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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 15/10/2026

It's that time of year when we swap out our profile for Brigadier Pumpkinhead instead of the usual one. He's a 15mm figure, and you can buy him (plus half a dozen other Brigadiers) if you want one: brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate...

15mm figure in officer's uniform with a pumpkin as a head

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 06/10/2026

We sent off a large consignment of some of our 15mm sci-fi range to a customer in the UK. This is what we received in return: 'Damn good models, best sci-fi range I've ever seen in my 40+ years of wargaming.' That's nice 🙂 brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate... brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate...

15mm scale VTOL flying low over a building with a tank destroyer parked outside.

Blue and grey camouflaged sci-fi armoured vehicles moving past a small dwelling.

Two blue grav armoured vehicles with a blurry sci-fi building in the distance behind them.

Half-track and air defence weapon parked outside a sci-fi branch of Mcdonalds.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 24/09/2026

It"s someone's birthday today. She's looking pretty good for 11.

Poppy the golden labrador lying on our hall rug.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 18/08/2026

If you want to browse the miniatures, they're all here: brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate... And the site for all the rules support is www.hammers-slammers.com/index.htm

Three brown camouflaged 6mm tanks advance along a road

15mm anti-tank gun covers a gap in hedge while two half tracks advance in the background

Two weathered dull silver heavy blower tanks on a tarmac apron

Grey/sand VTOL flies low over a desert house, watched by infantry and a tank destroyer

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 15/08/2026

If you see this, post your riders.

Four elf lancers riding armoured blue dragons.

Backdrop image by Jon Hodgson/Handiwork Games.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Post your favourite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.

Sandra Dickinson as Trillian in the BBC TV version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 30/07/2026

We've got heavily into Alwyd and the world of the Quar. I made this little armed tractor to support my Crusaders. Rust and corrosion techniques taken from @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social videos 😁

Blue-skinned Quar rhyfler driving a small, rusty tracked tankette while manning the machine gun bolted to the side.

Blue-skinned Quar rhyfler driving a small, rusty tracked tankette while manning the machine gun bolted to the side. Front view.

Blue-skinned Quar rhyfler driving a small, rusty tracked tankette, steering via a control wheel on the side of the hill.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 29/07/2026

It's one of those days again...

My old wooden thermometer showing 30.5°C inside the workshop. And it's not even midday yet...

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 25/07/2026

If you see this, post a monster.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 24/07/2026

Vintage 1986 Ultravox. Same design as this one, but blue with orange lettering. Starting to show its age a bit (like its owner...).

White t-shirt with the letters U-VOX in pink and black

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 21/07/2026

HUMAN ARTISTS OF EARTH! use only one photograph of tiny painted toy soldiers to convince people to follow you.

Kanga and Grew - a large sci-fi anthropomorphic kangaroo wielding a gun and blade, carrying his offspring in a pouch hanging in front of him.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Off and running at Joy of Six in Sheffield.

The Brigade stand set up at the Joy of Six show.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 26/06/2026

It's the Joy of Six show in Sheffield this weekend, so we have a suitably-scaled release today - some 6mm SAS/Special Forces figures. You can see more on the blog: wp.me/p26BWy-4BJ We'll also have a bunch of new 2mm and 6mm bits and pieces at the show ahead of their website releases next month.

6mm scale SAS figures close in on a cottage in the woods.

1/1000th scale mainline terminus railway station

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 01/06/2026

In the summer months we're often buzzed by one of the Spitfires from nearby Headcorn. Today I was treated to some formation flying by three Spits and a fourth plane that I haven't yet identified (hopefully some googling when I get home will turn up the right answer).

Three Spitfires and a fourth single-engined prop plane silhouetted against an overcast sky.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 26/05/2026

4pm, 33°C. This is probably (hopefully) as high as it will get, so no workshop temperature record today.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 26/05/2026

2pm, lunchtime. 31.5°C. We've reached the 'equipment too hot to touch without gloves' threshold.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 26/05/2026

1130am workshop update - 28 and a bit degrees in here currently. Let's see how high it gets.

Old-fashioned wooden thermometer reading slightly over 28°C/83°F

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 17/04/2026

That picture only shows one of the VTOLs - here are the other two

Two 15mm scale VTOLs unloading troops and a light tank.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 12/04/2026

Congratulations to our club, Maidstone Wargames Society, on winning Most Innovative Game at #salute53 yesterday with their Labyrinths of Mars game. brigademodels.co.uk/mws/blog/202...

Overview of a wargames table showing a complex labyrinth

A bizarre, six-limbed creature (an Apt from the Barsoom novels) menaces a female hero

View from one corner of the labyrinth showing the central towers

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 12/04/2026

I think someone's early morning walk/swim caught up with them; I can feel myself going the same way...

