{"id":17999,"date":"2026-09-13T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=17999"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:10:36","slug":"were-all-going-on-our-autumn-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/were-all-going-on-our-autumn-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re All Going On Our Autumn Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As is traditional this time of year, Tony’s off on his holidays for a week with the Brigadieress and hound to recover from the rigours of Colours. The website remains open for orders, but we won’t get to any of them until he returns on Monday 21st. This time it’s Lincolnshire, a major battleground in the English Civil War, so who knows what ideas he’ll come back with for the Small Scale Scenery range, which is the usual result of his holidays !<\/p>\n

We’ve left a release scheduled for next Friday, and we should still be able to answer emails, just with a bit of a delay.<\/p>\n

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