{"id":16680,"date":"2025-07-29T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=16680"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:48:47","slug":"back-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/back-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/back-in-europe\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>We&#8217;re very pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve finally sorted out all the paperwork with our new EU representative and we&#8217;re able to ship to EU destinations again!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12720\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/01\/eu-shipping\/eu-shipping-van-720\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"EU Shipping Van-720\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were planning to announce this last week, but we wanted to clear the holiday order backlog first. That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re all good to go over there on the continent !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve finally sorted out all the paperwork with our new EU representative and we&#8217;re able to ship to EU destinations again! We were planning to announce this last week, but we wanted to clear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/back-in-europe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12720,"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":"EU shipping is finally back ! 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It's taken longer than expected, but we think we're ready to go at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Shipping Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Shipping Stories","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shipping-stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8421,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/by-crom\/","url_meta":{"origin":16680,"position":3},"title":"By Crom!","author":"Tony","date":"March 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Some news concerning other figures that we'll be carrying at Salute. 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As followers of our Facebook page may already know, we've agreed with Ainsty Castings to take over ownership and production of the Hammer's Slammers range of 15mm vehicles, based on David Drake's series of SF combat stories. 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In a few days time (December 13th to be precise) new EU regulations kick in called GPSR (General Product Safety Regulation). This has rather caught us by surprise; we only heard about it because other hobby manufacturers started asking about them. 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