{"id":16159,"date":"2025-04-11T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=16159"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:31:20","slug":"ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/ready-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready To Go !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/ready-to-go\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>So that&#8217;s it &#8211; the stand is set up and ready for Salute tomorrow. The three of us (both Brigadiers plus Germy, who has helped us out at Salute for the past few years) travelled up to the ExCel earlier this afternoon and laid everything out, so there&#8217;s nothing more to do until the doors open at 10am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16185\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/ready-to-go\/salutemontage\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" 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=\"SaluteMontage\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage-1024x675.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-16185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see you at Stand TE15&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16184\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/ready-to-go\/salutemap\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMap.png\" data-orig-size=\"1024,724\" 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=\"SaluteMap\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMap-1024x675.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMap-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-16184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s it &#8211; the stand is set up and ready for Salute tomorrow. The three of us (both Brigadiers plus Germy, who has helped us out at Salute for the past few years) travelled up to the ExCel earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/ready-to-go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16185,"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're all set up and ready for Salute tomorrow - see you on Stand TE15.","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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salute-52-2025"],"views":882,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-4cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12568,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/salute-2021-micro-hospitals\/","url_meta":{"origin":16159,"position":0},"title":"Salute 2021 &#8211; Micro-Hospitals","author":"Tony","date":"November 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Phil gets in on the act today, with three new Small Scale Scenery pieces - a modern hospital building, plus not one but two Victorian-era ones. 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I'm getting panicky about finishing the Pegasus Bridge game (the last 2-3 buildings aren't even due to arrive until today !!) while Phil and I are (as always) both worried that we don't have enough stock of this, that or the other.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Previews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Previews","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/previews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13580,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2023\/04\/salute-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":16159,"position":4},"title":"Salute 50","author":"Tony","date":"April 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This year's Salute (Salute 50 to give it the correct title) is rapidly heaving into view - happening on Saturday April 22nd, it's less than three weeks away as we write this. 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