Category Archives: Updates and General Waffle

In the Black

This was the interior of Brigade Towers early yesterday – somewhat lacking in illumination, since the power was off ! This makes casting a bit tricky, so progress was a bit slow in the morning. However, power was eventually restored … Continue reading

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A Well-earned Break

After Phil and I had busted a gut getting ready for Salute, I thought I’d take it easy and have a Brigade-free weekend; no casting, packing, painting, modelling, accounts, website, e-mails or anything else. Instead I’ve spent four days with … Continue reading

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The Last Post

This is our final update of our Salute release list – some new moulds have become available in the nick of time which has allowed us to release some stuff that, to be frank, we were sweating on a bit … Continue reading

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No, really, this is your final, final chance …

After doing a few other jobs, I leave tomorrow morning for the workshop at around 10am. In my hands I would like to be clutching any last minute pre-orders for Salute. If you’ve already placed your order, then it’s already … Continue reading

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Another fine display

If you remember, last year we went through a process of migrating all of our Celtos miniatures into new display cases (a process that took the best part of a week of evenings and occupied the dining room table for … Continue reading

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Stoke Rochford Weekend

If you keep an eye on our Facebook page you might have seen the odd post from me at Stoke Rochford Hall during the gaming weekend held there. If was a splendid weekend with two excellent dinners, gaming all day … Continue reading

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A New Era

At Brigade, Phil and I have pretty well-defined roles. I do the bulk of the sculpting and design work, handle admin, orders, the post etc while Phil has the vital task of making moulds, both vulcanised ones for the centrifuge … Continue reading

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Right Here, Right Now

Long ago we used an old fashioned swipe machine with the carbon receipt slips to take credit card payments. That was until we discovered that the fees we were paying to the bank to use it were way, way more … Continue reading

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Still Working Hard

It’s still slow going here at Brigade Towers – I’ve been slogging away at my real job as we go through a series of project milestones, with late nights the norm, culminating in getting home from work at 1am on … Continue reading

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Its not a glass…..

Its a (Brigade Models) chalice, made of glass. Over the summer a well known brand of lager ran a promotion to win personalised glasses chalices and I was fortunate enough to win a couple (well six actually). If you won you got … Continue reading

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