{"id":8184,"date":"2018-01-04T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:30:48","slug":"a-belated-happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/a-belated-happy-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Belated Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Only four days late…<\/p>\n

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I returned to the workshop on Tuesday to tackle the medium-sized pile of orders that had built up over the Christmas holiday week. Fortunately it wasn’t too bad this year, following my last minute blitz to clear out the sale orders before I finished work (late) on the 22nd of December.<\/p>\n

Although it’s a short 4-day week, we’re returning to normal with a new release planned for tomorrow. The moulds are all ready to go, but I need to get a move on to paint some sample models ready for photography – if this takes longer then the release might be delayed until the start of next week.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here’s a useful pair of somethings for the Imperial Skies players out there. One of the items in the kickstarter was a set of very useful laser cut counters, some for marking altitude and others for keeping track of command points. These sold out completely and there were no spare sets at all (I don\u2019t even have a set of my own!).<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve recently had some new counters made so that anyone who missed out on the first offering can have their own sets. The originals were made from a special laminated two-colour plastic which was rather expensive so we haven\u2019t used it again, instead these new versions are made from normal opaque acrylic, albeit in the same colours.<\/p>\n

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Set one consists of twenty altitude markers<\/strong>, ten HIGH and ten LOW, in red and black. The second set has twenty circular command point counters<\/strong> in blue. The counters are surface etched \u2013 this etching can quite easily be coloured using acrylic paint pens if you wish, and I\u2019ll be writing an article on how to do this quite soon.<\/p>\n

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ISK-012<\/a> \u2013 Altitude Markers (x20) \u2013 \u00a34.50
\nISK-013<\/a> \u2013 Command Counters (x20) \u2013 \u00a34.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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