{"id":11569,"date":"2020-09-16T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=11569"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:07:48","slug":"what-lay-beneath-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/what-lay-beneath-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"What lay beneath – part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I seem to be playing catchup with long abandoned 15mm building projects at the moment. So here is another one!<\/p>\n

Several years ago I had a bit of an accident whilst casting one of our advanced buildings. It certainly didn’t turn out as planned. After discovering the house in a box this week I finally got around to having a look at what was beneath the surface of the model.<\/p>\n

It came apart quite easily (much of the surface of the building was very thin) revealing – well this. A picture is better than me trying to describe it.<\/p>\n

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The texture within was far better than I could have hoped for and is certainly very useable.<\/p>\n

So what caused it – a lab experiment gone badly wrong, an alien invasion or simply a badly blocked toilet…..?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I seem to be playing catchup with long abandoned 15mm building projects at the moment. So here is another one! Several years ago I had a bit of an accident whilst casting one of our advanced buildings. 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