{"id":17005,"date":"2025-10-19T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=17005"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:42:48","slug":"the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Brigadier Pumpkinhead*"},"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\/the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>You might recognise this character &#8211; we used him as our avatar on various social media sites around this time last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20241024_123101937-scaled-e1760601574665.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead\/pxl_20241024_123101937\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20241024_123101937-scaled-e1760601574665.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,771\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.68&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel 8 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729776661&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.9&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;17&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016325&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PXL_20241024_123101937\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20241024_123101937-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20241024_123101937-scaled-e1760601574665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkinhead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17007\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead\/pumpkinhead\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkinhead.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"320,320\" 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=\"Pumpkinhead\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkinhead.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkinhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkinhead.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkinhead-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a physical version of this rather crude one which we used in previous Octobers.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he somehow crept into a corner of the droids mould last week so we thought we&#8217;d make him available for everyone. And not just for Halloween, he&#8217;ll be there all year round.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/brigadier-pumpkinhead\/\">SF15-027<\/a> &#8211; Brigadier Pumpkinhead &#8211; \u00a30.60<\/p>\n<p>* with apologies to Andy Partridge and the rest of XTC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might recognise this character &#8211; we used him as our avatar on various social media sites around this time last year. He&#8217;s a physical version of this rather crude one which we used in previous Octobers. Well, he somehow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/the-ballad-of-brigadier-pumpkinhead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17006,"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":"Our seasonal October avatar comes to life as a new 15mm figure.","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":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-new-releases"],"views":916,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20241024_123101937-scaled-e1760601574665.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-4qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17012,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions\/17012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}