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September 18th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Fort Week – Scilly Season
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Dammit … this post was scheduled for Thursday but didn’t appear due to a technical glitch (I’m not sure why, and probably never will be). So ignore the bit about penultimate, as it’s appearing out of sequence ! Our penultimate offering in this week of historical fortifications is Star Castle, built in 1593 on the […]
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September 17th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Fort Week – Final Friday
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We round off Fort Week with the most modern of the new releases, Fort St Benedict in Kraków. Although now part of Poland, the fort was built by the Austro-Hungarians in the mid-19th century as part of the Kraków fortress. It takes its name from the nearby church, and is the only surviving fortress of […]
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September 15th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Fort Week – I’ll Have Mine on Toast
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As we reach the mid-point of Fort Week, I’ve run out of alliterative titles so I’m now resorting to puns. This is Fort Paté, a Vauban fortification on an islet in the Gironde estuary in France built at the end of the 17th century. Along with Fort Médoc and the citadel of Blaye, it defended […]
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September 14th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Fort Week – Tower Tuesday
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Our second offering for fort week is this collection of defensive towers from Malta. Known as the Lascaris Towers, they were built in the 17th Century by the Order of St John. Our set consists of two small watchtowers and a larger artillery tower, of which there are several examples of both on the island. […]
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September 13th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Fort Week – Matara Monday
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Phil’s been busy lately, designing a large number of new buildings and fortifications for the Small Scale Scenery range. While I’m away on holiday we thought it would be a good time to have a Fort Week, showcasing one of his new forts and castles each day. We’re starting with Matara Star Fort, an 18th […]
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September 12th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Holiday Time (again).
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I’m off on holiday again for a few days – in fact by the time this post is published, we should be on the road. The Brigadieress and I are taking the faithful hound down to the west country, staying in a posh glamping site near Glastonbury. Hopefully the weather will hold … All orders […]
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September 10th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Laser Towers
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Recently we helped out a customer who was trying to assemble some 6mm Laser Towers, using our existing Control Tower model as a base. We thought it would be pretty easy to create a new specific laser tower, using a new resin tower model and a 15mm metal laser weapon that we already have. So […]
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September 7th, 2021 10:07 AM
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Return to the Front Line – SELWG 2021
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Very soon we’ll be returning to the show circuit, after an enforced absence of 18 months (our last show was Cavalier in February 2020 – about four weeks before the first lockdown. Remember that … ?). We have three shows this year – Broadside and Salute have both been relocated to the end of this […]
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September 3rd, 2021 10:00 AM
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Search Party
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When A Billion Suns was released we drew up a handy chart that assigned each of our models to the ship classifications in the rulebook. This was a useful exercise for us, as it showed up a few places where we had gaps in the range – in particular, a lack of scout or recon […]
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August 27th, 2021 10:00 AM
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Fast Attack
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Some of the first models in both our 6mm and 15mm sci-fi ranges were the three variants of the EuroFed Javelot scout car. The larger scale versions were replaced several years ago with new designs, along with several 6×6 vehicles. We’ve now brought these updated models to the smaller scale. There are five basic vehicles […]
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