Monday 28 October 2013

50.000 Hits Raffle ! - Part 1

The day before yesterday my humble blog reached its 50.000th hit.

Thanks to all interested readers for your attention and the many encouraging comments !

50.000 hits that's more than one and a half years of Monty's Caravan: 123 posts, 162 followers, 1.130 comments and 50.400 hits. A far better feedback than I imagined when I started this wargaming diary. Actually to keep things ticking over on my workbench...

Since Monty's Caravan was my first step into this Web 2.0 social community new media stuff I'm surprised and delighted alike where in the whole world people are interested in my posts:
14.130 hits from Germany
11.503 from the USA
5.948 from the UK
1.863 from France
1.161 from the Russian Federation
1.023 from Australi
and some around 500 from Poland, Canada, Spain and Italy

As promised some time ago I want to organize a little raffle to celebrate this step with you and give you someting back. There will be two lots. One announced today and the other tomorrow  to make it easier for me to sort out who wants to join which lot.

The rules are as follows:
1. To join the raffle you must be public followers of Monty's Caravan.

2. You place a comment here expressing your whish to participate. That grants you one (1) entry.

3.  You'll receive one (1) bonus entry if you plug this draw on your blog and post a link to your article here.
(one promotional post is enough to get bonus entries in lot 1 and 2 if you participate both)

4. You'll receive another bonus entry when you address me at Crisis next weekend and take some minutes for a small chat. Since I'll be there with our THS club it wont be too difficult to catch me. But more details on that later this week. I hope that'll turn out a good chance to meet some of you fellows.

5. Registration is possible until sunday (2nd November) 09.00am  CET.

6. Both draws will be excuted by my personal lucky charm Viktoria under the witnessing eyes of Mrs Monty. There's no right of appeal.

7. The prize draw will be helt at the beginning of next week and the winners will be announced here on Monty's Caravan.

But now for the prizes. I've selected some kits from my cupboard of unfinished project. Actually absolutely great models but insufficient space at Monty's Caravan to keep them all. So I hope they'll find a good treatment under your craftful hands:

1st Lot: 
Italeri M4 Sherman and Airfix Tank Transporter
1st Lot: Italeri M4 Sherman Tank and Airfix Scammel Tank Transporter


Of course both kits are undamaged and as far as I can judge complete. Decals and construction manuals are included. The kits are 1/76 and 1/72 and should match perfectly for 20mm WWII. Probably most of you know both vehicles very well but anyway here you could find some information:


So stay tuned for tommorow's post about the 2nd lot and good luck to all participants !

45 comments:

  1. Dear Stefan, very many congratulations on such a wonderful milestone. I am sure there will be many more to come.

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  2. Congratulations of hitting the milestone chap

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  3. Congratulations on the success of the blog. Count me into the draw, these two models look excellent,

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  4. Well done on the milestone Stefan. Count me ut of the raffle due to the distance involved but in on the congratulations.

    Model on!

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    1. Thanks Paul, if you change your mind than feel free to join later. Shipping cost is a necessary risk but thanks for your regard.

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  5. Congrats Stefan! I'm not entering this draw as WW2 isn't my thing (at the moment).

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    1. Thanks Tamsin. You're free to changer your mind until next sunday. ;-)

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    1. Pimped!
      http://theangrylurker.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/promoting-some-fellow-bloggers.html

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    2. Thanks a lot, Fran.
      That's +1 for you.

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  7. Congrats on the milestone hits Monty!

    Christopher

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  8. Congrats on your blog Monty, 50 000 is very impressive for someone who's been here 1 and a half years (I've been around for just as long you, but have only gathered like 10 000!).

    So count me into this little draw! Good luck finding a winner.
    FF

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  9. Thanks a lot Andrew, Crisis 2014 is definitely on my schedule since there aren't so many large wargaming conventions on the continent. So I'm glad to meet you there and appear at BfC.

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  10. Congratulations Stefan.
    A great milestone in a short period. Damn well done and count me in.

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  11. Congrats, other Monty, er, Stefan! ;-)

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  12. Congratulations on the 50K hits Stefan, your work is very deserving of views. I will put my name in for the tank and Transport. I'll post a link from my blog as a reply here.

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    1. Thanks Sean.
      You're in and I'm looking forward to see your post.

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    2. Hi Stefan, I buried your promotion in this post here. It's towards the bottom of the post.

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    3. Thanks Sean, that's +1 for you.
      :-)

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  13. Congrats on you blog milestone Stefan, its very well deserved!! And count me in for the draw!

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    1. Thanks Ray. For the raffle I somehow counted on you so definitely in. ;-)

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  14. Well done on you Blog milestone Stefan, always a great read and plenty of eye candy too
    Peace James

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    1. Thanks James, I'll do my very best to add some eye candy with your BfC miniatures.
      ;-)

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  15. Congratulations of hitting this milestone! I am a new follower of your great blog, and I would love to enter both of you give-away's. I posted a message on my blog and also posted it in the right sidebar of my blog. Here is the link: http://sofies-paint-blog.blogspot.be/2013/10/montys-50000-hits-give-away.html . Thanks for a chance to win this beautiful items and maybe I will see you this weekend at Crisis, my husband and I are going too.

    Greetings, Sofie

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    1. Hi Sofie,

      thanks for joining my reader's list. I hope you'll enjoy my articles and pictures. And thanks for the kind support on your blog. Your in with two entries for this raffle and part 1 as well.

      Cheers
      Stefan

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  16. Congrats on the milestone :) I'll try to plug your contest later in the week, likely right after Halloween. It's fun to see where all the international visits come from isn't it?

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    1. It's absolutely fascinating to see where the people are from who visit my blog. When I started blogging I never thought that anyone would be interested in my workbench especially not people from all around the world...

      Feel free to join the raffle(s) during the next days.
      :-)

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    2. It is fun to see. At milestone markings I check to see which country has the most visits per capita. This last time it was 1.UK 2.Denmark 3.New Zealand

      Yes please, count me in and I plugged you here:
      http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2013/10/happy-halloween-trick-some-treats.html

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    3. Thanks a lot, that's +1 for you. :-)

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  17. Congrats on the milestone Stefan! THS stands for "TEAM FUR HISTORISCHE SIMULATIONEN"? Is that right?
    And I'll be there saterday! ;-)

    Greetings
    Peter

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    1. Yes, it does. Actually I mentioned it in some posts but not in every. Here is our club's homepage if you're interested in it:
      http://www.ths-wargames.de/index2.htm

      I'm looking forward to see you in Antwerp!
      :-)

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    2. Made some promotion for you on my blog Stefan. http://www.peterscave.blogspot.be/2013/11/tomorrow-crisis-2013.html
      See you tomorrow!

      Greetings
      Peter

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    3. Thanks for the promotion and it was very nice to meet you on Saturday. Such conventions are a good chance to meet nice people in person who are only known via internet otherwise.
      That's +2 then.

      :-)

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  18. Congrats on the milestone ! And sign me up for the tank & transport. And maybe i see you at Crisis.

    Greetings
    Mario

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    1. You're in. I would be pleased to meet you at Crisis.
      :-)

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  19. Congrats! Please add me to the draw.

    Cheers/Thomas

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