Author Archives: Tony

SAC Fleet

Lackey Alpha has posted some pictures of a very nice painted South African fleet on his blog Broken Stars & Burning Ships. He’s also generated Full Thrust stats for them, if that’s your choice of spaceship rules.

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Shapeways Sale

Shapeways are having a 20% sale on several different materials, including White, Strong & Flexible (normal and polished) from which many of the models in our Shapeways shop are made. It runs until September 20th, so get in quick.

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SELWG is a-coming

The South-East London Wargames Group’s annual show, known to everyone as SELWG, is looming on the horizon – it’s around five weeks away, on Sunday October 13th. We’re working on a bunch of new releases, some of which haven’t been … Continue reading

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That’s Better !

Regular followers of the blog will be well aware of the issues we’ve had with our British spaceships – from all the build-up to release at Salute, followed by the crashing disappointment when the initial castings of the capital ships … Continue reading

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Radio Waves

A recent addition to our Shapeways Shop is this transmitter tower model. The design is very loosely based on the Crystal Palace TV mast in south London, although much scaled down (at 1/300th scale the real thing would be 72cm … Continue reading

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Back in the Gunk Tank

It’s been a busy few days – and unfortunately not with Brigade stuff, my real job seems to be hitting milestones almost daily which has meant late nights in the office and little time to progress with new models. Frustratingly, … Continue reading

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Back again !

I’m back from sunnier climes, after a 10-hour race across France to make our scheduled train crossing ! Full of ideas for new models, there are some lovely buildings in the region which are crying out to be part of … Continue reading

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New Mediterranean Releases

We have a couple of bigger buildings in the 2mm range today. The Large Mediterranean Church is based on the one in Lourmarin, Provence – compare it with a photo of the real thing below. I’ll stump up a small … Continue reading

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Holiday Time Again

It’s time for me to head off to sunnier climes again (in fact that’s a bit unfair on the British summer as we’ve had a pretty good one this year). I’m off to France’s west coast, near the fortified ports … Continue reading

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Coastal Defences

This week we’re releasing some small coastal forts in our 2mm buildings range – two variants of the famous Martello Tower, and the tiny Fort Vauville from Normandy’s west coast which dates from the Seven Years’ War. VLI-8025a – Martello … Continue reading

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