{"id":6764,"date":"2016-06-21T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T08:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T08:10:03","slug":"it-helps-to-have-a-minion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/it-helps-to-have-a-minion\/","title":{"rendered":"It helps to have a minion\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/it-helps-to-have-a-minion\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Especially when that minion is due to go on a school trip to Ypres (lucky bugger) in early July and is prepared to work to earn some spending money.<\/p>\n<p>He quite enjoys counting out things so is being put to work sorting and bagging the models required for the Imperial Skies\u00a0fleet packs. Pictured here is the result of his first session &#8211; 62 Agincourt battleships for 31 fleet packs. After that there will be the 62 Exeters, 62 Cossacks and 93 Steadfasts to complete them. Followed by the Germans, the French, the Americans, the Russians and the Austrians with flying stands for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes it does help to have a financially motivated minion!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/it-helps-to-have-a-minion\/agincourt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/agincourt.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,557\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1465657430&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"agincourt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/agincourt.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/agincourt.jpg\" alt=\"agincourt\" width=\"750\" height=\"557\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially when that minion is due to go on a school trip to Ypres (lucky bugger) in early July and is prepared to work to earn some spending money. He quite enjoys counting out things so is being put to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/it-helps-to-have-a-minion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6773,"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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperial-skies"],"views":2832,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/agincourt.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1L6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6040,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/imperial-skies-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6764,"position":0},"title":"Imperial Skies Kickstarter","author":"Tony","date":"November 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My recent trip to Antwerp for Crisis was spent in the very good company of Robin Fitton, author of the Gruntz 15mm ruleset (and several others in development). 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