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 12/04/2026

The absolute*worst* thing about the whole #salute weekend is having to return the hire van to the depot on Sheppey at 8am on Sunday morning. But after breakfast Poppy and I turned it into a bracing jaunt along the seafront around Garrison Point and had a look at the old WW2 fortifications.

WW2 era fortification at Garrison Point, Sheerness

Poppy the Labrador emerging from the water

View across the Thames estuary to Southend

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 10/04/2026

We've already packed the van and we're about to leave... Email me a list and I'll see if I can sort it out for you first thing tomorrow before the show opens.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 10/04/2026

Last minute additions to our Salute lineup. Firstly, some smaller Syrtian vessels for Imperial Skies to go with the two larger vessels. And lastly for Salute this year, a new Japanese battleship for the spaceships range. We don't have many in stock for tomorrow, so be quick! #salute #salute53

Unpainted resin and metal spaceship on a blue background

Unpainted metal steampunk airships on a blue background

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 08/04/2026

As a departure from our F/SF models, our Small Scale Scenery range stands alone as an extensive collection of 1/1000th scale houses, fortresses, castles, and other buildings. Standing at well over 200 codes, the range is ideal for tiny scale land or naval gaming, or making dioramas. #salute53

Model of a tiny factory building next to a UK penny

Models of 1/1000th scale Roman buildings including houses, an amphitheatre and theatre

1/1000th scale models of many of the buildings in Chatham dockyard

1/1000th scale model of Krzyztopor castle in Poland

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 08/04/2026

One of the ranges we're probably best known for is our Imperial Skies VSF airships. Paired with the rulebook of the same name from Rottenlead, the game is set in an alternate universe at the end of the C.19th. Look out for our releases at Salute, which open up a whole new world ! #salute #salute53

Two blue-painted VSF airship miniatures overfly an island hotel

Two white-painted VSF airship miniatures fly round the coast past a red and white lighthouse

Two fleets of VSF airship miniatures clash over the sea

Several VSF airship miniatures fly over a green landscape backed by a grey castle on a hill

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 07/04/2026

We move into deep space now, with our extensive range of spaceships in over a dozen fleets, both human and alien. We also have a large selection of merchants ships and space stations. Look out for a couple of new additions this week. #salute #salute53

Grey model spaceship on a blue/purple nebula background

Purple model space station on a blue nebula background

Red model spaceships on a blue nebula background

Yellow and white model spaceships on a blue nebula background

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 05/04/2026

The largest in scale of our sci-fi figure and vehicle ranges is also the newest. We produce a range of 3D-printed 28mm sci-fi figures and scenery under the Pioneer Station banner, depicting the occupants and locations of a research station in the depths of space. #salute53

28mm scale armed human space station crew

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 04/04/2026

Much of our 6mm range is replicated in 15mm, where again we have a huge range of tanks and other vehicles. We also have alien and civilian figures, starship crews and various creatures. Part of this is the Hammer's Slammers range, allowing you to choose your scale. #salute #salute53

A 15mm scale half-track and air-defence trailer parked in front of a sci-fi branch of McDonalds !

Two 15mm scale silver-painted blower tanks of the Slammers regiment parked on the apron in front of a hangar.

Six assorted 15mm scale sci-fi adventurers, human and alien, in front of a middle-eastern style building.

Three colourful 15mm scale sci-fi buildings alongside a road.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 04/04/2026

We're one of the largest manufacturers around in 6mm sci-fi, with hundreds of different models. Part of this is our Hammer's Slammers range, representing the units mentioned in David Drake's stories. We also have a huge choice of buildings in a number of different styles. #salute #salute53

Four large silver sci-fi blower tanks advancing through a suburb.

Four sand-coloured armoured vehicles advance through a town while a slightly blurry VTOL flies overhead.

Yellow monorail train enters a desert town through a gateway

Brightly coloured sci-fi buildings on an agrarian planet

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 03/04/2026

Here's Cernunnos as a nod to the Fir Bolg

28mm miniature of a demonic look being being wearing a helmet with ridiculously large horns, and carrying a massive scythe.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 03/04/2026

We offer sci-fi miniatures in no fewer than four scales - the smallest of these are Germy's 3mm range, with lots of different tiny tanks, walkers and aircraft. We also a make a number of different types of buildings to go with them. We'll have these (and Germy as well) at Salute. #salute #salute53

A large battlefield filled with lots of tiny (3mm scale) sci fi miniatures

3mm scale spherical dropship along with various tanks and walkers

Tiny but colourful 3mm scale buildings in front of a group of trees.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 03/04/2026

Salute is just over a week away and over this weekend we thought we'd run through some of the ranges we'll be taking with us. Celtos is our range of 28mm fantasy figures with a Celtic theme. There are ~300 figures all told - and for the first time in a while we'll have some new ones for release.

