{"id":10074,"date":"2019-06-04T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10074"},"modified":"2019-06-03T22:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:54:56","slug":"open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s almost time for our local club, Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a>, to hold its annual Open Day<\/a>. This year it’s on Saturday June 22nd between 11am and 4pm, at the club’s usual meeting place in Linton, Kent<\/a>. It’s not a conventional wargames show, there are no traders or bring-and-buy, and no entrance fee. Instead, the club puts on a selection of games across a variety of periods and scales to showcase our activities and hopefully attract one or two new members. All of the games are open for people to join in and try out a new period or set of rules.<\/p>\n

Periods include Vietnam, Dark Ages, English Civil War and even a James Bond-inspired spy-fi game. I’ll be there, running a 1\/600th Suez Crisis aircraft game featuring dogfights between MiGs, Meteors, Mysteres, Mustangs, Mosquitoes and some other planes not starting with M!<\/p>\n

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I’m not officially there in a Brigade capacity – there’s no Brigade stand and I won’t have any stock. However, if anyone is planning to come along to the Open Day and would like me to bring anything along to save on postage, don’t let me stop you – just drop us a line and we’ll sort something out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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