{"id":8598,"date":"2018-04-27T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2018-04-27T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:21:59","slug":"merchants-and-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/merchants-and-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchants and Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/merchants-and-traders\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Next from the Brigade production line are the <strong>small merchant ships<\/strong> which came out at Salute, and I suspect we sold more of those than any of the other new releases on the day in terms of numbers of individual models sold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8423\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/you-came-in-that-thing-youre-braver-than-i-thought\/smallrelease\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SmallRelease.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,601\" 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=\"SmallRelease\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SmallRelease.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SmallRelease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SmallRelease.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SmallRelease-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are five in all of different design, none more than an inch long. There&#8217;s also a new <strong>Merchant Convoy<\/strong> pack which combines these with the larger merchant ships released in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Merchants\/SFS-5015.html\">SFS-5015<\/a> \u2013 Ixion \u2013 \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Merchants\/SFS-5016.html\">SFS-5016<\/a> \u2013 Starlight Envoy \u2013 \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Merchants\/SFS-5017.html\">SFS-5017<\/a> \u2013 Random Quasar \u2013 \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Merchants\/SFS-5018.html\">SFS-5018<\/a> \u2013 Celestial Rose \u2013 \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Merchants\/SFS-5019.html\">SFS-5019<\/a> \u2013 Solar Mariner \u2013 \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Squadron%20Packs\/SFSP-5002.html\">SFSP-5002<\/a> \u2013 Merchant Convoy #2 \u2013 \u00a322.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next from the Brigade production line are the small merchant ships which came out at Salute, and I suspect we sold more of those than any of the other new releases on the day in terms of numbers of individual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/merchants-and-traders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8423,"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-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-spaceships"],"views":4348,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SmallRelease.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2eG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8400,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/you-came-in-that-thing-youre-braver-than-i-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":8598,"position":0},"title":"You Came in That Thing? 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