The Monstrous Sisters

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Tony

Today we have a new addition to the stable of Centurions, the multi-wheeled campaign vehicles used by many mercenary forces in the Hammerverse. Centurions are large and roomy, allowing detachments to travel in relative comfort with plenty of space for equipment and supplies. They’re not generally supposed to go anywhere near the action, with infantry carrier variants disgorging their troops behind the lines, and any armed variants are mostly used as support vehicles, either air defence or artillery. You can read more about the history of the Centurion here.

15mm Centurion Gorgon

However, the Hellenic Heliodorus Regiment decided to go one further. Working with manufacturers JTTF Industries, they removed the turrets from three surplus C4H6 Hog artillery vehicles and, after modifying and reinforcing the turret rings, paired them with turrets taken from a trio of damaged Rheinmetall RA16A2 Helheims, dubiously obtained through the grey market. As well as a pair of massive gatling coil guns, these are also armed with twin launchers for the Heliodorus’ Gerakiou variant of the ubiquitous Kestrel anti-tank missile. The resulting variant is known as the C4G6 Gorgon, and the three vehicles (now named Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa by the crews) have proved to be very effective in urban actions supporting the regiment’s infantry. After the success of the conversions, JTTF are now rumoured to be marketing other heavily armed versions of the Centurion.

6mm Centurion Gorgon

The Gorgon is available in both 6mm and 15mm.

HS15-2218 – Centurion C4G6 Gorgon – £20.00
HS6-2218 – Centurion C4G6 Gorgon – £2.50

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Addressing Gettysburg

Posted on August 2, 2024 by Tony

New this week, a pair of models for Gettysburg in 1/1000th scale. ‘A pair ?’ we hear you say, ‘There’s only one in the photos !’. But this set does consist of two models – first, the Lutherian Seminary building, employed by both sides as a lookout post. It was initially held by the Union for the first day, then for the rest of the battle by the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. It was used a field hospital, treating casualties of both sides.

This is where is gets slightly embarrassing for us. The second part of the set is the Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse, located on Cemetery Hill where much of the Union artillery was placed. The building served as General Howard’s HQ for the battle. We had a painted model of this and, er, it’s been ‘misplaced’ before being photographed. So you’ll have to make do with this CGI capture until we can get a replacement one done !

SSS-8051 – Gettysburg Seminary and Cemetery Gates – £3.00

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Back to our Rootes

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Tony

Brigade are from Maidstone – the one in Kent, the Garden of England, rather than any of our namesakes in the USA, Canada or Australia ! As part of our Small Scale Scenery range we’re starting to recreate a few notable local buildings from the town and surrounding area in 1/1000th scale, and today we have a couple of new ones – we’ve titled this pair ‘Art Deco Commercial Buildings’.

The first is a large Car Showroom – we’ve based this on an edifice known locally as the Rootes Building after the company that originally built it in the late 1930s (although it’s officially called Len House). It’s currently unoccupied but for years was home to a franchise of a well-known French car manufacturer. It’s now a Grade-II listed structure, and there are plans to turn it into apartments with shopping and dining facilities.

The second building will bring back memories for local gamers and modellers, even if you don’t immediately recognise it. It’s another Art Deco building, this time an L-shaped block of shops with flats above. It’s based on Granada House, which used to be the home of Hubble and Freeman’s toy shop, which is where the two of us spent considerable amounts of pocket money on various plastic kits, paints and other bits and pieces during a mis-spent youth.

SSS-8211 – Art Deco Commercial Buildings – £4.00

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Slamming Sheffield

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Tony

A couple of weeks ago we attended the Joy of Six show at Sheffield Hallam University. And so did John Treadaway, who put on a Hammer’s Slammers game (using the desert terrain that Tony built and that featured on the Maidstone Wargames Society blog a while back).

John has written up the game on the Hammer’s Slammers website – we’ve also nicked a few photos to whet your appetites.

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The Two Towers (and the Enneagram)

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Tony

Today we have a one-of-a-kind offering from the talented Phil Page (aka 6MilPhil on various forums and social media, and proprietor of Slug Industries). It’s a rocky outcrop with a winding stair, topped with a selection of options – two towers (one intact, one ruined), a sort of magical nine-sided symbol thingy (which we think is correctly termed an Enneagram, although that sounds like it could also be an invasive medical procedure), and a circular blank plate. Phil knows it simply as the Rocky Outcrop, but we think it deserves a better name – The Tower of Philipagius maybe ?

Anyway, it’s an excellent piece of work and we have precisely one of them for sale (for now at least) so get in quick.

SLUG-003 – Rocky Outcrop – £50.00

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Suit Up !

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Tony

Germy’s been busy again – this time, creating a number of new 6mm Power Armour figures for us. These suits are more like small walkers, still one-man individual units but taller than a normal infantryman (they come in at 10mm from toe to top).

This release comes in two flavours – the advanced OSP-77 ‘Osprey’ Power Suit, which is an enlarged version of our existing power models with the ovoid body shell. This has a solid body shell and relies on an enhanced external sensor suite to give the wearer a view of the outside.

