{"id":59,"date":"2011-11-27T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-11-27T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T20:25:13","slug":"listening-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/listening-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/listening-in\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>So we&#8217;re still rifling through the contents of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/a-parcel-arrives\/\" title=\"A parcel arrives \u2026\">the parcel<\/a>. We&#8217;re been from 15mm scale to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/scaling-down\/\" title=\"Scaling down \u2026\">6mm scale<\/a> and now we&#8217;re dropping down again, to 1\/1200th this time. Below is a picture of something of interest for Aeronef and Land Ironclads fans &#8211; an acoustic mirror and a pair of listening ears. These are based (very loosely) on the installations at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/denge\/\" title=\"Denge Sound Mirrors\">Denge<\/a> in Kent, built between the world wars. They are the VSF equivalent of radar, giving early warning of impending attack from the sky. David Manley wrote some rules for them in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsfw.org\/rag42.php\" title=\"issue 42 of Ragnarok\">issue 42 of Ragnarok<\/a> if you can get hold of a copy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/listening-in\/dsc_0015-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"61\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/listening-in\/dsc_0015-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dsc_0015.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" 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=\"Acoustic Mirrors\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dsc_0015.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dsc_0015.jpg\" alt=\"Acoustic Mirrors\" title=\"Acoustic Mirrors\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dsc_0015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dsc_0015-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re still rifling through the contents of the parcel. We&#8217;re been from 15mm scale to 6mm scale and now we&#8217;re dropping down again, to 1\/1200th this time. Below is a picture of something of interest for Aeronef and Land &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/listening-in\/\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,3,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-print","category-aeronef","category-land-ironclads","category-previews"],"views":3794,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/were-all-ears\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"We&#8217;re all ears &#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"December 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Xmas sale is in full swing now, so Phil and I are having to devote most of our Brigade time to casting models and packing orders. However, Phil has found time in between casting sessions to make a mould for some new bits, including the acoustic mirrors for Aeronef.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Aeronef&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Aeronef","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/aeronef\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3571,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/03\/new-stockist-grand-scale-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":1},"title":"New Stockist &#8211; Grand Scale Games","author":"Tony","date":"March 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Grand Scale Games in Indianapolis specialises in very small scale (2mm) gaming and Nick now stocks many of the items from our Land Ironclads and Aeronef ranges. We often get asked about Aeronef stockists in North America - now we have one again.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Aeronef&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Aeronef","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/aeronef\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"GrandScaleGames","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GrandScaleGames.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1624,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-second-day-of-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":2},"title":"On the Second Day of Christmas","author":"Tony","date":"December 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me ... Two Flak Towers And some houses from a far-off country. Flak towers for Land Ironclads \/ Aeronef. 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Scale Creep will be stocking the more popular Aeronef, 15mm and 6mm SF and spaceship items, starting soon ! Mark is finalising his initial stock order, and if you'd like to place\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Stockists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Stockists","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/stockists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ScaleCreep","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ScaleCreep.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":468,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/vsf-forts\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":4},"title":"VSF Forts","author":"Tony","date":"March 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"More previews today, this time of three fortifications for Land Ironclads or Aeronef. These models have already been moulded and we're casting tins for a production mould - we're aiming to release these at Salute in April. 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Like last year we'll be running several week-long themed sales, each covering a subset of our\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Aeronef&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Aeronef","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/aeronef\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Belgian Land Ironclads","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sale-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}