Ottoman Airships

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Tony

Next in the release queue this week is our pair of Ottoman Turk airships for Imperial Skies. The Barbaros battleship and Abdulmecid fighter carrier both replace old metal models with new resin designs based around the same twin-airbag hull.

The Barbaros has a single large main turret, with a pair of secondary turrets in the lower superstructure and multiple light guns scattered around the hull. A pair of Barbaros plus escorts makes up our Turkish Dig Pack #2.

The Abdulmecid is mostly flight deck, with a small bridge and main funnel on opposite sides of the for’d deck. The vessel is lightly armed with just defensive weaponry. An Abdulmecid plus fighter complement and escorts is available as our Turkish Carrier Pack.

VAN-2007 – Barbaros Batttleship – £8.00
VAN-2013 – Abdulmecid Fighter Carrier – £8.00
VANFP-2003 – Turkish Dig Pack #2 – £24.00
VANFP-2004 – Turkish Carrier Pack – £24.00

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Pilots and Security

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Tony

Easter has delayed us getting some of the shiny new things we released at Salute onto the website, but we’re getting back to it today with a couple of 15mm figure packs.

We have a set of 15mm Armed Starship Crew to complement our existing Uniformed Starship Crew. There are four figures in the pack, two with pistols and two with rifles. They’d probably look good in red shirts, but we’ve gone for a 70s beige look.

Armed Starship Crew

The other pack contains four Starfighter Pilots in flight suits with helmets. Two have their sidearms drawn, perhaps they’ve crash landed somewhere and are awaiting rescue.

Starfighter Pilots

SF15-024 – Armed Starship Crew – £1.50
SF15-025 – Starfighter Pilots – £1.50

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First of the Flood

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Tony

Well, that was a pretty good Salute – it seemed to be very busy throughout the day. Thanks to everyone who came to see us, bought something or just looked around (hopefully you’ll have seen something that will tempt you at a later date).

Now we need to start getting all of the new releases onto the website so that the rest of the non-Salute world can get their hands on them. We’re starting gently this week with the Japanese Amagi class carrier and its two accompanying fighter classes, the Katana interceptor and Bisento fighter. In case anyone is wondering, the Amagi is named for Mount Amagi, while the Katana and Bisento are respectively a curved sword and a polearm.

We also have a new Japanese Carrier Fleet pack with an Amagi and fighter group, plus five escort vessels and all the required bases.

SFSP-1503 – Japanese Carrier Fleet – £24.00
SFS-1510 – Amagi class Fleet Carrier – £12.00
SFS-1560 – Katana Interceptor (x12) – £1.50
SFS-1561 – Bisento Attack Fighter (x12) – £1.50

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Ready To Go !

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Tony

So that’s it – the stand is set up and ready for Salute tomorrow. The three of us (both Brigadiers plus Germy, who has helped us out at Salute for the past few years) travelled up to the ExCel earlier this afternoon and laid everything out, so there’s nothing more to do until the doors open at 10am.

We’ll see you at Stand TE15…

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Kidō Butai

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Tony

If you spotted this at the bottom of another post the other day – well done ! We posted a slightly blurry image of a bright red spaceship, which I’m sure many of you twigged was an addition to our Japanese fleet. It’s the Amagi carrier, which sizewise matches up to the Iwari dreadnought. It’s accompanied by two new fighter types, the Katana interceptor and the Bisento attack fighter. We’ll have stocks of these on Saturday, along with some Japanese carrier group packs

SFSP-1503 – Japanese Carrier group – £24.00
SFS-1510 – Amagi class Carrier – £12.00
SFS-1560 – Katana class Interceptor – £1.50
SFS-1561 – Bisento class Attack Fighter – £1.50

If you were wondering, the Kidō Butai (“Mobile Strike Force”) was the Japanese navy’s tactical designation for its combined carrier battle groups at Pearl Harbour.

