{"id":2103,"date":"2013-02-03T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2013-02-03T00:13:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:13:49","slug":"large-scale-land-ironclad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/large-scale-land-ironclad\/","title":{"rendered":"Large scale Land Ironclad!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Occasionally here at Brigade Towers we’ve discussed the idea of upscaling some of our Land Ironclads<\/a> models to a larger scale. Naturally these chats come to nothing for a plethora of reasons (mostly apathy it must be said).<\/p>\n

Until now that is…..<\/p>\n

Child number two, eldest son and heir has just turned ten and requested a birthday cake in the shape of a tank. Fantastic I thought. What sort of tank would a ten year old child like to have? Well obviously a Brigade Models Brunel war tractor<\/a> of course.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough the Brunel war tractor cake doesn’t seem to be commercially available (surely a massive gap in the confectionary market) so I had to make my own.<\/p>\n

So after about three hours of cutting and icing she was finished.<\/p>\n

\"Brunel-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll admit I did cheat and bought the cake since I didn’t have time to do the baking. I also decided that trying to add scale rivets to a cake was a little too much as well.<\/p>\n

\"Brunel-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In normal service British land ironclads would be painted either standard grey or a deep bronze green. However I decided to model mine in the “dress colours” as used on the vehicles that were involved in the celebrations for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee<\/a>.
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\"Brunel-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And the most valuable lesson I learnt whilst making the cake? Don’t give in to your children and let them spend the evening baking cupcakes which means that you don’t start until nearly midnight. Making a cake until three in the morning is not particularly good idea. In fact its a very stupid idea.<\/p>\n

And fortunately the small child seemed impressed with his cake. That’s lucky.<\/p>\n

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