{"id":7570,"date":"2017-04-14T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2017-04-13T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:02:43","slug":"alien-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>There&#8217;s a bit of an alien theme pervading our Salute SF releases this year &#8211; we&#8217;ve already previewed our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-nation\/\">6mm Yenpalo models<\/a> and then followed them up with some nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/yenpalo-support\/\">15mm support weapons<\/a>. Well, having made the 6mm tank, did you really think we wouldn&#8217;t make a 15mm version ? And now it has a name as well &#8211; the &#8216;Xarledi&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7600\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/yp-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-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=\"YP-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7600\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7570 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/yp-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-2-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"7601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/yp-2\/\" 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height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-3-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"7602\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/yp-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,541\" 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=\"YP-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-3.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/yp-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-4-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"7603\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/yp-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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The base isn&#8217;t included &#8211; it&#8217;s simply a 50mm round plastic figure base with the post from one of our flying stands fixed in the centre, then textured and painted. <\/p>\n<p>Once again I have to credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anarchymodels.co.uk\/\">Anarchy Models<\/a> for their stencils, this time a hex pattern, without which I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to create the colour scheme.<\/p>\n<p>SF15-1110 &#8211; Xarledi Grav Tank &#8211; \u00a39.00<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed that some of our photos of the new stuff are a bit ropey. Time seems to be running away fast at the moment, so most have been taken on my phone and aren&#8217;t up to our usual standard &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to go back and take better ones with the camera as soon as time permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of an alien theme pervading our Salute SF releases this year &#8211; we&#8217;ve already previewed our first 6mm Yenpalo models and then followed them up with some nifty 15mm support weapons. Well, having made the 6mm tank, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/alien-big-brother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7600,"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":[4,14,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-previews","category-salute-2017"],"views":3916,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/YP-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1Y6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2340,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/building-previews\/","url_meta":{"origin":7570,"position":0},"title":"Building previews","author":"Phil","date":"March 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of our build-up for Salute in April (one month to go and so much still to do) I'm working my way through the stack of un-released building models that we have. 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We're on stand TM04 - go in the main entrance, turn immediately right and walk to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Salute","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Salute.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Salute.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Salute.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17472,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/new-for-salute-1-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":7570,"position":4},"title":"New for Salute &#8211; 1\/4","author":"Tony","date":"April 8, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Usually we're pretty good at getting our new releases for Salute onto the website in advance, but not this year. 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