{"id":15765,"date":"2025-02-07T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:16:37","slug":"defending-the-dorc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/02\/defending-the-dorc\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the DORC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/02\/defending-the-dorc\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>We released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/04\/this-world-of-water\/\">DORC<\/a> (the Deep Ocean Research Centre) buildings almost three years ago (really &#8211; was it that long ? We had to double check to make sure). And now it&#8217;s finally time to add to them with this pair of defence turrets to ward off threats from on or above the surface. A twin railgun turret and ten-round long range missile launcher should be enough to see off most intruders, human or alien (there are some big beasts under the waves out here&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15766\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/02\/defending-the-dorc\/b300-1240\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,771\" 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=\"B300-1240\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240-850x478.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240-1024x675.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240.jpg\" alt=\"Pair of 6mm scale turrets on platforms above the ocean.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/dorc-defence-turrets\/\">B300-1240<\/a> &#8211; DORC Defence Turrets &#8211; \u00a34.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We released the DORC (the Deep Ocean Research Centre) buildings almost three years ago (really &#8211; was it that long ? We had to double check to make sure). And now it&#8217;s finally time to add to them with this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/02\/defending-the-dorc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15766,"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":"We've added a pair of defence turrets to our 6mm Deep Ocean Research Centre (DORC) buildings today - a twin railgun turret and missile launcher should see of most oceanic threats.","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":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-new-releases"],"views":1525,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B300-1240.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-46h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15384,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/infection-spreading\/","url_meta":{"origin":15765,"position":0},"title":"Infection Spreading&#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"November 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"We have a further seven additions to Germy's 3mm range today, for two new factions - the Mercenaries and the Freelancers. 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