paying for the design to be made by hand, making the hand molds, cleaning each individual master casting under a microscope by hand, making production molds, gating and venting the production molds by hand (some of these molds require several hundred vents), producing the castings by hand, doing the quality control of each piece with human eyes...

We are a small company that has always produced our products in the USA. Everything is done by human hands. We don't have machines that are set to run, and are just popping castings out. They are all poured by hand, pulled out of the molds by hand, picked off of the sprues by hand, checked for quality control by hand with human eyes... Some companies have chosen to farm out their production to Third World nations- we haven't done that. Please ask any of the many customers who have stopped in for a tour over the years, or better yet, please feel free to stop by yourself, we always welcome the oppotunity to meet our customers, and show them the entire process from beginning to end.

We always want everyone to fully understand the amount of craftsmanship, and detail that go into each model that we sell.

Thank you for your support,
GHQ

Yep - lots of manual labor goes into the whole process...

Pre-dreadnoughts would use less pewter, would be a bit smaller but, would still take about the same time and labor to design, master and produce.

GHQ,
I have been a continues supporter of your company and your products, since I discovered you in the late 80s and early 90s. Sure I have taken breaks along the way, as life got in the way. I have never bought any other brand of miniature in this scale. I have been gifted some and played with others, but I have always found that your product is a higher quality than anyone else. Each piece has unparalleled detail and it shows when you can see the difference, no matter how small, between one version of a specific unit and another. What is even more impressive is how much better the quality seems to get with every new release you create.. Just when I don't think a piece can not look any better, you some how make it happen.

I would be lying if I did not admit that the price gets me every once in a while. When this happens, I just stop and look at one of my favorite pieces and the detailed makes me realize what I am paying for. Often, when I show my work to others who are not in the hobby, the first thing people notice is the level of detail. You can instantly see the look in there face and eyes on how impressed they are with the quality.. In addition to the detail, your customer service is second to none.

Indeed you are a small company with high overhead cost. When a prices go up, I always feel you reluctantly do so and try to hold out as long as you can before doing so. Your customer service is second to none and you have always stood behind your proeduct and the high quality that has become a standard. Any time a piece has come to me and issues were found, you have always made things right and in the quickest way possible.

In closing, the increases in price may sometimes cause me to slow down in how often or how much I buy. However, one thing is certain, I will never stop buying exclusively from GHQ and my only regret is that my wallet is not big enough and I will not live long enough to collect every piece you are and will make in the future.

Mike "Hoth" Egolf