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Whilst the cat is away……

Ok so this is a fairly shameless excuse to get a picture of one my cats on the internet.

However the wife is going away for five whole days to Snowdonia with some friends so naturally I’m taking time off work to enjoy time on my own in the house. Even allowing for the fact that I have to take the sprogs to and from school each day I will get around thirty hours in the house on my own. I don’t think I’ve had that much time on my own at home since 1998.

So my plan is to spend as much time as possible making new masters, cleaning up models for moulding and doing general Brigade stuff. I’m aiming to post the results of each day in the evening. Not sure what I’ll make – there aren’t any firm plans at the moment.

That’s the idea anyway. I’ve got a stack of DVD’s that I don’t normally get to watch lined up, a fresh supply of plastic card and a pile of chocolate to fortify me.

Of course I might simply sit and play Diablo III…..

Bl**dy computers …

It’s 10:30pm, I’ve been in France all day, then I come home to find that that, out of nowhere, our shopping cart has developed problems overnight. Without any changes from me, it’s stopped calculating shipping costs properly and instead has started charging a flat £2 for shipping, regardless of where you are or what you have ordered. Orders dated 4th April are fine, it’s all worked out correctly. Orders today have incorrect shipping rates. I’ve been slogging away at it since I came home, but I’m knackered now and I’ve been unable to fix it, so until I can (or it miraculously fixes itself – just like it miraculously broke) we’ll have to send manual invoices to correct the shipping costs – or, if your order is small, we’ll refund the difference. Hopefully this will only be a very temporary problem. I hate computers sometimes.

First Post

Hi there ! We’ve been planning to add a blog to our site for some time now, and here it finally is ! And if I’d known how easy it was going to be to set it up, I’d have done it ages ago …

Anyway, the plan is to reserve the front page of the Brigade website for ‘proper’ news – releases, show dates, sales etc. This blog will be less formal and used for other snippets of info’, sightings of our models out on the web, neat modelling or painting ideas, useful links and so on.

It’ll probably end up supplanting the Design Studio and we’ll use the blog to preview new stuff on our workbenches.

Both Phil and I will be posting on a very irregular and haphazard basis as the fancy takes us !