{"id":7594,"date":"2017-04-18T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:04:36","slug":"beastly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/beastly\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastly"},"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\/beastly\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Let&#8217;s have a brief change of pace from Salute for once &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beastsofwar.com\/bow-awards\/2016-nominations-open\/\">Beasts of War<\/a> are inviting nominations for their 3rd annual awards, and you can win a prize for suggesting something for any of their categories. Far be it from us to seek to influence the jury, but maybe someone could sneak something of ours into a category or two ? Imperial Skies for best game, or one of our new Aeronef models in a miniatures category ? We&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the details by clicking on the logo below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/beastly\/bowawards\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" 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=\"BoWawards\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have a brief change of pace from Salute for once &#8211; Beasts of War are inviting nominations for their 3rd annual awards, and you can win a prize for suggesting something for any of their categories. Far be it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/beastly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7597,"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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":2656,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoWawards.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s26BWy-beastly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12004,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/ship-classes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7594,"position":0},"title":"Ship Classes","author":"Tony","date":"February 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Ships in A Billion Suns are categorised from the tiniest fighters up to huge dreadnoughts. 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