{"id":14848,"date":"2024-06-21T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=14848"},"modified":"2024-06-18T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:09:17","slug":"flying-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/flying-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/flying-bugs\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>We&#8217;ve finished the moulds for the last two of the original 15mm Cimexian bugs &#8211; the Thysan flyer and Orthron VTOL. These give the Cimexians an aerial capability, spitting plasma death (and other unspeakable substances) from above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FlyerRelease.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14900\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/flying-bugs\/flyerrelease\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FlyerRelease.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=\"FlyerRelease\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FlyerRelease-800x478.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FlyerRelease.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FlyerRelease-800x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/thysan-flyer\/\">BUG-007<\/a> &#8211; Thysan Flyer &#8211; \u00a36.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/orthron-vtol\/\">BUG-008<\/a> &#8211; Orthron VTOL &#8211; \u00a35.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve finished the moulds for the last two of the original 15mm Cimexian bugs &#8211; the Thysan flyer and Orthron VTOL. These give the Cimexians an aerial capability, spitting plasma death (and other unspeakable substances) from above. BUG-007 &#8211; Thysan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/flying-bugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14900,"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":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-new-releases"],"views":1402,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FlyerRelease.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3Ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5240,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/an-old-warrior-returns\/","url_meta":{"origin":14848,"position":0},"title":"An Old Warrior Returns","author":"Tony","date":"April 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A popular model in our 15mm range that has been out of production for a while is the Athena VTOL. 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The former is the 15mm Control Tower model that we sneaked through just before Salute. This 10\" tall model is part of our Colony Base and can mate up with other models\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\/2015\/05\/SF15-111.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SF15-111.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SF15-111.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SF15-111.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4970,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/blower-killer\/","url_meta":{"origin":14848,"position":3},"title":"Blower Killer","author":"Tony","date":"February 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's new releases are additions to the popular 15mm PacFed range. The Angelshark was shown off late last year (we even sold a few pre-production models at Crisis and SELWG) but has been waiting for a suitable release window. The arrival of the Komodo heavy tank is a perfect opportunity\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\/2015\/02\/AngelKomodoRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AngelKomodoRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AngelKomodoRelease.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AngelKomodoRelease.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4468,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/10\/selwg-specials\/","url_meta":{"origin":14848,"position":4},"title":"SELWG Specials","author":"Tony","date":"October 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We're all geared up for SELWG on Sunday - the casting is all done and we're well stocked. 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