Barton Miniatures

[musketeer1]

Dear All,

As some of you may know, Barton Miniatures has seeming dissappeared off of the face of the figure industry for many years. We have not, as some have put it, been bought by a man in Hawaii in a shed who has send all of our moulds into a black-hole.

Barton Miniatures was purchased off of James Barton many years ago by a company now called Kitney and Company. Kitney and Company are also the legal owners of a smaller scale miniature company called Battle Honours which many of you may also have heard of.

Kitney and Company is a small family business which is mainly a manufacturing-silversmith business who make solid silver photograph frames. As a consequence the Barton Miniatures side of things has been put on the back-burner up until now.

My name is Tom Kitney and I am the son of one of the owners of Kitney and Company, Christopher Kitney. I have grown up in the wargaming/miniature world and as such, that is my passion. Having seen what is on offer elsewhere, I have realised the quality of Barton Miniatures' 90mm white-metal models has been unavailable to the modelling community for too long.

Therefore, as of this moment, Barton Miniatures will rise anew and reclaim its place as one of the premier manufacturers in this field. To do this I need your help. Please contact us using the contact details below to help me revive this company, without the orders this will be impossible. In the near future, we will also be realeasing a previously unseen range of 54mm white-metal models to help to expand our customer base.

Please spread word of our return as word of mouth is some of the most powerful advertising we can have.

Contact Kitney and Company (Barton Miniatures) on Tel: 01304 611 968

Yours faithfully,

Tom Kitney

 

[DEL]

Good to hear.
On of my all time favourites is the 90mm figure of a Viking swinging his axe.
The figure is beautifully balanced back on his heels, counterbalancing the weight and momentum of the blow being delivered.
Look forward to seeing some images of range.
DEL

 

[Tommi]

Is there or will there be a web link to your products?
Thanks
Tommi

 

[Mark S]

This does sound good.
And as Tommi says a link to some images would help to spread the word.

 

[Roc]

I have painted many Barton 90mm. miniatures. if your quality is as good as the originals, I will be ordering kits from you.
Good luck with your venture, hope you do well.

Cheers
Roc

 

[busso_boy]

Tom, I have sent you a PM

 

[Guy]

I hope to see you come up with a web-site where we who live too far away for a phone call can purchase these from you. I still have a few Barton's in my Gray Army collection. Outstanding quality which I hope you continue.

 

[Steve]

Barton

Well Mr. Kitney, I think is safe to say you have added a ray of sunshine in an otherwise sad day in the miniature world. Barton was where it was at at one time and the return of the name is fantastic. Please provide us with something to order from and I trust you will be pleased with the results. I personally am looking forward to your 54's. --

 

[captnenglish]

This is terrific news I still have one or two Barton 54mm figures in my grey army. I too hope that you develop a website, for those of us that don't live in the UK

 

[musketeer1]

Thankyou all very much for your enthusiasm.

At this point in time the only order facility is over the phone, however we are developing a full colour catalogue and hopefully after that a website. Hopefully before a full website is set up, I will post all of the range on photobucket or something similar. When I have done this, I will post details in this thread as to how to find them.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Kitney

 

[IIICorps]

I am very pleased to hear of your intended return. I have collected Barton miniatures for years and the quality was always outstanding.

Good luck.

 

[marios1]

nam 1/35 figures

Fine Musketeer1....i have various nam figures in 1/35 of your father old firm Barton miniatures.....do you ll realize also them again?I hope yes ,becouse they are very fine indeed.....do you have a list with pictures of your nam figures? Do You are located in usa or in england?Do you have an email address?Thanks Mario.

 

[godfather]

sounds really good!!

 

[godfather]

this is good news!

 

[godfather]

Good news looking forward to the releases.

 

[godfather]

this is good news.

 

[musketeer1]

New Pictures

Hi everyone

Once again thankyou all very much for your support for Barton Miniatures. I have taken some new picture of a small section of the range so far and they are in my gallery:

Link: http://www.kitpic.com/ag.php?fid=2246&mid=588

Please browse the gallery, and if anything takes your fancy feel free to call us on 01304 611 968. Unfortunately the factory is closing for a two week summer break as of today, but in a couple of weeks time we will be back up and running so please call us and order !

Cheers

Tom K

 

[Monstie]

Barton Miniatures ..

Good to see Barton miniatures are going to be produced again,a brave and welcome decision and good luck with your venture. All we have to do now is to encourage Ceremonial Studios and Almond Miniatures (or who ever has the moulds) to reproduce the range of figures again and boy will we figure painters have a superb choice of figures across all ages to pick from ..

 

[beford52]

I look forward to seeing these models produced again,especially Richard Almond's work and the Mounted figures.Are you thinking resin or metal again.Thanks for your time.

 

[musketeer1]

As a company we pride ourselves as producing high-quality white-metal figures, as a consequence all of our miniature are white-metal and we have no resin components in the range.

Cheers

Tom K