{"id":2391,"date":"2013-04-05T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T08:44:16","slug":"off-to-the-shipyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/off-to-the-shipyards\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the shipyards …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several British spaceships were today spotted making their way towards the Brigade shipyards, ready for moulding. Most of the fleet were there, although the new Fisher-class dreadnoughts were conspicuous by their absence (the real reason ? I left the Fisher file out of the package I sent to the printers … :-(). We’ve also had to get the fighters reprinted (I got the scaling all wrong and they were far too large – not doing very well, am I ?).<\/p>\n

But the rest of the fleet is looking good now that the prints have been cleaned up and the gun turrets attached. Let the mould-making commence !<\/p>\n

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\n(top to bottom) Heavy Cruiser, Battleship, Battlecruiser<\/p>\n

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\nCarrier<\/p>\n

\"GB-3\"
\nMinesweeper, light cruiser and destroyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several British spaceships were today spotted making their way towards the Brigade shipyards, ready for moulding. Most of the fleet were there, although the new Fisher-class dreadnoughts were conspicuous by their absence (the real reason ? 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