{"id":1670,"date":"2013-01-01T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2013-01-01T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:04:21","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1671\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/happynewyear-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,512\" 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=\"HappyNewYear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1671\" title=\"HappyNewYear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to all of customers, past, present and future ! Many thanks for your custom and comments over the past year, and here&#8217;s to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all of customers, past, present and future ! Many thanks for your custom and comments over the past year, and here&#8217;s to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":2626,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-qW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12125,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/05\/blast-from-the-past\/","url_meta":{"origin":1670,"position":0},"title":"Blast from the Past","author":"Tony","date":"May 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Rooting through some old files recently I came across some designs for US airships that were sent to me many moons ago (the file is dated 2007) by a gamer called Frank Alvarado. 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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's nothing more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salute 52 (2025)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salute 52 (2025)","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/shows\/salute-52-2025\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SaluteMontage.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8521,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/stalins-general\/","url_meta":{"origin":1670,"position":2},"title":"Stalin&#8217;s General","author":"Tony","date":"April 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Revealed at the latest Victory Day fly-past, the Neo-Soviet Union have unveiled their latest starship, the Marshal Zhukov. Armed with the same standard Mass Accelerator turrets as other Neo-Soviet capital ships, the Zhukov also has a heavier Mass Driver main cannon in a fixed forward position under the prow. 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