{"id":10719,"date":"2019-12-02T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10719"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:21:01","slug":"looking-ahead-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/looking-ahead-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/looking-ahead-7\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Today&#8217;s preview shows scaled down versions of some of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/early-slammers\/\">early Slammer&#8217;s vehicles<\/a> &#8211; in this case, the M2A1 and M2A3 versions of the Icarus blower tank with the smaller turret and 20cm powergun and heavy laser respectively. <\/p>\n<p>The M6 combat cars are on their way too, I have hulls but some of the weapons needed a bit of reworking to make them cast reliably (I made them too small !) so you&#8217;ll have to wait to see those.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10725\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/looking-ahead-7\/early-m2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Early-M2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,380\" 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=\"Early M2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Early-M2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Early-M2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Early-M2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Early-M2-768x365.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s preview shows scaled down versions of some of the recent early Slammer&#8217;s vehicles &#8211; in this case, the M2A1 and M2A3 versions of the Icarus blower tank with the smaller turret and 20cm powergun and heavy laser respectively. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/looking-ahead-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10725,"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":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers"],"views":2055,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Early-M2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2MT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2655,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/15mm-sf-germans-re-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":10719,"position":0},"title":"15mm SF Germans Re-released","author":"Tony","date":"May 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We've released the first batch of resculpted German vehicles in our 15mm range today. 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