{"id":14772,"date":"2024-05-17T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=14772"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:08:01","slug":"brave-little-belgium-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/brave-little-belgium-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Little Belgium (redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/brave-little-belgium-redux\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Belgium had a rather unfortunate experience in both world wars, twice standing in the way of Germany&#8217;s invasions of France. We already have the brave defenders of <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product-category\/great-war-28mm\/\">1914 Belgium in 28mm<\/a> in our ranges, and today we&#8217;re adding their 1940 counterparts, but in 6mm instead.<\/p>\n<p>Our initial release consists of infantry and support weapons, plus the armoured might of Belgium &#8211; T-15 light tanks, T-13 tank destroyers and the ubiquitous Vickers utility tractors. All are made to 1\/300th scale &#8211; the figures are slightly smaller than our 6mm SF ranges, but designed to fit in scale-wise with the models of other popular UK manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14777\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/brave-little-belgium-redux\/belgian-group\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group.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=\"Belgian Group\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/t-15-light-tank\/\">WW2-1101<\/a> \u2013 T-15 Light Tank \u2013 \u00a30.60<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/t-13-type-i-tank-destroyer\/\">WW2-1102a<\/a> \u2013 T-13 Type.I \u2013 \u00a30.60<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/t-13-type-iii-tank-destroyer\/\">WW2-1102c<\/a> \u2013 T-13 Type.III \u2013 \u00a30.60<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/vickers-utility-tractor-type-a\/\">WW2-1103a<\/a> \u2013 Vickers Tractor Type A \u2013 \u00a30.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/vickers-utility-tractor-type-b\/\">WW2-1103b<\/a> \u2013 Vickers Tractor Type B \u2013 \u00a30.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/belgian-rifle-platoon\/\">WW2-1160<\/a> \u2013 Belgian Riflemen (x50) \u2013 \u00a36.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/belgian-maxim-hmg\/\">WW2-1161<\/a> \u2013 Belgian HMG (x3) \u2013 \u00a31.25<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/belgian-dbt-mortars\/\">WW2-1162<\/a> \u2013 Belgian DBT Mortar (x3) \u2013 \u00a31.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium had a rather unfortunate experience in both world wars, twice standing in the way of Germany&#8217;s invasions of France. We already have the brave defenders of 1914 Belgium in 28mm in our ranges, and today we&#8217;re adding their 1940 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/brave-little-belgium-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14777,"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 latest release - 6mm early WW2 Belgians, both infantry and armoured vehicles.","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":[17,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-ww2"],"views":1407,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Belgian-Group.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3Qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14537,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/pastures-new\/","url_meta":{"origin":14772,"position":0},"title":"Pastures New","author":"Tony","date":"April 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"(Brigadier's log, show date S-7) It's not often that we launch a completely new range - the last one was probably Small Scale Scenery, which itself only started as an add-on set of terrain accessories for Land Ironclads. 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