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First a reminder – it’s Colours tomorrow, hopefully we’ll see some of you there.

And another reminder – we’re on holiday next week, the website will remain open for orders but nothing will get dealt with until we return on Monday 18th. This covers orders from the 7th of September onwards – unfortunately restocking and loading for the show yesterday meant that we weren’t able to tackle a couple of orders that came in during the day.

And now – something new for the Antipodeans; the Orca class Battlecruiser sets off for distant stars, bolstering the PacFed spacefleet.

A two-piece metal kit, it boasts four engines (more engines = more speed, of course !) and photon torpedo tubes in the main hull.

We’ll have some in stock on Saturday at Colours, and any mail orders will be dealt with when we return from holiday.

SFS-702 – Orca class Battlecruiser – £4.50

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Today we have two new spaceship models. The Admiral Lazarev class Battlecruiser joins the Neo-Soviets as a fast, hard-hitting capital ship somewhat removed from the usual big, heavy battleships of the rest of the fleet. It has a heavy gun turret for’d with a missile battery positioned behind. The superstructure is flanked by a quartet of medium Mass Accelerators, with another pair on the lower hull. Defensively the Lazarev class has moderate shielding and a battery of anti-fighter weapons, but lacks the ablative armour of larger ships such as the Voroshilov.

The second vessel in today’s release is the Vasilisk Fuel Tanker. Built on the same basic hull as the Ulyanovsk Fleet Carrier, the Vasilisk class serve under both military and civilian flags, hauling vast amounts of liquid cargoes. As befits such a valuable ship and consignment, the Vasilisks have a small point-defence battery to ward off raiders. This example, the WN-325, flies under the flag of the Westham-Norcross Shipping Company.

SFS-1203 – Admiral Lazarev class Battlecruiser – £6.00
SFS-5020 – Vasilisk Fuel Tanker – £12.00

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We haven’t posted here for several weeks, which is most unlike us – so much so that several regular customers have emailed us to make sure that everything is OK. Thanks you very much for the concern, we are fine, just incredibly busy! The release of A Billion Suns has generated a huge volume of orders, even more than the first lockdown last year, so that we’ve been receiving around two-and-a-half times our usual volume of orders. It’s taken five (long) days a week to clear these, leaving little time for new releases, blog posts etc (although we have kept up with the accounts and VAT, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs waits for no one…). Apologies also if you’ve had a slower than usual response to emails or social media contacts.

The good news is that we’re pretty much up to date with orders – almost everything from March has been cast, packed and shipped (there is one person who’s placed several large orders that we’re pulling together) and we should get everything that’s arrived over the extended Easter weekend done by the end of the week.

So to celebrate, we’re putting the Kerberos spacestation back on the website – Phil’s remoulded it, all orders that were delayed have been shipped and he’s even managed some extra stock!

And here’s a further peek at some new stuff that’s in the pipeline (a long way down the pipeline in fact, almost bursting out of the end…

We have just released these very handy Jump Gates – ideal for spaceship games as objectives or deployment markers. Each one is a three part casting – the panels/fins are separate from the rings, and they’re interchangeable so you can swap them round. You get one of each type per pack, enough to make three complete jump gates. The post is cast as part of the ring so you just need to stick it into the supplied plastic base.

If you haven’t already come across it, Mike Hutchinson’s new game A Billions Suns (due for release by Osprey early in 2021) allows play across multiple tables, using jump points to navigate – we’d like to think that these would be perfect for that.

As promised last week, we have fleet scale versions of the new Yenpalo fighters ready to go. These come in the usual packs of 12 of each type. The hex panelling has come out, even at this scale (it has, really – the photos don’t show it very well…) – we’d recommend using quite thin paint for them to avoid clogging the detail, I went with a purple wash straight over the undercoat followed by a quick drybrush.

SFS-1160 – Shynil Light Interceptor (x12) – £1.50
SFS-1161 – Axopo Heavy Fighter (x12) – £1.50
SFS-6007 – Jump Gates (x3) – £6.00

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In between the rash of 15mm releases we have other things as well, so this week we have two new capital ships to add to our Chinese Democratic Socialist Union fleet.

The first is the ChengZu class battlecruiser, named for the Ming Emperor Zhu Di. It’s a solid looking vessel with twin turrets and some heavy forward firing Shock Cannon.

Accompanying the ChengZu is the Fengzi (wind) class Carrier. Although rated as a light carrier by the CDSU, it still carries eight fighter squadrons, although not much else in the way of armament.

We’ve also reintroduced the CDSU Scout Fleet Pack, which has one each of the new models plus two each of the three new escort vessels we released recently, plus 24 fighters.

SFS-503 – ChengZu class Battlecruiser – £6.00
SFS-511 – Fengzi class Light Carrier – £6.50
SFSP-503 – CDSU Scout Fleet Pack – £22.50

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