{"id":9933,"date":"2019-04-26T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2019-04-24T17:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:28:30","slug":"italian-stallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/italian-stallion\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Stallion"},"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\/italian-stallion\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Today we switch from spaceships to Aeronef, as the new Italian battlecruiser <em>Grande Ammiraglio Silvio la Verde<\/em> steams onto the website. The sleek lines of the vessel mask a powerful armament and ships of the class often form the core of an Italian battle squadron.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9723\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/looking-grande\/van-1809\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/VAN-1809.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=\"VAN-1809\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/VAN-1809-720x478.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/VAN-1809.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/VAN-1809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9723\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Aeronef\/Italy\/VAN-1809.html\">VAN-1809<\/a> &#8211; Grande Ammiraglio Silvio la Verde class Battlecruiser &#8211; \u00a38.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we switch from spaceships to Aeronef, as the new Italian battlecruiser Grande Ammiraglio Silvio la Verde steams onto the website. The sleek lines of the vessel mask a powerful armament and ships of the class often form the core &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/04\/italian-stallion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9723,"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":[3,46,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-imperial-skies","category-new-releases"],"views":4170,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/VAN-1809.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2Ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9708,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/looking-grande\/","url_meta":{"origin":9933,"position":0},"title":"Looking Grande","author":"Tony","date":"March 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Salute 2019 is approaching quickly - it's earlier than usual, April 6th, so is just over three weeks away. 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