Category Archives: Small Scale Scenery
Hanseatic Harbour
Today we have a themed set of releases for one of Europe’s major trading centres, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The port sits at the end of the Elbe estuary, and is probably 50 or so kilometres from … Continue reading
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Luxury Castles
We’re down the scales back to our 1/1000th Small Scale Scenery range today. We have a pair of castles, one from Germany and another from Italy – but both are really stately homes rather than proper fortified buildings capable of … Continue reading
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Coming in 2022
We did promise recently that we’d give a few clues about what we have coming in 2022 (beware what you say in a Facebook comment…). As always, our release schedule will be fairly fluid (there are weeks when we’re scrabbling … Continue reading
Houses of Healing
Next up on the Salute 21 conveyor belt are our 2mm scale hospitals. Both designed by Phil, they are based on real ones that are (relatively) close to us in Kent The Modern Hospital is a stark, white, clean affair … Continue reading
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Salute 2021 – Micro-Hospitals
Phil gets in on the act today, with three new Small Scale Scenery pieces – a modern hospital building, plus not one but two Victorian-era ones. The modern one (left) is a large, multi-storey building with loads of windows. The … Continue reading
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Salute 21 – new 1/700 Coastal Forts
Next into the Salute line-up are these new 1/700th scale Coastal Forts. We have three models (or rather, two individual models plus a set of four). The largest is Fort Paté, a small oval Vauban fortification in the Gironde estuary … Continue reading
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Fort Week – Scilly Season
Dammit … this post was scheduled for Thursday but didn’t appear due to a technical glitch (I’m not sure why, and probably never will be). So ignore the bit about penultimate, as it’s appearing out of sequence ! Our penultimate … Continue reading
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Fort Week – Final Friday
We round off Fort Week with the most modern of the new releases, Fort St Benedict in Kraków. Although now part of Poland, the fort was built by the Austro-Hungarians in the mid-19th century as part of the Kraków fortress. … Continue reading
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Fort Week – I’ll Have Mine on Toast
As we reach the mid-point of Fort Week, I’ve run out of alliterative titles so I’m now resorting to puns. This is Fort Paté, a Vauban fortification on an islet in the Gironde estuary in France built at the end … Continue reading
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Fort Week – Tower Tuesday
Our second offering for fort week is this collection of defensive towers from Malta. Known as the Lascaris Towers, they were built in the 17th Century by the Order of St John. Our set consists of two small watchtowers and … Continue reading
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