News from studio "Siberia - miniatures"

[Hammers]

Thanks for your good responses, guys!
I know, that many western collectors and gamers are frightened by complexities of reception of figures from Russia. But I already sent the works to the western buyers and they have not received any special complexities.
Yes, PayPal does not send money to Russia that is very a pity. But it is possible to take advantage of similar English payment system "Moneybookers". It has enough low interests for remittance. Esteem their working conditions. They a little than differ from PayPal.
Mail from Russia sometimes slow enough, but quite within limits.
If there is interest Sepoy1857, give I will specify cost of sending of a package to Canada, we will know precisely.
  The Japanese cavalry - it is quite possible. But hardly in the near future. At first - Central Asia in Russian Civil war.

I can vouch for this albeit only based on one transaction.

I've had worse problems getting items shipped from Canada.

[cuprum]

For some reason the western clients are afraid to buy the goods in Russia. Plus a problem with PayPal, refusing to work in Russia is high-grade. If thus also to me to create problems to the client - what for in general to be engaged in such business. I am very interested in the western buyers of production. In the Russian market such figures are not on sale almost. Here very much low yields at the majority of the population. Russian gamers cheap plastic figures 1/72 presume to get the majority only. If I cannot sell the figures on the West, I mean I will not be engaged in a miniature in general. It would be very distressing. This work very much is pleasant to me.

[ts]

I have bought several times from Cuprum, both 28 mm and 60 mm and paid through Moneybookers.
There are no problems in buying from him.
One just has to remember that Cuprum lives almost at the end of the world, close to the Chinese border, so any post takes about 14 days to reach Europe.
But both the Russian Post and Moneybookers are fully reliable.

[Remington]

I must say that I trust cuprum.  No problem there. We are LAFers after all.   I am not so sure about moneybookers yet. I am reading so many bad reviews about scams and similar situations.

Do you have to connect your bank account with MB? That my worry really.

[Hammers]

I must say that I trust cuprum.  No problem there. We are LAFers after all.   I am not so sure about moneybookers yet. I am reading so many bad reviews about scams and similar situations.

Do you have to connect your bank account with MB? That my worry really.

I payed them via Visa.

[Remington]

I guess that's an option, athough not the safest handing them my card details... Or am I just paranoid?

[Hammers]

I payed them via Visa.

While not everyone is happy with Moneybooker for various reasons I think it is good to know that Moneybooker is an accepted payment service on Ebay.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html

[ts]

Remington, if you is afraid of Moneybookers, you can eventually transfer the amount for Cuprum to my PayPal account, I will then transfer via Moneybookers.
Do not know if there are any costs for transferring between two private PayPal accounts?

[Remington]

Thank you for that kind offer but I think Hammers just gave me the reassurance I needed. Should a problem arise, maybe I could get back to you if your offer still stands.

[Atheling]

Those sculpts are truly marvelous!  

Hurry and get them on the market  . Once people see the quality I think they may sell very well. You could also look into the possibility of getting moulds made in 'Europe' (wierd saying that as obviously Russia is part of Europe!).

Regardless, I'll be buying some for certain.

Darrell.

[sepoy1857]

Can Moneybookers be used from outside Europe?

[huevans]

Here is what I do. I have a "second" visa card with only a couple of $100 limit which I use just for internet transactions.

If the card is scammed, it matters little. My maximum loss is very small.

[cuprum]

Hi guys.
Once again thanks for attention to my work.
I wish to ask. In what scale it is necessary to make banners for figures of 28 mm? 1/56, 1/48?
It seems to me, that banners of larger scale will look more interesting. Your opinion?
Regards
Michael

[sepoy1857]

Wow! Love them.

[Remington]

Great work, cuprum! I also think that slightly larger flag look much more interesting on the table. I'd go for the larger ones. But best thing to do, I would think, is try it out and look what they look like on a miniature.