Ages ago we used to have a couple of small satellite models in the spaceships range, but they disappeared due to issues with the production moulds. This week we’re releasing a replacement model, an all new design that will serve as either an orbital communications or surveillance satellite, or something more military. It is also ideal as a Battlesat, a weapon system in Starmada (carried by the German Pommerania class amongst others).
Each pack contains four satellite models with detailed solar panels, 12mm long and 20mm across. Each has a mounting hole in the bottom for a stand, but I wanted mine to be at varying angles. So I clipped the nib off the top of a plastic flying stand and used a round needle file to create a groove in the top of the post. The circular body of the satellite sits neatly in this groove and can be glued at any angle that takes your fancy.
Painting is straightforward – I painted my pale grey, followed by a wash of thinned-down GW Nuln Oil (neat Nuln Oil is too dark). I then drybrushed them white, before giving the solar panels two coats of GW Drakenhof Nightshade (a blue wash). Then they just need a bit of tidying up with white to delineate the edges of the panels, and whatever areas of spot colour you fancy (I went for some red rings around the nose).
SFS-6006 – Satellites (x4) – £1.50
6 thoughts on “New Sci-Fi At Brigade Models”
01/09/2017 at 09:51
Satellite you say?
Looks like 6mm self contained power units to me, stand them upright and hey presto!
01/09/2017 at 12:31
Funny – I had precisely the same thought! You could build a 3mm scale power farm pretty effectually…
01/09/2017 at 15:11
Brilliant ideas!
01/09/2017 at 11:34
Awesome! A variety of objectives like this would be fantastic 🙂
01/09/2017 at 15:52
Lateral thinking … I like it !
03/09/2017 at 20:20
I’ve bought quite a lot of Brigade Models bits and bobs to repurpose as sci-fi scenery details in 6-28mm. I’ll try to remember to get these satellites as well, next order. I see myself cutting them to bits, using the panels and cylinders as separate nondescript tech items suitable in multiple scales. In a 28mm spaceship interior, the cylinders might clutter some desk or shelf, maybe representing portable power units or research sample containers. In a 10mm exoplanet colony, the same cylinders might be arrayed along the wall of some building as a water purification system, aquaculture tanks, a futuristic equivalent of compost containers or whatever. Similarly, the panels stacked up as “undefined stored items” will look great in any scale.
Having said all that, they’re the best satellites for spaceship gaming I’ve seen and I could certainly use a few for that purpose as well. I liked the old Brigade Models satellites, but these are even better.