{"id":12554,"date":"2021-11-09T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12554"},"modified":"2021-11-07T22:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T22:39:37","slug":"salute-2021-space-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/salute-2021-space-cargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Salute 2021 &#8211; Space Cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/salute-2021-space-cargo\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Joining the Salute 2021 lineup is the Neptune Conveyor, a large cargo transporter spaceship. The model is a straightforward design with a resin hull and metal engines. It&#8217;ll be available individually or in a new merchant fleet pack along with two each of the recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/filling-the-gap\/\">merchant ships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12556\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12556\" data-attachment-id=\"12556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/salute-2021-space-cargo\/neptune\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Neptune.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,480\" 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=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Neptune Conveyor&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Neptune.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Neptune.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Neptune.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Neptune-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neptune Conveyor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also got hold of a small number of very nice starmats with a blue nebula design on them. They are a full 6&#8217;x4&#8242; in size, and at \u00a335 compare well in price to others of a similar size. I photographed one (below) although my phone has done some odd colour correction tricks &#8211; in real life the mat isn&#8217;t quite as bright blue as the picture makes it seem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/salute-2021-space-cargo\/starmat\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/StarMat.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,480\" 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=\"StarMat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/StarMat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/StarMat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/StarMat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/StarMat-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining the Salute 2021 lineup is the Neptune Conveyor, a large cargo transporter spaceship. The model is a straightforward design with a resin hull and metal engines. It&#8217;ll be available individually or in a new merchant fleet pack along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/salute-2021-space-cargo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12556,"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":"A new cargo spaceship joins our #Salute2021 lineup.","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":[14,55,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","category-salute-2021","category-spaceships"],"views":1627,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Neptune.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12609,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/stellar-hauler\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":0},"title":"Stellar Hauler","author":"Tony","date":"November 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Hitting the website today is the Neptune Conveyor, a medium sized cargo spaceship. A simple three-piece model (resin hull, metal engines and probe), it is also available in a new third Merchant Convoy pack along with two each of the medium freighters that came out earlier in the year. 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Both designed by Phil, they are based on real ones that are (relatively) close to us in Kent The Modern Hospital is a stark, white, clean affair with lots of airy windows. 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