{"id":8414,"date":"2018-03-26T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2018-03-20T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:04:05","slug":"new_stone_age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/new_stone_age\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/new_stone_age\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Something missing from our Small Scale Range has always been bridges. We started to put this right last year with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/SmallScaleScenery\/Miscellaneous\/SSS-8097.html\">Girder Bridges<\/a> pack, and part of our Salute line-up this year should be this set of four stone bridges. Each is 40mm long (to match the girder bridges) but are simpler single-piece models with varying numbers of arches. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8415\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/new_stone_age\/dsc_1049\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1049.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" 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_1049\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1049.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1049.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1049-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something missing from our Small Scale Range has always been bridges. We started to put this right last year with the Girder Bridges pack, and part of our Salute line-up this year should be this set of four stone bridges. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/new_stone_age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8415,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[14,50,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","category-salute-2018","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":2066,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1049.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2bI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7939,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/view-from-a-bridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":8414,"position":0},"title":"View from a Bridge","author":"Tony","date":"September 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A distinct gap in our Small Scale Scenery range is the lack of bridges - it's no good having roads and railways if you're stopped dead at the first small watercourse ! 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