Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. We will be closed for business over the holiday period closing on Tuesday 22nd and only nipping in to check on emails until the Monday the 4th 2016.
Aventine is like the Royals, it has 2 birthdays. On the 1st December 2008 we set up Aventine and then for the next 5 months we bought casting and moulding equipment, learnt how to use it and prepared the first range ready for sale when we opened for business on the 1st April 2009. All you see on the site has been created by Adam and Keith since then. We would guess that there are around 250,000 Aventine little men out there now and a few Elephants as well. All this has been possible because of you our customers/friends and we thank you.
Next year we hope to start another grand project, the Byzantines, starting with the Early and progressing onwards. Before we start that we will complete a Samnite cavalry unit, add cavalry to the Seleucid section and revamp some of the successor infantry. YES Mike Adams, we will do Samnite cavalry soon. We still have to complete the armoured infantry command pack for the Sassanids, we stopped that to let Adam help out with the casting, we had so many orders that that was the only way to get them away before the posting deadline, it has been started and should not take long to finish.
Have a Merry time and don’t strain too many eyes painting, there is always next year for that.
Keith and Adam