{"id":6671,"date":"2016-05-25T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2016-05-24T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:31:05","slug":"and-again-with-the-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/05\/and-again-with-the-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"And Again With the Merchants…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember those merchant spaceships we previewed<\/a> before Salute? And how they didn’t quite make it, but we promised to remake the mould and get them out as soon as possible? Well, here’s a second set of masters with a few repairs and tweaks, which are being remoulded with a view to getting them out very, very soon.<\/p>\n

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And staying non-combatant and merchant-y, how about some new Aeronef merchants ? We have a small number of British and French merchant vessels already, and here are a couple of German vessels – a small coal lighter (left) and light freighter. The lighter will have coal modelled in the hold in the final version.<\/p>\n

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Remember those merchant spaceships we previewed before Salute? And how they didn’t quite make it, but we promised to remake the mould and get them out as soon as possible? 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