{"id":5320,"date":"2015-05-11T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2015-05-11T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:36:46","slug":"guarding-the-solent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/05\/guarding-the-solent\/","title":{"rendered":"Guarding the Solent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portsmouth has always been one of the Royal Navy’s main bases, going back to the Tudors and Henry VIII. Henry built fortifications to guard the entrances to the Solent as part of his Device Forts<\/a> programme, one of which was Southsea Castle<\/a>. The first of our new models this week is of Southsea as first built in 1544. The castle was heavily modified over the years, including the repositioning of the whole North Wall 20-30 feet further north during the Napoleonic walls. The redesign was so extensive that we’ve also made a model of it after the work, dated around 1850.<\/p>\n

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During the Victorian Era, Lord Palmerston was responsible for a large number of coastal and inland forts<\/a> built to counter a French invasion that, of course, never came. Four forts were built out to sea in the Solent itself – No Man’s Land and Horse Sands (which were pretty much identical), Spitbank and St Helen’s forts. We’ve modelled all of these as part of our Small Scale Scenery<\/a> range, including a proposed turreted version of No Man’s Land\/Horse Sands Fort with turrets that was never built but looks great !<\/p>\n

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As well as pre-Dreadnought era naval gaming, these models will also be perfect for Aeronef<\/a>\/Land Ironclads<\/a> games and I’m sure we’ll see them appearing in Dystopian Wars games too, where our scenery range seems to be pretty popular.<\/p>\n

\"SSS-8053\"<\/p>\n

SSS-8053<\/a> \u2013 No Man’s Land\/Horse Sands Fort \u2013 \u00a34.00
\nSSS-8053a<\/a> \u2013 No Man’s Land w\/Turrets \u2013 \u00a34.50
\nSSS-8054<\/a> \u2013 Spitbank Fort \u2013 \u00a33.00
\nSSS-8055<\/a> \u2013 St Helen’s Fort \u2013 \u00a32.00
\nSSS-8056<\/a> \u2013 Southsea Castle (1544) \u2013 \u00a34.00
\nSSS-8056a<\/a> \u2013 Southsea Castle (1814) \u2013 \u00a34.25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portsmouth has always been one of the Royal Navy’s main bases, going back to the Tudors and Henry VIII. Henry built fortifications to guard the entrances to the Solent as part of his Device Forts programme, one of which was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5324,"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":[17,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":3992,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SouthseaPainted.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1nO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5215,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/palmerstons-follies\/","url_meta":{"origin":5320,"position":0},"title":"Palmerston’s Follies","author":"Tony","date":"April 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The postie came again yesterday, with what is the final batch of new masters for Salute. 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