{"id":8158,"date":"2017-12-19T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2017-12-19T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:58:37","slug":"thats-all-for-now-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/thats-all-for-now-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s All For Now, Folks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/thats-all-for-now-folks\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>So the Christmas sale is all over for another year; I pulled the plug at 7am on Monday, allowing a small flurry of last minute orders to sneak under the line earlier that morning.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming all goes to plan, I should just about get all sale orders shipped by the end of this week, although I will be hard pushed to get to any others that arrive between now and Friday. Everything up to December 11th has already gone (apart from one which is waiting on a restock of etched brass parts) and there&#8217;s another pile of parcels which I&#8217;ll take to the post office later this morning. The one possible fly in the ointment is that I&#8217;m obviously burning through metal supplies much faster than usual, and although I ordered more last week, I don&#8217;t know when that will arrive &#8211; if it doesn&#8217;t get here by Thursday then I will run out, and production will simply have to stop until it does turn up.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts are already turning to the start of next year and the first 2018 releases. Unusually, we&#8217;re ahead of the game as far as new models go; we have everything planned from now until March, design work is all finished and we have most of the masters in hand. One of the early releases will be a batch of 15mm Slammers models, filling in a few gaps and increasing the options available to both Hammer&#8217;s regiment and other forces. Below you can see a couple of new variants of the standard M9 combat car; on the left is the M9A14 crew car used by the Lightning Division, which is essentially a modified command car with a pair of gatling turrets on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>On the right is the M9A10 cargo car, an open backed flatbed GEV transport. Some units use a variant (the M9A16) fitted with a calliope turret mounting eight 2cm powerguns for air defence &#8211; we&#8217;ll release this at the same time, I just didn&#8217;t have a photo of one assembled. This photo was taken just before the masters went into a mould, so I might be able to sneak out a couple of castings by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/thats-all-for-now-folks\/combat-cars\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Combat-Cars.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=\"Combat Cars\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Combat-Cars.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Combat-Cars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8161\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Christmas sale is all over for another year; I pulled the plug at 7am on Monday, allowing a small flurry of last minute orders to sneak under the line earlier that morning. Assuming all goes to plan, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/thats-all-for-now-folks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8161,"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":[4,14,15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-previews","category-special-offers","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":2924,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Combat-Cars.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-27A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9410,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/spanish-skies\/","url_meta":{"origin":8158,"position":0},"title":"Spanish Skies","author":"Tony","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The sale is sailing serenely on - this morning I took another big batch of parcels to the post office, we've now shipped all orders up to and including December 8th (apart from the last one to arrive that day - no particular reason, I just ran out of time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Aeronef&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Aeronef","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/aeronef\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Santiago.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Santiago.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Santiago.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Santiago.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15543,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/service-update-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":8158,"position":1},"title":"Service Update","author":"Tony","date":"December 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"So... the centrifuge has been back in service for a couple of weeks and all is well again - in fact it's running better than before. The old motor had been imperceptibly slowing down for a while before it finally gave out, so having the refurbished one running at full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Furry Friends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Furry Friends","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/furry-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GnawedParcel.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9428,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/merry-christmas-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":8158,"position":2},"title":"Merry Christmas!","author":"Tony","date":"December 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One final update before we shut down the centrifuge for the Christmas holiday. 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The first relates to our Christmas sale - or rather, the lack of this year. If you recall, Tony was a bit under the weather earlier in the autumn and was laid low for a while. 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