Brigade Models

It seems that everything is against us at the moment – this week saw our main air compressor, the one that drives the centrifuge, pack up (an outlet pipe fractured so it was just leaking air out through an ever-widening crack). So cue a frantic search for a replacement, which fortunately arrived the next working day and was fitted and working soon after. So we had a small delay on getting some orders out, but we seem to be back on track again. We’ve also got hold of a new outlet so we should be able to fix the old one and keep it as a spare in case of future failures.

So back onto our regular programming, and a new force for Hammer’s Slammers in 15mm. These are the Han Chinese, from the Slammers’ story The Warrior. Specifically, these are the Han Black Banner Brigade, an elite armoured formation. The old Han Chinese list was pretty basic – just a single 8×8 APC – so we’ve beefed them up with some brand new vehicles. Their primary equipment consists of 8×8 wheeled vehicles with wide balloon tyres, ideal for negotiating the local terrain. The ZTZ-81 is a wheeled tank with a heavy laser in a remote mount, while the ZSL-94 is a personnel carrier on the same chassis with a combined light laser/missile mount. They also utilise the CSK-27 Lìliàng 4×4 Scout Car with either twin MG or twin missile armament.

HS15-501 – ZTZ-81 8×8 Laser Tank – £8.00
HS15-502 – ZSL-94 8×8 APC – £8.00
HS15-503 – CSK-27 Lìliàng 4×4 Scout Car – £4.00

We’re working on some additional follow-on Han forces – the People’s National Guard, rather less-well trained troops who ride in large 8×8 trucks or, in some cases, on trikes. Expect to see these later in the year. The source story is well worth a read, with Han troops supported by Slammers blower tanks attacking a Hindi-held village across paddy fields. If you happen to have an Audible subscription then several Slammers stories, including this one, are part of the Audible Plus catalogue (so you can listen without using one of your credits).

New this week is the big bunch of 6mm 4×4, 6×6 and half-track vehicles for the Sincanmo Federation, mirroring the 15mm release last year. There are 22 different variants in total when you include all of the turret and weapon options, enough to keep the most demanding desert warlord in business.

The 6×6 and half-track sets have the same options, with seven different variants in all – technical (eg open-backed utility), troop carrier, command, air defence (with three different armaments) and ambulance.

6×6 variants – {l-r) AA Missile, Quad AA, single AA, ambulance, technical, troop carrier, command

half-tracks – (l-r) AA missile, single AA, quad AA, ambulance, command, troop carrier, technical

The 4×4 buggies come in four different chassis types with different weapon options resulting in a total of eight variants – utility, scout (with two turret types), missile buggy, radar/EW buggy, buzzbomb carrier, mortar carrier and tow-truck.

4x4s – (l-r) utility, scout (twin powerguns), scout (laser), AT missile, radar/EW, mortar, buzzbomb, tow truck

The two ambulances have been added to the Surgeon General range, our list of models that support the MacMillan cancer charity – 50% of their ex-VAT sale price will go towards that cause.

The Sincanmo’s heavy armoured cars will follow soon, at which point we’ll also add detachment packs to the website.

HS6-2902 – Naib 6×6 Technical – £1.00
HS6-2902a – Naib 6×6 Troop Carrier – £1.00
HS6-2902b – Naib 6×6 Command Car – £1.00
HS6-2902c – Naib 6×6 AA Truck – £1.00
HS6-2903d – Naib 6×6 Ambulance – £1.00
HS6-2903 – Aamir Half-track – £1.00
HS6-2903a – Aamir Half-track Troop Carrier – £1.00
HS6-2903b – Aamir Command Half-track – £1.00
HS6-2903c – Aamir AA Half-track – £1.00
HS6-2903d – Aamir Half-track Ambulance – £1.00
HS6-2904 – Qaadi 4×4 Utility – £1.00
HS6-2904a – Qaadi 4×4 Missile Car- £1.00
HS6-2904b – Qaadi 4×4 Scout – £1.00
HS6-2904c – Qaadi 4×4 EW Car- £1.00
HS6-2904d – Qaadi 4×4 Buzzbomb Car – £1.00
HS6-2904e – Qaadi 4×4 Mortar Carrier – £1.00
HS6-2904f – Qaadi 4×4 Recovery – £1.00