{"id":2426,"date":"2013-04-06T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T08:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:02:05","slug":"plans-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for the weekend&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Its just me (and the cat) in the house the weekend. No children!!!! Just time for me to play catch-up in the final couple of weeks before Salute. And my god I&#8217;m going to need the time. The list of jobs seems endless.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having two full days of casting at the end of this week and I have a stack of new moulds to sprue and vent before then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/stack-of-moulds\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2433\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2433\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/stack-of-moulds\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stack-of-moulds.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"stack of moulds\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stack-of-moulds.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stack-of-moulds.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2433\" alt=\"stack of moulds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stack-of-moulds.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent last night making the master castings for the new British spaceships. They all need checking, cleaning up and then popping into the vulcaniser. Then of course the moulds will go onto pile above and to wait their turn for venting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/british-tins\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/british-tins\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1559,1133\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A3200 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365235768&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;10.548998946259&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"british tins\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins-300x218.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins-1024x744.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2432\" alt=\"british tins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins.jpg\" width=\"1559\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins.jpg 1559w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/british-tins-1024x744.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1559px) 100vw, 1559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add to that trying to fit in making resin stock since we&#8217;ve pretty much got none left after our recent birthday celebrations, sticking heads on <a title=\"Belgian ladies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/more-belgians\/\">Belgian ladies<\/a> (before popping them in a mould) and I also need to fit in a trip to the supermarket for my mother as well.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m not competing for television time with Scooby Doo and iCarly I&#8217;m also aiming to work my way through all of <a title=\"Yes Minister\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yes_Minister\">Yes Minister<\/a> and <a title=\"Tales of the Gold Monkey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tales_of_the_Gold_Monkey\">Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for Salute to be over&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its just me (and the cat) in the house the weekend. No children!!!! Just time for me to play catch-up in the final couple of weeks before Salute. And my god I&#8217;m going to need the time. The list of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/plans-for-the-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,36,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mouldmaking-and-casting","category-salute-2013","category-spaceships","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":3465,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stack-of-moulds.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-D8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5186,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/another-fine-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":2426,"position":0},"title":"Another fine day &#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"April 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In contrast to yesterday's near gales, today was a bit calmer and warmer - so perfect weather for casting outdoors again. 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