Lock up Your Sheep: Show reports

Monday, 3 February 2014

VAPNARTAK 2014

It was another trip down to York today for Vapnartak 2014. Myself and Mick arrived at about 11 o'clock and by then the venue was jam packed although it seemed to quieten by around three when we left. The organisers again put on a flea market in place of the bring and buy it was pretty busy when i arrived but most of the tables were empty by about 1 o clock. There was some interesting games on show and i managed to get pictures of some of them.

First of all my clubs game.

Border Riever Wargames Club- The Battle For Trafalgar Square 1984

The Bunker-War Of The Worlds

Not sure about this one.

North Hull Wargames Club-Early WW1

Yorkshire Renegades-Modern Day Afghanistan

Curteys Miniatures-Medieval Jousting Participation

Lance and Longbow Society-Battle Of Cravant

Leicester Phat Cats-Valley Of Tears Arab Israeli Wars

The League Of Extraordinary Kriegspielers-Battle Of Wake Island 1922

Some very impressive games there the War of the Worlds game was my favorite.

Unfortunately i only had about £100 to spend so all i purchased was some Pendraken Zulu War figures and the Warlord Games Black Powder Zulu war supplement.

Another very good show cant wait for next year.

Thanks For Reading

Carl

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

DERBY WORLD WARGAMES 2013

It was down to the Derby show this weekend where the club was putting on a Battle for Trafalgar Square demo game. yself and Mick went down on Friday afternoon checked in to our hotel and went for some food with the other club members who had managed to make it down. We got to the venue on Saturday morning at about 9 o'clock to help set the game up. Having not seen the game before i was really impressed, it seemed to get a lot of good reviews.

We then went for the annual Indians with the lads from Pendraken and Colonel bills and Ainsty and after a sizable quantity of alcohol had been drunk it was back to the hotel to sleep it off.The Sunday was a little quieter but the game got alot of attention.We were packed up and away by half past three and home for about half six.

The venue had improved from last year, the toilets had been done out as had the cafeteria but the noise of the racetrack is still pretty annoying and it isn't particularly warm. It is improving but i still favour the university.

There was a good mix of traders and some good looking games and from what I've heard most of the traders had relatively good takings.

Anyway onto the pictures. I tried to get as many of the games photographed as i could.

Derby Wargames Club-Battle For Tunisia 1943

Border Reiver Wargames Club-The Battle For Trafalgar Square 1984

Like a Stone Wall Wargames Group-Flodden 1513

The Gentlemen Gamers-Baghavard 1745

Wings of Glory Aerodrome-WW1 and WW2 Air Combat

Skirmish Wargamers-54mm Sudan

KB Club-Sci-Fi

The following are some models used in this game made using a home 3D printer. Iadded the pencil for scale. This technology is rapidlr improving and the detail on these models and figures is excellent. Its the first time i have seen figures made using this process.