Saturday (13 April) . I went to my first wargaming show of the year, to help Warlords celebrate 51 years of wargaming shows. Left my house at about 9.50 am on a lovely Spring day. Started the journey first by bus and then onto the Queen Elizabeth line. I arrived at Excel London in just under 30 minutes, door to door, which was great and no long queue to get into the hall.
It was nice to see how busy the show was although there were a few empty tables laying around. It did not have a shopping list this time, started off visiting the trade stands first which I always do and there seemed to be a lot more than last years show.
It once again became clear that the main supply of figures were again in 28mm and no 20mm figures at all, this might be because of the continuing war in the Ukraine, where most of the 20mm figures are made. But in reality it might be that they are not needed in wargaming any more? The traders had a very good selection of everything you need to wargame from wargaming mats, rules dice (which there were plenty of) terrain pieces, figures, paint and brushes.
Going around the wargaming tables, there was a lot of very good layouts and I must say that there were loads of demonstration and participation games going on which were always seem to be busy. Another thing that stood out was that there were many paint and take away activities which is always great for the hobby. The main games were Sci-fi or fantasy and not many historical games at all. Most of the games were at a high standard. At 2 o’clock I met up with the Bloggers meet and it was nice to see the faces again and to catch up with their new projects. I left the show at about 3pm and must say that I did enjoy the show and hope that next year will be even better. Here are a few pictures of the show.
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| South East Scotland wargame Club - 1815 100 Days Campaign |
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| As above |
Two Fat Lardies - Stalingrad 1944
Who would not want this on their table
15th Century-Italian Gradara Castle
Retired Warganes Reloaded - WWII Pegasus Bridge
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| Rubican Models - Vietnam |
Great pics Steve. Also Great to see you again and have a chat.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the sprue and hopefully see you ar Broadside?
Hi Ray, Yes great to see you again and your welcome for the spure. If I get any more I will pass them on to you. See you at Broadside for sure. Take care.
DeleteHi Steve, it was nice to meet you and chat at the 'meet-up', I like your blog too - enjoyed the 'how it all started' posts! I have been able to purchase 1:72/20mm figures at other shows - there's a trader called '1/72 models' or similar who stocks quite a lot of HaT and several other ranges e.g. Strelets and Plastic Solider, and some more obsure stuff - he was at Cavalier the other month, usually at SELWG and maybe even Broadside too, if I remember right!
ReplyDeleteDave, Thanks for your kind words. Yes I know of 1/72 models, good and cheep. Going to Broadside again, so hope to see you there.
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