{"id":8830,"date":"2018-06-19T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8830"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T14:14:28","slug":"the-joy-of-six-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/the-joy-of-six-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Six, 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\/06\/the-joy-of-six-2018\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Coming up in the next month is our next show, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejoyof6.co.uk\">Joy of Six<\/a> in Sheffield on Sunday July 15th. Run by Baccus Miniatures, the event (as its name suggests) is a 6mm scale-specific event covering all eras and genres from ancients to Sci-Fi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/the-joy-of-six-2018\/26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"318,450\" 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=\"26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8831\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be there with a cut-down trade stand, carrying our full range of 6mm SF miniatures, army packs, rules, buildings and figures. We&#8217;ll bring along the full Squadron Commander range of starfighters (since they&#8217;re also 6mm), our selection of 3D printed scenic items and the full Small Scale Scenery range.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we&#8217;re happy to take orders (for any of our ranges, not just the ones mentioned above) either paid for on the day or in advance. We can take orders up until the Wednesday before the show (the 11th) although obviously sooner is better.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re aiming to have a decent selection of new 6mm items for the day &#8211; all the new Slammers vehicles ought to be ready by then, assuming we don&#8217;t have any more irritating delays &#x1f615;.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/the-joy-of-six-2018\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8830 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/the-rise-of-the-centurion\/c-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/C-3-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"8769\" 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News and previews of all of these over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>One further minor piece of housekeeping &#8211; I&#8217;m off for a short break, back again on Monday. I&#8217;m aiming to get all outstanding orders cleared today but any new orders will be delayed until the start of next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up in the next month is our next show, the Joy of Six in Sheffield on Sunday July 15th. Run by Baccus Miniatures, the event (as its name suggests) is a 6mm scale-specific event covering all eras and genres &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/the-joy-of-six-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8831,"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":[5,23,39,28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-6mm-ww2","category-hammers-slammers","category-shows","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":3289,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/26907092_1862252340514293_3117073616985398073_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6639,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/05\/6mm-previews\/","url_meta":{"origin":8830,"position":0},"title":"6mm Previews","author":"Tony","date":"May 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"15mm gamers have had the lion's share of new toys lately, but now it's time for the smaller scale to take over for a while. 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