We are discontinuing 61 colours from our range

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

https://www.sovereignhobbies.co.uk/blogs/news/business-update

 

As with many others, we have faced multiple challenges as a business over the last few years. Uncertainty, increased administration and so on caused by Brexit, increasing raw material and base product prices, difficulties sourcing materials, vast increases in tin costs and difficulties with escalating costs of shipping flammable liquids have brought additional strain to the business. We have managed to contain most of these concerns by making small changes to pricing (only when applicable to new stocks) and rewarding our customers (free gifts last December). However, as a business we do have to evolve to the changing circumstances and as such as have taken the decision to discontinue 61 less-popular colours from our range. Typically, we only discontinue a colour when new research deems it inaccurate or when we are not happy with the quality of the product. This time however, we are streamlining our range to enable us to maintain better stocks of the popular colours. The colours we have discontinued remain accurate colours, however they are very slow sellers and we must accept these products are poor use of our limited cash, production capacity or storage space when we restock.

All discontinued stock will be available until they are sold out with a 20% discount (applied automatically at checkout). These will not be re-made in the future, so this is your last chance to get these colours.

What is being discontinued?

We are discontinuing the entire range of French Air Force, WWI Allied Naval Camouflage, Italian Navy, Modern Navy, Imperial Japanese Army, Australian Army, Israeli Self-Defence Force, Italian Army, Russian Army and United States Army and Marine Corps, alongside individual colours as named below.

C07 – Buff, C08 – Bright Blued Gunmetal, C10 – Parkerised Gunmetal, C11 – Blued Gunmetal,

ACGW05 – Beige, ACGW06 – Chestnut Brown, ACGW07 – Dark Green, ACGW08 – Light Green, ACGW09 – Light Yellow

ACLW07 – Hellgrau (L40/52)

ACS05 – WUP Grey Interior Primer, ACS06 – IMUP Blue-Grey Metal Primer, ACS07 – ALG-5 Metal Primer, ACS14 – AE9 Grey, ACS22 – A.II Red,

ACUS10 – WWII USN Non-Specular White, ACUS31 – Yellow Sand (FS20400), ACUS32 – Brown Special 9FS30140)

KM07 – Blaugrau Dunkel, KM08 – Norwegian Blaugrau Mittel, KM09 – Blaugrau Hell

US37 - Slate

[Heather Kay]

An understandable situation, Jamie. No point making stuff that doesn't sell. So, I thought I'd better top up on my French Air Force - and some has already sold out!

 

I've just bought what's available, and hoping what I have left is enough for the build programme. I really don't want to start trying to find alternatives. I'm getting too old for that game!

[davecov]

That is a shame Jamie but as Heather says, it is completely understandable. Out of the 61 paints you list above, it is only the Modern Navy paints that I would miss - but even then not for a long, long time as I have large stocks of them.

 

Dave

[spitfire]

Got to survive so I can understand this, so as others have done I hjve topped up my stock, but my favourite ACF07 was out of stock, it's the nearest of any paint that I have tried to the WW2 colour, however I do have 4 tins in stock.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Stew Dapple]

29 minutes ago, spitfire said:

I do have 4 tins in stock

 

Deep back-up, I like your style Dennis  

 

Cheers,

 

Stew