Yesterday I received the following email from Mark Lodge that Jacklex Miniatures has ceased trading:
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PERMANENT CLOSURE OF JACKLEX MINIATURES
Unfortunately, I write to announce the permanent closure of Jacklex Miniatures from today (3 January 2025). This is, in the main due to the ever increasing costs of running a small hobby business including raw materials, postage, business insurance, electricity and EU regulation (I thought we had rid ourselves of the latter?) As many of you will know, my primary goal has always been to keep a fine range of model soldiers, sculpted by the very talented Jack Alexander and Andrew Stadden, available to the hobby. It is, therefore with a great deal of regret that I find that I am unable to continue to do so.
Please be assured that any orders made through the site on or before 1 January will be fulfilled in the usual manner.
Thank you for your custom over the last five years, it has been a pleasure to do business with you. I wish you the very best for the New Year and for all your future hobby endeavours.
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I would like to record my gratitude to Mark for all the hard work he put in keeping the Jacklex range in production. He was also very helpful willingly breaking up figure sets to provide specific items and, in this way, provided all the baggage mules and oxen together with some of the drivers that made up my Spanish Napoleonic baggage train and pull my huge Warhammer Great Cannon for my 'The Pride and the Passion' project.
I hope the following photos provide some idea of how nice this range was:
Oh Dear God...such a loss.
ReplyDeleteI know, but nothing lasts forever, so let's all enjoy what we have while we have it.
DeleteI heard this the other day, what a real shame but I feel he may not be the last in these rather hard times.
ReplyDeleteI think you may be right; everything seems to conspire to prevent these, labour of love, one-man bands from being going concerns. And then we're all getting older and these figures have no nostalgia factor for newer generations of gamers.
DeleteThis is a shame as Mark has done a great job and ran his business in an unusually professional way for a small wargame business. Hobby or not though you still need to make a profit!
ReplyDeleteI fear might've let his love for the hobby overwhelm his business sense, he was always very helpful about selling just what was asked for - a true businessman would've insisted on selling me entire equipment sets and never supplied freebies.
DeleteDrat. I'm very sorry to hear this.
ReplyDeleteLikewise, David was lucky to get in his order of mules, oxen, wagons, etc. for his Peninsular train just before Xmas.
DeleteEven worse I've just seen on TMP (Captain Siborne's "Caisson Convoy" Topic) that Westfalia Miniatures (incl. Schilling) have gone out of business! Sad times for the 20mm community.
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