Army Painter

 OUr suppliers have notified us that Army Painter has increased its prices so, as we get items in from the company with the new pricing, ours will increase as well.

Miniatures Painting

 Since a number of people have picked up painting miniatures during the epidemic, we will start offering painting workshops on the last Saturday of the month. This month's workshop will be led by Syd and will run from 3 p.m to 4 p.m. this Saturday, after Teen D&D

GW Paints

I guess running the special cleaning out the old style GW paints stocked up the paint racks of all the local Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battle players.   Usually, we will have to reorder 3 or 4 different colors of paints per week but, so far, we haven't had to restock a single color yet.

A Tale of Two Paints

Probably going to drop the Howard Hues line of paints.  We brought these in about two years ago and have sold less than half a dozen bottles, despite their quality and value.  We currently stock, in depth, the Games Workshop and Privateer Press lines, because both of those sell steadily, the GW paints outselling the PP ones by a factor of 4 to one, mainly because of the high number of Warhammer 40,000 players compared to Warmachine and Hordes players in the area.  We have looked at expanding the Reaper line but haven't been able to get any info on a rack.  We have toyed with bringing in the Vallejo line of paints as well, as people speak quite highly of them, but the Vallejo paint sets we brought it, to test the waters, moved very slowly.  Ergo, we are pretty leery of bringing in the entire Vallejo line, given that it would amount to a significant investment on the store's part to do so.

Games Workshop Paint Change

We are looking at some form of change to the Games Workshop paint line later this year.  No idea what the company plans on changing, whether it's a new formulation, new sizes, a shake out of the color line or what.  We have just been told that, due to the change coming , Games Workshop has told us to keep inventories low and are allowing stores to buy bottles in single quantities instead of in sleeves of six as is the past.
So, if you are a fan of either the current color line or formulation, you might want to stock up. conversely, you may want to let your paint stocks thin out, in anticipation of whatever happens.  Unfortunately, we don't even have an idea regarding when it will happen, just sometime this year.