{"id":12957,"date":"2022-05-08T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2022-05-07T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T09:46:38","slug":"the-last-best-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last, Best Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>After a false start (I made a mistake on the original master&#8230;), this week we have a new addition to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/index.html\">spaceships range<\/a>, the <strong>Argos<\/strong> space station. It has a cylindrical resin main hull with four metal solar panels, two either side. The station is unarmed (or at least has no visible weaponry), but you can add some from our various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Accessories.html\">spaceship turret packs<\/a> if you&#8217;re after something with a bit more offensive power.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12963\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/sfs-6008\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12957 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/sfs-6008-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-1-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/sfs-6008-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-2-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/sfs-6008-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-2.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=\"SFS-6008-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-2-720x478.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-2.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/sfs-6008-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-3-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12966\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/sfs-6008-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-3.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=\"SFS-6008-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-3-720x478.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008-3.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It would make a great objective for a game of Full Thrust or Starmada, or as a installation in A Billion Suns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Stations\/SFS-6008.html\">SFS-6008<\/a> &#8211; Argos Space Station &#8211; \u00a315.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a false start (I made a mistake on the original master&#8230;), this week we have a new addition to our spaceships range, the Argos space station. It has a cylindrical resin main hull with four metal solar panels, two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/the-last-best-hope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12963,"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":"Our Last, Best Hope - the new Argos space station has just been added to our spaceships range.","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":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-spaceships"],"views":2195,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SFS-6008.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13309,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/station-to-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":12957,"position":0},"title":"Station to Station","author":"Tony","date":"November 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Today sees the release of another new space station to follow the Argos and Orthros. 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