Category Archives: Imperial Skies

Imperial Update #1 – First Post

I had a bit of a blitz on packing Imperial Skies pledges yesterday while Phil was fiddling with his moulds. A big pile of orders will be going to the post office this morning (it’s only a small local branch, … Continue reading

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Trundling Down the Runway

Imperial Skies author Robin visited Brigade Towers yesterday (on a Sunday – how’s that for dedication?) and delivered all of the rulebooks, laser-cut counters and turn rulers for the pledges – so we’re ready to put packages together and start … Continue reading

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Temporary Injunction

Ah, what a day I had yesterday … while manoeuvring some boxes in the workshop, I managed to knock over one of the drawer units that we use to carry stock to shows … 48 drawers full of 1200+ Celtos … Continue reading

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Imperial Upgrade #3 – Russian Behemoths

I’ve been planning some new Russian Aeronef capital ships for a while – we rolled them into the Imperial Skies Kickstarter as a stretch goal, but the total didn’t quite get that far. However, since I had the idea for … Continue reading

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Imperial Upgrade #2 – A Masty Business

The Imperial Skies Kickstarter requires us to cast well over 1000 Aeronef. Almost all of these have our standard masts, which have been around since the very first Aeronef releases. The mast production mould is one of the oldest we … Continue reading

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Imperial Upgrade #1 – Japanese Cruisin’

To support the Imperial Skies Kickstarter, we’ve needed to produce large numbers of models. Although we chose models that we felt we had reliable production moulds for, one or two have ended up being more troublesome than expected. One of … Continue reading

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It helps to have a minion….

Especially when that minion is due to go on a school trip to Ypres (lucky bugger) in early July and is prepared to work to earn some spending money. He quite enjoys counting out things so is being put to … Continue reading

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Imperial Dice

Three large boxes of dice turned up on Friday (I say turned up – they were just left outside the front door by the courier, I didn’t realise they were there for several hours). These contained all of the dice … Continue reading

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Heavier-than-Air

As Robin beavers away to finish the Imperial Skies rules, we’ve been casting up the models for all of the pledges. We’re probably 3/4 of the way through the fleet packs, and there are boxes and boxes of castings in … 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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