{"id":13046,"date":"2022-06-21T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2022-06-20T22:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:42:38","slug":"13046","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/13046\/","title":{"rendered":"Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/13046\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Coming up this Saturday is our local club&#8217;s Open Day. Maidstone Wargames Society has a history dating back over 50 years (the Golden Jubilee was rather disrupted by the pandemic) and a current membership of around 30. The Open Day is an annual showcase where the club puts on a number of games so that potential new members can see what goes on, try out a game or two and see if the club is for them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be there in our role as club members. Tony has been working hard on one of the games on display, a 6mm Hammer&#8217;s Slammers event which you can join in to get a feel for the rules. If that doesn&#8217;t float your boat then there are modern, Spanish Civil War, renaissance and other games to try. You can find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/open-day\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/open-day\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13048\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/13046\/openday\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/openday.png\" data-orig-size=\"724,504\" 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=\"openday\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/openday-724x478.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/openday.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/openday.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"504\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13048\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up this Saturday is our local club&#8217;s Open Day. Maidstone Wargames Society has a history dating back over 50 years (the Golden Jubilee was rather disrupted by the pandemic) and a current membership of around 30. The Open Day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/13046\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13048,"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":"A quick shout-out for Maidstone Wargames Society's open day this coming Saturday.","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":[5,39,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers","category-shows"],"views":870,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/openday.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s26BWy-13046","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7165,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/small-scale-slammers-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":13046,"position":0},"title":"Small-Scale Slammers Action","author":"Tony","date":"November 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hammer's Slammers:The Crucible author (and newly-appointed Miniature Wargames editor) John Treadaway recently visited our club, Maidstone Wargames Society, again for another Slammers game - this time in 6mm. 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