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Title: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: nicknorthstar on 28 May 2020, 06:21:05 PM
That's me.

I don't get involved with things like giving interviews, I suppose not being a creative type I don't feel I've much of interest to share.

But I was persuaded to give John Wombat an interview for his blog, firstly because of his Punk Rock credentials and secondly he'd already got some of my chums like Rick and Ackers involved.

You can read it here: https://johnwombat.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/north-star-military-figures-more-a-talk-with-nick-eyre-part-2/?fbclid=IwAR2rRYpUKyg9JKnxjk5DXz7D2A40R5HFWVCbyeJTfI5ohOwI321QLuqxrVQ (https://johnwombat.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/north-star-military-figures-more-a-talk-with-nick-eyre-part-2/?fbclid=IwAR2rRYpUKyg9JKnxjk5DXz7D2A40R5HFWVCbyeJTfI5ohOwI321QLuqxrVQ)

Oh, and I was bribed to do it as well:
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Belgian on 28 May 2020, 07:41:03 PM
Thanks for sharing, interesting interview and life  ;)
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Ogrob on 28 May 2020, 08:55:52 PM
Enjoyed these, thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: streetkern on 28 May 2020, 11:03:42 PM
Great interviews - really enjoyed them

And thanks for the emphasis on more female minis. My 8 year old wants to start painting with me so I got her some of the frostgrave wizards II set to kick her off
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Blackwolf on 28 May 2020, 11:08:49 PM
Great interview Nick :) And John Wombat is an intriguing  character,good taste in music and miniatures  :)
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: syrinx0 on 29 May 2020, 02:00:56 AM
How could you not with that sort of enticement?   lol
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: FifteensAway on 29 May 2020, 02:42:08 AM
That youngster, Nick, has led a very peripatetic life!  But my take away is this: get him to talk to Osprey about getting a new website.  I recently spent about five minutes there and vowed I would never visit it again - it is terrible to navigate.  I was visiting to put a list together to submit to a local hobby shop to help them through the COVID closures.  But time is too short for that website.  Which is too bad because I have a few score Osprey on my shelves.  Just bought at hobby shops.  I have talked to other local gamers with the same feeling.  It is not my intent to bad mouth Osprey - I hope they see this as an opportunity to improve.  And, yes, I realize it is likely a massive undertaking.  Still.
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Duncan McDane on 30 May 2020, 10:42:12 AM
An interesting read.
Really pleased with Northstar the last couple of years btw, the quality of the castings has improved greatly ( hardly any moldlines at all ), highly original and interesting designs, great sculpts and all that at a very attractive price level.
( just had so say this, as I've been quite critical in the past over the early Frostgrave castings with heavy, in many cases double moldlines ).
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: nicknorthstar on 30 May 2020, 08:26:54 PM
Ah that was you was it. Got your card marked pal  lol

Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Duncan McDane on 30 May 2020, 11:50:18 PM
As long as it's a discount card I'll take it any day of the week  lol
But don't worry, it never has stopped me from buying your models but it's much more stimulating if the cleaning of the fig can be done in a couple of minutes. 
Still got something to complain though - ;) - in the Netherlands it's really hard to get your models, especially those outside the Frostgrave/G.A. range. Not your fault, it's just that our shops aren't
 the most adventures ones, unfortunately...
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: nicknorthstar on 31 May 2020, 10:12:32 AM
You said it. Any shop that buys Frostgrave from us has access to the WHOLE range, it's their choice what they take. Maybe post-Brexit a shop will take the 'bull by the horns' and be a place that has everything on display. That'd be something, I'd visit myself, and I'd have supplied him!
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Bloggard on 01 June 2020, 11:41:35 AM
why 'post-Brexit'?
Forgive my naivety, and not trying to provoke - just genuinely wondering what's stopping them doing it now, presumably  in terms of 'import' / business costs?

... I guess not the best place to ask the question, maybe.
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: nicknorthstar on 01 June 2020, 08:36:49 PM
I don't want any political replies, I'll turn off the comments if that happens, but there's a high chance exporting mail orders to Europe may become more complicated when we've left the the EU. It may be easier all round if there was an importer in the Netherlands with the whole range for Dutch customers.
Title: Re: Interview with Nick from North Star
Post by: Bloggard on 02 June 2020, 08:49:49 AM
ah I see, ok, thanks. Yes, that's more what I thought would be the case.