Category Archives: 15mm SF

It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green

Given the large number of planets that humanity has colonised in the Hammer’s Slammers series, there’s surprising little sign or mention of sentient aliens in the books. One race that does materialise (literally) is the Molts from the planet Oltenia … Continue reading

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Slammers Update

Since the new website came online, we’ve been putting a lot of effort into updating some of the content of our various ranges – it was always something we wanted to do but put off until the new site was … Continue reading

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Facing The Warrior

One of the most iconic stories in the Hammer’s Slammers pantheon is “The Warrior”, a three-parter that tells the tale of Slick Des Grieux, a fearsome but somewhat wayward tank commander in Hammer’s regiment. The second part portrays an assault … Continue reading

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Base-ick Instinct

Yes, that’s probably a terrible headline… But today we have several new types of resin bases aimed at 15mm models. The first is a set of flying stands for grav vehicles and VTOLs. There are five different bases, pre-textured with … Continue reading

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Leader of the Pack

Pack animals have been used by military forces throughout history, supporting special forces and insurgents into the 21st century. So we persuaded Jeremey ‘Germy’ Claridge to convert our Shomix Herd Animals into sci-fi equivalents. There are two models carrying a … Continue reading

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Making Tracks

We promised to write an article on making track for our new 15mm Monorail cars, and here it is. As you’ll see, it’s a really straightforward process. The track itself is made from mini cable trunking – ours came from … Continue reading

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Johnny’s Big Brother

One of our last minute additions to the Salute line-up was the 15mm Monorail set. We spent a long time looking for an affordable method to make the track for a 15mm monorail (figuring that resin-cast pieces would be expensive … Continue reading

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On Your Trike !

Adding the Salute releases to the website resumes today with the next batch of 15mm Han Chinese. This includes the trikes from the Hammer’s Slammers story The Warrior, plus the new Huolóng missile APC. We’ve also released the trailer for … Continue reading

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Salute #6 – Riding the Monorail

This is the last one, just in the nick of time! We’re just about to load up the van and set off for the ExCel. We’ve been working on a 15mm version of our 6mm monorail scenery set for a … Continue reading

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Salute #2 – Chinese Stragglers

This is our second batch of releases for Salute – we’re a bit behind with the painting this year, so there could well be a last minute flurry of posts next week as things progress ! First though, we’ve had … Continue reading

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