Monthly Archives: November 2012

Christmas is a-Coming

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Tony

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Christmas is around the corner (it’s rather crept up on us at Brigade Towers). In order to keep Tiny Tim in new crutches, cakes and lead-free pewter, it’s time for the Brigade Christmas sale … Continue reading →

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2mm Building Previews

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Tony

As mentioned earlier this week, we’re working on a new range of buildings for our Land Ironclads VSF range. The buildings are all modelled at 1/1000th scale so besides Land Ironclads they are also ideal for 2mm or 1/1200th vehicles … Continue reading →

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Laskas and failing Bizons

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Tony

Phil had a bumper week last week, putting the vulcaniser to work and producing loads of moulds. He’s already shown off the 15mm PacFed parts and 6mm Indonesians, but just as crucial was the mould for the Neo-Soviet secondary turrets … Continue reading →

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Brig​ade Shapeways Store ​- 10% off this week ​only

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Tony

For this week only, all of the items in our Shapeways store are 10% off. To get this deal you need to e-mail us with your requirements, NOT purchase them directly from the store. We’ll send you a PayPal invoice … Continue reading →

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Out of the melting pot….

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Phil

After a busy couple of days mould making I popped along to the workshop to try out two of three of the new master moulds. The castings shown are pretty much as they came out of the casting machine so … Continue reading →

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Rescued from Parcelforce

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Phil

Thanks to the New Zealand postal service we managed to track down the package of Belgian civilians that we feared had been seen for the last time. It was held up because some import VAT had to be paid before … Continue reading →

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Tiny Houses (redux)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Tony

A couple of weeks ago we brought you pictures of some 3D prints of our first set of Land Ironclads scale (roughly 2mm / 1/1000th) houses. Sadly these weren’t really up to scratch, being a bit off the mark in … Continue reading →

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Squadron Commander update

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Tony

Squadron Commander is a game that we’re very fond of, from the early days when it was owned by Mariner Games and we collaborated with them to produce models to their designs. Nowadays we own the rules and released an … Continue reading →

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It isn’t easy being green……

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Phil

The master models (or “greens”) for the new Belgian civilians previewed here and here left New Zealand around five weeks ago. Unfortunately so far they haven’t been seen since. We’ve not even had a sniff of them being held up in … Continue reading →

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An Old Favourite

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Tony

One of our most popular spaceships has always been the German Pommerania Dreadnought. It was one of our earliest models and has been through several iterations as a multipart kit, then a single piece hull cast firstly in metal and … Continue reading →

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