{"id":7297,"date":"2016-12-24T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2016-12-23T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:02:36","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>So that&#8217;s pretty much it for the year. We&#8217;ve managed to ship out all the sale orders (the UK ones went on Wednesday to catch the last post and the overseas ones on Thursday), plus any other orders that arrived after the sale up to Tuesday &#8211; if you placed an order after that, I&#8217;m afraid we won&#8217;t get to it until the New Year now.<\/p>\n<p>We have one small release to round off the year &#8211; two sets of alien beasties, hunter and prey. The hunters are the nasty looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Figures\/SF15-010.html\">Furoraptors<\/a>, bipedal carnivores with big teeth and an appetite for anything that moves (and a willingness to go after it, however big it might be).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/creaturerelease-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"CreatureRelease-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the prey side are the docile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Figures\/SF15-011.html\">Shomix<\/a>, quadruped herd animals that roam the plains of Eta Odin IV, spending much of their time running and hiding from the Furoraptors ! They&#8217;re also hunted for food with bow and spear by the native <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/if-you-go-down-to-the-woods-today\/\">Tolero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7304\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/creaturerelease-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"CreatureRelease-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both come in packs of four, with two poses for the &#8216;raptors and one for the Shomix.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Figures\/SF15-010.html\">SF15-010<\/a> &#8211; Furoraptors (x4) &#8211; \u00a32.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Figures\/SF15-011.html\">SF15-011<\/a> &#8211; Shomix (x4) &#8211; \u00a32.50<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/creaturerelease-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CreatureRelease-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to one and all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s pretty much it for the year. We&#8217;ve managed to ship out all the sale orders (the UK ones went on Wednesday to catch the last post and the overseas ones on Thursday), plus any other orders that arrived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7305,"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":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-new-releases"],"views":2955,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CreatureRelease-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1TH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10765,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/time-for-a-rest\/","url_meta":{"origin":7297,"position":0},"title":"Time for a Rest&#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"December 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We did really well with the sale this year, keeping pretty much up with the orders and not allowing a backlog to build up. Until the final weekend - you'd all obviously been saving up your orders until the last minute, and we were deluged on those two days! 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The old motor had been imperceptibly slowing down for a while before it finally gave out, so having the refurbished one running at full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Furry Friends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Furry Friends","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/furry-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8111,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/11\/sale-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":7297,"position":4},"title":"Sale Update","author":"Tony","date":"November 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The sale has gone off with a bang and a veritable Niagara of orders. 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