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Shawn

Last month I received an e-mail from Sgt. Pete Gill who is currently stationed in Khandahar, Afghanistan. He asked for some gaming supplies to help establish a wargaming club for NATO service members in Khandahar. We immediately shipped him everything we print and e-mailed him all our PDF products as well.

Several miniatures companies, including Chieftain, S&S, Chiltern, and TAG responded with generous donations.

Now it seems the boys are lacking in scenery, so Ambush Alley Games is taking donations to purchase them province worth of scenery.

If you are interested in donating cash for the purchase of scenery and other gaming supplies for use by NATO gamers in Khandahar, please make a PayPal donation to:

ambushalleydonations@gmail.com

If you're a manufacturer of 28mm modern figures, vehicles, or scenery and would like to donate product to Sgt. Gill's club, please contact me at ambushalley@gmail.com for his shipping information.

Take care,

Shawn.
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Piers · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject:

I cant contribute scenery (or cash at the mo... Im broke!) but I will be painting up a squad of SAS to send to the boys!

I also have a strange urge to see my troops in action in the 'Stan!

If any figure company wants something painted for the boys, let me know!
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Shawn · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject:

PM me if you want Pete's shipping address. I'm not comfortable giving it out on an open forum like this.
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whoa mohamed · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject:

Piers
thats an awsome idea shawn could award individual figures for whatever Shawn does in that dark locked office where he thinks up stuf .
send extra figures which would be used in the stan then brought back and these combat veteren figues could be given out at shows and for speacial prizes the lads in the unit could then sighn a card authenticating the figure with the unit using it or we could even auction them off to buy more stuff for the kids ... Id bid on a para figure with a para card or a scots or irish unit....even vehicles......Painted by Piers used by soldiers in a combat zone auctioned by shawn and presented by shawn (ok stuffed in a box wraped in newspaper )...a piece of history .....Mikey
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Piers · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:56 am Post subject:

I have contacted a number of companies to see if we can get some bits together.

I would dearly love to get a complete Ambush Alley set of figures painted up, but this may be a bit ambitious!

We shall see how it goes... But if it helps makes a single soldiers time in Afghanistan even slightly easier to put up with... I think its worth it.
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Rudy M · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 4 Location: USA

This sounds like a great idea!!! Very Happy

Sgt. Scream · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:17 am Post subject:

whoa mohamed · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:04 am Post subject:

when i was out there i used my micro guys for just that , To show formation and imeadiate actions upon contact....and other missions like clearence stacking etc ......you could practice on a table over and over with out being in the heat untill you actualy had to be graded .Mikey
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Varagon · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject:

Jason Weiser · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:02 am Post subject:

I would be willing to put some cork ruins and such in a care package...Money's a bit tight...but not overly but I still want to help out. Also, what scales are they looking at?

Shawn · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:28 pm Post subject:

They are using 28mm.

If you have stuff you want to ship them, just let me know and I'll PM you the shipping address - or you can PM Pete Gill - he's on the forum now, too.
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dizbuster · Major Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 406 Location: Sussex

Piers, if the manufacturers won't donate how about us buying them and having them shipped to you for painting ?
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Witch_Doctor · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

Our gamming group in Talil is nearly all army engineers, I could probably have a modular board put together for them. Perhaps with internal trays for holding minis or terrain bits. It would be unfinished and need a mat cover of some sort, but it's do-able. 28mm, that would be what... 4x6? Larger? Not sure how shipping from APO to APO goes, but I'll ask tomorrow.
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jim_keats · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:51 am Post subject:

Some funds sent.

I hope that they can post some pix (of their games...unless there's no security issues with "real" stuff).

May the all come home safe and sound.

- Jim

Shawn · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

Update!

We received enough 28mm terrain from Miniature Building Authority to send an entire village worth of buildings, walls, fountains, bazaar stalls, etc. to Pete & Company in the Stan!

Miniature Building Authority was EXTAORDINARILY generous in their support of this project - All told, the guys are getting about $1k in terrain, all pre-painted, all finely made, all good to go! If you've thought about spending some money with these guys, please do! Their heart is definitely in the right place!

The buildings will ship tomorrow - just to give you an idea of the package size, we'll be spending about $250 just on postage!

We couldn't have done this without your generous support - so thanks again to everyone who donated either money or material to this effort!

You guys are the best!
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