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The sale is sailing serenely on – this morning I took another big batch of parcels to the post office, we’ve now shipped all orders up to and including December 8th (apart from the last one to arrive that day – no particular reason, I just ran out of time yesterday !). However, there was a big burst of orders on Sunday, prompted no doubt by the fast-approaching end of the sale next weekend, so that will slow me down a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, I’ve spent the odd hour or two working on further new releases – more Aeronef, following on from last week’s British smaller vessels. This time I have a pair of larger vessels – the first is a new version of the Chilean battleship Santiago. The old model<\/a>\u00a0(out of production for some time) was notable for it’s two huge quad gun turrets, so I’ve kept that aspect of the design, although it’s also been given two smaller light gun turrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second new vessel is a Spanish fighter carrier. One of the aspects of the Spanish capital ships<\/a> that I really like is the raised front-to-back walkway on both vessels, so I’ve taken this and enlarged it to make a narrow flight deck. Below this at main deck level is an aircraft handling area with an anti-aircraft turret at each corner. The fighter models on deck are British Fitton Scouts<\/a> which I used for sizing purposes. It remains to be seen if the Spanish get their own aircraft design…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sale is sailing serenely on – this morning I took another big batch of parcels to the post office, we’ve now shipped all orders up to and including December 8th (apart from the last one to arrive that day … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9411,"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":[3,14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-previews","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":3019,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2rM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9396,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/aeronef-previews-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9410,"position":0},"title":"Aeronef Previews","author":"Tony","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, the latest sale update ... we've shipped all but three orders from November, so I'm currently about four days behind - which isn't too bad, it means I'm at least keeping up and not slipping any further. 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