{"id":10442,"date":"2019-09-13T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10442"},"modified":"2019-09-13T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:57:33","slug":"waifs-and-strays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/09\/waifs-and-strays\/","title":{"rendered":"Waifs and Strays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in April, we upgraded the cruisers and escorts of the British Aeronef fleet <\/a>when they were released at Salute. However, not all of our planned releases made the cut – two models, the replacement for the Agamemnon<\/strong> monitor and the brand new Orion<\/strong> class light cruiser, weren’t released at the time because of casting issues. It’s taken a while, but we’ve modified both and they’re finally available for release. It was the tails of both models which were causing the problem – an increase in thickness of just 0.25mm made all the difference, resulting in castings that are getting on for 100% reliable (or as close as we get) as opposed to around 10% previously.<\/p>\n

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The Orion is a light cruiser design which the British fleet has been sorely missing. It comes in two variants – the basic Orion gun cruiser, fitted with two single and two twin turrets, or the Sirius AA cruiser with four triple-AAA turrets. Both types also have two twin torpedo tubes.<\/p>\n

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The Agamemnon monitor has two inverted howitzer turrets on the bottom of the hull for surface bombardment, along with some conventional light armament for self defence.<\/p>\n

VAN-106<\/a> \u2013 Agamemnon class monitor \u2013 \u00a33.00
\nVAN-129<\/a> \u2013 Orion class Light Cruiser \u2013 \u00a33.00
\nVAN-129a<\/a> \u2013 Sirius class AA Cruiser \u2013 \u00a33.00<\/p>\n

At some point soon (probably after the end of the show season in November), we’ll update the contents of our British fleet packs to take account of the various new releases this year, and the Orion (and Medusa<\/a>) will filter into these packs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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