Stolen 

Update - The police have caught the culprits and recovered the goods! Hurrah for the boys in blue!

Sunday's Wargaming show at Alumwell was completely overshadowed for me and many others by a break in that occurred on the Saturday night. Someone broke into the hall and stole many thousands of pounds worth of castings from Dave Thomas, who will be familiar to many of you. Not only his stock was stolen but also many painted figures from the display stand. Others also suffered, as the Heresy range display models have also been stolen, and over £2000 pounds worth of WW2 models belonging to one of the staff. This is another serious example of a growing and disturbing trend. Our model collections are worth big money and someone is now targeting them. This is very serious indeed, such losses as these could drive businesses into liquidation, as well as break the hearts of the models owners. 

We must do all we can to find out who is responsible and get them into the hands of the proper authorities. I reproduce below a couple of postings from 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wargamesclubs/

The first from Andy Foster of Heresy explains far better than I can the impact of this theft. The second is an intial list of the items stolen. Please be on the look out for these models, check local junk shops, newspaper ads, E Bay, Bring and Buys, Car Boots, wherever you can think. Lets try and get these bastards!

Terrible news, people. I'll talk about how it specifically applies to my stuff, but it also applies to a lot of other stuff, read on.

At the Alumwell figure show in Walsall, Birmingham, a gang of thieves broke in over the Saturday night and targeted the stall of Dave 
Thomas. Dave stocks various figure ranges and for the first time was selling Heresy goods. To aid him, I had for the very first time 
allowed my own painted figures, the ones from the website, to be borrowed for display purposes. They were hidden (in a large black 
games workshop 'hard' figure case, with the words 'Andy's 40k chaos' painted on in white paint) under a table in some empty cardboard 
boxes. The thieves stole all of Dave Thomas Games Workshop or similar-looking-to-GW (eg Void, Renegade) stock, which included all the Heresy stock. 

The Thieves also stole some of the painted fantasy and sci-fi figures he had, INCLUDING the Heresy figures! Now, I'm not 
*too* bothered about the stock, it can easily be replaced, I'd been paid...what has devastated me is that all the painted Heresy figures 
were stolen!!!

So, I'm asking everyone to help out here. The figures were all the painted ones from the site, more or less, plus one new Azaroth Fallen 
One in a red colour sheme with a one scythe, some (poor) black mottling on the wings. It is most likely that these figures will turn 
up either on Ebay, (probably being sold as gw stock, but possibly not since the thieves have all the blisters to refer to) or at a car boot 
sale somewhere in the country, probably in the midlands area. 

The Heresy blisters have pictures of the figures inside made out of paper I printed out. If you see a Heresy blister at your local car boot 
sale, and it has a picture in it of the figure inside, IT IS STOLEN goods and you must call the police immediately and get them to grab 
the trader. No other trader has ever had blisters with pictures of the figures inside, this was the first time I had done it.

I will give a reward (of stock) to anyone who leads to the recovery of any of the painted figures or even the stock, and helps to put 
these scum away behind bars.

So in summary, I am asking for your help to scour ebay and your local car boot sales or second hand stores in the coming month or two. If 
you spot anything that looks like a pro-painted Heresy figure (or a half-painted winged netherlord, the back is black undercoated - they 
apparently left the white undercoated figure of the spined netherlord, they were clearly after GW style painted figs to sell on) 
or reminds you of one from the site, phone me with details or the police if you're sure what you're looking at. 

If the shop owner is a trustworthy type whom you know, ask him where he got the figure from. I want my painted children back, you have no idea how much time and effort went into those for free on the behalf of the people who did them! It also means the cabinet's going to be pretty bare at Salute this year!

Hope you can help

Cheers

Andy Foster Heresy (pretty gutted and angry)

If you have any information regarding who did this crime, please let the local Alumwell/Walsall police know, and/or tell me what you know. 
you can either phone me 01332 678907 or email andy@heresyminiatures.com Thanks, Andy 


Stolen items Initial list

60 boxes of GW LOTR
30 boxes of Renegade £20 sets 
80 various Void & Celtos boxes 
50 Perry AWI boxes 
The full Perry display in a yellow case 
3 A&A miniatures painted Sassanid elephants and 8 cavalry 
As andy has said all his painted display 
100+ blisters of the new Disturbia stuff from Graven Images(this is 
brand new so should be easy to spot) 
3 GW carry cases packed with well painted figs 
A WW2 painted army in wooden carry boxes and loads of other bits

Please remember to mention Wargames Forum when contacting traders!

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