Brigade Models

Today we have a bunch of assorted 15mm bits and pieces added to the website. There are several engineering vehicles based around the engineering kits we released recently (we will do more but it’s a matter of getting them built, painted and photographed!).

We have a PacFed gun crew for our various towed and fixed guns.

There’s a new weapon option for the Catapult 6×6 AFV with a remote anti-tank weapon.

In the Hammer’s Slammer range the Stewart Regiment have their own 15mm page to make ordering easier, and they’ve also gained a pack of remote guns plus a control team which features in the Stewart Borderers detachment list.

HS15-172 – Stewart Remote Gun teams – £4.50
HS15-1715b – Fauchard Engineering Vehicle – £8.00
HS15-2113a – Catapult Engineering Vehicle – £8.00
HS15-3613a – Kopis Engineering Vehicle – £8.00
SF15-712e – Raeside Recovery Vehicle – £4.50
SF15-760 – PacFed Gun Crew – £1.25

After a busy few weeks we’re finally back on an even keel, and one facet of this is we can get back to releasing new stuff. We’re starting with some new 15mm vehicles, but nothing conventional. We’ve wanted to do some civilian vehicles for a while, but since there are other companies that already produce some very good models we didn’t want to go over the ground they’ve already covered. So we were looking for something a bit different, and John Treadaway pointed us in the direction of one of the Hammer’s Slammers stories in which mention is made of Cyclos, described as

a three-wheeled mini-truck of the sort the civilians on Prosperity used for
everything from taxis to hauling farm produce into town.

So we had something to work on that would also fit nicely into one of the Hammer’s Slammers detachment lists (Prosperity Rebels, which will be reworked to fit them in).

We can up with a number of variants – open- and closed-back trucks for hauling farm produce as described above, a taxi, an armed versions (the rebels in the story have a mortar mounted in the back of one), a police version and a tow truck.

The armed version can carry either a mortar or a twin buzzbomb launcher (same weapons as the M6 Combat Car). The police version has a light bar and one of our standard small turret rings, so could be fitted with just about any small turret or weapon mount from one of our lighter vehicles (the Cyclos are quite small so many of the larger turrets will overwhelm it). The default version comes with a hatch and pintle weapon but it could carry a weapon such as the Indonesian remote MG, a Neo-Soviet tri-barrel, Lightning Division gatling, Shinigami missile launcher etc. We’ve included a number of these as options on the website but feel free to drop us a line if you have any ideas for other options you’d like to see.

As any fan of 80s UK TV comedy shows will understand, the closed back van version just has to be painted dirty yellow, and I only just resisted the temptation to paint ‘Trotters Independent Trading Co, New York – Paris – Peckham’ down the side (or as John pointed out, in the future it should probably be ‘New New York – New Paris – New Peckham’ !).

The Brigadier inspects cyclos in the car park of a fast food joint.

SF15-9000 – Cyclo Pickup – £3.00
SF15-9000a – Armed Cyclo – £3.00
SF15-9000b – Cyclo Van – £3.00
SF15-9000c – Cyclo Taxi – £3.00
SF15-9000d – Police Cyclo – £3.00
SF15-9000e – Cyclo Tow Truck – £3.25