{"id":10721,"date":"2019-12-04T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:20:45","slug":"lokking-ahead-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/lokking-ahead-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead #8"},"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\/lokking-ahead-8\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>More 6mm Hammer&#8217;s Slammers today &#8211; this is the Waldheim Dragoon&#8217;s Daedalus tank which appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/waldheim-warriors\/\">15mm<\/a> earlier this year. It&#8217;s accompanied by an air-defence version with four tri-barrel powerguns &#8211; we&#8217;ve also made the laser\/missile version in 6mm as well but I don&#8217;t have one to hand. These AD turrets are used by Ander&#8217;s Legion on the Rapier tank hull as the Machete tank, but again I didn&#8217;t have a spare Rapier hull handy when I took the photos so you can&#8217;t see that either. I&#8217;m not much good at this, am I &#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10723\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/looking-ahead-7\/daedalus\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Daedalus.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=\"Daedalus\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Daedalus.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Daedalus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Daedalus.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Daedalus-768x365.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More 6mm Hammer&#8217;s Slammers today &#8211; this is the Waldheim Dragoon&#8217;s Daedalus tank which appeared in 15mm earlier this year. It&#8217;s accompanied by an air-defence version with four tri-barrel powerguns &#8211; we&#8217;ve also made the laser\/missile version in 6mm as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/lokking-ahead-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers"],"views":1999,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Daedalus.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2MV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10960,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/03\/micro-miscellany\/","url_meta":{"origin":10721,"position":0},"title":"Micro Miscellany","author":"Tony","date":"March 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's new release is a mix of new 6mm models in the Hammer's Slammers range - models that have already been released in 15mm and are now making the move down to our smaller scale. 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