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New From Brigade Models

Friday, 02 August 2019 14:20
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We have a number of new items in the Small Scale Scenery range today; they span almost a millenia from the Iron Age to the early middle-ages.

First up is this very flexible 25-piece set of roundhouses and other huts. There’s a mix of styles and sizes, mostly roundhouses but also including rectangular and oval structures. It also includes a Crannog, a small Celtic settlement which would be built on an artificial island in a lake. Although we’ve labelled them as a Dark Age village, the set would be eminently usable in other settings, for example the roundhouses would make a great African tribal settlement.

Largest of all is this one-piece resin village. It consists of a number of roundhouses along with small store huts and a central chieftain’s house, surrounded by a stone wall.

This odd looking structure is a Broch. They were built in the first centuries BC and AD in Scotland and surrounding islands – estimates for the number built vary between 100 and almost 600. Although they look like fortifications, they seem to have held a small village under one roof and their exact use is shrouded in some mystery.

Finally for this week, and dating from the 9th to 12th centuries AD, a number of tall Round Towers were built in Ireland. Again their purpose seems muddled – their Irish name, Cloigtheach, means ‘Bell Tower’, so they could simply have been belfries. But they’re also known colloquially as Priest Towers, and it has been speculated that they were used as refuges for the clergy from pillaging Vikings.

SSS-8139 – Dark Age Walled Village – £2.50
SSS-8140 – Dark Age Roundhouses – £5.50
SSS-8141 – Broch – £0.50
SSS-8142 – Priest Towers (x3) – £1.50

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One Of Our Submarines

Friday, 31 May 2019 13:03
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Just in case your 1/1000th scale harbour needs somewhere to park a submarine, we have two different options available for you this weekend.

The first, larger option is a blocky construction known as the Scorff Bunker, so called because it was built on the banks of the Scorff river running into the Lorient naval base in 1940. The 130m long concrete edifice has two side-by-side pens and is large enough to house four U-boats at once.

Smaller options are the two oddly-shaped ‘Dom’ repair bunkers – Dom means cathedral in German and they were named because of their supposed resemblance to a religious building. The 80m long bunkers, also part of the Lorient installation, could hold a single smaller U-boat for repair, which was winched out of the water and across a turntable to either one of these pens or the much larger Keroman I, II or III bunkers. One has a concrete emplacement for an AA gun over the main door – although the two bunkers are otherwise identical, there is no obvious evidence that the other bunker ever had such an emplacement, there is nothing there now and there are no obvious scars of its removal so only one is modelled with an AA gun. I couldn’t find any conclusive proof of what type of gun it was either – the only artists impression I’ve seen shows the gun to be an 88mm FlaK-18, so that’s what I’ve gone with.

SSS-8137 – Scorff U-Boat Bunker – £8.00
SSS-8138 – Dom U-Boat Pens – £5.00

On another minor point, we’ve renamed another of our Small Scale Scenery models – the former Cuban Church is now called the Spanish-American Church. This is because we have noticed that orders containing this item are often held for a day or two by PayPal before the funds are released, we think it’s a security check just to ensure we aren’t involved in any dodgy dealings with one of the countries on the USA’s watch list ! I have in the past had to write emails to PayPal about this and one or two other items (eg CDSU spaceships with Vietnamese names) so we thought we’d take the safe option and just rename it to avoid any more orders getting delayed.

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New From Brigade Models

Friday, 17 May 2019 11:13
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For ages I’ve been planning to add a set of Waterloo buildings to the Small Scale Scenery range. To be honest I have also spent some of the time putting them off, since my first initial look into them showed that quite a bit of research would be needed along with a measure of educated guessing – especially with Château Hougoumont, the largest and most iconic of the buildings on the battlefield.

However, I’ve girded my loins and with much help from my friend Mark Harris, erstwhile Treasurer of Maidstone Wargames Society and a Napoleonic buff, we’ve ended up with what we think is a good representation of the buildings of 1815.

The set includes four different items, all resin castings; the largest being the aforementioned Château Hougoumont. Not many of the original buildings are still standing, so our version is a result of interpreting contemporary illustrations, plans and satellite views.

A much easier model was the walled farm of La Haye Sainte – that is is still intact and in much the same condition as two centuries ago. It should also induce a wave of nostalgia in anyone who owned the Airfix kit way back when…

Another building that’s still almost as it was back in 1815 is the inn of La Belle Alliance, where Blücher and Wellington met on the evening of the battle at the end of the fighting.

The final member of this set is the church of Plancenoit, where the Prussian attack hit the French flank. Again the original building is long gone, so this representation is a best guess at what it looked like in 1815.

SSS-8136 – Waterloo Building Set – £8.00

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Small Scale Scenery Releases

Friday, 19 April 2019 14:07
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The second of our new Small Scale Scenery releases this week are three new sets of components for the Modular Castle range. These are roofed towers which are more common in continental castles – there are round, square and octagonal versions to match the existing roofless sets.

All come in packs of four, and are also available as options for the castle starter packs.

SSS-8122t – Circular Tower with Roof – £1.50
SSS-8122u – Octagonal Tower with Roof – £1.50
SSS-8122v – Square Tower with Roof – £1.50

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To Germany With Love

Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:29
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Whoop – the broadband is back ! Because of the Good Friday holiday I won’t be able to post any orders until the weekend, but I should get fully up-to-date with orders today and post everything in one big hit on Saturday.

Onto business…

This rest of week will be a bit of a bonanza for our Small Scale Scenery customers as we add all of the Salute releases to the website. The first additions today are the two German sets, the Post War Village and the Churches pack.

The village contains twenty separate buildings including a small Town Hall, an Inn and a shop. The mix of houses includes several single storey bungalows.

The three churches have interchangeable towers, and two of each type are supplied allowing you to mix and match.

SSS-8132 – German Post War Village – £6.00
SSS-8133 – German Churches – £5.00

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