Getting Stronghold Terrain Miniatures in the UK

[bong-67]

Hi,
I live in the UK but want to buy some Stronghold Terrain Miniatures.   Last time I did this I ordered through Footsore Miniatures.   However, they told me this week that they no longer act as a stockists or agents for Stronghold in the UK.
On the Stronghold website there's no option for postage to the UK (but they do seem to post to almost anywhere else).
Can anyone tell me if there are any UK stockists of Stronghold Terrain miniatures or if there is a European stockist who will ship to the UK that I could order from?  I've emailed Stronghold to ask them but had no reply.
Many thanks,
George.

[Mikai]

I checked it shortly and was surprised to see that they are shipping to the British Territories in the Indian Ocean and the British Virgin Islands but not to UK itself. As you write, there is everything else but no UK, can only be an oversight by them

Something special which you wanted to order from them?

[bong-67]

Hi,
I'm after a set of these:
They're based on the Declan Harp and other characters from the Netflix series "Frontier"

https://stronghold-terrain.de/en/shop/declan-mit-gefaehrten-3/

[Mikai]

An alternative source could be their partner for these miniatures which you might want to contact. Looks like they have the same prices there:
https://www.daydream-miniatures.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=132&XTCsid=cc9085f811eb8d4e96c2d7737e1fb28e

Otherwise, seeing as they belong to the range of Muskets & Tomahawks, you might want to ask Northstar if they plan to add them to their range.

[AndrewBeasley]

There are drop shipment address services that you may want to look at.

These provide (for a cost) a US based address and forward on post to you either individually or in bulk.

Customs fees etc may be added and sales tax depending on where the address is located.

[bong-67]

Hi,
Thanks for all the help so far.  I tried the daydream miniatures web store but I couldn't check-out because the web store needed my district but the drop down list had no option for Scottish regions, just English ones and it wouldn't recognise my date of birth even though I entered it in the right format.
Drop shipping from a shipping address in the US isn't an option as it'd be way to expensive.
I guess I'll just have to do without the figs.  Thanks to Brexit it's getting hard to order figs from Europe to the UK and I think even harder for Europeans to order figs from the UK to Europe. So much for free trade!
All the best,
George.

[boneio]

There are inexpensive freight forwarding services (not dropshipping, that's something else...)

I've used https://www.mailboxde.com/ before, it was easy enough and cost me 25 Euros. That was for some heavy books from a German company that also won't ship to the UK directly.

Basic priniciple is you give your shipping address as being the German one the forwarding company provides you, so you're paying German domestic rates for the initial shipping, then the international rate from there to your country.

So it's paying for shipping twice, but not really as the original domestic shipping is probably fairly small.

Might still end up doubling the cost of the minis perhaps... depends how badly you want them! 

[bong-67]

Hi,
I had another go at ordering the figs from daydream miniatures.  The last time I tried to check out it wanted my date of birth in dd/mm/yyyy format but wouldn't accept it.  i tried again but this time I entered my date of birth as mm/dd/yyyy and it accepted it.  I still couldn't select a Scottish region from the drop down menu for shipping and billing address so i just used a random English one.   I was able to proceed to payment and paid by PayPal ok so daydream miniatures should get my correct shipping address from that.  I've got both an order receipt and a shipping receipt for the order so hopefully the figs will turn up.
Once again, thanks to everyone for their help, including boneio.  If I need to use a European freight forwarding service in the future I now know what to do.
All the best
George

[boneio]

Sounds like you got the best outcome there, glad to hear it

Odd that an EU site wanted US-style date entry 

Also I always just make up a d.o.b for anything non-governmental or legal - no idea why a figure retailer would *need* your actual date of birth.

[carlos marighela]

It's the Rudolph Hess protocol.

'After receiving negative customer feedback and having incurred excessive air freight costs, we no longer ship direct to Scotland.'   

[Dolmot]

Unfortunate timing because they were in Hamburger Tactica last weekend. I could have asked about the postage options, stockists and email in person.

Well, now I found this post from 2021: https://stronghold-terrain.de/en/shipping-to-uk/ Looks like "English companies" has been their preferred solution, but if the Footsore option was already confirmed negative and others haven't appeared, I cannot suggest any better routes than those mentioned and apparently already followed here.

One does not simply walk across the channel these days.