{"id":7060,"date":"2016-09-29T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:53:12","slug":"blast-tastic-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/blast-tastic-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast-tastic! 2016"},"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\/blast-tastic-2016\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>It&#8217;s rather short notice, but on Saturday our autumn round of shows resumes with our third visit to Bristol for Blast-tastic!, organised by Michael at Angel Barracks. <\/p>\n<p>This is a sci-fi themed show, so we will be carrying the 6mm and 15mm ranges, spaceships, Squadron Commander, Aeronef models and of course we&#8217;ll have Imperial Skies at a show for the first time. We&#8217;ll also bring the 2mm scenery range since these complement the Aeronef and Land Ironclads models. We will not be taking Celtos, Great War or Magpie Miniatures.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend it&#8217;s SELWG at Crystal Palace, then a Stoke Rochford weekend on the 21st\/22nd\/23rd before we round off the year with our annual trip to Crisis in Antwerp on November 5th.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3658\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/04\/blast-tastic\/blast\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blast.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,370\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Blast\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blast.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blast.jpg\" alt=\"Blast\" width=\"300\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blast.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blast-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rather short notice, but on Saturday our autumn round of shows resumes with our third visit to Bristol for Blast-tastic!, organised by Michael at Angel Barracks. This is a sci-fi themed show, so we will be carrying the 6mm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/blast-tastic-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3658,"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":true,"_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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"views":2295,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blast.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1PS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4444,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/10\/last-call-for-blast-tastic\/","url_meta":{"origin":7060,"position":0},"title":"Last Call for Blast-tastic!","author":"Tony","date":"October 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The inaugural Blast-tastic! show is on Saturday - less than 48 hours away now (Michael at Angel Barracks is either very excited or stressed by now). 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