{"id":10547,"date":"2019-10-24T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2019-10-24T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:30:40","slug":"the-end-is-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/10\/the-end-is-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"The End is in Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve finally got the order queue is now down to manageable proportions, and I should clear pretty much all of it today (with a couple of exceptions – read on…).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we’ve had a minor hiccup with one of our bits of equipment. The pressure pot, in which we cast the complicated and fiddly resin models, stripped a thread on one of the bolts that locks it shut, putting it out of action. Fortunately, we have a friendly blacksmith just along from us in the farmyard, and he reckons he can make a new set of bolts for it. This will take a week or so, which means the pot will be out of commission until then. I had finished most of the resin casting before the bolt failed, so there are only a couple of orders that will have to be delayed, and by a stroke of luck the last half-a-dozen orders to arrive had no resin items in them at all, and they will all be cleared today.<\/p>\n

But this does mean that the release of the CDSU spaceships will be further delayed – there’s no point releasing them if I can’t cast the dreadnought hulls. Stay tuned for further updates…<\/p>\n

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