{"id":17004,"date":"2025-10-17T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=17004"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:10:35","slug":"these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"These Must Be The Droids You&#8217;re Looking For ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>We&#8217;re stepping back down to 15mm sci-fi for our new release this week. We have a new pack of six general purpose droids ranging from a bipedal liaison droid to various wheeled and tracked utility models. Perfect for all your adventuring needs, from background characters to members of a <em>Five Parsecs from Home<\/em> or <em>Stargrave<\/em> crew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17015\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/sf15-026\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026.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=\"SF15-026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-1024x675.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17004 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/sf15-026-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-2-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-2-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-2-850x478.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"17017\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/sf15-026-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-2.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=\"SF15-026-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-2-1024x675.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/sf15-026-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-1-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-1-850x478.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"17016\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/sf15-026-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF15-026-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,771\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re stepping back down to 15mm sci-fi for our new release this week. We have a new pack of six general purpose droids ranging from a bipedal liaison droid to various wheeled and tracked utility models. Perfect for all your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/these-must-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New in 15mm this week - a set of six multipurpose utility droids.","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-new-releases"],"views":1432,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-4qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17005,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead\/","url_meta":{"origin":17004,"position":0},"title":"The Ballad of Brigadier Pumpkinhead*","author":"Tony","date":"October 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"You might recognise this character - we used him as our avatar on various social media sites around this time last year. 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