{"id":10768,"date":"2019-12-31T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10768"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:01:04","slug":"2020-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/2020-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"20:20 Visions"},"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\/2020-visions\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>One final post for 2019 (that makes 129, or slightly better than one post every 3 days&#8230;); and another chance to look forward to new models in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the workshop will be brought out of mothballs and powered up again on Thursday and the backlog of orders that have built up over the holiday period will be tackled. With a bit of luck they might all be cleared in a day, depending on how many more orders we get before then. There are a few other outstanding ones waiting on restocks of various things &#8211; Imperial Skies tokens, Starmada rulebooks etc. &#8211; for which we&#8217;re reliant on other people getting things to us, and delays are inevitable this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Next week we&#8217;ll be diving back into the creation of more new stuff &#8211; we placed an order for a big pile of 3D printed masters just before the sale, which arrived just before Christmas. We&#8217;ll be sorting these out, prepping them for moulding etc. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a photo of some things that will be one of our first few releases of the year &#8211; you might think you&#8217;ve seen them in our ranges before, but look closely &#8211; are these bigger ?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10770\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/2020-visions\/masters-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Masters-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" 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=\"Masters-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Masters-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Masters-1-800x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10770\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10769\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/2020-visions\/happy-new-year-2020\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Happy-New-Year-2020.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,512\" 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=\"Happy New Year 2020\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Happy-New-Year-2020.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Happy-New-Year-2020-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10769\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<br \/>\nTony and Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One final post for 2019 (that makes 129, or slightly better than one post every 3 days&#8230;); and another chance to look forward to new models in the New Year. Firstly, the workshop will be brought out of mothballs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/2020-visions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10769,"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":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":[14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":1792,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Happy-New-Year-2020.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2NG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11336,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/status-update-things-are-a-bit-slow\/","url_meta":{"origin":10768,"position":0},"title":"Status Update &#8211; Things Are a Bit Slow&#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"June 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Just time for a quick Sunday night update... 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However, all sale orders should ship by Christmas barring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Updates and General Waffle&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Updates and General Waffle","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/updates-and-general-waffle\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Xmas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Xmas.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Xmas.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Xmas.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1146,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/09\/selwg-advance-orders\/","url_meta":{"origin":10768,"position":2},"title":"SELWG Advance Orders","author":"Tony","date":"September 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The SELWG show is coming up on us soon - it's on October 14th, so just over five weeks away. 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