Salute 2013 - A Show Report - Part 2

The last photo's:

5 Go on Holiday? And burn and pillage a Trojan town?

A large Waterloo game. That's Napoleon top left, honest.

Wolsung skirmish board, a very well filled 2' x 2'.

Ninja skirmish game.

Mars and... Martians. Oh, and Earthmen.

Japanese castle siege.

Hordes and Heroes. Medieval in the foreground, Dark Ages behind.

Stoke Wargames Group's Wargods of Aegyptus skirmish game.

New fantasy skirmish game system and model range, Twilight.

Snit, from Dragon Magazine. I love it.

Sound El Deguello. Oh, too late. Mexicans parade around the Alamo.

Da Clash! Intriguing.

54mm action from Victrix. Gorgeous.

Back home by 9.30 p.m. and my lift is already sorted for next year...

Salute 2013 - A Show Report - Part 1

Okay, not so much a show report as a bunch of photos. I haven't got time to do this show justice it was so big (and quite good). Even then there was a lot that my camera missed so the photos are just a cross section of 'things' that I found particularly interesting.

My lift arrived at 5.45 a.m. and we reached our destination at 9.30. A trader / display game badge got us in early and by 9.45 I was at the Peter Pig stand picking up almost £100 worth of AK-47 stuff for my fast approaching Mbogo campaign. After that I spent very little; £5 on a 1/100 Mi-24 Hind kit, £5 on a bag of 75 (!) small scale trees, £3 on a pre-painted 1/72 Ferdinand and a couple of quid on some mdf bases. We left at 4.00 p.m. and I just about had enough time to see everything once.

The photos, in no particular order:

The display stand for the official D&D miniatures range. Wow!

Dropzone commander?

28mm Mexican-American War

A peculiar rooftops and viaduct above the smog game. Bizarre...

Views from either end of the Operation Overlord display game. Nice.

Devil's Den as featured in this months WI.

Jason and the Argonauts in 'Action Man' scale.

Busy Stalingrad terrain with very few figures for the table size.

That's about half of 'em, more to come.

WMMS 2013 - A show report - Part 2

Ok. Here's the rest of the eye candy...

One last shot of the spectacular 28mm SCW game. Drool.

Peter Pig's Square Bashing participation game. 15mm WWI.

War and Conquest demo / participation game. Greek on Greek action in 28mm. (Ooer!)

  

This one was pretty cool. Weird War II in 15mm with Clockwork Goblin's accessory kits and walkers added on to other companies tanks. Brilliant.

Fictional AWI in 28mm from some random BoS.

If this 15mm ACW battle had a name it has been lost in the Mists of Time.

A John Carter on Mars game. No, only joking. A very interesting French in Indo-China game in 10mm using Cold War Commander. It gave Sean 'ideas'.

A gorgeous 28mm Napoleonic skirmish game but, yawn, it was a snorefest with nothing moving that I could see.

Stout fellows from the SWG also put on this 1/3000 WWII naval game. 'Action off Cape Spartivento'.

 

Battlegroup Kursk in 20mm. Another snorefest. The combatants were all only 12" on to the table by home time. What a wasted day. 



 

And finally a FoW game in 15mm with the usual 1914 infantry tactics and wheel to wheel tanks reminding me why I wouldn't touch this game with a barge pole. (Sorry FoW fans...)

 

 

Purchases? A box of Pz IV's in 1/72 from PSC, some paint and a lovely Celtic village in 15mm off the bring and buy. I'll post some shots after I've touched up a little damage... All in all a good day. Thanks Charles for the lift there and to Sean for getting me back.

WMMS 2013 - A show report - Part 1

I trotted off to 'Alumwell' today for a chance to spend some cash at a (reasonably) local show. I've been going to this show, though not always this venue, for years and never been disappointed. It was well attended though not overcrowded. I'm not sure how well some of the traders were doing but I tried to help them out a little...

 

 

The rest of my report is just a succession of eye-candy from the demo games (sorry if your's isn't here, my batteries died).

 

First up, Guildford Courthouse from the AWI in 15mm, put on by a few ex-members of Stoke Wargames Group (SWG).

More AWI from a BoS (bunch of strangers), Gibson Hill in 28mm.

 

Jason and some other nice chaps from SWG put on a Fredericksburg demo (ACW) in 15mm. Good stuff...

Another BoS put on a WWII game using the new Overlord expansion to Battlegroup Kursk in 20mm. Lovely.

 

A rather busy 1st Day at Gettysburg in 28mm from another BoS.

Operation Caravan; the LRDG raid on Barce. In 20mm by a BoS.

Legends of the Old West in 28mm.

 

28mm WWII Bolt Action game in 28mm. Nice.

 

My favourite. 28mm SCW using Empress Miniatures and A World Aflame (?) rules. Gorgeous.

 

That's enough for now. Part 2 to follow. Is there a limit on file storage on these Blogger accounts? I must find out...