{"id":7644,"date":"2017-04-20T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2018-04-06T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T21:53:07","slug":"stocked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/stocked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocked Up"},"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\/stocked-up\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Firstly, an apology &#8211; Easter has played havoc with my normal weekly schedule, so I&#8217;m a bit behind in getting orders to the post office &#8211; not casting and filling the orders, that I&#8217;m on top of, but there&#8217;s a big pile of them in the office that need to be posted. Hopefully I will get to the post office this morning with all orders up to Tuesday, and we&#8217;ll soon be back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Onto other matters, yesterday was our final planned day of stocking up for Salute (I might get a bit more time in later today, but that depends on how much mail order casting there is left to do). I&#8217;d already topped up on existing models so the day was entirely given over to creating stock of all our new show releases.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/stocked-up\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7644 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\/stocked-up\/dsc_0389\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0389-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0389-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0389.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"7650\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/stocked-up\/dsc_0389\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0389.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,405\" 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=\"DSC_0389\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0389.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 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data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0384.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><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\/stocked-up\/dsc_0388\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0388-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0388-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0388.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"7653\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/stocked-up\/dsc_0388\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0388.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,405\" 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=\"DSC_0388\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0388.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Phil had finished the last of the new production moulds on Sunday and yesterday was the first time some of them were used. I spent the day casting many, many Terminators, Xarledi and Yenpalo infantry (in two scales), EuroFed ships, Squadron Commander fighters and more. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be collecting the hire van, packing it up and heading off to London to set up the stand &#8211; we&#8217;re lucky that the venue is just 45 minutes away from Brigade HQ (traffic permitting) so there&#8217;s no need to stay over, I&#8217;ll be back home in the evening and Phil and I will head up first thing Saturday morning. Salute is the one show when we&#8217;re joined by the honorary third Brigadier for the day, Jeremey, who takes care of the Celtos end of the stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, an apology &#8211; Easter has played havoc with my normal weekly schedule, so I&#8217;m a bit behind in getting orders to the post office &#8211; not casting and filling the orders, that I&#8217;m on top of, but there&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/stocked-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salute-2017","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":3504,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_0390.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-1Zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5093,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/gruntz-activation-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":7644,"position":0},"title":"Gruntz Activation Cards","author":"Tony","date":"March 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was a workshop day, doing metal casting for orders (and stock, we're already slowly gearing up to Salute - at the moment this just involves doing a few extra castings every time we spin a mould and keeping them to one side for the show). 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