Darklands First Edition kickstarter (nicest minis around)

[leonmallett]

You can get the company records from companies house for a pound. That will have some information in.

If you can point me to the correct document(s), that would be appreciated. I would happy to pay the fee to download, but the 4 I have looked through this morning indicate no evidence of repayment; so if you can identify which document to look at that would help, thanks.

[Quirkworthy]

I'm sorry I can't help there. I saw it on someone else's computer several months ago and didn't take a copy.  

Even without this, Maelstrom is in the hands of the liquidators at present, I believe. At least, that's what the record on the companies house site seemed to say. If Maelstrom was somehow "fiddled" out of money by a process of illegally siphoning assets off into Mierce (as people seem to be saying) then this is something that the liquidator will look at and obviously want repaid. This sort of thing is bread and butter for a liquidator and given that the company director is still running a related company one would imagine that checking that nothing of this sort went on would be a first port of call. We should wait to see if the liquidator reckons that the split was done legally. They have all the information to check through, not just what's public or boiled down for companies house, plus they have the experience to dig out fraudulent behaviour.

[leonmallett]

I'm sorry I can't help there. I saw it on someone else's computer several months ago and didn't take a copy.  

Even without this, Maelstrom is in the hands of the liquidators at present, I believe. At least, that's what the record on the companies house site seemed to say. If Maelstrom was somehow "fiddled" out of money by a process of illegally siphoning assets off into Mierce (as people seem to be saying) then this is something that the liquidator will look at and obviously want repaid. This sort of thing is bread and butter for a liquidator and given that the company director is still running a related company one would imagine that checking that nothing of this sort went on would be a first port of call. We should wait to see if the liquidator reckons that the split was done legally. They have all the information to check through, not just what's public or boiled down for companies house, plus they have the experience to dig out fraudulent behaviour.

Thanks for looking.

If you look deeper you can see that 3-4 months before the fire sale, Lane had already started to diversify his businesses (adding Penda Strategies, Maunsfield Gaming, Anglia Gaming Ltd all within a 6 day period). I imagine that will add to the complexity of things.

He has now had 2 businesses go into liquidation (Maelstrom and Maunsfield; the latter was Eye of the Storm), one involuntary, one voluntary. he spoke of a message to follow from each liquidator, yet I am not sure that anything has been publicly posted. So there are 2 different liquidators looking at Lane's companies assets and liabilities - that sounds like a recipe for a mess to me. (Maelstrom: OR NOTTINGHAM, THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER, APEX COURTCITY LINK; and Maunsfield/Eye of the Storm: LEGDON, EMMA, and BROWN, CHRISTOPHER JOHN, EUROPA LINK).

Small claims creditors (i.e. customers with unfulfilled Maelstrom orders) are never going to see their money returned. Yet this man is still able to go about his business despite taking their money. And indeed, has been adversely affecting other businesses (like Simple Miniatures Games).

[Quirkworthy]

As you say, it's a mess.

[mcfonz]

Back to the open - nice miniatures but I didn't pledge simply because they are too pricey.

£80 for 12 Vikings and a werewolf?

Nope. I'd go elsewhere and get the miniatures much sooner.