Many of you would have read of our good friend Ignatiff's appeal. If not I will let Steve explain it in his own words.
"As some of you will know, my younger sister died in May this year of a misdiagnosed melanoma. It started under her big toe and ended up in her brain, and killed her very quickly indeed. She left behind a wonderful husband and three lovely young teenage girls.
The cancer spread so fast that I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to her properly, and so in her memory, and to raise awareness of the dangers of melanomas, I - and two equally unhinged friends, Rodger Williams and Peter Martin - have decided to raise £100,000 for MASScot by taking part in the 2014 Mongol Rally.
The Mongol Rally takes place annually between the UK and Ulan Bataar, the capital of Mongolia. It’s a three week, eight thousand mile drive, across inhospitable terrain, along some of the worst roads in the world….and all in a car which has an engine no bigger than 1L. And they don't like you to take a 4WD car either (not that that would make much of a difference in a 1L car…).
Our route will take us through Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, across the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and then - finally - Mongolia. We expect to complete it in three weeks. And while it will be ‘epic’ in the true sense of the word, it will also be bloody hard work.
The charity we are raising money for is a small Scottish cancer charity, based in Glasgow, called ‘Melanoma Action and Support Scotland’ a.k.a. ‘MASScot’ (Charity Registration No. SC040286). They were, and continue to be, hugely supportive of my sisters family through these very difficult times.
All money raised through donations and sponsorship will go directly to the charity. All costs will be covered by the three of us.
Can I ask you therefore to dig deep and support something that is very close to my heart and in a very good cause.
You can read more about The Mongol Rally here:
http://www.theadventurists.com/the-adventures/mongol-rallyThank you all for reading this.
best regards
Steve"
As both Keith and I are members of this drinking, sorry wargaming, club and I have known Steve for a few years in our other life
Empress wondered how we could help. In the end we thought that we would do what we do best. We designed and created a figure especially for this appeal. We also persuaded, although it was far from hard to convince them. In fact we could not stop the little loves, both Paul Hicks and Stewart of Griffin Moulds to donate their services free of charge, as we did ours.
We wanted something funny, in period and that lots of gamers could use for the interwar and WW2 period. The solution came in the creation of the Grandson of Flashman VC.
Boy Flashman, as he is known to the other officers in the mess. Slightly effete and with the good looks and charm of a young David Niven.
This figure will have a limited 200 figure run and will first available at Salute and then via the Empress shop. It will be sold at £3 per figure and the money will go to the charity, as well as a little going to the tax man although we are looking at that at the moment.
Please support this cause as it is worthwhile.
Kind regards,
Paul
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