{"id":6152,"date":"2016-01-18T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2016-02-10T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:10:46","slug":"out-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/out-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/out-of-africa\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>As a bit of Monday morning eye-candy, here are some photos of an Aeronef game run at the <a href=\"http:\/\/beerandpretzel.webs.com\/apps\/photos\/album?albumid=15946115\">Houston Beer and Pretzels<\/a> club recently. The game, as the name suggests, was a Mediterranean encounter featuring some splendidly painted Ottomans, Austro-Hungarians and British. We&#8217;ve put a few photos below, but you can go the the <a href=\"http:\/\/beerandpretzel.webs.com\/apps\/photos\/album?albumid=15946115\">HBP<\/a> site for more (and other Aeronef galleries besides).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE &#8211; an <a href=\"http:\/\/beerandpretzel.webs.com\/apps\/blog\/show\/43786723-out-of-africa\">AAR<\/a> has been added to their blog which is a bit of fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/out-of-africa\/attachment\/006\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/006.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,529\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/032.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,529\" 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=\"032\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/032.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/032.jpg\" alt=\"032\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6155\" 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The game, as the name suggests, was a Mediterranean encounter featuring some splendidly painted Ottomans, Austro-Hungarians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/out-of-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6153,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef"],"views":3517,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/006.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1Be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5170,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/aeronef-in-houston\/","url_meta":{"origin":6152,"position":0},"title":"Aeronef in Houston","author":"Tony","date":"March 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A visual Aeronef treat for a Sunday - Andy at Houston Beer and Pretzel Wargaming (great name for a club) has sent us a bunch of photos from their annual Aeronef game, \"Clash Over The Desert\". 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