{"id":4174,"date":"2014-07-22T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T08:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2014-07-22T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T08:23:32","slug":"clear-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/07\/clear-is-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear is the New Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/07\/clear-is-the-new-black\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4175\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/07\/clear-is-the-new-black\/black-stands\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"394,355\" 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=\"Black stands\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands-300x270.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands.jpg\" alt=\"Black stands\" width=\"197\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>We&#8217;ve been inundated with spaceship orders in the last day or two, and it&#8217;s exhausted our stocks of black flying stands. We ordered several thousand last month but they&#8217;re on back order with our suppliers, they&#8217;ve been delayed as their mould has had to go off for repairs. When I asked for an idea of when they might be available, the answer was &#8220;we don&#8217;t know&#8221;. So for now we&#8217;ll be shipping spaceship orders with clear flying stands instead of black ones, until the new supplies arrive. Apologies for that, but there isn&#8217;t a great deal else we can do apart from delays lots of orders.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the meantime, this is what we&#8217;ll be releasing later this week &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4179\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/07\/clear-is-the-new-black\/sacpreview\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SACPreview.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=\"SACPreview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SACPreview-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SACPreview.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SACPreview.jpg\" alt=\"SACPreview\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SACPreview.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SACPreview-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been inundated with spaceship orders in the last day or two, and it&#8217;s exhausted our stocks of black flying stands. We ordered several thousand last month but they&#8217;re on back order with our suppliers, they&#8217;ve been delayed as their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/07\/clear-is-the-new-black\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4175,"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":[4,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-accessories","category-previews"],"views":3034,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Black-stands.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-15k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4233,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/08\/black-is-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":4174,"position":0},"title":"Black is Back !","author":"Tony","date":"August 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a quick note to say that Dice and Games have come up trumps and delivered a big box full of black flying stands (and some more clear ones, stocks of which were going fast in the absence of black stands). 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