{"id":12798,"date":"2022-02-15T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2022-02-15T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:30:31","slug":"return-to-the-steel-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/02\/return-to-the-steel-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to the Steel City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/02\/return-to-the-steel-city\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>We&#8217;re having a few ongoing issues with our PayPal account at the moment &#8211; don&#8217;t worry, we can still receive payments so the website is open and we&#8217;re still processing and shipping orders. But we decided not to put out our new release last week because of this, and we&#8217;ll hold off until things are back to normal (which should be within a few days). This also affected us with respect to shipping, so some orders from last week were delayed &#8211; apologies if you were affected by this, all outstanding orders up to the end of Sunday have now shipped.<\/p>\n<p>We have some more show news &#8211; the Joy of Six show run by Peter Berry of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baccus6mm.com\/\">Baccus<\/a> is returning this year, on Sunday July 3rd at Sheffield Hallam University. This, as the title suggests, is a show dedicated to 6mm gaming, and has been running for a number of years before a Covid-enforced break. All being well, we should be back there again with our full 6mm range of vehicles, figures and buildings, plus the 1\/300th scale Squadron Commander fighters. We also take the full 2mm scenery range (we&#8217;ve seen a number of very effective 6mm games that use smaller scale scenery) plus the 10mm buildings range.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12799\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/02\/return-to-the-steel-city\/jos2022\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jos2022-e1644926856606.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"566,800\" 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=\"jos2022\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jos2022-1200x675.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jos2022-e1644926856606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12799\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having a few ongoing issues with our PayPal account at the moment &#8211; don&#8217;t worry, we can still receive payments so the website is open and we&#8217;re still processing and shipping orders. But we decided not to put out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/02\/return-to-the-steel-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12799,"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":"We return to the Steel City in July at the Joy of Six show run by @6mmBaccus","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-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"views":1231,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jos2022-e1644926856606.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2571,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/07\/going-postal-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":12798,"position":0},"title":"Going Postal &#8211; again !","author":"Tony","date":"July 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Our dear old friends the Royal Mail are at it again. 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