{"id":6194,"date":"2016-02-01T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2016-01-30T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T15:36:20","slug":"uss-lexington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/02\/uss-lexington\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Lexington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lexington is one of the new models we pledged to produce as a result of the Imperial Skies<\/a> Kickstarter campaign. It’s a battlecruiser class, and we decided to do something a bit different, going for a cross between a Civil War ironclad and a stealth submarine ! It has four very large main guns in semi-circular armoured citadels, a broadside battery of secondaries either side and two aerial torpedoes. <\/p>\n

These are screen grabs of the 3D model, it won’t be going off for printing until the other three models are ready.<\/p>\n

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The Lexington is one of the new models we pledged to produce as a result of the Imperial Skies Kickstarter campaign. It’s a battlecruiser class, and we decided to do something a bit different, going for a cross between a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6200,"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":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-imperial-skies"],"views":3316,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lex1.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1BU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6315,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/sms-kaiser\/","url_meta":{"origin":6194,"position":0},"title":"SMS Kaiser","author":"Tony","date":"March 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We showed some preview screen grabs of the USS Lexington battlecruiser a few weeks ago, one of the four stretch goal models we agreed to produce as part of the Imperial Skies Kickstarter campaign. 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