Brigade Models

We’ve had a couple of river patrol boats in our 6mm Neo-Soviet range for a while. They’ve been crying out for an update so we’ve remade the hulls as one-piece resin models with lots of extra detail. The BKRL River Gunboat has two Bizon tank turrets with plenty of anti-tank firepower, while the Fire Support version has a Bizon support turret along with a twin gatling air-defence turret and a Vihkr 12-round rocket launcher for indirect fire.

BKRL River Gunboat (l) and Fire Support Boat (r)

To oppose these, the Pacific Federation (PacFed) get two all-new patrol vessels. The Palawah has a forward turret with either twin light cannon or a railgun, and a missile launcher aft. The Warramunga has the same missile launcher or a heavy railgun mount for’d, with a landing platform for an Angelshark attack VTOL.

Warramunga (l) and Palawah (r)

Warramunga with embarked Angelshark VTOL

We’ve also found another use for the recently released Agri Colony platforms, this time as naval jetties. We might have to make a few more specifically for this use.

PacFed patrol boats tied up in dock.

SF300-1212 – BKRL River Gunboat – £4.00
SF300-1212a – BKRL Fire Support Boat – £4.00
SF300-713 – Palawah Gunboat – £4.00
SF300-714 – Warramunga Patrol Boat – £4.00

This is the first of several batches of 6mm watercraft that we’re planning in the next couple of months; on the way we have some landing craft, plus a few civilian vessels. We’re intrigued to see what you all make of them – do 6mm SF gamers want/use watercraft ?

We haven’t added to our range of 6mm Advanced Buildings for a (long) while; despite this, they seem still to be pretty popular. Today that changes, as we have five new additions to the range.

The first building is a simple two-storey affair with attached garage/workshop – in terms of layout it’s almost like a modern domestic house.

Next we have a medical centre. This will also become part of the Surgeon General range which we use to collect money for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity. Half of the sale price of each model (once we’ve deducted VAT) will go to Macmillan – we’ve donated £350 so far and we’re still going (that goes for the ambulance alongside – it’s also part of the Surgeon General range).

The rest of the release is made up of a series of small four-storey town apartment blocks, all similar in design but each slightly different. The ground floor of each one is made up of a small shop, with three apartment floors above.

We’ve also created a new pack containing one each of the two-storey building and medical centre, and two each of the apartment blocks.

BP300-202 – Advanced Buildings pack #2 – £18.00
B300-211 – Two-storey House – £3.00
B300-212 – Advanced Medical Centre – £2.50
B300-213a – Town Apartment Block 1 – £2.50
B300-213b – Town Apartment Block 2 – £2.50
B300-213d – Town Apartment Block 4 – £2.50

Sometimes customers send us ideas for new products. Occasionally these are not practical ideas, or things that we don’t think would sell in sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile, so they quietly get forgotten. More often they are good ideas, but we have to fit them into our schedule and they disappear into the pending pile for an age until we can get around to them. Today we have one of the latter, but one that (for us) hasn’t taken too long to make it into production.

The really annoying thing is that we’ve lost the original email, so we can’t credit the bright spark who suggested these !

What we have are a set of empty platforms for our Agri Colony 6mm scenery, matching the platforms that some of the buildings already have. They can be used to carry other Agri Colony buildings that don’t have platforms or extend the ones that do. Alternatively they can be used as VTOL landing pads, cargo platforms or monorail platforms. The pack has five platforms of different sizes in various configurations (have a look at the product page for full details).

In addition we have a pack of small connecting ‘bridges’ that can be used to bridge the gap between larger platforms, or extensions such as between and around our Agri Colony shops or industrial units.

B300-1390 – Platforms – £9.00
B300-1391 – Platform Connectors – £2.50