{"id":2054,"date":"2013-01-24T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2013-01-24T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:40:37","slug":"the-senior-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/the-senior-service\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senior Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the very end<\/a> of our Twelve days of Christmas blog series, we previewed some early work-in-progress shots of the British Royal Navy spaceships. I’ve been working on these for the last 2-3 weeks, and the initial batch are pretty much finished and ready for prototyping now, so we thought we’d show you how they’ve developed.<\/p>\n

Some of the detailing has altered (the engines in particular) and there’s more in the way of very small detail greeblies to come. The very large (light blue) turrets will be separate parts, the smaller mounts (green) will be cast as part of the hulls. Other than the battleship, all of the hulls will be one piece.<\/p>\n

\"Churchill\"
\nChurchill class Battleship<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Inflexible\"
\nInflexible class Battlecruiser<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cruisers\"
\nCounty class Heavy Cruiser and Town class Light Cruiser<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Escorts\"
\nDestroyer, Frigate and Corvette<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are still more models to be done – a dreadnought, carrier and fighters, plus maybe some other smaller craft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the very end of our Twelve days of Christmas blog series, we previewed some early work-in-progress shots of the British Royal Navy spaceships. 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