Author: Elmato

Hi all ,

I am hoping you are all well and happy . Thankyou for keeping me busy over the last few weeks , There are some great projects happening out there . I’ve been stripped of most of my NVA and Mainforce VC Infantry and Sapper platoons, and a lot of heavy weapons . All good …….Charlie’s up to something !

So ; I’m currently out of stock of a few lines and am about to go away for a few weeks (yes again ; )

I’ll be back in-country at the end of September . I’ll be able to get out orders I have already on the table , but orders placed from now will have to wait until I get back .  And the first thing I’ll have to do is restock an amount of my most popular metal figures . (: with a happy face 🙂 .   I hope this is ok.

Also ;( now with a serious face ); for USA customers ; the US Tariffs hoopla (above my pay-grade) has resulted (in the last week )  in Australia Post not shipping parcels of a declared value of greater than $150 AUD to the USA . (the USD value will change with exchange rate) .  I just want to make you aware of this when ordering , and I’ll communicate with you if we need to break up the postage of larger orders, or however you want to handle it . No worries mate . I don’t think this will be a longstanding impediment . Don’t let this slow down your projects .

Back to the packing shed to get remaining orders out as soon as .

All the best for now .

Jimmi

Hi all !

Nearly to the end of July in 2025 ! , I’ve had the shop closed for a short while as I have been hosting successive waves of visitors and getting out to do some overdue visiting of old friends and family myself .

Our youngest daughter is now also away at Uni (“College” in American) so after establishing her at her new interstate locale , my wife and I are through to the ‘empty nester’ stage of life . With the occasional sleep-in to prove it .

We’ve had a monster year already even without visitors.  No sooner had we established our youngest away at Uni , but we had a cyclone (southern hemisphere typhoon) hit our area and it seemed like it didn’t stop raining for months after this, with a few wild storms thrown in . Luckily we enjoy the rain , and there has been just enough sunshine to stop us turning “feral” . (‘Florida man’ in American)

Thankyou again for your ‘comradely good fellowship” , discussions, sharing, and even a few concerns that I was washed away in the flooding in our area back there a few months . No , we are all good , and have had an excellent few months of catching up with people including some of my oldest gaming friends.

The break away from the shop has left me looking forward to taking the wheel again . I’ve got a few orders already waiting for me to pack and post , but this will happen fairly quickly after a recent restock and cleanout / stocktake of the packing shed shelves .

I hope you are in a good time and place and have the capacity to get some painting done and get a few games in . I am looking forward to getting more games on the table myself as the dust settles .

All the best for now , see you out there .

More eye candy here ; https://www.flickr.com/photos/flashpoint-miniatures/

Jimmi

Greeting gents , thankyou for the queries as to if I (and Flashpoint Miniatures ) are Ok ! .. Yes I’m in a good space right now . I closed the shop back in April for a few weeks after a big weather event and heavy rain (and flooding) for a few weeks following. Plus , at this time I had undertaken to participate in a University research project that required a bit of time to do well. Plus I had also committed to visiting some old friends in my area , which took me away for a few days here and there (once the roads were open) , but was completely awesome to catch up . I’ve got back to the shop and cleared the decks of waiting orders (not a lot , but a few things requiring casting ) and here we are .

I am now just about to receive some guests for the next two weeks (into July) and I’ll have my hands busy with them , so any orders placed in the next two weeks I’ll get to after guests have gone .

The very good news is that the Vietnam wargame rules I’ve been working on (is a bit of a group project) have had a bit further “hands-off” testing (especially regarding water-operations) and have come through very well . I have some data tables to tart up and they are are pretty much ready to share around. I’ll format it all a little more “aesthetically” and add some (already written) commentary . Then break into bite-sized pieces and share via the ‘net. If you are interested in sampling these rules as the first echelon ; please let me know here . These are intended to be larger-battle rules (Company-plus aside ) that play relatively quickly , and lend themselves to Campaign play (versus Tournament play ) AND can fold into some Solo wargaming scenarios easily . Yes ; I have some well tested Campaign rules (/metrics) and scenarios to offer as part of the package . Yes ; they are intended to work for any Vietnam inspired scenario … Interested ? let me know .

All the best for now , stay safe out there .

Greetings Gents , I’ve been very busy at Flashpoint Miniatures over the last weeks through some continuously challenging weather . This has slowed me down a little and I’ll be flat strap to get the orders I do have already out the door before I need to be away after Easter into mid May . Oh Yeah , and my supplier for some items (like urethane for casting terrain) is also having supply issues .

Accordingly, I’m just letting you know that any orders I receive from now I won’t be able to get to until after mid-May 2025 . Hope that’s ok ! I’m pretty sure I’ll get what orders I have into the post in the next few days , but then I’ll be focused on another project for a few weeks .

Thankyou for keeping me busy in the workshop , there is always plenty to do . I’ll aim to use some of the downtime to recondition some of our terrain piece molds , so I hope to bring back some terrain items (like sandbag emplacements and the fish ponds ) that are popular and have been unavailable for a short while .

I hope this finds you happy and well , and relatively unaffected by the interesting times.

All the best

Jimmi

Greetings gentlemen ,

I hope this finds you well and happy , warm and dry and fed and watered , wherever you are .

Thankyou to our friends wishing us the best in the recent cyclone ‘weather event’ , yes we are ok. We are actually pretty used to it at this time of the year so this time were well prepared (didn’t even have to close the shop ..apart from the flooded roads) … and the cyclone veered north just at the last minute and spared us the worst !!

Thanks Adam for sharing these .

