{"id":3931,"date":"2014-05-29T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:50:06","slug":"big-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Had a bit of fun yesterday (in between assembling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/the-definition-of-tedium\/\" title=\"The Definition of Tedium\">another batch of thirty vehicle crew<\/a>&#8230;), putting together some more new 15mm vehicle castings. The German Woden family weren&#8217;t part of our old range &#8211; I always intended them to be but never quite got round to making the masters. However, as the remodelled range grows bigger and bigger I&#8217;ve taken the chance to upscale some of my favourite 6mm models. These three tanks are pretty big beasts and would dominate any battlefield. We&#8217;re looking at a release in the next month or so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3936\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/dsc_0504\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0504.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"Dsc_0504\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0504.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0504.jpg\" alt=\"Dsc_0504\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0504.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0504-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3931 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/dsc_0505\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0505-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0505-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0505-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" data-attachment-id=\"3938\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/dsc_0505\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0505.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" 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=\"Dsc_0505\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Woden&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0505.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3938'>\n\t\t\t\tWoden\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/dsc_0506\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0506-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0506-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0506-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" data-attachment-id=\"3939\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/dsc_0506\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0506.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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The German Woden family weren&#8217;t part of our old range &#8211; I always intended them to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/05\/big-beasts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3936,"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":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-previews"],"views":2723,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Dsc_0504.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-11p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11424,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/odds-and-ends\/","url_meta":{"origin":3931,"position":0},"title":"Odds and Ends","author":"Tony","date":"July 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we have a bunch of assorted 15mm bits and pieces added to the website. 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