{"id":16613,"date":"2025-07-02T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:11:55","slug":"joy-of-six-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/joy-of-six-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy of Six 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/joy-of-six-2025\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>It&#8217;s hot here &#8211; so much so that casting in the workshop has been starting at an ungodly hour to take advantage of the cooler early morning temperatures, and then is abandoned at lunchtime when the sun hits the metal roof with full force. So apologies if we take an extra day or two with your orders, but resin casting in 30\u00b0+ temperatures is tricky as the resin starts to cure in the pot before it can be poured, and parts of the centrifuge get too hot to touch so metal casting is problematical as well.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to this, the local post office, along with a number of others in the area, had IT issues yesterday so we weren&#8217;t able to post the orders that we did have (apart from those going by UPS &#8211; they&#8217;re safely in the system). The week is not going to plan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s move on a week or two &#8211; July 14th sees our next show, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joysofsix.co.uk\/\">Joy of Six<\/a> at Sheffield Hallam University. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joysofsix.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16614\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/joy-of-six-2025\/jos2025\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1240,1754\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jos2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025-1200x675.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1754\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025-1086x1536.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a great show focussing on the smaller side of wargaming with a number of excellent looking 6mm games and most of the country&#8217;s micro-manufacturers in attendance &#8211; besides us you find Baccus, Scotia, Heroics and Ros, Rapier and more.<\/p>\n<p>We take a cut down selection from our ranges &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6mm Hammer&#8217;s Slammers &#8211; detachment packs and individual models<\/li>\n<li>6mm Sci-fi &#8211; army and company packs, individual models, buildings and scenery (both packs and individual buildings)<\/li>\n<li>Small Scale Scenery &#8211; the full range<\/li>\n<li>Squadron Commander &#8211; blisters and individual fighters<\/li>\n<li>Germy&#8217;s 3mm &#8211; vehicles and buildings<\/li>\n<li>10mm sci-fi scenery<\/li>\n<li>6mm WW2 Belgians<\/li>\n<li>1\/700 Coastal Scenery<\/li>\n<li>Slug Industries Medieval Buildings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can place an order for collection <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/\">via the website<\/a> &#8211; use the &#8216;Collect at Show&#8217; shipping option to avoid postage charges, and you can choose to pay in advance or at the show. If you want us to bring anything from any of our ranges other than those listed above then you&#8217;ll need to order in advance &#8211; so if you&#8217;d like some 15mm Slammers, Imperial Skies, spaceships or our new 28mm sci-fi range, make sure you get your order in beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hot here &#8211; so much so that casting in the workshop has been starting at an ungodly hour to take advantage of the cooler early morning temperatures, and then is abandoned at lunchtime when the sun hits the metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/joy-of-six-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It's too hot to do any casting, so here's a reminder about our next show, the Joy of Six in Sheffield coming up on July 14th.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,5,23,62,28,58,33,12,32,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10mm-sf","category-6mm-sf","category-6mm-ww2","category-germys-micro-armour","category-shows","category-slug-industries","category-small-scale-scenery","category-squadron-commander","category-updates-and-general-waffle","category-ww2"],"views":1507,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jos2025.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-4jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8908,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/07\/jo6-preview-1-the-nightmare-bridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":16613,"position":0},"title":"Jo6 Preview #1 &#8211; The Nightmare Bridge","author":"Tony","date":"July 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Before I start - this is the last call for Joy of Six pre-orders, I'm at Brigade Towers tomorrow casting stock and it'll be my final chance to put any orders together. 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