I’ve not been so active here on the webpage or on socials generally (no reason ; just out of the routine) , but have been corresponding quite a bit via emails like in the olden days . Thankyou for some excellent conversations, and for sharing some really interesting projects .

Keep painting ! Happy gaming !

All the best

Jimmi

Hi all ,

I am back in the saddle after a few weeks of seasonal socials and travel , plus a few family logistical tasks . Even managed to do a little house painting !

 It’s been a hot summer down here in Australia , and we had our house airconditioner die in the first few days of it .. so we’ve had a traditional Aussie Christmas in the water or under ceiling fans pretty much, exercising (ie farm chores)  in the early morning or late afternoon and drinking plenty of water . Has been good . But we are finally getting our airconditioner fixed tomorrow (Sat 1st Feb), and I am looking forward to it .

I’ve got the shop open and am beginning to pack orders that have been waiting for up to a few weeks. I’ve just done a production run of a few items I suddenly needed lots of , but now have everything I need so far so it should go out fairly smoothly .

One of my security managers scarpered for a few days but is back now .. all safe .

( 276cm , > 9 foot – long Carpet Python skin left behind in workshop )

I’ve got some completed projects done and samples of new items painted up for the table , and more generally fun stuff so I need to take some decent photos. Likewise from recent travels I have a few baskets of awesome pics to share once I download and upload . Please stay tuned .

Mahalo !  Glad to be back for 2025 .

Jimmi ,

Flashpoint Miniatures

I hope this finds you well, productive and happy. I hope you are looking forward to a few good weeks ahead. I’ll be taking some time away from the shop to spend with family over the next few weeks.

..project ; essentially three 15mm Vietnam wargames tables ready to go !

Thankyou for a busy and engaging year ,  we are taking some time off over the next weeks to the end of January . We have some outgoing orders still to ship out at the moment that we will get away , but incoming orders from now and over the next few weeks we will not get to until end January . We will need to do a little bit of a restock, and some terrain moulds will need their 10000K overhaul .

Thankyou for your best “Comradely good fellowship “ in the world of Vietnam and Modern wargaming. Over the last ten years of running Flashpoint Miniatures I get to meet (via internet) many interesting gentlemen wargamers with all sorts of histories and some really imaginative wargaming projects . This year is no exception and I wish a special Christmas “G’day mate”  to the many most excellent people I have met , and the most truly excellent ‘history / current events / future history ‘ discussions and ‘wargaming project’ and critical thinking exercises / sharing that I’ve got to see as they take shape . Thanks for a lot of fun and interesting thinking .

Thankyou gents for another year of the  ‘2020’s decade that we will hopefully look back and laugh about . , see you in 2025 ! … more to follow .

Jimmi

ps . Please enjoy this youtube clip of one such project in Pennsylvania USA . from where I have found some of the amazing photos shared here . Thanks Bill.

Greetings Gentlemen,

I hope this finds you well and happy . It’s been a busy time again ! Good to see some old friends again.

Our website / international postal calculator issues have been resolved . Seems to be working fine atm. Thankyou for your patience . Thankyou also to my Australia – based customers who kept me pretty busy anyway . Hahaha!

Rest assured I am getting your orders together and posted , and ready to take your new orders before we think about closing down over Christmas .

I hope you are remaining productive and getting stuff on the table .

I’ve been busy painting US armor and MVC infantry and making mdf buildings from a number of places ; I’ll post something on this soon . I need to dedicate time to taking more pictures as I go . Nonetheless please enjoy what eye candy I do have handy .

All the best .

for more eye candy see ; https://www.flickr.com/photos/flashpoint-miniatures/

Jimmi

Hi all !

We seem to have a returning issue with the Postage calculator not working for overseas customers .

We are aware of it , but not sure why it is persisting , we’d thought it was fixed , but it might be a bug / incompatibility in this version of the postage calculator . …. Thankyou for your patience. Still looking for a fix with the IT team .

The Team

If you are needing reinforcements urgently ! .. let me know at admin@flashpoint-miniatures.com and we will figure it out . No worries .

all the best

Jimmi

Hi all ; everything seems to be working , thankyou for your patience .

Some new items ; I’ve just got into the storefront ; !

US ARMY AEROSCOUT PLATOON ; The ‘Blues ; ‘when the blues go out they carry more firepower than God ‘fhree five-man recon squads with M60 , plus a Platoon HQ and Medic with casualty markers..

US ARMY HEAVY WEAPONS PLATOON ; Additional useful heavy weapons for your LZ or firebase perimeter . 2x 106mm Recoilless rifle teams ; 2x M2 .50cal HMG teams and a lone 81mm Mortar and three man crew .

ARVN RIFLE SQUAD ; 10x ARVN Riflemen , a Medic and casualty marker .

ARVN MORTAR PLATOON ; 1x 60mm Mortar and 2-man crew , 2x 81mm Mortars with 3 man motley crew .

ANZ RIFLE SECTION ; ANZ Rifle Section + RTO , Medic and Casualty marker .

ANZ HEAVY WEAPONS PLATOON ; Additional useful heavy weapons for your ANZ LZ or firebase perimeter . 2x 106mm Recoilless rifle teams ; 2x M2 .50cal HMG teams and a lone 81mm Mortar and three man crew .

NVA HEAVY WEAPONS PLATOON ; This is a pack originally intended to be a Heavy weapons platoon for a Sapper attack !! . A 60mm Mortar and two crew for your light bombardment and signalling / illumination tasks. 2x extra-stealthy 57mm Recoilless Rifle teams with three crew and a 12.7mm AAMG with crew , plus small security and ammo porterage teams

Happy to see these projects off the shelf and on the shelves ! Hahaha

all the best for now . 28July ’24

Jimmi