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No thanks, I already have prince of squirrels at home
This woud be very precious gift for anyone :rolleyes:.

Yes Master Gildor, I’m getting rid of most of my Mithrils and other minis still sitting in drawers.

Ok, so far we got Master Mornedhel and Master imisel who are interested in the squirrel.
Mistress sevlag and Master Ori a maybe?

I’ll wait 2 more days, then I’ll ask a question and the one with the right answer who expressed interest in the squirrel will get it.
The answer to the question can be found here on MMP!

I don’t have to!

Many thanks Master Caster for the proposition!
I’m in too!

Could you please empty your mailbox, Master Caster. I need to ask you something.

I’m sure it has more to do with the company’s very low advertising profile, as we’ve all said many times before. There are lots of people interested in Tolkien, but very few of them have heard of Mithril figures.

it all comes a marketing strategy from Lars you know, well we’ve discussed it many times already…

this non-marketing strategy comes from the fact Lars cannot invest money in big advertising and also promotions, as facing the giant that GW has become is totally useless and would jeopardize mithril.
that’s why he has clearly decided to break and discontinue EVERY retail activity for Mithril and focus on online sales exclusively. and as such, it has to begin with “veteran and regular” buyers and programs such as the gold fellowship… to extend progressively to “general and public” ONLINE releases, but retailer marketing won’t show up for quite some years still…and that won’t change as it is their decision to NOT do anything… not just laxism…

It was Master Kennako, wasn’t it?

Sorry, Master Mornedhel but, as a hardened miniature painter, i´m in disagreement with both assertions

Mithril miniatures are easier to paint than lots of other brand ones: this is, you can paint them (with a very good final result) in a short time comparing with the more complex modern miniatures. And is not necessary to be an expert painter to achieve good results. The problems are others:

IMHO, the reason is that Mithrils are just simpler or whith less details than modern miniatures (but the elegance of the style, the realism of the poses, the great variety of the range and of course, the fidelity to the original Tolkien´s ideas are still strong points supporting them).

And sadly, lot of professional (or high level amateur) painters may not appreciate this advantages, owing to the mentioned simplicity of the miniatures. And if good painters do not give support, it´s very difficult that the rest of amateurs pay attention to the brand.

The key is to show that is possible to make very good pieces with mithrils.

Just for example, two weeks ago I showed my Prancing Poney diorama in a local painting contest (not a very big one, but with 15 years of history). And it won the gold in his category and the best Fantasy entry of the contest, surprising (and pleasing) the judges a lot.

That is the way: maybe a single mithril miniature will not beat other ones, but a more complex scene (Moria, Helm, Erebor, Fangorn, Rivendel, etc..) will have lot of advantages. And the main advantage I see, is that you cannot recreate the 90% of the Tolkien universe with non-mithril miniatures. And there are lot of Tolkien fans among the miniaturists

Just my optimistic point of view