Last week we posted a gallery of very nicely painted PacFed by Paul Lilley, part of his quite extensive 6mm collection. This week it’s the turn of his EuroFed army, painted in an unusual but effective camouflage scheme. You can see them in our gallery pages on the main website.
EuroFed Battlegroup
We’ve posted two new models in the 6mm SF Desert Buildings range today. Firstly, we have a second small dwelling, similar to the existing one but with a vaulted roof rather than a dome.
Secondly, we have somewhere for your VTOLs to land when visiting a desert outpost – the Landing Pad will comfortably hold any of our existing VTOL models.
I’ve added a new plugin to the blog that should hopefully make it much more accessible to mobile device users – smartphones etc.
We’ve been sent a batch of pictures of some very nicely painted 6mm models by Paul Lilley. Paul has three armies (so far, I think he’s planning more !) so we’ve split the pictures into three seperate galleries. The first of these is his PacFed grav tank army – you’ll find the gallery on the website.
PACFED Armoured Group by Paul Lilley
Angel Barracks is a specialist in small-scale wargaming – 6mm, 3mm and 2mm. We’re very pleased to announce that he now stocks a small selection of our 6mm SF range – in particular the Desert Buildings range. He will also using some of our vehicles and infantry to create some ready-made forces for the FUBAR set of rules.
Reading various forums (should that be fora ?) it seems that one issue which is vexing people about our Shapeways items is the issue of shipping charges. Shapeways charge a flat-rate $6.50 to US addresses, $9.50 to Europe and an eye-watering $19.99 to the rest of the world (these are all US dollars, by the way). Which means that if you want just one or two models, shipping charges can form a significant proportion of the cost and make the purchase seem unecomomical.
End pieces for Horsa Bridge
So here’s our suggestion. Rather than making your own orders, e-mail your orders to us. We’ll put together a big order on which we’ll pay just the one shipping charge (which, since we’re in Europe, won’t be too horrendous). Then, when the package arrives, we’ll split it up and send it out individually to the correct recipients.
The downside of this will be time, so it’ll only work if you’re all patient – Shapeways orders take roughly 2-3 weeks to arrive, on top of which will be the time for the individual orders to get to you from us. And we’d have to wait for enough orders to build up to make it worthwhile, so we’d be looking at turnarounds of maybe 4-6 weeks or more.
We’ll charge you the same price for a model as you would pay from Shapeways (including any VAT, depending on where you live) and postage will be at our normal rates. We’ll send out PayPal invoices only when we place the order, so you won’t be paying weeks in advance of items being ordered.
Cooling tower (67mm tall)
We can also take orders to be collected at shows – Salute in April or Broadside in June are the next two. We’d need orders for those shows around four weeks in advance to guarantee them getting to us in time, but obviously you’ll save on postage for orders collected in person.
So that’s the idea – who’s interested ? Contact us on sales@brigademodels.co.uk
We previewed some more 3D models a few days back – we were waiting for some prototypes to turn up before we added them to the store, just to make sure they were all OK.
Well, the parcel arrived yesterday and I’ve very rapidly taken a few photographs just to show them off. All are available from our Shapeways Shop as of now.
Cooling tower (67mm tall)
Power Pylons
Small water tower
Horsa Bridge end pieces
Yet more building masters have landed at Brigade Towers during the week, both 15mm and 6mm (in some cases, the same model in both scales).
My favourite is this one, which we’ve nicknamed the Research Lab:
15mm Research Lab
6mm Research Lab
The 6mm Landing Pad (due for release very soon, by the way) has been scaled up to 15mm – you can just about land one of our Athenas on here with room to open the ramp, or it will take a smaller VTOL with comfort.
15mm Landing Pad
This one is another small house – unfortunately there’s a problem with the roof which means that we’re going to have to get it reprinted, but we thought we might as well show off the design !
15mm House
6mm House
Having had some test prints back from Shapeways, we’ve added two new items to our Shapeways store today. We’re making the doors and widgets that we use on our 15mm buildings available as seperate items so that you can customise our models or use them on your own scratchbuilds.
The first item is a selection of doors, both single doors (five designs) and a couple of larger double doors (two designs). You can buy either a set of ten or 20, the latter being ever-so-slightly cheaper per door.
CGI Image - doors
The other item is a collection of fans, vents and other widgets in six designs – two of each.
CGI Image - vents and fans
For the best detail we’d recommend having them printed in Frosted Detail or Frosted Ultra Detail acrylic.
Doors and vents in Frosted Ultra Detail acrylic
An economical alternative is Polished White, Strong, Flexible nylon – the detail isn’t quite as sharp but it’s still perfectly acceptable.
Doors and widgets in White, Strong, Flexible, Polished nylon
Available now from our Shapeways Shop.
Now I’m sure you all know that we make lots of luvverly tanks, spaceships, Nef and so on in our palatial Brigade Towers establishment down in Kent. But did you know that we also stock quite a decent range of dice and bases to go with them ? And today this range has got slightly bigger – we’ve added three new types of base and two additional colours of d6, as well as making d10s available in single-colour sets (previously we only sold them in a pack of mixed colours)
Rather than list all the items individually, just go to our Accessories homepage. Because no self-respecting gamer ever has enough dice, right ?
