{"id":8212,"date":"2018-01-12T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2018-01-11T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:38:44","slug":"show-business-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/show-business-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Business 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/show-business-2018\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>If you&#8217;re looking for this week&#8217;s new releases, they have been delayed by an unforeseen lack of Army Painter dip to finish off the painting &#8230; although I immediately ordered a new tin, it only arrived this morning so it&#8217;ll be a day or two before everything has dried and can be varnished. Come back Tuesday, they should be ready by then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently updated our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Shows.html\">list of shows<\/a> for 2018 on the website; we&#8217;re attending the same ones as last year, with one exception, although we&#8217;re always on the lookout for new events to get to.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/show-business-2018\/colours-2017\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.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=\"Colours 2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>February 11th &#8211; ROBIN, Nottingham<\/li>\n<li>February 25th &#8211; Cavalier, Tonbridge<\/li>\n<li>April 14th &#8211; Salute, London<\/li>\n<li>June 10th &#8211; Broadside<\/li>\n<li>July 15th (date TBC) &#8211; The Joy of Six<\/li>\n<li>Sept 2nd &#8211; Hereward<\/li>\n<li>Oct 21st &#8211; SELWG<\/li>\n<li>Nov 3rd (date TBC) &#8211; Crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The exception this year is that for family reasons we won&#8217;t be at Colours in Newbury; it falls on a significant birthday which I wouldn&#8217;t want to miss. I&#8217;m hoping that by letting the organisers know this far in advance, I can miss just this one and be back in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for this week&#8217;s new releases, they have been delayed by an unforeseen lack of Army Painter dip to finish off the painting &#8230; although I immediately ordered a new tin, it only arrived this morning so it&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/show-business-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8215,"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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"views":2659,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-28s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10773,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/show-business-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":8212,"position":0},"title":"Show Business 2020","author":"Tony","date":"January 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"We've updated our show list for the year with confirmed bookings and others that we hope to attend but that we're still waiting on confirmations of dates and attendance. 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