{"id":15576,"date":"2025-01-03T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2025-01-03T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:45:25","slug":"happy-new-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/happy-new-year-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the good ship Brigade sails on into yet another year (we make that 37 and counting since our humble beginnings<\/a>), we’d like to wish all of you a Happy New Year (yes, we know we’re late, it’s been a busy start to the month).<\/p>\n

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Like a swan we may appear serene on the surface, but there’s lots of thrashing underneath. Some of the past year has been ‘interesting’ (as in ‘may you live in interesting times<\/a>‘) with the last couple of months seeing our main bit of casting kit temporarily out of action<\/a> at the worst possible time. Then we had the surprise of the new GPSR regulations<\/a> which have stopped us selling to the EU, at least in the short term.<\/p>\n

As if that wasn’t enough, we’ve been subjected to a barrage of card testing attacks over the past few weeks. This seems to have happened to other websites which are built on the same e-Commerce platform, so at least it wasn’t just us. We’ve seen well over 10000 fake orders attempted using stolen credit card numbers, although we’ve kept our security plugins up-to-date so almost all of these failed. The worst of that seems to be over at last, thank goodness.<\/p>\n

If you’re in Canada, your orders have been held up by a postal strike – but that at least has ended and all outstanding Canadian orders will go to the post office tomorrow (huzzah !).<\/p>\n

However, all of that will be sorted out and overcome soon enough, so it’s time to look ahead. We don’t plan our releases too far in advance, at least not in detail, but we generally have a vague idea of what we’d like to get out over the year. <\/p>\n

We still have the final country, Venezuela, left in the Imperial Skies South American project. They’re way overdue but pretty much finished (the largest two ships are moulded and ready to go), so we’d hope to see them very soon.<\/p>\n