{"id":7382,"date":"2017-02-07T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7382"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:28:11","slug":"these-things-are-sent-to-try-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/02\/these-things-are-sent-to-try-us\/","title":{"rendered":"These Things Are Sent To Try Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/02\/these-things-are-sent-to-try-us\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Yesterday the power went out at the workshop, mid-casting session, and didn&#8217;t come back for the rest of the day. Unfortunately this plunged me into pitch darkness and meant I wasn&#8217;t able to finish all the outstanding orders, which is a pain. Everything placed up to last Friday (Feb 3rd) has been packed and sent, but after that you&#8217;re now in the queue. With a bit of luck it will have been fixed today and I should be able to get back to casting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday sees us (well, me) attending a new show &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wargamesevents.co.uk\/\">Red On Blue In Nottingham<\/a>, or ROBIN for short. Given Nottingham&#8217;s position as the centre of UK wargaming&#8217;s Lead Belt, being the home of an awful lot of the major players (us excepted, of course) it&#8217;s surprising that there hasn&#8217;t mean a show held there in recent years. I&#8217;m heading up Saturday afternoon ready to set up Sunday morning first thing. I should have a decent stock of all of our new releases (assuming of course that I get power back tomorrow !). Because this is a solo show, I&#8217;ll have a full quota of army packs, starter packs, rulebooks etc, but no individual stock of 6mm, spaceships, Squadron Commander or Aeronef (although we have started carrying a selection of Aeronef capital ships) &#8211; I just don&#8217;t have the space or the will power to lift and shift that much stock. I will have individual 15mm vehicles and figure packs, Celtos and Magpie figures, Great War Belgians and the full 2mm range.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/02\/these-things-are-sent-to-try-us\/robin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ROBIN.png\" data-orig-size=\"720,430\" 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=\"ROBIN\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ROBIN.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ROBIN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"430\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7383\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the power went out at the workshop, mid-casting session, and didn&#8217;t come back for the rest of the day. Unfortunately this plunged me into pitch darkness and meant I wasn&#8217;t able to finish all the outstanding orders, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/02\/these-things-are-sent-to-try-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7383,"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":[48,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polyversal","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":2467,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ROBIN.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1V4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5586,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/stockpiling\/","url_meta":{"origin":7382,"position":0},"title":"Stockpiling","author":"Tony","date":"July 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Normally Friday would be new release day here (although lately it's been Mondays as well as we push out the Armies Army 15mm figures). 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