{"id":12457,"date":"2021-09-29T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2021-09-29T10:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:38:41","slug":"first-show-new-venue-new-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/first-show-new-venue-new-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"First Show, New Venue, New Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/first-show-new-venue-new-protocols\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12389\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/return-to-the-front-line-selwg-2021\/selwg2020\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SELWG2020-e1631005268778.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,564\" 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=\"SELWG2020\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SELWG2020-1111x675.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SELWG2020-e1631005268778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/return-to-the-front-line-selwg-2021\/\">as mentioned<\/a>, we&#8217;re off to SELWG in just over two weeks in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitleevalley.org.uk\/lee-valley-athletics-centre\">Lee Valley<\/a> venue. It&#8217;ll be a new experience, our first show for 18 months and the first under COVID protocols. The venue&#8217;s safety guidance is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitleevalley.org.uk\/keeping-you-safe\/lee-valley-athletics-centre\">here<\/a> &#8211; we&#8217;ll also be providing hand sanitiser on the stand and asking you not to open boxes, or handle items more than necessary unless you wish to purchase them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we have 18 months&#8217; worth of additional new releases to fit on the stand &#8211; trying to get stock cast up of all of this has been quite the exercise, and we&#8217;re not sure we&#8217;re going to get it all finished. Fortunately we resisted the temptation over lockdown to dive into our show stocks and use them to fulfil orders, so we&#8217;re well stocked up otherwise (although it&#8217;s all a bit dusty&#8230;). We&#8217;re not yet certain exactly what we can fit in yet, so you may have to take us as you find us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The current stock plan is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Imperial Skies &#8211; full stock of fleet packs plus a selection of battleships in blisters<\/li>\n<li>Celtos &#8211; full range of figures plus unit packs<\/li>\n<li>Spaceships &#8211; full range of fleet packs and individual models (spaceships have been very popular this year so we wanted to bring the whole range)<\/li>\n<li>15mm SF &#8211; full range of individual models and figures<\/li>\n<li>6mm SF &#8211; army packs, selection of company packs, building packs &#8211; no individual models<\/li>\n<li>Hammer&#8217;s Slammers &#8211; selection of 15mm and 6mm detachment packs, full range of individual models and figures<\/li>\n<li>Squadron Commander &#8211; blister packs, no individual models<\/li>\n<li>Small Scale Scenery &#8211; full range<\/li>\n<li>Great War 28mm &#8211; full range<\/li>\n<li>Magpie Miniatures &#8211; full range<\/li>\n<li>1\/700 Coastal Forts &#8211; full range<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We won&#8217;t be bringing anything from the Land Ironclads, Iron Stars or 10mm SF ranges unless pre-ordered.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be certain of getting a particular item, or require large numbers of a single item, we are as always happy to take pre-orders. You can either <A HREF=\"mailto:sales@brigademodels.co.uk\">send us an email<\/A> with your order and pay on the day, or alternatively you can place an order via the website (using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Shopping\/select.html\">Collect in Person<\/a> shipping option to avoid shipping charges) and pay in advance. We&#8217;ll be taking cash and credit cards on the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as mentioned, we&#8217;re off to SELWG in just over two weeks in the new Lee Valley venue. It&#8217;ll be a new experience, our first show for 18 months and the first under COVID protocols. The venue&#8217;s safety guidance is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/first-show-new-venue-new-protocols\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12389,"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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"views":2250,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SELWG2020-e1631005268778.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3eV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12388,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/return-to-the-front-line-selwg-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":12457,"position":0},"title":"Return to the Front Line &#8211; SELWG 2021","author":"Tony","date":"September 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Very soon we'll be returning to the show circuit, after an enforced absence of 18 months (our last show was Cavalier in February 2020 - about four weeks before the first lockdown. 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