BTD Year-End Sale Package Arrives!

Yes, the order I placed to Black Tree Design, USA on 28DEC2013 arrived in today's post.  Almost two months to the day, the box of lead finally showed up on my doorstep.  Well, most of the order arrived.  There are still a few items on back order but still, what is more fun than receiving a package of lead in the mail?

Box of Lead

Several of us got together an after-Christmas order to BTD to take advantage of their Christmas/Year-End sale.  The sale featured a 50% discount on all items.  Yes, ALL items!  BTD does not offer 50% on everything often so we jumped at the chance to fill our storage sheds with lead.   

New Pile of Lead

Unfortunately, demand from the sale far outstripped supplies and my guess is that huge numbers of orders were back ordered.  To compound the issue, a large proportion of our order was for cavalry that rarely go on sale and casting up the inventory took time.  In fact, we are still waiting on a small pile of horses.

Some may think, you waited two months to receive your order?  Are you mad?  I have always had good and (usually) quick turn around on BTD orders so I wasn't too concerned.  The owner of BTD USA kept me updated with frequent emails apprising me of the status of our order.  Besides, I was not likely to run out of figures to paint anytime soon.

Most of the order contained figures to be added to our Reconquista projects including a lot of cavalry while Scott ordered samples from the Trojan War line.  Boy!  The Trojan War figures are really nice!  Very tempting!

I have some sorting to do this evening.