{"id":3186,"date":"2013-12-25T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2013-12-24T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T10:57:21","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Merry Christmas ! We hope you&#8217;re all having a great day. Don&#8217;t worry, we aren&#8217;t working today &#8211; this post was scheduled several days ago &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of a hiatus, we have a new release again. This is the resculpted 15mm EuroFed Garibaldi heavy tank, which brings a touch of heavy fire support to the lighter Montsabert tanks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Blog1.jpg\" alt=\"Blog\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/EuroFed\/SF15-402.html\">SF15-402 <\/a>Garibaldi Heavy Tank &#8230;&#8230; \u00a310.00<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the comparison below, the Garibaldi is substantially bigger than the Montsabert tank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas\/dscf0078\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dscf0078.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" 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=\"Dscf0078\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dscf0078.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dscf0078.jpg\" alt=\"Dscf0078\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dscf0078.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dscf0078-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#1 in our limited series of Main Battle Tanks named after popular biscuits. British gamers of a certain vintage will no doubt recall Alexei Sayle publicising it for us thirty-odd years ago &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11CvBKpKbn8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas ! We hope you&#8217;re all having a great day. Don&#8217;t worry, we aren&#8217;t working today &#8211; this post was scheduled several days ago &#8230; After a bit of a hiatus, we have a new release again. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-new-releases"],"views":2653,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2667,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/15mm-eurofed\/","url_meta":{"origin":3186,"position":0},"title":"15mm EuroFed","author":"Tony","date":"May 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The natural enemies in the Iron Cow universe to the Germans are the European Federation. 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