Category Archives: Imperial Skies
Imperial Update #4
Just a quick one this time – I’ve been sweltering at the workshop this morning (on the hottest day of the year !) and over a keyboard this afternoon, and can report that 92% of pledges have now shipped Just … Continue reading
Imperial Update #3 – The Akashi Flies !
The good news is that Phil has managed to get enough good castings of the Akashi to fulfill all the pledges for Japanese fleet packs, so there are now no obstacles to finishing the shipping of Imperial Skies. The not-so-good … Continue reading
Imperial Update #2 – The Baked Brigadier
During a rather hot, sweaty and muggy day yesterday, another large chunk of Imperial Skies pledges were packed up ready to be shipped off. I did my best not to perspire on the rulebooks! This means that… 51% of pledges … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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