Not allowed in this year till 9.30am. (Previousl years been allowed to get food, in cafe, but not this year).
The main hall lower area. |
Main hall ramp way. Offensive miniatures on left. |
Demo game. The churches on this board were scratch built. Lovely! |
The table was very nice. Infact I thought was the nicest there. |
A scratch build, that was very very nicely done. |
Ainsty has a new range of 28mm figures. Inc Captain Scarlet! |
Ainsty Casting were back and with a range of new releases from Pirate ships to Captain Scarlet figures and mad scientists. Some lovely pieces and I can see a few winding their way into my collection at a later date. The pirate ships were impressive lumps of resin and with nice white metal detailing.
New Pirate Ship models from Ainsty. These are lovely. |
Ainsty sewer setup. |
28mm Captain Scarlet figures and scientists. Nice. |
Captain Scarlet - had to ressist very hard, from buying these.
Ainsty have some new released out and their range is still expanding. |
Warlord Games Operation Squad Demo Game |
I was keen to see Operation Squad, being played. As warlord had dumped "Rules of Engagement" it seems in favour of their own rule set. Not seen it played and so watched with interest. My first impressions I have to say, was not good. The game seemed too complex, and it did not grab me. I had a quick flick through the rule book (see photo below). Production wise I was, dissapointed. Its not perfect bound, the ink was rubbing off several pages from use and, though there are images etc in side. I was not impressed enough to buy it. I think I will stick with RoE for my platoon games and our home rules for squad ones.
Warlord Games Operation Squad Demo Game |
Warlord Games Operation Squad Rule Book - Tokens etc. |
28mm Romans Game. Nice! |
6mm Gettysburg Game - Impressive as it was about 2x2' in size. |
Desert WW2 game. No one would tell me what it was about. |
Nice board, not the most forthcoming demonstration. |
Nice board, again no info easy to find. |
See above. |
Like the models and terrain. |
I did like the figures and scenery. Some nice work.
The roman game. Hmmm tempting.
Nice Roman Game in 28mm |
ECW game in 28mm |
Middle floor area in Main Hall |
Some 28mm / 1:48 scale resin terrain. |
Field Works no longer do their 28mm items any more. Shame. |
Tomorrow's War by Ambush Alley on Caliver Books Stand along with Ambush Valley for Force on Force. |
So over all a fun day out with friends. The lack of personal hygene issues were evident again. I had to vacate the bring and buy on two occasions. . The rugby fans were screaming when England Won, wathcing the tele in the main hall a trader I presume had brought.
The food and drink in the cafe was ok. Not too pricy. The living history and re-enactors were present, and had some nice bits to see and talk about.
My overall spend was about £21 on four books and a pot of basetex paint from colourparty. So not the biggest shopping trip, but a fun and relaxing day out. Weather was a definite benefit.
So thats it, I think for the year, show wise now!
8 comments:
I was very surprised that there was no runny honey on the Bring & Buy.
The classic moment for us was seeing a very large gentleman dripping sweat into a box of figures on a traders stall...hmmmm.
Food was okay in the cafe but the service was bl**dy awful on both days. The woman serving me walked off as she couldn't work out the cost of my scone to be replaced by another lady who added 30p to my current order and still didn't know the price of the scone!
Ewwww.. but I can believe it.
Didn't have any issue, really with the food stuff, but was on there for the day mind.
Thanks for the mini review of the WW2 Squad game. By the sounds of it I will stick to ROE myself.
Great pics - thanks for sharing.
Yeah thanks Goose for the pics and review of the show, I always appreciate it when someone posts this sort of content, It gives us a chance to see what we missed out on.
Dude sweating in miniatures box....errr gross, and what is it with smelly poeple and shows ??? like take a shower first!
Cheers.
It was one of the hottest days of the year, especially this time of year, but even so. I took a spare t-shirt in the car, and a can of body spray, as I suspected it would get sticky inside. Infact it was not too bad temperature wise indoors. And we all got a bit hot by the end of the day. But there is definitely no excuse for the levels of lack of personal hygene we saw on the saturday.
And did they have Convention T shirts for sale in all the required sizes? L, XL, XXL, XXXL and Wargamer?
Cheers
Brian
No t-shirts for sale as far as I was aware..
You did get half a free plastic sprue from Warlord and a White metal mini, from someone else.
Did make me laugh that the two sponsors, were stuck where they were last time, in not very prominant spots. Which struck me as odd..
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