{"id":13088,"date":"2022-07-08T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T10:50:38","slug":"eurofed-battlefleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/eurofed-battlefleet\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroFed Battlefleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/eurofed-battlefleet\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Tony&#8217;s still on holiday, so there&#8217;s not much going on at the moment. We had a good day at the Joy of Six last Sunday &#8211; unfortunately we didn&#8217;t get to see much of the show itself, one of the downsides of being a trader, but it was certainly busy with plenty of visitors. There are some after show reports online if you would like a better view of things.<\/p>\n<p>We should hopefully start adding the new 6mm items released at the show to the website (the armoured train and the Sincanmo dune buggies). There is quite a backlog of orders which will take a couple of weeks to clear first, however.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Stephen Toropov has kindly sent us some photos of his rather nicely painted EuroFed spaceships &#8211; so instead of any more waffle from us, here&#8217;s some ships in a very striking colour scheme.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13091\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/eurofed-battlefleet\/toropov1_copy_800x617\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/toropov1_copy_800x617.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,617\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/toropov2_copy_800x692.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/toropov2_copy_800x692-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/eurofed-battlefleet\/toropov3_copy_800x709\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/toropov3_copy_800x709.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,709\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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We had a good day at the Joy of Six last Sunday &#8211; unfortunately we didn&#8217;t get to see much of the show itself, one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/eurofed-battlefleet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13091,"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":[25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","category-spaceships"],"views":1208,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/toropov1_copy_800x617.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10827,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/eurofed-battlecruiser\/","url_meta":{"origin":13088,"position":0},"title":"EuroFed Battlecruiser","author":"Tony","date":"January 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we have another of the models we previewed over Christmas - this is the EuroFed battlecruiser Tetu\u00e1n. At 74mm long, the vessel is larger than a Liberte class battleship, with heavier main weapons and a higher top speed. 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