{"id":7716,"date":"2017-05-19T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:31:34","slug":"fleet-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/fleet-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleet Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/fleet-upgrade\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>This week&#8217;s main attraction is the website release of the new EuroFed spaceship models. There are seven all-new digitally-sculpted ships along with two fighter types. Most of the models retain a similar outline to their predecessors, but are much changed in detail. The two largest vessels, the Milano and Umberto, have resin hulls while the rest are metal castings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7732\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/fleet-upgrade\/releasewave1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ReleaseWave1.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=\"ReleaseWave1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ReleaseWave1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ReleaseWave1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7732\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the ships will be replaced with new versions in one or two further waves later this year, when we also hope to add one or two new classes as well. The other two fleet packs (401 and 403) will return when we have the ships to fill them again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Squadron%20Packs\/SFSP-402.html\">SFSP-402<\/a> \u2013 EuroFed Fleet Pack #2 \u2013 \u00a322.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-401.html\">SFS-401<\/a> \u2013 Milano Dreadnought \u2013 \u00a37.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-414.html\">SFS-414<\/a> \u2013 Umberto Battle Carrier \u2013 \u00a37.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-421.html\">SFS-421<\/a> \u2013 Tigre Cruiser \u2013 \u00a32.25<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-423.html\">SFS-423<\/a> \u2013 Abruzzi Heavy Cruiser \u2013 \u00a33.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-430.html\">SFS-430<\/a> \u2013 Surcouf Destroyer \u2013 \u00a31.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-431.html\">SFS-431<\/a> \u2013 Insidioso Destroyer \u2013 \u00a31.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-440.html\">SFS-440<\/a> \u2013 Le Malin Escort Frigate \u2013 \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-461.html\">SFS-461<\/a> \u2013 M\u00e9t\u00e9ore Attack Fighter (x12) \u2013 \u00a31.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/EuroFed\/SFS-464.html\">SFS-464<\/a> \u2013 Folgore Fighter (x12) \u2013 \u00a31.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Accessories\/SFS-7053.html\">SFS-7053<\/a> \u2013 EuroFed Gun Turrets (x12) \u2013 \u00a31.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s main attraction is the website release of the new EuroFed spaceship models. There are seven all-new digitally-sculpted ships along with two fighter types. Most of the models retain a similar outline to their predecessors, but are much changed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/fleet-upgrade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7732,"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":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-spaceships"],"views":5650,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ReleaseWave1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-20s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7846,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/07\/federal-reinforcements\/","url_meta":{"origin":7716,"position":0},"title":"Federal Reinforcements","author":"Tony","date":"July 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for the next batch of new models for our EuroFed spaceships range. 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