Brigade Models

This week we have the third batch in our new collection of 6mm SF watercraft, with six new vessels (actually nine, as one is a pack of four). The previous two sets were very much military in nature, this time we have series of civilian cargo carriers (mostly).

But we start with a late arrival; this is the missing piece from last week’s release – it’s a large corner shop that fits it nicely with the rest of our Agri Colony high street.

Now onto the water, going from smallest to largest. Hammer’s Slammers is very much Vietnam in space, and one of the iconic sights of the waterways in that conflict are the local sampans – small, flat bottomed craft used for fishing and transport. We’ve made a set of four sampans in a near future style with outboard motors. Two are open, the other two are covered – one with a simple shelter, the other with a more sophisticated cabin (we’ve painted this one in yellow as a water taxi).

Next on the size scale is a small patrol boat. Depending on armament it could be a military river patrol boat (like the Vietnam-era PBR), or a police or coast guard patrol craft. You can see it keeping an eye on the Sampans above.

We then have three similarly sized cargo vessels. The smallest is a cargo lighter with a front cabin and open rear cargo area. The simplest is the container barge, which can carry a variety of configurations of our 6mm cargo containers. Rather more advanced is the Air Cushion lighter, which can haul heavy loads across rivers, swamps and open ground. All of these three could also be pressed into military service as auxiliary landing craft.

At the top end size-wise is a small cargo ship, represented by this rather battered and rusty example. It has space on deck for containers and below deck there’s more cargo space in its holds. The decks have enough space to land a VTOL or carry some guns or missiles.

Apart from the patrol boat, which has separate metal weapons, all are single piece resin castings.

B300-1318e – Corner Shop – £3.00
SF300-8002 – Patrol Boat – £1.50
SF300-8007 – Sampans (X4) – £3.00
SF300-8008 – Container Barge – £2.50
SF300-8009 – Air Cushion Lighter – £2.50
SF300-8010 – Cargo Lighter – £1.50
SF300-8011 – Small Cargo Ship – £10.00

This week’s release was supposed to have been three new additions to our Agricultural Colony range of 6mm buildings – which it is, except that one of them went AWOL (but not to worry – we caught up with it and will tack it onto our next 6mm release, which will be – er – next week). And then not one, but two interlopers snuck in and added themselves to the release, just for the hell of it.

So. starting with what we intended to release, we have this small Mech Hangar, large enough to accommodate one or two of our Kirin and Ridgway walkers. Alternatively you could use it as a tall warehouse or barn.

Leaning into the ‘agricultural’ side of the Agri Colony theme, we have this small greenhouse with plenty of large windows. It’s clearly also climate controlled as it has a large external aircon unit bolted to the back.

The first of the extra models (we’d prefer to call them ‘bonuses’) is a fourth example in our recently released Advanced Buildings Town Apartments. This one is slightly shorter (just three stories) but has an extended ground floor.

And finally, to provide air defence over all of these (the so called ‘Lead Dome’) is the Nemesis Air Defence Tower, sporting a pair of turreted six-barrelled gatling cannon.

B300-213c – Town Apartment Block 3 – £2.50
B300-1009 – Nemesis AA Tower – £2.00
B300-1324 – Mech Hangar – £3.50
B300-1326 – Greenhouse – £1.90