Category Archives: Updates and General Waffle

2mm Building Displays

Eight days to Salute and counting … We’ve been mounting the 2mm buildings on display blocks to show them off at Salute – these are the first batch.

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A Fine Display

Nine days to Salute and counting … One thing you will notice on our stand this year is that we’ve given it a bit of a facelift – we’re replacing all our old wooden display cases with shiny new clear … Continue reading

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Plans for the weekend…….

Its just me (and the cat) in the house the weekend. No children!!!! Just time for me to play catch-up in the final couple of weeks before Salute. And my god I’m going to need the time. The list of … Continue reading

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All Quiet on the Western Front

We’ve been a bit quiet this week – that’s for a couple of reasons, firstly and mainly because we’re still working flat out trying to clear the order backlog caused by the anniversary sale weekend (two months’ worth of orders … Continue reading

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Are you sitting comfortably ? …

… then I’ll begin. Many, many years ago, one fresh-faced spotty youth, at that time deeply immersed in the world of 6mm Moderns (WRG Modern Rules 1950-85) had a go at scratch-building a church from plasticard and DAS modelling clay. … Continue reading

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Large scale Land Ironclad!

Occasionally here at Brigade Towers we’ve discussed the idea of upscaling some of our Land Ironclads models to a larger scale. Naturally these chats come to nothing for a plethora of reasons (mostly apathy it must be said). Until now … Continue reading

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Happy New Year !

Happy New Year to all of customers, past, present and future ! Many thanks for your custom and comments over the past year, and here’s to 2013.

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Elite: Dangerous

And now for something a little different…… If the picture below means anything to you then probably :- – you’re in your forties – you’re a little more round in the middle than you would like – you owned a … Continue reading

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It Was Christmas Eve, Babe, in the Gunk Tank*

* – with thanks (and apologies) to Kirsty Macoll and The Pogues. We’ve shown you our Gunk Tank before – it’s where 3D printed models go to have the last vestiges of support wax and other associated by-products of the … Continue reading

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Movember

This blog is almost exclusively about wargames, shiny models etc – but today I’m going to beg your indulgence and highlight a good cause. Movember is a charity aimed at raising funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer … Continue reading

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