With Spring comes Easter and, as usual our shelves are full of ideas for Easter school projects or craft projects, from marbling eggs to decorating bonnets (as demonstrated by Eva in our photo). Using feathers, pompoms, buttons and ribbons you can have great, cost effective fun and end up with a lovely bonnet at the end of it!
So if you're stuck for ideas to keep you busy over the bank holidays, instead of eating too many Easter eggs why not get creative - it's very therapeutic dipping wooden eggs into marbling inks and making chicks or rabbits out of tissue paper and felt!
We also have Easter greeting cards and Easter stickers - we have everything (apart from the chocolate!)
Check out our Instagram, Facebook and Twitter pages to catch up on what we've been up to these past few months - our username for all three is @academyartcraft - or click on the links here on our website - we have some lovely images to scroll through, showcasing everything from our eclectic product range.
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Get ready for a new generation of war in the underhive – Necromunda is coming back.
The new core set for this game is absolutely packed with content to get you started: a full board representing the sewers and confines of the underhive, a rulebook, character cards, templates, dice and of course, your gangs.
There are two full gangs in the box – one set of nimble warrior-women from House Escher and one set of gene-crafted brutes from House Goliath. Each of these miniatures is detailed, characterful, and true to the classic spirit of Necromunda – hairstyles and all! We’re very pleased to say that both these gangs will be full, multi-part kits, with an enormous level of customisation.
One of the best things about Necromunda is building a gang and equipping your gangers with wargear, and each kit is absolutely packed with options. There are weapons for any situation, from classics like the stub gun to more esoteric choices like the repurposed industrial equipment of House Goliath or the chem-weapons of the Eschers.
The set’s gaming tiles and simple bulkhead scenery allow you to play games very quickly and easily, and make the game very portable. As well as the underhive style of play covered by the boxed set, there will also be ways to play Necromunda with the multi-level skirmishes that defined the classic version of the game. These work great on tables using the Sector Mechanicus terrain sets released earlier this year (great news for anyone who built a Shadow War Armageddon board).
Both ways to play are tense, tactical games that recreate the no-holds-barred brutality of underhive war – you’re going to have a blast.
]]>The all important gold and silver spray paints are here waiting for you, whether you want to glam up your pine cones and twisted willow displays or transform your homemade Christmas crackers into richly metallic treats.
And for card makers we have plenty of colourful or plain card blanks to choose from - we even have glittery ones too. Also waiting for you are Christmas stickers galore including numbers and letters and stars, presents, trees, holly and more!
If you would like to create your own decorations we sell blank baubles, wooden angels and moose and reindeer, 3D decorations, plastic snowflakes and even papier mache stag heads!
And if you're not looking to make your own Christmas cards we sell the ready made ones too! by Fitzwilliam Museum and Caspari. And don't forget we sell beautiful gifts and wrapping paper too.
We will be posting more ideas the closer we get to Christmas so keep visiting us here and on Instagram (@academyartcrafts), Twitter (academy_arts) and Facebook (@academyartandcrafts)
]]>The art of face painting and creating your own costumes and decorations are all part of the fun at Halloween - it's a great time for the imagination!
We have plenty of face paints and sticks by Snazaroo, Djeco and Giotto to choose from and we have crafting materials to add the finishing touches to your costumes too, including felt, sequins, buttons and fabric paint and fabric glue.
And if you fancy making decorations, we have black and orange crepe and tissue papers, big sheets of coloured card, googly eyes, pompoms and pipe cleaners. We also have Halloween themed stickers, glow in the dark card games, neon body paint, vampire fangs and fake blood! There are so many things you could make....
We made these spooky spiders out of pompoms, pipe cleaners and googly eyes and used Uhu glue to stick them together.
So have a Happy Halloween and do something creative!
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Ju87B 'Stuka' in 1:72,
Curtis Tomahawk Mk.IIB in 1:72,
Supermarine Walrus Mk.1 in 1:48
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On the crafting side we have the new Melissa and Doug decoupage kits just in, and for the artist in you we have the White Nights extra fine watercolour sets back in stock and at a special price too!
So keep coming back to see our ever changing shelves of creative things to make, colour, paint and do!
]]>We are extremely pleased to be able to show you what we have been working on over the last few months.
Stay tuned for more blog updates!
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