The second type is the ATL-12 ‘Atlas’ Combat Suit, a more conventional suit derived from civilian power loaders (the ATL part of its designation – Armoured Transport Loader – refers to this origin). The original plexiglass canopy has been replaced by a toughened synthetic diamond one to give the wearer a direct external field of vision, with the skeleton frame sheathed in composite spaced armour. Both types come with several different weapon loadouts – missiles, rockets, lasers, flamers etc.

Each pack contains 12 models, with four each of three different types in a pack. We’ll have stock of these at Joy of Six on Sunday – hopefully we’ll see some of you there. You’ll find them listed on the website under both Infantry and Mechs, as they sort of fit in both categories.

SF300-5006 – OSP-77 Osprey Power Suit – £5.00
SF300-5007 – ATL-12 Atlas Combat Suit – £5.00

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Sturmpanzerwagen

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Tony

First up, a reminder to get your orders for Joy of Six to us as soon as possible to give us a chance to get them cast and packed. If you’re coming to the show, be sure to check out the 6mm Hammer’s Slammers game that will be next to our trade stand. The game is being hosted by John Treadaway, erstwhile co-author of The Crucible ruleset. Although it’s billed as a demonstration game, we’re sure that John will be more than happy to take you through the rules and give you command of a detachment or two.

We’ve had a minor upgrade this week to the website in terms of payment options. As well as PayPal and most major credit cards, you can now pay using either Google Pay or Apple Pay.

Today we have a new addition to our 28mm WWI vehicles range. The A7V was Germany’s only indigenous tank of the war to see service, and just 20 were built. It had a 57mm main armament and a plethora of machine guns, coupled with thick armour – although this was only steel plate rather than face-hardened armour plate, at 30mm thick it was impervious to machine guns. The downsides were its high silhouette and centre of gravity which made it unstable, especially considering the short and narrow tracks. And like all tanks of the era, breakdowns were common – many broke down before ever reaching the front line, and others suffered mechanical failure soon after engaging the enemy so were either lost immediately or destroyed to avoid capture.

GW28-304 – A7V Sturmpanzerwagen – £27.00

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Shows, Shipping and Structures

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Tony

We’ll start today with some hot-off-the-press news – due to an issue with the venue, this year’s Hereward wargames show, which should have been on the 8th of September, has unfortunately had to be cancelled. This is a shame for the organisers (and not their fault at all) but hopefully it will be back next year. Coupled with the loss of SELWG, our show calendar for the second half of the year is now looking very thin indeed.

We’ve also been updating our shipping charges, in particular those to the USA. Customers there will now find slightly lower shipping charges, with the added bonus that it’s also now fully tracked (a feature of Royal Mail pricing is that tracked services to the US are now cheaper than untracked – don’t ask us why, we don’t know !). Sorry Rest of the World, this only applies to the USA, everyone else remains unchanged.

Our ever-growing range of 6mm desert buildings gets some more additions this week. There are three new buildings – the Emporium (a high end luxury shop), a Low Tower and the Outpost, plus a very useful short length of wall with walkway to fit our fortified town walls.

B300-127 – Emporium – £1.75
B300-155 – Low Tower – £2.50
B300-811 – Outpost – £3.00
B300-194 – Short Walls with Walkway (x4) – £3.50

If Tony gets a wriggle on, some of these buildings might feature on the Hammer’s Slammers game at Joy of Six in a couple of weeks. If you want to pick up some on the day you can, or even order then in advance from the website (remember to use the ‘Pickup at Show’ shipping option).

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I’m too Sixy…

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Tony

Our next show is coming up soon(ish) – the Joy of Six is back again in Sheffield Hallam University on July 14th. A tribute to all things 6mm, it’s hosted by Baccus, one of the foremost names in 6mm miniatures – besides us, of course 😊.

Because it’s a specialist show, we only take a subset of our ranges. Obviously we have all of our 6mm SF ranges including Hammer’s Slammers and the full range of buildings, both individual models and as large a selection of army, detachment and company packs as we can carry. We also bring Squadron Commander, the Small Scale Scenery 2mm range and the 1/700th coastal forts/scenery. And of course, the newly released 2mm WW2 Belgians.

However, since we don’t visit the north very often, we realise it’s a good opportunity for you to pick up things from our other ranges. You can place an order for any of our ranges to be picked up at the show via the website – you can choose to pay in advance or on the day, Remember to use the ‘Pickup at Show’ shipping option so you don’t get charged postage – just let us know that you’ll be collecting at Jo6 in the ‘Order Notes’ box.

As an added incentive to visit the show (as if you needed any more), John Treadaway, keeper of all things Hammer’s Slammers, will be in attendance running a 6mm Slammers game featuring the terrain we put together a couple of years ago.

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Flying Bugs

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Tony

We’ve finished the moulds for the last two of the original 15mm Cimexian bugs – the Thysan flyer and Orthron VTOL. These give the Cimexians an aerial capability, spitting plasma death (and other unspeakable substances) from above.

BUG-007 – Thysan Flyer – £6.00
BUG-008 – Orthron VTOL – £5.00

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