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Salute Starts Here

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Tony

As always, we’ll be bringing lots of new releases to Salute this year across many of our ranges. Obviously Hammer’s Slammers will be big part of this and today we’re starting off with some previews of the first casts of … Continue reading →

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Bits’n’Pieces

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Tony

Following on from the 6mm Slammers bits on Tuesday, today we have a miscellany of 15mm items. The most important of these is probably the release (at last !) of the 15mm A21M Mortar Jeep, which fits in the ToE … Continue reading →

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We Have Normality

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Tony

Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. I love the English weather. In the space of 48 hours we’ve gone from sub-zero temperatures and mounds of snow to ten degrees and watery sunshine – and this … Continue reading →

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Update – It’s Still Snow Joke !

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Tony

The weather is still pretty grim here – we’ve had more snow with another bout forecast for this afternoon. I haven’t ventured to the workshop at all since Monday, although main roads are clear the back routes are still tricky … Continue reading →

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Snow Business

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Tony

Our corner of the UK has been hit a couple of times by what for us is quite heavy falls of snow (5″-6″ or so). In comparison to (say) North America or Scandinavia it’s probably only a piddling amount, but … Continue reading →

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The Final Frontier

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Tony

Almost a year ago (the first models appeared at Salute 2017) we started on the redesign and relaunch of our European Federation spaceship fleet. Today, that task is finally complete as we release the last of the new designs. First … Continue reading →

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Down on the Farm

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Tony

We have something else new in the Small Scale Scenery range today. This is a set of six Walled Farms, cast in metal as single pieces on a base. I did try casting them in resin, which worked OK initially, … Continue reading →

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Cavalier 2018

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Tony

Following on from ROBIN in Nottingham this last weekend, our next show is less than two weeks away – Cavalier in the Angel Centre, Tonbridge, is on Sunday 25th of February. As always, we are taking pre-orders for any of … Continue reading →

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Giant of the Tundra

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Tony

Today sees the release of another new addition to the Neo-Soviet arsenal, the Mammont heavy tank. This is an unusually configured vehicle with two independent track units on each side and twin main guns in a huge main turret. A … Continue reading →

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Stats Update

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Tony

We’ve released a fair number of new spaceships and Aeronef in recent months, so last week I sat down and updated our gaming support pages with stats for Aeronef and Starmada X. This includes all the new Nef released since … Continue reading →

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