Dropships and Dwellings

To round off the week we have our additions to Germy’s 3mm Sci-fi range. First up is a large dropship – this was originally made as a multi-part metal model when the range was previously available, but we’ve remade it to Germy’s original design as a one-piece resin casting.

We also have some new buildings. This set of hexagonal hab units is based on the paper models that Germy offers as free downloads on his website, but we’ve remade them as a set of six resin buildings which come complete with the connecting walkways.

We also have this twin tower block which complements the rest of the tower blocks in the existing range.

As an added bonus, we have two new walkers – a pack of six Freelancer light mechs, and a pack of three Mercenary tripod walkers

GMM-306 – Mercenary Tripod Walkers – £2.00
GMM-344 – Mercenary Heavy Dropship – £2.50
GMM-443 – Freelancer Light Mechs – £3.00

GMB-106 – Twin Tower – £3.50
GMB-107 – Hex Buildings – £4.00

PLEASE REMEMBER – we’re on holiday this week, so while the website remains open for orders, these won’t be dealt with until we return on Monday 12th.

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The Customisable Colony

One of our more popular releases at Salute was the 15mm Agricultural Colony buildings range. We’ve already had the odd enquiry asking when they’ll be on the website, and today is the day.

The buildings are scaled up versions of our 6mm set, which have been selling very well since release. The designs are based on the idea of a series of colony buildings made from prefabricated parts, which can be arranged to suit whatever type of building the colony needs (the original 6mm release post goes into more detail on this).

What’s different about the 15mm versions is that we’ve stripped off all the external parts – doors, windows, aircon units, roof vents – and left the buildings as a bare shell. The external details can then be fitted in whatever positions you like to make the buildings incredibly flexible. You can also buy packs of extra detail pieces so you can customise them to your heart’s content. We’ve made multiple different types of doors and other parts to even further vary the look between buildings.

Here’s an example of the parts in a single building – for the homesteads you get the basic building shell plus a door, two windows, roof vent, aircon unit and extension. The parts are supplied randomly – there are three types of door and aircon, four types of roof vent and two different extensions. Even the windows are left and right handed. All of the parts are available separately so you can buy extra detail parts and really go to town.

The painting scheme we came up with is pretty simple to allow us to turn out good looking variants very quickly. In case anyone wants to try it, it goes as follows…

  • Spray prime in medium grey (we use Hycote grey car primer)
  • Zenithal overspray from above in a lighter grey (Citadel Grey Seer works well for this). Spray this very lightly, just a dusting really.
  • Give the whole model a black wash – GW Nuln Oil, Army Painter Dark Tone or whatever your favourite is. Cover the whole model, not just the bits you think will stay grey, as the shading will enhance the next stage as well.
  • You can give the whole thing a quick light grey drybrush at this stage if needed.
  • Block in the ribbed parts of the building using one of the many types of speed paint available – we use Citadel Contrast paints, but Army Painter Speedpaints or Vallejo Xpress Color would work equally well. If you need a little more contrast, maybe a light drybrushing on the coloured parts.
  • Then just paint in the remaining details in whatever colours you choose – oily silver for airvents or aircon units, graduated blue windows etc.

B15-1301 – Homestead-1 – £12.00
B15-1302a – Homestead-2 – £12.00
B15-1302b – Homestead-3 – £12.00
B15-1303 – Garage – £12.00
B15-1306 – Shed – £8.00
B15-1318 – Shop – £15.00
B15-1370 – Building Base – £8.00
B15-1371 – Connecting Base – £4.00
B15-1372 – Connecting Corridor – £3.00
B15-1373 – Extensions (x2) – £2.50
B15-1374 – Doors (x3) – £2.00
B15-1375 – Large Garage Doors (x2) – £2.00
B15-1376 – Windows (x4) – £1.50
B15-1377 – Roof Units (x4) – £2.00
B15-1378 – AirCon Units (x3) – £1.00
B15-1379 – Steps (x2) – £2.00

PLEASE REMEMBER – we’re on holiday this week, so while the website remains open for orders, these won’t be dealt with until we return on Monday 12th.

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Bessarabian Nights

First thing – Tony is having a few days off next week, some delayed R&R after the rigours of Salute. We should get all outstanding orders packed today and posted tomorrow, but after that any new orders will have to wait until he returns to the workshop on Monday 12th May. We’ve scheduled a couple of blog posts for next week just to keep you all entertained during the hiatus.

You might have noticed a new icon on the right hand side of this blog (you’ll probably only see it on the desktop layout). We’ve been selected as one of the top 10 UK miniatures blogs by Feedspot, so they gave us a virtual medal to put on here. Smaller outfits like ourselves don’t usually get much of a look-in when awards come round, so it’s nice to be recognised.

Onto the next addition to the website – these are the new 15mm vehicles for the Republic of Bessarabia (the Bessies), one of the final entities to appear in the Hammer’s Slammers stories. For those who don’t know (and apologies to everyone who’s read this several times on the blog already), David Drake wrote one final Slammers story that appeared in the 2015 collection ‘Onward Drake!’. The Firedrake tank destroyer, which we released at Salute last year, is also Bessarabian, and we’ve added the rest of the vehicles that pop up in the story alongside it. The story is set against a wintery backdrop so we’ve gone for a cold white/grey/pale blue camouflage scheme to match this.

In the story, a column of vehicles drives past a farm held by a small group of infantry from the Slammers regiment. Leading the column are several 8×8 wheeled tanks, followed by a number of APCs and some support vehicles – you’ll find all of these here. Preceding the armoured column, a couple of scout cars get a bloody nose from the Slammers, so we’ve made those too. And later on a troop of combat cars encounter some Bessie rocket artillery, so of course we had to make those.

HS15-5002 – M-36C Leu Tank – £8.50
HS15-5003 – M-19B Atacator APC – £8.00
HS15-5003a – M-19SF Rinocer Support Car – £8.00
HS15-5003b – M-19R Tunetor Rocket Launcher – £8.50
HS15-5004 – M40 Cercetas Scout Car – £6.00

Credits where they are due – the background image is from Jon Hodgson/Handiwork Games, the mat in the photos is by Geek Villain, the roads were picked up in a French toyshop (manufacturer unknown). The buildings are our new Agricultural Colony range – they’ll be released very shortly…

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PacFed Artillery

We still have quite a number of releases from Salute to push onto the website so there will be a couple of separate posts this week and next. Today in the release queue we’ve reached our new 15mm PacFed artillery vehicles, the Tanami and Kakadu. Based on the same grav hull with the distinctive flat shovel profile, the Tanami packs a 15cm railgun artillery piece while the Kakadu’s turret is fitted with two 6-round Taiaha rocket launchers.

SF15-708 – Tanami SP Artillery – £8.50
SF15-708a – Kakadu MRL – £8.50

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Ottoman Airships

Next in the release queue this week is our pair of Ottoman Turk airships for Imperial Skies. The Barbaros battleship and Abdulmecid fighter carrier both replace old metal models with new resin designs based around the same twin-airbag hull.

The Barbaros has a single large main turret, with a pair of secondary turrets in the lower superstructure and multiple light guns scattered around the hull. A pair of Barbaros plus escorts makes up our Turkish Dig Pack #2.

The Abdulmecid is mostly flight deck, with a small bridge and main funnel on opposite sides of the for’d deck. The vessel is lightly armed with just defensive weaponry. An Abdulmecid plus fighter complement and escorts is available as our Turkish Carrier Pack.

VAN-2007 – Barbaros Batttleship – £8.00
VAN-2013 – Abdulmecid Fighter Carrier – £8.00
VANFP-2003 – Turkish Dig Pack #2 – £24.00
VANFP-2004 – Turkish Carrier Pack – £24.00

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Pilots and Security

Easter has delayed us getting some of the shiny new things we released at Salute onto the website, but we’re getting back to it today with a couple of 15mm figure packs.

We have a set of 15mm Armed Starship Crew to complement our existing Uniformed Starship Crew. There are four figures in the pack, two with pistols and two with rifles. They’d probably look good in red shirts, but we’ve gone for a 70s beige look.

Armed Starship Crew

The other pack contains four Starfighter Pilots in flight suits with helmets. Two have their sidearms drawn, perhaps they’ve crash landed somewhere and are awaiting rescue.

Starfighter Pilots

SF15-024 – Armed Starship Crew – £1.50
SF15-025 – Starfighter Pilots – £1.50

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First of the Flood

Well, that was a pretty good Salute – it seemed to be very busy throughout the day. Thanks to everyone who came to see us, bought something or just looked around (hopefully you’ll have seen something that will tempt you at a later date).

Now we need to start getting all of the new releases onto the website so that the rest of the non-Salute world can get their hands on them. We’re starting gently this week with the Japanese Amagi class carrier and its two accompanying fighter classes, the Katana interceptor and Bisento fighter. In case anyone is wondering, the Amagi is named for Mount Amagi, while the Katana and Bisento are respectively a curved sword and a polearm.

We also have a new Japanese Carrier Fleet pack with an Amagi and fighter group, plus five escort vessels and all the required bases.

SFSP-1503 – Japanese Carrier Fleet – £24.00
SFS-1510 – Amagi class Fleet Carrier – £12.00
SFS-1560 – Katana Interceptor (x12) – £1.50
SFS-1561 – Bisento Attack Fighter (x12) – £1.50

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Ready To Go !

So that’s it – the stand is set up and ready for Salute tomorrow. The three of us (both Brigadiers plus Germy, who has helped us out at Salute for the past few years) travelled up to the ExCel earlier this afternoon and laid everything out, so there’s nothing more to do until the doors open at 10am.

We’ll see you at Stand TE15…

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Kidō Butai

If you spotted this at the bottom of another post the other day – well done ! We posted a slightly blurry image of a bright red spaceship, which I’m sure many of you twigged was an addition to our Japanese fleet. It’s the Amagi carrier, which sizewise matches up to the Iwari dreadnought. It’s accompanied by two new fighter types, the Katana interceptor and the Bisento attack fighter. We’ll have stocks of these on Saturday, along with some Japanese carrier group packs

SFSP-1503 – Japanese Carrier group – £24.00
SFS-1510 – Amagi class Carrier – £12.00
SFS-1560 – Katana class Interceptor – £1.50
SFS-1561 – Bisento class Attack Fighter – £1.50

If you were wondering, the Kidō Butai (“Mobile Strike Force”) was the Japanese navy’s tactical designation for its combined carrier battle groups at Pearl Harbour.

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Firedrake Escorts

Anyone remember the Firedrake, the massive multi-wheeled tank destroyer that we released at Salute 51 ? It’s part of a force that appeared in David Drake’s final Hammer’s Slammers story, ‘Save What You Can’. The Republic of Bessarabia face off against the Slammers and their employers, The Commonwealth (and, as is often the case, come off second best). Several vehicle types beside the Firedrake are mentioned, and we’ve produced all of them in the nick of time for Salute on Saturday. They’re so last minute that in fact they don’t have names yet, just descriptions.

The story is set in a snowy landscape so we’ve gone for a white/grey/pale blue winter camouflage scheme.

HS15-5002 – 8×8 Tank – £8.50
HS15-5003 – 6×6 APC – £8.00
HS15-5003a – 6×6 Support Car – £8.00
HS15-5003b – 6×6 Rocket Launcher – £8.00
HS15-5004 – 4×4 Scout Car – £6.00

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