{"id":6966,"date":"2016-09-10T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:43:16","slug":"imperial-update-3-the-akashi-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-3-the-akashi-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Update #3 – The Akashi Flies !"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The good news is that Phil has managed to get enough good castings of the Akashi to fulfill all the pledges for Japanese fleet packs, so there are now no obstacles to finishing the shipping of Imperial Skies. <\/p>\n

The not-so-good news is that the mould is still too unreliable for normal use, so the Akashi will again have to be remastered (probably with some design tweaks) before the new version replaces the original on the website.<\/p>\n

While he was doing this I packed up another bunch of parcels, and we can now say that …<\/p>\n

69% of pledges have shipped<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I’ve been working from the top of the list, so if your order number is 4086655 or less, then you have definitely shipped; if it’s above that, then there’s still a 60% chance it’s on the way. My kitchen has temporarily turned into a goods bay with all manner of boxes, parcels and packages – fortunately I got this all cleared out before the Brigadieress got wind of it ! We’re hoping that with a fair wind behind us, we should get everything cleared next week.<\/p>\n

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I’ve also caught up with mail order again, after a very hectic week, so all orders up to 6pm Thursday
\nhave been filled and posted. Today I’m at Colours<\/a> at Newbury Racecourse, an excellent one-day show – hope to see you there !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good news is that Phil has managed to get enough good castings of the Akashi to fulfill all the pledges for Japanese fleet packs, so there are now no obstacles to finishing the shipping of Imperial Skies. The not-so-good … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6971,"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-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperial-skies"],"views":2021,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ISKPackages.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1Om","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6958,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/imperial-update-2-the-baked-brigadier\/","url_meta":{"origin":6966,"position":0},"title":"Imperial Update #2 – The Baked Brigadier","author":"Tony","date":"September 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"During a rather hot, sweaty and muggy day yesterday, another large chunk of Imperial Skies pledges were packed up ready to be shipped off. 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