Monthly Archives: January 2012

15mm Doors and Widgets

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 … Continue reading

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New dice and bases

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 … Continue reading

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More Shapeways Items

Following on from the launch of our Shapeways shop, we’ve been beavering away at new items that we can add to it. As mentioned, we’re sticking to subjects that would be difficult to offer in conventional materials, and the new … Continue reading

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Missing links

We are referring here to literal missing links, not the Brigadiers’ gene pool. It has come to my attention that the new South African spaceships are missing from the website (thanks, Gavin !) – no wonder we haven’t had any … Continue reading

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Xmas Cake Reviews part #2

We have another Xmas-themed cake review – Mr Kipling again, this time Festive Bakewells. They went down better than the rather dull Frosty Fancies, it has to be said …

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New books on the Brigade Website

We have two new rulebooks releases on the website, along with the return of an old favourite. First we have The War That Never Was, an add-on module for Legionnaire Game’s Planetary Ops operational level rules. Secondly, again from Legionnaire, … Continue reading

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Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does Whatever a Spider-Pig Does …

It has to be said that the frivolous Simpsons-related title of this post has absolutely nothing to do with the content, except for a very vague spider link … but hopefully it made you look ! The Brigade vulcaniser (big … Continue reading

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15mm Figures – first castings part #2

As promised here are some previews of the other half of our first batch of 15mm figures, again straight from a hot mould. Look out over the next few days for some painted previews of these figures, as the ones … Continue reading

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15mm Figures – first castings

A few days back we unveiled some lovely new 15mm SF figures by French sculptor PF. Well, in between the Xmas sale orders Phil has found time to pop them in a mould and here are the results – these … Continue reading

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The Future Starts Here

If you followed this blog you’ll know that we, like many other miniatures companies out there, have started using 3D computer modelling and printing as an aid to the design of some of our models. So far we’ve used it … Continue reading

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