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| Central London Wargames Group |
Three of the Rejects myself, Fran and Postie travelled up the A2 and on into London for their annual visit to SELWG at Crystal Palace on Sunday, there we met another two Rejects Big Lee and Richard with his young lad Thomas in tow. We all spent too much money as per usual!! I needed to restock my paints so spent most of my money on paint, I was a little alarmed as to the price of Vallejo paint nowadays, £1.75 a bottle, I realise companies have over heads and all that, but that's just taking the pi$$. I also had a chat with Simon from Parkfield Miniatures about his up and coming War of the Liberators figures, I must say I'm very tempted they look very, very nice!! I also bought 6 different wagons and baggage from Magister Militum for my 15mm FIW project, and then as we were leaving proceeded to knock the owner over!!! I was carrying a massive box of The Last Valley items, trees and whatnots for the invalid Postie and I just didn't see him crouched down on the floor and walked striaght into him! he was damn lucky I didn't squash him and end up sprawled ontop of him....poor chap!!
There were some awesome looking games on show, Unfortunately some idiot didn't check the batteries on his camera, so he, meaning ME!! only got a few photo's of a few games, luckily BigLee had 2 spare batteries which enabled me to take a few more pics before they ran out as well.
I think the best looking game was from Shepway Wargames - Polska Walczaga (Poland Fights) scenario, unfortunatly my camera was dead by then, but take a look at Lee and Fran's blogs they must have some pics!!
Here's a few photos from the show
Ray
Let me innnnn!!!!
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| Loughton Strike Force's Magnificent WWII game |
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The Fight for Henry House Hill by Newbury & Reading Wargames Society |
Apologies but I think this is Central London Wargames Group WWI Dogfight game, the planes in the first picture are there's too.
Bloody Lane, the Battle of Antietam, 17th September 1862 by South London Warlords
Mid Anglia Gamers - ACW Naval
"Don't feed the Bears"
BigLee & Fran
Malbrough s'en va-ta-en Guerre, by Steatham & Tooting Wargamers
The GLC Gamers Club - The Battle of Chickamagua
Kingdom of Heaven, Battles in the Near East, 1183-1187
The Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society
Essex Warriors - Yom Kippur War1973
Great pictures. I thought the overall standard of the display games this year was excellent. The Polska Walczaga game was amazing.
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a better journey home than I did. Some t!t decided to shut the northbound carriageway of the Blackwall Tunnel, so I had to cross back under the river via the Rotherhithe Tunnel. The traffic was atrocious and it took me an hour and a half to do a journey I can normally do in about 40 minutes.
You got your post up before Angry did. When you said a few pictures I'm thinking 8-10 shots. Christ, you've got 35 here! My favorite is the Battle of Chickamauga, partly because it's such a surprise. They reinact these battles in the States every year and everything as authentic, down to making the gunpowder themselves. I think you guys would love it.
ReplyDelete@ Big Lee, we were home in around a hour or so mind you that was including a trip to McDonalds!!
ReplyDelete@Anne - yeh I beat him, infact I'm sick and tired of beating him, but hey, he's used to it!!!!
I couldn't make it to this show, a bit gutted, it looked brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThat shot of Fran and Big Lee reminded me of two Gargoyle book ends I used to have... just sayin'
ReplyDeleteI like the look of the Yom Kippur game though!
The shows looks fantastic. Its a shame we dont have anything like that here in Western Australia. I would have to travel nearly 4000km's over east for anything similar.
ReplyDeleteGreat blogging by the way Ray, you and your fellow posties are always entertaining..........I mean that in a good way.
Cheers.
Bears, Gargoyles....I am a Liger...hear me roar!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures.
ReplyDeleteIf the bears follow you home, do you get to keep them?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your great day out. Like Guidowg I'm most envious!
Great pictures. "Don't Feed the Bears" Ha!
ReplyDeleteAwesome Ray. Thanks for the great photos.
ReplyDeleteCheers for the photos Ray, some good looking games there.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteRay:
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to take the photos of the those nice games - surprising to see so many ACW. Great to see you and Angry making it to such a cool convention. Best, Dean
Excellent fuel to stoke my "get-up-and-go" to do more gaming! Looks like a great time was had by all. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDelete"Don't feed the Bears" -- LOL. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. Jealous as all-get-out!
ReplyDeleteJohn From Ontario
Another great day that I had to miss do to a tightening of belts. Great photos Ray.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the photos.
ReplyDeleteTony
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lol at the bear paws that belong to fran and biglee, how do they paint such detailed figurines with em. crazy.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking pics! Really like the bi-planes and 28mm ACW!
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Nice report, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteJorge Faria
What a great looking show. Antietam is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteSaw your sexy kneecap over at Lurk's place.
ReplyDeleteThat's what all the girls say!!
ReplyDeleteThere is so much going on there it is hard to take it all in, and too bad about the Polish game not even getting in.
ReplyDeleteThere is a bald guy in the Japanese air attack picture whose comb-over hair looked like a strange ghost face at first glance, but it's actually the top of his head and not the face at all, so all is well.
I bet the poor paintseller was glad when he realized what would happen if the Bears and Gargoyles had stomped on him too, but of course they wouldn't do that.
Wow, some of those set ups are just fabulous! I'm totally in awe that people make them!
ReplyDeleteGreat pics Ray, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteJason