{"id":9931,"date":"2019-04-25T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9931"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T09:43:55","slug":"german-engineering-at-its-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/german-engineering-at-its-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"German Engineering at its Finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/german-engineering-at-its-finest\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Next off the release rank this week are a quartet of German spaceships &#8211; redesigns of the Zugspitze carrier and the Wuppertal and Osnabruck cruisers, along with the new Wiesbaden missile cruiser. The Zugspitze is a four-piece metal design, while the cruisers are all single-piece castings with separate gun pods where appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9808\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/updating-the-zugspitze\/sfs-310\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SFS-310.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" 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=\"SFS-310\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SFS-310.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SFS-310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9808\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9760\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/german-cruisers\/germancruiserrelease\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GermanCruiserRelease.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=\"GermanCruiserRelease\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GermanCruiserRelease.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GermanCruiserRelease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GermanCruiserRelease.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GermanCruiserRelease-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also revamped the contents of the three German fleet packs to fit the new models in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/German\/SFS-311.html\">SFS-311<\/a> \u2013 Zugspitze class Light Carrier \u2013 \u00a36.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/German\/SFS-320.html\">SFS-320<\/a> \u2013 Wuppertal III class Heavy Cruiser \u2013 \u00a33.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/German\/SFS-321.html\">SFS-321<\/a> \u2013 Osnabruck class Attack Cruiser \u2013 \u00a32.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/German\/SFS-322.html\">SFS-322<\/a> \u2013 Wiesbaden class Missile Cruiser \u2013 \u00a32.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next off the release rank this week are a quartet of German spaceships &#8211; redesigns of the Zugspitze carrier and the Wuppertal and Osnabruck cruisers, along with the new Wiesbaden missile cruiser. The Zugspitze is a four-piece metal design, while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/german-engineering-at-its-finest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9760,"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-9931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-spaceships"],"views":3337,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GermanCruiserRelease.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2Ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9807,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/updating-the-zugspitze\/","url_meta":{"origin":9931,"position":0},"title":"Updating the Zugspitze","author":"Tony","date":"April 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"At last, something I've finished painting ! This is the new version of the German Zugspitze fighter carrier, which replaces the old model of the same name and joins its three cruiser comrades in our Salute line-up. 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