I am of the firm opinion that this post should have at LEAST clogged the board with LINKS to the pages with pics.  So, with that in mind:

SFS-203  - Lerchey class Battleship        £4.00
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/S … S-203.html

SFS-270  - Kestrel class Assault Shuttle   £0.50
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/S … S-270.html

SFS-320  - Wuppertal class Heavy Cruiser   £2.50
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/S … S-320.html

SFS-414  - Umberto class Battlecarrier     £4.50
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/S … S-414.html

SFS-423  - Abruzzi class Cruiser           £2.20
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/S … S-423.html

SFS-503  - ChengZu class Battlecruiser     £3.00 GBP
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/S … S-503.html

There, I feel better.

Are there stats for the new Wuppertal class? or should I get cracking?

With the IS "Jane's" ed. coming out soon...There needs to be a lot of mini's made!

The next batch of IS models (three Austro-Huns, the Volga and the Gamma) are due any day now ... as they have been for a while, I admit ...  :oops:

More Starmada ? Yep, definitely more stuff in the next few months. The German fleet is the smallest of the four main nations so they'll be getting reinforcements first.

Wardogs ? 'Fraid I haven't been following that one too closely. At the moment we barely have the capacity to support our current lines so I doubt we'll be introducing yet another one for a little while.

On the rules side, Wardogs isn't going to be REAL soon, but it is in the works as far as Todd and I are concerned. We've got a new artist contributing (middenface, IIRC), and maybe one more, so we're going to raise the artwork quality up a notch or two...

..on my end of things, I'm doing some artwork for the next Iron Stars supplement (I assume it will be on par with the previous supplements), so that will slow things.

I'm sorry that Brigade is too busy to get things on track faster, but that's life - they all have 'real jobs', just like me. :-)

I am gratified that at least they are busy. If they weren't, it wouldn't bode well for their future as a minis vendor.

What was the issue with the sails, anyway? I wasn't too crazy about the solid metal sails, but understood the need for doing it that way without involving Chinese Prison labor...

You know, you can fix the "flat sail" thing by gluing some automotive body repair mesh over them.  They'll still be solid, but it gives you a nice raised grid that you can easily highlight to get that patterned effect from the CG artwork.

A bit of work, but probably worth doing.

That would be good, the joins are more than a little fragile on the bigger ships.  I always thought the way to go would be to cast the mast with a length of metal (kind of like an extra spar) at the root, running back under the sail and parallel to the hull.  That would greatly increase the surface area of the actual hull/sail connection, letting the glue work better.  I've seen similar tricks used on other minis and it's a much more durable solution than post-and-hole tricks, especially if the hull can be grooved at the join to nestle the spar in.

The Battlefleet Gothic Eldar cruisers use a variation of this trick for their sails, and I've never had one break in six years of use.  It's all about surface area...

Rich