{"id":14571,"date":"2024-04-04T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=14571"},"modified":"2024-04-04T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:58:22","slug":"scandinavian-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/scandinavian-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandinavian Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/scandinavian-defenders\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><em>(Brigadier\u2019s log, show date S-9 &#8211; less than a week and a half to go)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our Salute previews should ramp up into overdrive over the next few days, pretty much as fast as we can photograph and post things.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s offering is a redesigned Scandinavian Union fleet for Imperial Skies. These ten new models replace the seven models in the existing fleet, plus some new designs for good measure. The two capital ships now have resin hulls, and they all have brand new turrets &#8211; and the first impression of them is that there are a lot of turrets!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240403_134627212-scaled-e1712169057546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/scandinavian-defenders\/pxl_20240403_134627212\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240403_134627212-scaled-e1712169057546.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,603\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.68&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel 8 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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=\"SC-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SC-3.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\/2024\/04\/scandinavian-defenders\/sc-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SC-2-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"14583\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/scandinavian-defenders\/sc-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SC-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,602\" 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=\"SC-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SC-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 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Light Cruiser &#8211; \u00a32.50<br \/>\nVAN-2307 &#8211; Udbye class Destroyer &#8211; \u00a32.00<br \/>\nVAN-2308 &#8211; Ringkobing class Frigate &#8211; \u00a31.50<br \/>\nVAN-2309 &#8211; Scheele class Corvette &#8211; \u00a31.00<br \/>\nVAN-2310 &#8211; Vanern class Torpedo Nef &#8211; \u00a31.50<br \/>\nVAN-2311 &#8211; Glomma class Patrol Nef &#8211; \u00a31.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Brigadier\u2019s log, show date S-9 &#8211; less than a week and a half to go) Our Salute previews should ramp up into overdrive over the next few days, pretty much as fast as we can photograph and post things. Today&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/scandinavian-defenders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14573,"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":"Next on the Salute previews - new Scandinavian Union vessels for Imperial Skies.","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":[3,46,14,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-imperial-skies","category-previews","category-salute-51-2024"],"views":1773,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PXL_20240403_134627212-scaled-e1712169057546.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3N1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12602,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/12\/the-abc-of-south-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":14571,"position":0},"title":"The ABC of South America","author":"Tony","date":"December 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Militarily, the three most powerful nations in South America have always been Argentina, Brazil and Chile. 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