{"id":1624,"date":"2012-12-26T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T10:53:20","slug":"on-the-second-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-second-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Second Day of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-second-day-of-christmas\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><div><em>On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me &#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Two Flak Towers<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/the-first-day-of-christmas\/\">And some houses from a far-off country<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1767\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-second-day-of-christmas\/d2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/D2-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,444\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"D2-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/D2-2.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1767\" alt=\"Flak Towers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/D2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Flak towers for Land Ironclads \/ Aeronef. Each will take a large turret, the left hand one also has mounts for small secondary turrets halfway down.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me &#8230; Two Flak Towers And some houses from a far-off country. Flak towers for Land Ironclads \/ Aeronef. Each will take a large turret, the left hand one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-second-day-of-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,14,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-land-ironclads","category-previews","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":3451,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/D2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-qc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2577,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/archie\/","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":0},"title":"Archie !","author":"Tony","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Two new releases in the Land Ironclads terrain range today - although they would also be extremely useful in Aeronef games. 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