{"id":9149,"date":"2018-09-07T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2018-09-07T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:52:59","slug":"small-scale-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/small-scale-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Scale Sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/small-scale-sci-fi\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>First, a little snippet of show news &#8211; a reminder that <strong>we will NOT be attending Colours this year<\/strong>. The Brigadieress has a Significant Birthday on the day of the show so I&#8217;ll be otherwise engaged. All things being well, we aim to be back in 2019. You can however find us later this month at the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletopgaming.co.uk\/shows\/show\/tabletop-gaming-live\">Tabletop Gaming Live<\/a> show at Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Now onto this week&#8217;s new release &#8211; it&#8217;s the first sci-fi offering in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/SmallScaleScenery\/index.html\">Small Scale Scenery<\/a> range. I&#8217;ve scaled down the full range of 6mm Desert Domes and added a couple of new designs to complete the pack. You get 19 buildings which makes up a small town, and you could also combine them with our middle-eastern building set for variety. This shouldn&#8217;t be our last sci-fi set in this scale.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9157\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/small-scale-sci-fi\/sss-9001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SSS-9001.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"SSS-9001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SSS-9001.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SSS-9001-720x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist taking this shot, showing the same building in four scales, from 2mm (1\/1000th) through 6mm (1\/300th), 10mm (1\/150th) up to 15mm (1\/100th). Ah, the joys of digital design&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/small-scale-sci-fi\/buildingcomparison\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BuildingComparison-e1536310051113.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"BuildingComparison\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BuildingComparison-e1536310051113.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BuildingComparison-e1536310051113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9161\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/SmallScaleScenery\/Science-Fiction%20Buildings.html\">SSS-9001<\/a> &#8211; Desert Domes (x19) &#8211; \u00a36.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a little snippet of show news &#8211; a reminder that we will NOT be attending Colours this year. The Brigadieress has a Significant Birthday on the day of the show so I&#8217;ll be otherwise engaged. All things being well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/small-scale-sci-fi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9157,"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":"","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":[17,28,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-shows","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":6047,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SSS-9001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16613,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/joy-of-six-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":9149,"position":0},"title":"Joy of Six 2025","author":"Tony","date":"July 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hot here - 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. 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