{"id":10287,"date":"2019-08-07T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T10:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10287"},"modified":"2019-08-07T11:47:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T10:47:42","slug":"black-is-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/black-is-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/black-is-back-2\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Having been out of stock for a while, we&#8217;ve just received a big consignment of flying stands including several thousand black ones, so those are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Accessories\/Items\/ACC-002.html\">back on sale<\/a> on the website again (woo-hoo!). This means that spaceship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Squadron%20Packs.html\">squadron packs<\/a> will also ship with black bases again instead of the clear ones we&#8217;ve had to use lately.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re often asked about the exact dimensions of the bases so while I was updating the website I added a couple of photos to make the sizes clearer (these show clear bases, the black ones are exactly the same size).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/black-is-back-2\/acc-001-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ACC-001-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-3-720x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/black-is-back-2\/acc-001-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ACC-001-4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-4.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-4-720x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10306\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been out of stock for a while, we&#8217;ve just received a big consignment of flying stands including several thousand black ones, so those are now back on sale on the website again (woo-hoo!). This means that spaceship squadron packs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/black-is-back-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":1954,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ACC-001-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2FV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9109,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/08\/bases-are-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":10287,"position":0},"title":"Bases are Back","author":"Tony","date":"August 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This wasn't the post I was expecting to put up today, I was going to put up some pictures of our massive Hammer's Slammers game last weekend, but it's too important not to. 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