{"id":2198,"date":"2013-02-22T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:10:20","slug":"are-you-sitting-comfortably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/are-you-sitting-comfortably\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you sitting comfortably ? …"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>

… then I’ll begin.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>) had a go at scratch-building a church from plasticard and DAS modelling clay. A second, equally fresh-faced and spotty friend saw the model and said ‘I can make a mould of that’ – so he did. Impressed by the results, FFSY#1 made some more buildings, FFSY#2 made more moulds and they sold the castings on the bring-and-buy table at the local wargames show (Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society open day – now known as Cavalier<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"25th<\/p>\n

That’s the point at which Phil and I consider Brigade Models to have originated, all those years ago. It took a while to get the company started properly, initially selling our buildings through the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers<\/a>, then making spaceships for the Society of Fantasy and Science-Fiction Wargamers<\/a> (there’s a year scribed into the bottom of one of our early spaceships – 1996). Since then we’ve added to and then sold off the buildings range, added 6mm and 15mm vehicles, moved into Victorian science-fiction with Aeronef and then Land Ironclads, collaborated with other companies on a variety of games and scaled the heights of being able to purchase an entire established 28mm Fantasy range<\/a>. We’ve gone from two members up to three and then back to two again. We started casting models over a gas stove on the kitchen worktop, moved up to a Tiranti benchtop centrifuge and nowadays proper industrial casting kit, each step funded from the proceeds of the previous stage.<\/p>\n

And much to our amazement, looking back we find that it all started exactly 25 years ago. Cavalier is always held at the end of February, and using the Maidstone Wargames’ Society<\/a> show game calendar and knowing what demo’ game we put on that year, we worked out that it must have been in 1988 that we put a bunch of our home-made 6mm buildings on the bring-and-buy stall and split the proceeds – around \u00a325 in total !<\/p>\n

So that must deserve a proper celebration. So here it is. For this weekend only, our Silver Anniversary weekend, we’re offering 25% off for 25 years. Everything* in the online shop<\/a> is 25% from now until the end of Sunday (GMT – remember this if you live outside the UK !). You’ll only see this here – we aren’t posting it to any news sites or anywhere else (although feel free to spread the word via your own blogs if you wish). 25 years – 48 hours – 25%.<\/p>\n

* – there are one or two exceptions, as in all of our sales – the 25% offer applies to everything we make, metal or resin models. Accessories, bases, dice, rulebooks and any models that we sell but don’t make ourselves are not covered. And postage is charged based on the pre-discount price, ‘cos the mean old Royal Mail refused to offer 25% off postage prices for us \ud83d\ude41<\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… 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 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-offers","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":7097,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17286,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/the-first-shows-of-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":2198,"position":0},"title":"The First Shows of 2026","author":"Tony","date":"February 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"So we're already into the second month of the year, after what may well have been the longest 31 days ever (I think we said this last year, but it's true again !). But the Christmas backlog has gone and mail order is running smoothly again, and we've also been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Shows"","block_context":{"text":"Shows","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shows\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society's club logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TWWS.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":881,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/06\/maidstone-wargames-society-open-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":2198,"position":1},"title":"Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day","author":"Tony","date":"June 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow is the Open Day of our club, Maidstone Wargames Society. This is when we open the doors to show the public what wargaming is about, allow people to join in the games etc. It's not a conventional wargames show, there are no traders (not even us - although if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Shows"","block_context":{"text":"Shows","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shows\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14897,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/maidstone-wargames-society-open-day-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2198,"position":2},"title":"Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day","author":"Tony","date":"June 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for a quick shoutout for our club's Open Day which is this coming Saturday, June 22nd. Each year, Maidstone Wargames Society opens its doors and invites everyone in to find out what the club is all about and see the types of games we play. This year we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Shows"","block_context":{"text":"Shows","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shows\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/OpenDay2024.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/OpenDay2024.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/OpenDay2024.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/OpenDay2024.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16584,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/maidstone-wargames-society-open-day-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":2198,"position":3},"title":"Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day","author":"Tony","date":"June 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"As you may be aware (we mention it often enough) we're both members of Maidstone Wargames Society. It's the society's open day on Saturday, where we open the doors, put on some games and invite the public in to see what we do. Visitors will be able to join in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Shows"","block_context":{"text":"Shows","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shows\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/openday1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/openday1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/openday1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6627,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/05\/polyversal-redux\/","url_meta":{"origin":2198,"position":4},"title":"Polyversal Redux","author":"Tony","date":"May 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"You may remember the Polyversal project that ran on Kickstarter a while back, but unfortunately didn't meet its funding targets. Well, the team at Collins Epic Wargames have gone away, revisited their aims and requirements and yesterday relaunched the game with a new 30-day campaign. If you weren't aware of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "6mm SF"","block_context":{"text":"6mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/6mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ridgway.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ridgway.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ridgway.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7775,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/maidstone-wargames-society-open-day-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2198,"position":5},"title":"Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day","author":"Tony","date":"June 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Phil and I have belonged to Maidstone Wargames Society since ... well, the dawn of time it seems ! We are respectively the third and second longest-serving members, behind the the club's esteemed secretary. Every year the society holds an Open Day as a showcase to promote what we do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Shows"","block_context":{"text":"Shows","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shows\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/New-Logo-600x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/New-Logo-600x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/New-Logo-600x600.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}