Shipping policy

Timeframe

Brutal Cities is a small operation and due to increasing business, in order to get terrain out to everyone quicker, orders will be shipped once a week on a Thursday or Friday. Thanks for your understanding and support!

INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS PLEASE READ:

Please check your phone, email and mailbox for information about your orders - check with your local post office if your shipment is late - you may need to pay customs for delivery. 
If you are using an online tool to calculate duties, Brutal Cities products are typically classified as Scale Model Kits - HS code 950300

United States -2026 Tariffs 

Brutal Cities products are Australian-manufactured goods

  • Australian-manufactured goods are subject to a tariff of 12.5% on import into the United States via Postal services. 
  • Brutal Cities will charge you for this tariff + fees upfront and pay the US customs - so it's easy for you and you don't get any surprises. :)
  • Please make sure to check your emails and collect your post though! If it's returned to Australia because you forget to collect it from the post office I will need to charge you shipping again and tariffs, if required.

Auspost partners with the United States Postal Service https://www.usps.com/ 

BREXIT / UK Shipping

For all orders up to £135 Brutal Cities will collect 20% VAT for the UK Government - this means your order should go through customs with less fuss for you - while being quicker!
For orders over £135 the recipient (ie. you) will be responsible for paying for VAT and duty, as was the case before Brexit. More information at the providers website here - Royal Mail 


European Union

2026 UPDATE -

Like many manufacturers in the hobby Industry, as of 26/08/2026 I have decided to stop shipping to the EU.
However it's actually not because it's too hard for me to manage (I think its about 10 EUR a month + admin time) - but simply because I don't have enough stock left anyway to warrant setting that up since I'm not getting many orders (since there is no stock)

You cans till get STL files from our collection.

In the future, I will be shipping to the EU from either the UK, US or within the EU. Please sign up to our email list to be notified when we resume sales for our dear European friends! Thanks for your business over the last few years too.

Brutal Cities is IOSS registered. This means that we will collect and pay VAT on goods under 150 EUR - this excludes postage costs.

EU based customers will still need to pay EU customs VAT for all orders over 150 EUR - we are not responsible for this.

Either way, you pay VAT. Simply put:

  • For orders with goods up to 150 EUR, we collect VAT, and the postage is shipped with IOSS. It goes quicker through customs.
    Pros: quick and easy.
    Cons: you miss out on most of our discounted bundles.

  • For orders with goods over 150 EUR, the VAT (usually around 19%) is paid to customs and is based on the price of goods, plus the postage cost. And you will also likely pay a customs clearance fee around €6 - €30, depending on order size. 
    Pros:
    You can get whatever terrain you desire. Cons: Takes a bit longer to clear customs, subject to customs fees + VAT on entire order


Please check your tracking notifications and look out for messages from your post office/customs and check your junk mail. In the event you do not pay customs, the item/s will be returned to Australia - We are happy to send it back, but we will need to charge the delivery cost again - we simply cannot afford to pay for international shipping twice.

GPSR UPDATE - We are compliant with GPSR.


Other International Shipping and customs

We use Australia Post for International Shipping. They partner with different local post providers. Customs may be charged on your shipment depending on local customs laws, and this is up to the discretion of the customs officer. Please contact your local customs office for information on local customs and taxes.

Domestic Shipping

We use Australia Post for domestic shipping.  Australia Post does not allow unattended parcels, even if you request us to do so in the shipping notes. There is free shipping in Australia for orders over $200


XMAS ORDER CUT-OFF DATES

Destination  Standard Shipping Express Shipping
Australia 15th December 19th December
NZ - 13th December
USA - 13th December
Canada - 13th December
UK - 13th December
EU - 13th December
Rest of World - 12th December