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July 5th, 2020 08:32 PM
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Status Update #2 – Back to the Grindstone
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So the holiday is over, and it’s back to the workshop full-time. Although several visits were made to the workshop in an effort to keep things under control, the backlog of orders is still pretty substantial. There is also a pair of stock orders for two of our US stockists, Pico Armor and Scale Creep, […]
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June 29th, 2020 12:05 AM
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Status Update – Things Are a Bit Slow…
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Just time for a quick Sunday night update… My holiday seems unfortunately to have coincided with a spike in orders which means that things are a bit slow at the moment. Turn round time on orders is currently in the order of 10-14 days – hopefully we’ll get this cleared and everything back to normal […]
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June 24th, 2020 10:00 AM
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Small Scale Arnhem
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Continuing our mini-series of blog posts featuring other people’s use of our Small Scale Scenery range, this week we’re very pleased to be able to show Charles Rowntree’s superb Arnhem scenery.
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June 22nd, 2020 03:58 PM
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Holiday Time – Not
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Today I shouldn’t be here – The Brigadieress and I should be on a plane to France, or Spain, so somewhere else warm. But, like everyone else, we’re not. However, although we can’t go anywhere, I’m still going to have a few days off over the next fortnight – the weather forecast is decent so […]
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June 19th, 2020 04:01 PM
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Road to Recovery
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Today we have a couple of very useful 15mm accessory packs. The first is a conversion kit for creating engineering or recovery vehicles, consisting of a crane and a dozer blade (which can be one of three types). It also has a converter so that it will fit either of our standard turret ring sizes. […]
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June 16th, 2020 08:42 PM
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D-Day!
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OK, so we’re a few days late … Ian Maun has shown us some pictures of his 2mm D-Day diorama, and kindly allowed us to put the pictures on our blog. The following are Ian’s words on its construction: The beach is sandpaper and the cliffs are layered cardboard and modelling clay, dry-brushed, with Woodlands […]
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June 12th, 2020 04:36 PM
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Escorts of the Rising Sun
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This week our Aeronef redesign program sees new versions of several Japanese vessels, plus the addition of two new models. The Mikasa patrol nef, Nagatsaki destroyer and Akitsushima heavy cruiser models have all been replaced by new designs. In addition we have two new models, the Atago class torpedo cruiser and Shirataka class torpedo destroyer. […]
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June 10th, 2020 10:00 AM
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German Transfer
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You can file this in the ‘why didn’t I think of it before’ category. The background for the recently released Turkish Sultan Selim battlecruiser mentioned its German roots, and how the Turks converted it and then built more of the same design. So what if we go back to the original Teutonic battlecruiser, replace the […]
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June 9th, 2020 12:04 PM
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And then there were none…
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Sadly, but inevitably, our show calendar for 2020 has been completely wiped out. The last scheduled event, Colours at Newbury racecourse in September, has (quite understandably) been called off by the organisers. At this point we might as well cancel the rest of 2020 and pretend it never happened. So we’ll see you in 2021…
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June 7th, 2020 10:00 AM
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Postage Increase to USA – Advanced Warning
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The Royal Mail have recently given notice of an increase in their prices to the USA; it’s a result of the decision by the US Postal Service to increase the prices they charge other postal services to deliver overseas mail within the US (it’s known as the ‘last mile’ delivery). The result is that Royal […]
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