{"id":2660,"date":"2013-05-15T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2013-05-14T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:05:59","slug":"houston-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/houston-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/houston-gamers\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Andy Bouffard of <a href=\"http:\/\/beerandpretzel.webs.com\/\">Houston Beer and Pretzel Gamers<\/a> recently sent us a <a href=\"http:\/\/beerandpretzel.webs.com\/apps\/photos\/album?albumid=14731662\">big bunch of photos<\/a> of a recent combined arms Aeronef\/Land Ironclads game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/memberfiles.freewebs.com\/21\/44\/55624421\/photos\/undefined\/SAM_0529.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really impressive is the terrain setup &#8211; Andy bought a large batch of our 2mm buildings and fortifications to create a number of villages and towns. Although he ran out of time to completely finish off the painting, they still look pretty impressive &#8211; his approach of creating a series of tiles makes for a very flexible layout.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/memberfiles.freewebs.com\/21\/44\/55624421\/photos\/undefined\/SAM_0528.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The group also have their own wargaming weekend coming up &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/texasbroadside.webs.com\/\">Texas Broadside<\/a>, which is run in the wardroom of the dreadnought-era battleship USS Texas !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Bouffard of Houston Beer and Pretzel Gamers recently sent us a big bunch of photos of a recent combined arms Aeronef\/Land Ironclads game. What&#8217;s really impressive is the terrain setup &#8211; Andy bought a large batch of our 2mm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/houston-gamers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2661,"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":[3,9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-land-ironclads","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":3163,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC_0061.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-GU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":893,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/06\/vsf-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":2660,"position":0},"title":"VSF Sale","author":"Tony","date":"June 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's summertime, so glorious weather, barbecues, cricket on the green ... or if you're in the UK this year, thunderstorms, hail, floods, umbrellas ... 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