28mm miniature of a witch with a pet dragon on a purple background. Text names her as Mebh the Ice Witch

28mm miniature of an elf witch blowing a large horn. Text names her as the Storm Witch

28mm miniature of a warrior swinging a huge axe on a green background. Text names him as Cormac Red Axe

28mm miniature of a warrior in a horned helmet with a large hand-and-a-half sword on a green background. Text names him as Roth Mac Lyr

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 26/03/2026

Next on the Salute list, and still sticking to the (air) cavalry theme - New Ukrainian Air Cossacks. Two new 15mm scale VTOLS including a vehicle-carrying dropship (and there's one more still to come). www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2026/03... #Salute53 #hammersslammers #15mm

Front quarter view of a 15mm scale VTOL drop ship in grey primer.

Rear quarter view of a 15mm scale VTOL drop ship in grey primer disembarking a light tank in grey/green camouflage.

Nose-on view of a 15mm scale VTOL in grey primer showing underwing stores.

Front quarter view of a 15mm scale VTOL in grey primer.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 24/03/2026

The first of the Salute reveals - and it's a cracker. Some brand new Celtos figures for the first time in a looong time. www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2026/03... #Salute53 #Celtos

Group of six 28mm scale elves riding dragons - unpainted, still in their primer.

Unpainted 28mm elf dragon rider musician with kettledrums

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 23/03/2026

Salute is getting closer - 19 days and counting. Big ol' stack of moulds went into the pressure pot before I left this evening - lots of new releases for the show.

What looks like a stack of brightly coloured Lego - actually boxes to hold RTV rubber while it cures into moulds.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 20/03/2026

I made a model of that ! brigademodels.co.uk/product/trie...

1/1000th scale model of Trier Basilica, the subject of the original post.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 20/03/2026

Tiny St Mawes castle (Cornwall)

1/1000th scale model of St Mawes castle on a clifftop

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 19/03/2026

Headline news from Kent - IT'S NOT RAINING!! So it's into the garden office today, cleaning up master castings for a production mould and samples to be painted for the website. Being watched by a labrador who wants to know where the biscuits have gone.

Messing looking garden table with miniatures and tools (plus the ubiquitous mug of tea).

Golden labrador dog with a face like thunder...

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 13/03/2026

If you see this, post a robot! You kids and your overgrown 28mm droids ... have some little ones.

Six colourful but tiny (15mm scale) robots.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 03/03/2026

A bit of Hammer's Slammers action today in MW editor John Treadaway's gaming cabin. New Ukrainians against Zaporoskiye .

View of several miniature tanks, with the closest one belching smoke and flames.

Two tank destroyers in the middle of a road.

New Ukrainian recce unit advances past a power station

View down a tarmac road with two heavy tank destroyers parked by a tower block.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 21/02/2026

If you see this, post a monster!

Five armed mutant green horror miniature, poking out its long purple tongue.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 19/02/2026

The blue-skinned Vanir, armed with sword, axe or spear, are some of the most fearsome warriors in the realms of Celtos. brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate...

Front and back views of three Vanir spearmen - blue-skinned dwarf warrior miniatures

Front and back views of three Vanir warriors - blue-skinned dwarf miniatures

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 19/02/2026

I saved my first work on one of these !

Image of a large, old fashioned RL02 computer disk

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 10/02/2026

In our large collection of spaceship miniatures, we have a number of space stations of various types and sizes. brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate... If you're in the UK you can find us at Cavalier (Tonbridge) on the 22nd Feb, and Hammerhead (Newark) on the 27th.

White space station miniature with orange and blue markings

Grey and purple space station miniature with blue side panels

Bright red battlestation miniature with black/white markings.

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 08/02/2026

Our club's show game from 2024 - Battle of Britain with 1/300 planes flying over 2mm scenery.

2mm scale scenery - overview of a table with two airfields, a small town and a river running through the centre to the sea at the back of the table

2mm scale scenery - airfield in the foreground with a town and river in the middle distance

2mm scale scenery - small town with a church off to the right

2mm scale scenery - English village with a bridge in the background

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The Brigadier @brigademodels.co.uk · 03/02/2026

Random figures of the day - Belgian WW1 dog carts. The Belgians used dogs to pull carts with Maxim heavy machine guns and ammunition in 1914. We make both, along with three different types of crew. All part of our 28mm Great War range. brigademodels.co.uk/product-cate...

Miniature (28mm) dog cart carrying ammunition

Miniature (28mm) dog cart crew in wide-brimmed hats

Miniature (28mm) dog cart carrying heavy machine gun

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