Monthly Archives: January 2018

ROBIN of Nottingham

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Tony

Our first show of the year is coming up fast – ROBIN, held at the Nottingham Tennis Centre, is on Sunday 11th of February. Hopefully this year will be a little warmer, as the heating failed last time ! As … Continue reading →

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Building a Harbour

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Tony

Two new Small Scale Scenery items have arrived on the website allowing you to make a more extensive harbour layout. The first is a pack of four resin Jetties, two plain and two with buildings moulded on. The pieces are … Continue reading →

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Architectural Assortment

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Tony

We’re moving down the scales from 15mm to 6mm SF for this week’s new release. We have a real assortment of 6mm buildings, one in each of four of the different styles that we currently make. In the Desert Buildings … Continue reading →

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Getting Inked

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Tony

When we recently released the new counter sets for Imperial Skies, I mentioned that I’d post about a simple method for colouring in the etched markings on those and the turn rulers. This technique was passed on to me by … Continue reading →

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Whisper it quietly…

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Tony

Don’t say it too loudly or the website gods might hear us, but I think I’ve fixed the shopping cart bug (woo-hoo !). It helps to have been a programmer in a past life… So hopefully it’s all back to … Continue reading →

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New Slammers

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Tony

Notwithstanding the irritating website bug, today sees the slightly-later-than-planned release of the first of our promised new 15mm Hammer’s Slammers models. The uparmoured M2A4FUA command tank fills a gap in the Slammers’ TOE and allows later Slammers/Friesland Defence Force units … Continue reading →

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“Things don’t appear to be working at the moment. Please try again later.”

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Tony

Our website shopping cart system, which has been working fine for ages (since the last time a bunch of changes by PayPal broke it) has started playing up again. I’d been wondering why we’d had a very quiet (ie dead) … Continue reading →

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Show Business 2018

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Tony

If you’re looking for this week’s new releases, they have been delayed by an unforeseen lack of Army Painter dip to finish off the painting … although I immediately ordered a new tin, it only arrived this morning so it’ll … Continue reading →

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Victoria and Albert

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Tony

So here we are, starting as we mean to go on with the first releases of 2018. As promised, the British are the latest Aeronef fleet to start receiving upgrades (this was supposed to happen last year but the arrival … Continue reading →

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A Belated Happy New Year!

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Tony

Only four days late… I returned to the workshop on Tuesday to tackle the medium-sized pile of orders that had built up over the Christmas holiday week. Fortunately it wasn’t too bad this year, following my last minute blitz to … Continue reading →

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