{"id":6018,"date":"2015-10-30T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2015-10-29T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:16:41","slug":"hey-gagarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/hey-gagarin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Gagarin !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/hey-gagarin\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>The latest addition to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Neo-Soviet.html\">Neo-Soviet spaceship fleet<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Neo-Soviet\/SFS-1201.html\">Gagarin-class Dreadnought<\/a>. Named for hero <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pilot-Cosmonaut_of_the_USSR\">Pilot-Cosmonauts<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Race\">Space Race<\/a>-era, the Gagarins carry almost twice the firepower of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Neo-Soviet\/SFS-1200.html\">Voroshilov<\/a> class battleships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6023\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/hey-gagarin\/sfs-1201\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SFS-1201.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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SFS-1201\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Gagarin&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SFS-1201.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SFS-1201.jpg\" alt=\"SFS-1201\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SFS-1201.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SFS-1201-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gagarin is a resin-hulled model with metal engines, turrets and other components. We&#8217;ll have a few of these (not many) at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereward-wargames.co.uk\/\">Hereward Wargames Show<\/a> in Peterborough which we&#8217;re attending on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Neo-Soviet\/SFS-1201.html\">SFS-1201<\/a> &#8211; Gagarin class Dreadnought &#8211; \u00a39.00<\/p>\n<p>And here are a couple of Gagarin-themed videos to keep you going &#8230; the first one is worth watching for the dancing spacemen !<\/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\/wY-kAnvOY80?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<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\/OP-NflapTU4?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>The latest addition to our Neo-Soviet spaceship fleet is the Gagarin-class Dreadnought. Named for hero Pilot-Cosmonauts of the Space Race-era, the Gagarins carry almost twice the firepower of the Voroshilov class battleships. The Gagarin is a resin-hulled model with metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/hey-gagarin\/\">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":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-spaceships"],"views":5364,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13709,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/buzzard-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":6018,"position":0},"title":"Buzzard Off !","author":"Tony","date":"May 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"With the Salute releases all safely on the website, we have something brand new this week. 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