2024 - How did we do?

As another year draws to a close, it's time for our annual evaluation of which projects we managed to tick off, which ones are in progress, and which will be kicked into 2025!


10mm Sci-Fi Expansion! - SUCCESS!
The big Sci-Fi expansion was our main focus for the first half of the year with 6 shiny new ranges all released and available here: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-sci-fi  There are 3 more ranges coming soon, ahead of the launch of Future War Commander 2 at Salute 2025.

28mm Crossover Miniatures - SUCCESS!
Another tick on this job with all of the Crossover Miniatures Superhero ranges back in production on the website here: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/28mm-crossover-miniatures  We've also added these to our show stand and the physical shop.

Multi-Scale Flags - SUCCESS!
Another tick here too, with over 700 different flagsheets licensed from Tiny Tin Troops and added to the website here: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/tiny-tin-troops-flags  These are a great addition to our catalogue and have been really well received.

10mm AWI Additions - SUCCESS!
Ticky tick tick!  These were delayed quite a bit but were finally released earlier this month, adding another 30+ codes to our already comprehensive AWI ranges: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-18th-century-american-war-of-independence  I think we're done for the timebeing in this period and the next Clib release will be the Goths.

10mm Indo-China French expansion - SUCCESS!
More successes here, with a full revamp of our Indo-China ranges released back in the summer and available here: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-post-war-indo-china 


10mm ACW Additions - ALMOST!
These have all been sculpted but sadly we didn't have chance to get them into moulds and released before Christmas.  They'll be one of the first jobs to work on when we get back in January, so keep an eye out for them very soon.

10mm Modern Vehicles - ALMOST!
Similar to the above, we've had these all designed and they're in Pendraken HQ ready to go into moulds.  I'll grab some photos of them first and pop them up on the Forum for folks to look at.  This batch is mainly T-72s, plus a BM-27 truck.

10mm WWII Artillery crews revamp - ALMOST!
This one should have been done a couple of months ago but there was more work involved in assembling all of the relevant artillery pieces and prepping all of the new moulds.  All of the sculpts/pieces are in the workshop at Pendraken HQ so it should be one for the first few months of 2025, all being well.

More Red Vectors products - ALMOST!
I'm going to class this one as an Almost as we've got another batch of MDF buildings all prepped and ready to release, but we had some issues with one of our laser machines earlier this month and needed both a service and new extraction fitting.  This left us with just one machine for a while and we had to focus on the orders/stock rather than anything new.


10mm TB Line - FAIL!
I'm going to class this one as a Fail although we have made some progress on this task.  Techno has completed the repair work on several of the Ancients ranges so those can be put into new master moulds soon and then onto production moulds.  The Mongols are still waiting on my desk though, so I'll need to crack on with those asap.

10mm Dungeon World - FAIL!
Sadly we didn't make any progress on this one at all so it'll need to be moved into our 2025 plans.  The new Dungeon modules are all designed and the monsters/furniture masters have been spun up, so we just need to get cracking on new moulds for it all.

12mm Fantasy ranges - FAIL!
Complete Fail on this one, as we just didn't get time to even look at these this year.

10mm Bronze Age Middle East - FAIL!
The sculptor has started doing some research prep for these new ranges but we've not made a start on the sculpts yet.  I'm hoping to have a rough list soon of what we'll be producing and then I can put it up for everyone to look at.


In total there we've got 5 Successes, 4 Almosts and 4 Fails for this year, so some big projects ticked off but definitely room for improvement! 

Most of the Almost projects are sculpted/prepped so it's just a case of finding time to make the moulds and get them released, so I'll optimistically aim to have those done quickly in the new year.  We've also got a new member of staff starting soon, who'll be taking on a lot of admin/social media work and easing my workload a little bit.

I think we'll probably go a little easier in our 'Plans for 2025' as well, just to make things a bit more manageable!

As always, thanks for your valuable custom and endless support this year, we hope you've enjoyed our new releases and we'll have a lot of new shiny goodies coming your way in 2025.