Ronny (Roadkill) has been in contact with the club that puts on a yearly anticipated event in Geel, Belgium. The event is a one day show and contest that will happen this year on September 14th. Here is what Ronny has posted in the Dutch forum on this (this is a translation from Dutch).




I have actually been thnking about the day we would do something like this for a big show here in the states (like IPMS Nats or AMPS). But if we can successfully organize and fund the costs of this event it would be great for some of our european members to be able to meet up and see their buddies at a show.

So who is interested? Suggestions about what we could do to make it memorable? I can try to get some special Armorama t-shirts made for this event. And Ronny is already thinking on name tags too.

We can use all the help we can get.

Thanks,
Jim

Hi,

Last year there where a lot of German, French and English visitors (beside the Belgium's and Dutch) although this is only a one day event.

If you don't live to far from the Belgium border and you are willing to visit and maybe even show a few models then just let me know.

I almost forgot.

A well known figure-painter Gino Poppe, is most likely to attend the meeting (like last year) and he will be planning to demonstrate his painting method for acrylic paints. For the figure painters among us, something that should be seen.

Jim

We already have talked a lot of this over and I`m already working on some name-tags for the event. The idea of T-shirts was also already mentioned and there was a lot of response for that.
I also will show work that I made since joining I even will show the difference of models before my Armorama Period and since my Armorama period (believe me that`s a big difference) I know for sure that a lot of people want to show their work. Another fun thing to have is print-outs and quotes of people who visited the site, became member, never left due to addiction :-) :-) these things printed and put on some cardboard (this thing is really only a suggestion but in the advertising world this really works good).

Another thing that works really well is printing Stickers with the Arorama Logo with the title "the friendly home for the military modeler" on it and the URL and nothing more.. Why is this??? People who are not familiar will look at the sticker. And they will get curious because there isn`t that much information on it. From the title and the design they know that it`s something bout modelers and that it sounds good due to the text "Friendly home". From out their curiosity they will visit the site and look around a bit and If they like it they will stay and they will tell it to other modelers wich then comes part two (mouth to mouth advertising) The best way of advertising you can get.
These are only a couple of suggestions

The date is already locked in my Agenda and that won`t change unless something really bad happens to me before that time. So I`m present in Geel to stand next to Ronny

I also think this is a real honour that Armorama is asked to promote their site on an event and I think it will happen more in the future if we are going on the way we are doing now. The Friendlyness and the non Elite behaviour of this site is noticed and the other (great) sites and clubs can`t deny us anymore so it`s only a matter of time before you have a stand on the IPMS Nats

I received an email from KMK to let me know who the special guest are for this year:


Rob Henden the airbrush wizard ( Known from his Military Modelling articles) en Gino Poppe (known figure painter who will also demonstrate his new acrylic technique) and Phil Stutcinskas a known British diorma builder

Man Ronny

I`m really looking forward to the KMK with those guys coming. Really interesting people and really skilled builders too