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Brigade Models – Looking Ahead

Thursday, 05 December 2019 11:34
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More 6mm Hammer’s Slammers – this is the Waldheim Dragoon’s Daedalus tank which appeared in 15mm earlier this year. It’s accompanied by an air-defence version with four tri-barrel powerguns – we’ve also made the laser/missile version in 6mm as well but I don’t have one to hand. These AD turrets are used by Ander’s Legion on the Rapier tank hull as the Machete tank, but again I didn’t have a spare Rapier hull handy when I took the photos so you can’t see that either.

I’m not much good at this, am I …?

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Brigade Models – Looking Ahead

Friday, 29 November 2019 15:18
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Parts 5 and 6

This is a larger mosque for the Small Scale Scenery range, with four minarets and lots of domes.
A resin building with metal parts, it’ll be available early next year.

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An apology to anyone who’s contacted us recently and has had a late reply (or is still waiting for one). I’m trying to keep on top of the sale as much as possible, so I’m spending most of my time at the workshop rather than in front of the keyboard. I will get back to everyone – I’m treating enquiries about orders or the sale as priority, but I will answer everything in the end, I promise.

Now, onto the main business of the post. You may have noticed some new buildings lurking in the backgrounds of our new 15mm releases lately (or you may not have been paying attention…).

We’ve been developing some new 15mm resin building components designed to help you spruce up likely looking plastic or cardboard boxes, vac-formed packaging, foam packing etc. Rather than individual pieces, we’ve made whole facades with doors, windows and other details. All you need to do is stick a panel on a box and – hey presto – you have a building. There are also larger garage/hangar doors, balconies, awnings and roof details such as vents and A/C units.

I’ve been experimenting with various items, including UK-pattern surface mount electrical boxes (also known as pattress boxes), which can be bought very cheaply from suppliers such as Toolstation or Screwfix (a pack of 10 single boxes is about a fiver). The ones in the pictures below were all made from these, using our building components and some plasticard to cover the tops.

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Brigade Models – Looking Ahead

Tuesday, 26 November 2019 16:50
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Some 6mm vehicles this time. These are tiny versions of the Guardforce O’Higgins Fragarach light tank, already out in 15mm.

You’ve the 6mm versions of the Kopis, but here it is again with the Astrapi.

Brigade Models – Looking Ahead #2

Wednesday, 20 November 2019 12:13
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New 6mm buildings – these are made in the style of the existing 6mm Primitive Dwelling in the Desert Buildings range, with flat roof terraces, external staircases, shuttered windows and wall buttresses.

They may be put into their own subset of buildings (mainly because the Desert Buildings range is already very big), although I’m not sure what to call it!

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Brigade Models – Looking Ahead #1

Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:29
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Now that the sale is in full swing, spare time is limited at Brigade Towers. We won’t have any new releases for a while, certainly not until the sale is over. But before the sale, we were getting ahead with the design and development of lots of new models, and to fill the blog for the next few weeks we’ll preview as many of these as we can.

These won’t always be painted, some might be just masters, and photos might just be snaps from my phone – but hopefully you’ll get the idea. We won’t always have release dates, although pretty much everything you see should appear before Salute next April (some might be saved for the show itself).

We’ll start off today with an addition to the EuroFed space fleet in the shape of the Tetuán class battlecruiser. It has a single piece resin hull with three gun turrets, and should be out in January.

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