{"id":653,"date":"2012-04-23T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T08:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2012-04-23T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T08:42:52","slug":"well-fancy-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/well-fancy-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Well fancy that …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… we won a prize !<\/p>\n

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Never for one minute did we imagine that the Pegasus Bridge<\/a> game would win anything at Salute. We’re up against many fantastically impressive 28mm or larger games, with hordes of beautifully painted Napoleonic Dragoons, Hoplites, Waffen-SS etc. A 6mm game doesn’t stand a chance, right ? It appears that the judges disagreed. What we won for was the whole package – quality of the terrain, historical accuracy, presentation and the way that the club members engaged with the visiting public and explained what was going on, both in terms of the development of the game and the models and also the historical background.<\/p>\n

So well done and many thanks to the members of Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a> for putting in all the effort on the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… we won a prize ! Never for one minute did we imagine that the Pegasus Bridge game would win anything at Salute. 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