{"id":6958,"date":"2016-09-08T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:45:59","slug":"imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Update #2 &#8211; The Baked Brigadier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>During a rather hot, sweaty and muggy day yesterday, another large chunk of Imperial Skies pledges were packed up ready to be shipped off. I did my best not to perspire on the rulebooks! This means that&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>51% of pledges have now shipped<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The current state of play is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are in North America, you should have received your book at least by now;<\/li>\n<li>If you ordered just the rulebook or rulebook and turn ruler, your order will have shipped;<\/li>\n<li>If you ordered a Japanese fleet pack, your order won&#8217;t have shipped yet (see below);<\/li>\n<li>If you ordered a counter pack, you won&#8217;t have shipped yet (these are being sorted into packs and <em>should<\/em> start leaving today);<\/li>\n<li>Any other combination &#8230; well, it&#8217;s 50:50 over whether or not you have shipped !<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier\/lexington-mould\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lexington-Mould.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=\"lexington-mould\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lexington-Mould.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lexington-Mould.jpg\" alt=\"lexington-mould\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lexington-Mould.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lexington-Mould-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lexington-Mould-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phil delivered the Lexington and mk.II Japanese cruiser production moulds on Tuesday, with mixed results. The Lexington is fine now and we very rapidly cast all of the models needed for pledges, so the first of those are in today&#8217;s batch of parcels. However the Japanese cruiser mould is very (very) unreliable. It took us an age to get out a small number of good castings, so we&#8217;ll have to work at it until we get enough (fortunately we don&#8217;t need too many). This might mean that the new versions of the Akashi and Yakumo don&#8217;t immediately go onto the website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6960\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier\/lexingtonpainted\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LexingtonPainted.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,534\" 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=\"lexingtonpainted\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LexingtonPainted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LexingtonPainted.jpg\" alt=\"lexingtonpainted\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LexingtonPainted.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LexingtonPainted-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re had a couple of enquiries about when it&#8217;ll be possible to buy the rulebook, accessories and new models for those that missed the Kickstarter. The answer is &#8216;not until all the pledges have shipped&#8217;. I&#8217;d love to have some on the stand at Colours on Saturday, but we don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair to those that supported the project for others to be able to buy the game until all of the original backers have their items. However, since the only remaining hurdle (Japanese cruisers notwithstanding) is simply getting everything in boxes and shipping them out, that won&#8217;t be too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a rather hot, sweaty and muggy day yesterday, another large chunk of Imperial Skies pledges were packed up ready to be shipped off. I did my best not to perspire on the rulebooks! This means that&#8230; 51% of pledges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6960,"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-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperial-skies"],"views":2569,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LexingtonPainted.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1Oe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6977,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-5-liftoff-delayed\/","url_meta":{"origin":6958,"position":0},"title":"Imperial Update #5 &#8211; Liftoff Delayed","author":"Tony","date":"September 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's start with the good news, shall we ? I can finally say, after a last visit to the Post Office yesterday, that 100% of pledges have now shipped! Robin and ourselves should really be dancing in the aisles at this point after the successful conclusion of the Kickstarter campaign.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Imperial Skies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Imperial Skies","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/imperial-skies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"angry-face","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Angry-Face.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6684,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/05\/imperial-dice\/","url_meta":{"origin":6958,"position":1},"title":"Imperial Dice","author":"Tony","date":"May 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Three large boxes of dice turned up on Friday (I say turned up - they were just left outside the front door by the courier, I didn't realise they were there for several hours). 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