{"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":"
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Today’s preview shows scaled down versions of some of the recent early Slammer’s vehicles<\/a> – 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

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’ll have to wait to see those.<\/p>\n

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Today’s preview shows scaled down versions of some of the recent early Slammer’s vehicles – in this case, the M2A1 and M2A3 versions of the Icarus blower tank with the smaller turret and 20cm powergun and heavy laser respectively. 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