On September 28 NHMGS and the Museum of Flight in Seattle joined together to sponsor a game day at the Museum of Flight.

An Me-262. While searching the Internet for a suitable picture of one of these aircraft, I came across the most amazing fact: there is a group of guys building flight-ready replica Me-262s at Paine Field in Everett! Check out their web site at: www.stormbirds.com.

This was the third year that NHMGS was able to put on the game day. For this year's event NHMGS had five gaming tables and an information table in the Museum's View Lounge. The lounge is situated on the second floor of the Museum and had an excellent view of the aircraft coming and going from Boeing Field (including a group of F-18s and a 747-400-ER).

The games for this year's event included a colonial action in Sudan, a World War II scenario with U.S. paratroopers holding on until reinforcements arrive, a 1930s air racing game, a World War I 'Canvas Eagles' air game, V-1 'Doodlebug' interception, and a game with Adolf Galland's jet squadron intercepting American bombers.

I thought that the games showed the wide variety of interests and topics covered by NHMGS and everyone seemed to have a good time.

Greg Maggard ably manned the information table this year, explaining the hobby and NHMGS organization to everyone that stopped by the lounge. The table provided information about the different aspects of our hobby; including different rules, reference sources, and painted miniatures from several eras. Paul Hannah provided and excellent display showing the steps used to take a miniature from out of the package to ready to play.

The turnout at the event was pretty good. At the peak, we had around 25 people playing games and talking about NHMGS/miniatures gaming and there were over 50 people that wandered through the lounge during the day. There were a lot of familiar faces, which was nice to see, along with some new ones joining in the games. The pre-event advertising seemed to help with the attendance. I spoke with several people that read about the game day in the Museum of Flight News, saw one of the NHMGS flyers placed at local hobby shops, or read about it on the NHMGS website and Yahoo group.

The Museum of Flight game day is one of the few opportunities where NHMGS can get out and show off to the general public. I want to thank all the people that helped with the games and that came out and made this a successful event for both the Museum and NHMGS.