{"id":12224,"date":"2021-07-09T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:06:08","slug":"upholding-the-constitucion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/upholding-the-constitucion\/","title":{"rendered":"Upholding the Constitucion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/upholding-the-constitucion\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>So the South American thing we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/welcome-to-the-new-world\/\">mentioned earlier in the week<\/a>&#8230; it starts here. We&#8217;re getting off the ground gently with a new battlecruiser for the Chilean fleet, the Constitucion class.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember that the Chilean fleet has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/victory-or-death\/\">already been updated<\/a> with a number of new vessels, but the Constitucion gives it a second capital ship to go with the existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/ImperialSkies\/Chile\/VAN-1601.html\">Santiago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12227\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/upholding-the-constitucion\/van-1608\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/VAN-1608.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"VAN-1608\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/VAN-1608.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/VAN-1608-720x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Constitucion has a pair of new triple-barrelled heavy turrets based on the French style &#8211; these are also available in a separate accessory pack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/ImperialSkies\/Chile\/VAN-1608.html\">VAN-1608<\/a> &#8211; Constitucion class Battlecruiser &#8211; \u00a38.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/ImperialSkies\/Accessories\/VAN-7049.html\">VAN-7049<\/a> &#8211; French Triple Heavy Turret (x10) &#8211; \u00a31.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the South American thing we mentioned earlier in the week&#8230; it starts here. We&#8217;re getting off the ground gently with a new battlecruiser for the Chilean fleet, the Constitucion class. You may remember that the Chilean fleet has already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/upholding-the-constitucion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12227,"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":"The Chilean aerial fleet gets a new battlecruiser, as the first of our new South American vessels.","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":[3,46,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-imperial-skies","category-new-releases"],"views":2120,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/VAN-1608.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8633,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/der-luftschiffeflotte\/","url_meta":{"origin":12224,"position":0},"title":"Die Luftschiffflotte","author":"Tony","date":"May 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The German Aeronef Fleet is the latest one to be updated, with the existing battleship and battlecruiser models replaced with new designs. 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