Author Archives: Tony

The Last Post

It’s getting close to the last posting dates for Christmas again. You can find the official last posting dates on the Royal Mail website. However, to give us a chance to get your order ready, we will need a few … Continue reading

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Shapeways Free Shipping

Shapeways are currently offering free European shipping until midnight on Wednesday 27th. We know that shipping costs are a major bugbear for some potential Shapeways customers, so here’s your chance to avoid them. There are a couple of caveats; shipping … Continue reading

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Pulp Action

Many of you will have seen, either in the flesh or in photos, the magnificient Pacific Aeronef game from Jon Rogers and his Arbuthnot’s Aeronautical League of Gentlemen. Jon sets his games in more of an early-C.20th ‘pulp’ background rather … Continue reading

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New 15mm Buildings

Following on from their release at SELWG, we’ve added our two new 15mm buildings to the website and they’re ready to order now. The first is a 15mm version of one of our more popular 6mm buildings, the humble Garage, … Continue reading

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15mm Previews

We haven’t had any previews for a while (see previous posts whinging about lack of time, sleep etc …). However, I’ve finally got around to cleaning up some new 15mm turret variants for the EuroFed vehicles and thought you’d all … Continue reading

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Crisis Management

Crisis is one of our favourite shows – it has a great atmosphere, an excellent standard of demo games and we get a day trip to the continent thrown in for good measure. It’s a long, tiring day but worth … Continue reading

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And about *@$%ing time too…… #2

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, we started making some British spaceships. Lots of people seemed to like them, and we brought them out in time for Salute. But when we looked closely, they weren’t … Continue reading

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Right Here, Right Now

Long ago we used an old fashioned swipe machine with the carbon receipt slips to take credit card payments. That was until we discovered that the fees we were paying to the bank to use it were way, way more … Continue reading

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Still Working Hard

It’s still slow going here at Brigade Towers – I’ve been slogging away at my real job as we go through a series of project milestones, with late nights the norm, culminating in getting home from work at 1am on … Continue reading

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Slow but Steady

Another bout of late-working has meant little progress on anything Brigade-related. I have however been slowly ploughing on with some painted examples of our British spaceships. I’ve gone for a mid-blue (Tamiya XF-18) scheme airbrushed on, with the ‘rib’ sections … Continue reading

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