{"id":1701,"date":"2012-12-11T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2012-12-11T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:15:41","slug":"nearly-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/nearly-ready-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly ready to go …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While we wait for the late-arriving factories and farms<\/a>, we have some good news to share. We ran the production mould of the 2mm houses last night and we have to say that things are looking good – judge for yourselves:<\/p>\n

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These are straight from the mould without any clean-up so far – but they don’t need much, just clip off the little bits of sprue and run a file quickly round the rough edges.<\/p>\n

We’re aiming for a release this weekend; I’m hoping to slap some paint on them first, but even if that doesn’t happen they’ll be on the website and up for sale by Monday morning, which means of course that you’ll be able to take advantage of the Xmas sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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