{"id":6941,"date":"2016-08-29T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2016-08-28T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T20:28:03","slug":"trundling-down-the-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/trundling-down-the-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"Trundling Down the Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/trundling-down-the-runway\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Imperial Skies author Robin visited Brigade Towers yesterday (on a Sunday &#8211; how&#8217;s that for dedication?) and delivered all of the rulebooks, laser-cut counters and turn rulers for the pledges &#8211; so we&#8217;re ready to put packages together and start shipping them out \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>In fact Robin, Phil and I went as far as to pack up the first half-a-dozen boxes and envelopes and these will be posted on tomorrow (today being a bank holiday here).<\/p>\n<p>The new Lexington master mould should be ready later this week, so everything is now in place to complete the Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re visiting either the <strong>Hereward<\/strong> or <strong>Colours<\/strong> shows on the next two weekends then you have the option of picking up your rules and models at either of these events &#8211; just drop me a line and I&#8217;ll arrange it. If you do, then I&#8217;m sure we can also arrange an extra model or two in lieu of postage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6942\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/trundling-down-the-runway\/dsc_1953-800x450\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" 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=\"DSC_1953-800&amp;#215;450\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1953-800x450\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/trundling-down-the-runway\/dsc_1952-800x450\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1952-800x450.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" 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=\"DSC_1952-800&amp;#215;450\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1952-800x450.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1952-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1952-800x450\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1952-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1952-800x450-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1952-800x450-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial Skies author Robin visited Brigade Towers yesterday (on a Sunday &#8211; how&#8217;s that for dedication?) and delivered all of the rulebooks, laser-cut counters and turn rulers for the pledges &#8211; so we&#8217;re ready to put packages together and start &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/trundling-down-the-runway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6942,"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-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperial-skies"],"views":2806,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_1953-800x450.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8003,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/10\/imperial-skies-gameplay-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":6941,"position":0},"title":"Imperial Skies Gameplay Video","author":"Tony","date":"October 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Robin, author of Imperial Skies, has put together a gameplay video going into the rules at some length. 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