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Firedrake Escorts

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Tony

Anyone remember the Firedrake, the massive multi-wheeled tank destroyer that we released at Salute 51 ? It’s part of a force that appeared in David Drake’s final Hammer’s Slammers story, ‘Save What You Can’. The Republic of Bessarabia face off against the Slammers and their employers, The Commonwealth (and, as is often the case, come off second best). Several vehicle types beside the Firedrake are mentioned, and we’ve produced all of them in the nick of time for Salute on Saturday. They’re so last minute that in fact they don’t have names yet, just descriptions.

The story is set in a snowy landscape so we’ve gone for a white/grey/pale blue winter camouflage scheme.

HS15-5002 – 8×8 Tank – £8.50
HS15-5003 – 6×6 APC – £8.00
HS15-5003a – 6×6 Support Car – £8.00
HS15-5003b – 6×6 Rocket Launcher – £8.00
HS15-5004 – 4×4 Scout Car – £6.00

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Agri Update

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Tony

You’ve already seen our new 15mm Agricultural Colony multi-part buildings. But we’ve continued beavering away and have some more updates. We’ve made some more variations of the basic buildings which includes a large industrial style door which can be used to convert one of the buildings into a garage or workshop.

And there’s a brand new building body, based on the 6mm shops that came out earlier this year. The basic shop body comes with the usual assortment of doors, windows and other bits, along with an external boardwalk (that matches up to the standard building base) and a large shop sign on the roof.

There’s also some other bits and pieces – a short corridor piece that can be used to connect two buildings together, and a connecting base that can be used to bridge the gap between two buildings on bases.

See all of these at Salute on Saturday – remember, stand TE15.

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Wall Furniture

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Tony

This should be a handy set for 28mm scratch-builders and converters everywhere. It’s a set of 35+ useful widgets and greebles to decorate interior corridors or external building walls. There are comms panels, junction boxes, screens, air vents and more. There are also some radio aerials and antennae for vehicles and the outside of buildings. The set would be also be great for making dioramas or small set pieces for photographing models in. Click on the image below to see exactly what’s in the set.

Tony has put together a small example piece of corridor section to show you what we’re thinking. The basic structure is simply two pieces of Foamex glued at a right angle. The floor grating is made from plastic cross-stitch mesh bought in Hobbycraft divided up with plastic card strips. The door is one of our resin interior doors which will also be released at Salute, the ladder is a 3D print (we may or may not have some of these at Salute – you’ll have to check with us on Saturday). You can see air vents, bulkhead lights, a screen, junction boxes, CCTV and so on. The parts in this test piece are all 3D prints (left overs from the production process) but the final pieces will be metal castings.

B28-902 – Interior Doors (x3) – £1.50
B28-906 – Wall Furniture – £10.00

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Research and Development

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Tony

Another new set in the ever-expanding 28mm sci-fi range. This is a research lab full of workbenches, strange bio-tanks containing who-knows-what (one of which appears to have ruptured) and computers conducting nefarious experiments.

And here are some handy shelving units holding all sorts of supplies.

We’re still finalising the set contents and prices for all of the 28mm scenic bits and pieces – come and see us at Salute (stand TE15) where we’ll be able to show you the whole range.

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Ottoman Battlewagons

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Tony

We’re rapidly approaching your last chance to make an order for Salute – our last day in the workshop is Wednesday (the 9th), Thursday is for packing stuff and sorting out the displays, then on Friday we’ll head off to ExCel to set up the stand.

We’ve also reached the point where we’ve run out of time to finish painting everything for preview, so you’re now getting models in their undercoat (hopefully they’ll be painted in time for Saturday). This time it’s a pair of Ottoman Turk capital ships for Imperial Skies. The Barbaros battleship and Abdulmecid fighter carrier are based on the same twin dirigible hulls, with the Barbaros sporting a heavy main turret and two secondary turrets on the lower hull. The Abdulmecid has a large flight deck with accommodation for the fighter group within the capacious gas bags, although defensive armament is very limited.

These new resin-hulled models replace the old all-metal ones.

VAN-2007 – Barbaros Heyreddin – £8.50
VAN-2013 – Abdulmecid Fighter Carrier – £8.50

And since we’ve now stooped to posting unpainted stuff, we’ll just leave this here…

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