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Mid-monthly Meeting
Saturday 17 May 2008
12:30 onwards at 7th floor,
Hitec Centre, Kowloon Bay
Programme to be posted shortly . . .
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2008
Competition Trophies
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James Bishop still has to collect his trophy for winning the
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AGM, Saturday 5 April 2008
Senior Police Officers' Mess, Wanchai |
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A very
successful 27th AGM with over 40 people in attendance and the usual
excellent curry followed by the entertaining annual auction. The
DBMM and Memoir '44 competitions, started at the last meeting, were
brought to successful conclusion, with the DBR competition remaining to
be concluded at the mid-April meeting.
There were 16
entrants in the Memoir '44 competition, which, after a tense final, saw
James Bishop take first prize consisting of a shield and a box of 3
painted WWII figures kindly donated by Eric Hall. Congratulations
James. Eric came a close second, which is just as well, as
otherwise, he would have been presented with a prize donated by himself!
He will, however, be receiving a shield commemorating his hard fought
game, at the mid-April meeting.
Another
closely fought mach in the DBMM competition saw James Cheung prevailing
over Jeff Herbert. James collected his
prize
'camel', again donated by Eric Hall, and both James and Jeff will
be presented with their commemorative shields at the mid-April meeting.
Dragon
Painting Services donated several boxes of painted miniatures in both
15mm and 28mm scale, which generated over HK$4,000 in the auction to the
HKSW coffers. Many thanks to both Herbert Wong and Tony Lee for
their ongoing support.
Herbert Wong and
Tony Lee of Dragon Painting Services
After Action Reports from Past Meetings
We were in the news again in the now defunct Australian bi-monthly
magazine Broadsword, issue 10 of which carried an illustrated in
depth introduction to HKSW. They also reprinted a couple of
articles from old issues of
Despatches. Jeff Herbert and Michael Withington, fame (if not
fortune) await you; your articles, respectively, on the "Successors" and
"Wargaming Blitzkrieg" were continued in issues 11 and 13.
We also made the press in issue 528 of HK magazine, which ran an article
on the offbeat clubs of Hong Kong. We rubbed shoulders with the
likes of the Condoms of the Month Club (the mind boggles) and the
Hong Kong Laughter Club
(if they want a real laugh, they should come along to one of our club
meetings). We weren't shed in too bad a light, although needless to
say, they got some of the facts wrong. Read the full report
here.
As most of you will already know, we made it into the pages of the South
China Morning Post. You can read the full article by clicking on
the image of the page on the right. Whilst not entirely accurate,
it has not done us any disservice, as we have had several approaches by
potential members since its publication. We have also been asked
to stage a two-day event at Cyber Port in mid-April 2007. Such is
the power of the press . . .
As a consequence of which, HKSW's first ever war and strategy
game show was staged at Cyberport on the weekend of 21/22 April 2007.
Latest club coverage can be found at Wargame Journal's web-site, where a
photo feature of our WWI dog-fight game can be found.
The competition to identify the manufacturer of the pictured figures is
still open to the world at large - no successful responses yet - look
here
for details.
Membership Discounts
We're still working on getting discounts for our membership, so far we
have arranged the following:
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Hong Kong Wargames Club are offering a 10% discount to our paid
up members on all in-store purchases
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Amazon Miniatures
in the UK, who are offering 10% off on all orders of £50 or
more. Details can be found here.
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Sunrise Restaurant, Tse Wan Shan, Kowloon,
which is offering a 10% discount on the total bill, including
beverages, on production of your membership cards.
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