{"id":6821,"date":"2016-08-03T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2016-08-03T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:48:01","slug":"imperial-upgrade-2-a-masty-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/imperial-upgrade-2-a-masty-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Upgrade #2 – A Masty Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Imperial Skies Kickstarter requires us to cast well over 1000 Aeronef. Almost all of these have our standard masts, which have been around since the very first Aeronef releases. The mast production mould is one of the oldest we have, and is showing some signs of age and wear – we generally only get 10-12 decent castings per spin of the mould nowadays. So when we were looking at the amount of work required, one obvious thing to do was replace the mast mould with a more efficient one. Since we were making a new mould, we also decided to do it properly and remastered the masts, as the originals were almost the first piece of Aeronef model ever designed. The new ones are of the same basic size and style, but much improved in detail – see for yourselves below.<\/p>\n

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The new mast mould produces twice as many castings per spin than the old one, cutting 3-4 hours off the casting work needed to fulfil the IS pledges. Once the pledges have shipped, the new masts will replace the old ones in all orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Imperial Skies Kickstarter requires us to cast well over 1000 Aeronef. Almost all of these have our standard masts, which have been around since the very first Aeronef releases. 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