{"id":1425,"date":"2012-11-08T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T09:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2012-11-08T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T09:02:58","slug":"never-look-a-gift-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/never-look-a-gift-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Look a Gift Horse &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/never-look-a-gift-horse\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Firstly, it would seem from the number of hits we got yesterday and the day before that our new 15mm models have attracted some interest ! Tuesday was the most hits we&#8217;ve ever had in a day, mostly looking at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/interesting-times\/\" title=\"Interesting Times\">news of progress<\/a> (at last !) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/more-15mm-goodness\/\" title=\"More 15mm Goodness\">PacFed 15mm designs<\/a> (the prints for which are due to arrive tomorrow, so expect a post on those as soon as I rip open the box !).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, onto the main point of this post. Christmas is a-coming, so I&#8217;m sure everyone is thinking of what they can get for that special wargamer in their lives. Well, we&#8217;ve tried to make that difficult decision a little easier with the launch of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Gift%20Vouchers.html\">Brigade Models Gift Vouchers<\/a>. These are backed by PayPal, and can be e-mailed or printed and sent to the recipient. They are available in a variety of denominations from \u00a35 up to \u00a3500.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Gift%20Vouchers.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Graphics\/SampleGiftVoucher.jpg\" alt=\"Sample Gift Voucher\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll probably try to come up with something a bit exciting looking pretty soon, the default PayPal gift voucher is a bit dull &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, it would seem from the number of hits we got yesterday and the day before that our new 15mm models have attracted some interest ! Tuesday was the most hits we&#8217;ve ever had in a day, mostly looking at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/never-look-a-gift-horse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":2156,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1410,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/more-15mm-goodness\/","url_meta":{"origin":1425,"position":0},"title":"More 15mm Goodness","author":"Tony","date":"November 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Following on from the first successful castings of the Bizon bits last week, I'm suddenly feeling much better about finally making some progress with our new 15mm models. We have several Neo-Soviet vehicles printed and in various stages of the mould-making process which will be the first new releases. 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This one contained some lovely little 15mm figures by French sculptor PF (you can visit his blog here).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alien-bounty-hunters-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10666,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/looking-ahead-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1425,"position":2},"title":"Looking Ahead #3","author":"Tony","date":"November 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"One range of models we've wanted to expand for a while is the 6mm and 15mm Yenpalo - they've rather been pushed to one side by the expansion of the Hammer's Slammers models in both scales. We're planning to address that next year with a number of models (in both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/YP-Gun.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/YP-Gun.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/YP-Gun.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/YP-Gun.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1995,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/size-matters-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1425,"position":3},"title":"Size Matters","author":"Tony","date":"January 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The German vehicles we previewed the other day are the first of our new wave of 15mm items that will replace existing older models. One of the aims is to scale-up the 15mm range - the older models were made at 1\/120th scale, but the newer ones are 1\/100th scale,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Comp-1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Comp-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Comp-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Comp-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2655,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/15mm-sf-germans-re-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":1425,"position":4},"title":"15mm SF Germans Re-released","author":"Tony","date":"May 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We've released the first batch of resculpted German vehicles in our 15mm range today. 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