Author Archives: Tony
Spanner in the Works
Our centrifugal casting machine uses air pressure to clamp the moulds together, supplied by a compressor. It keeps a supply of air in a tank and regularly refills when the pressure drops below a certain level. On Friday morning I … Continue reading
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Salute 2016 Releases – First Glimpse
Salute is just a scary couple of weeks away – the timing of the show is apparently partly tied to Easter, so this year is a little earlier than usual. We’re happy to take pre-orders to be picked up at … Continue reading
Posted in 15mm SF, Hammer's Slammers, Previews, Salute 2016
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Creeping Onwards
Although progress is slow, work continues on the new Celtos rules. Another round of playtesting between Sidhe and Fomorian armies took place at the weekend. To replicate a typical home dining-room-table setup, we used six warbands per side on a … Continue reading
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Flag Day
It’s Good Friday today, which is a public holiday in the UK. This means I get a day off (woot !) but the shorter working week also means no new releases this time – and with Salute looming large on … Continue reading
Posted in Aeronef, Land Ironclads, New Releases
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Hammered by the Slammers
I had the very good fortune last weekend to spend Saturday afternoon in a game of Hammer’s Slammers:The Crucible, playing against one of the rulebook’s authors, John Treadaway. I was fielding my shiny new Alaudae Legion mercenaries against John’s New … Continue reading
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If You Go Down To The Woods Today…
Natives of the fourth planet of the Eta Odin system, the Tolero are primitive but intelligent creatures who outwardly resemble terrestrial bears. More than one anthropologist has been taken in by their cute and cuddly appearance but received a nasty … Continue reading
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The Alaudae Legion – Ready for Battle
At the end of last year we released some unit packs and a couple of vehicles for a new Hammer’s Slammers mercenary force, the Alaudae Legion (which translates to ‘The Skylarks’). Over the last few weeks I’ve been putting together … Continue reading
Posted in 15mm SF, Hammer's Slammers, Painting and Modelling
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This Time, For Real…
Having teased you all with CGI previews of the new Imperial Skies designs, we can show how much progress we’ve already made on the models themselves – quite a lot, in fact. When I wrote the posts on the Kaiser, … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Print, Aeronef, Previews
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The Dark Side of the Moon
Spheres and domes are an ideal design for bases on the moon or other low-pressure environments – no nasty corners to create weak spots and let the atmosphere out. They can be seen in classic science-fiction and old NASA publicity … Continue reading
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HMS Vanguard
The final preview of our new ships for Imperial Skies is the British Vanguard battleship. We’ve given it some slightly different armament in the form of two very large barbette weapons, plus a number of more conventional secondary turrets on … Continue reading
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