{"id":2770,"date":"2013-06-28T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2013-06-28T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T12:50:41","slug":"enter-the-shaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/enter-the-shaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Shaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/enter-the-shaman\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Today&#8217;s preview is of a rather nice new light tank, the Shaman. This model has been designed by Kirk Alderfer and Zac Braham and as a combat role is intended for supporting coup-de-main forces inserted by VTOL, parachute or orbital drop (just like the US M551 Sheridan light tank, from which the idea of the Shaman was drawn).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2792\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/enter-the-shaman\/shaman\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Shaman.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,481\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shaman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Shaman.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Shaman.jpg\" alt=\"Shaman\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Shaman.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Shaman-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We should have it available in 15mm initially, then 6mm later. There&#8217;s no definite release date for the Shaman just yet, as it takes its place in our long (and ever-increasing) development queue, but we&#8217;re hopeful that we may be able to get it out in few weeks (we haven&#8217;t ordered a print yet as it&#8217;s not cost effective to order models one at a time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s preview is of a rather nice new light tank, the Shaman. This model has been designed by Kirk Alderfer and Zac Braham and as a combat role is intended for supporting coup-de-main forces inserted by VTOL, parachute or orbital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/enter-the-shaman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2792,"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":[4,13,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-3d-print","category-6mm-sf","category-previews"],"views":3562,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Shaman.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-IG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3537,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/03\/priest-of-the-devil\/","url_meta":{"origin":2770,"position":0},"title":"Priest of the Devil","author":"Tony","date":"March 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often we get very lucky. This happened in the second half of last year when Zac Braham approached us with a design for a 15mm hover tank which he'd christened the 'Shaman'. 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There are eleven vehicles in total plus five packs - pack contents were detailed in a previous post, so I won't repeat them here. 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