{"id":10538,"date":"2019-11-08T09:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:08:33","slug":"the-great-leap-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/the-great-leap-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Leap Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before we get on to release news, a quick update on orders as I prepare to leave for Crisis<\/a>; I’ve caught up on all outstanding ones now, but because I’m off to Belgium shortly I won’t be able to send anything this weekend. So if you have an order with us, it’s sitting in the post bag at the workshop and will ship early next week.<\/p>\n

Before I leave for the channel tunnel, I’ve had time to press the GO button on the new spaceships of the Chinese Democratic Socialist Union<\/a> now we can cast the resin dreadnought hulls again. There are twelve new models, ranging from massive dreadnoughts down to tiny fighter craft – and I will have stocks of these at Crisis tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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At the top end of the scale is the Longzi dreadnought, a huge four-engined behemoth over 100mm long. The resin hull has two twin forward firing railguns and four twin gun turrets in metal, plus a number of other separate parts. The slightly smaller Jiangxi dreadnought has the same railgun mounts with a single turret and two metal engines.<\/p>\n

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There are three cruiser classes, in decreasing order of size these are the Guangdong, Wuxi and Haitun. All three are single piece metal models.<\/p>\n

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Supporting the larger vessels are four types of escort – the workhorses are the Xingzi destroyer and Shenyang frigate. These are supported by the larger Shaoxing and Kaifeng destroyers.<\/p>\n

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The smallest models are the three fighter types – the Wusheng multi-role fighter, Zhengsheng attack fighter and Yongsheng escort fighter.<\/p>\n

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We’ve rejigged the contents of the CDSU fleet packs to accommodate the new vessels; the patrol fleet has briefly been retired since it contains models that we haven’t yet replaced, but there is also a new second fleet pack.<\/p>\n

SFS-500<\/a> – Longzi Dreadnought – \u00a39.00
\nSFS-501<\/a> – Jiangzi Dreadnought – \u00a36.50
\nSFS-520<\/a> – Guangdong Heavy Cruiser – \u00a33.25
\nSFS-521<\/a> – Wuxi Escort Cruiser – \u00a33.00
\nSFS-522<\/a> – Haitun Light Cruiser – \u00a32.50
\nSFS-530<\/a> – Kaifeng Heavy Destroyer – \u00a32.00
\nSFS-531<\/a> – Xingxi Destroyer – \u00a31.25
\nSFS-532<\/a> – Shaoxing Attack Destroyer – \u00a32.00
\nSFS-540<\/a> – Shenyang Frigate – \u00a31.00
\nSFS-560<\/a> – Wusheng Fighter (x12) – \u00a31.50
\nSFS-561<\/a> – Zhengsheng Attack Fighter (x12) – \u00a31.50
\nSFS-563<\/a> – Yongsheng Escort Fighter (x12) – \u00a31.50<\/p>\n

SFSP-501<\/a> – CDSU Reserve Fleet – \u00a322.00
\nSFSP-502<\/a> – CDSU Carrier Group – \u00a322.00
\nSFSP-504<\/a> – CDSU Battle Fleet – \u00a322.00<\/p>\n

These new designs replace all of the existing CDSU range with the exception of the already updated Shanzi<\/a> carrier. Seasoned Chinese Grand Admirals will have spotted that not all of the older designs have replacements, there are still a few gaps, so expect further CDSU reinforcements in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before we get on to release news, a quick update on orders as I prepare to leave for Crisis; I’ve caught up on all outstanding ones now, but because I’m off to Belgium shortly I won’t be able to send … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10562,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-spaceships"],"views":4643,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SFSP-501.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2JY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12825,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/teutonic-battlewagons\/","url_meta":{"origin":10538,"position":0},"title":"Teutonic Battlewagons","author":"Tony","date":"March 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"New this week are three German spaceships, replacements for older models. 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