Colours is back as a 1-day show this year, so we're really looking forward to seeing how it goes. It's being held on the 12th September at Newbury Racecourse, and more info can be found here: http://nrwc.org.uk/colours
We'll need your pre-orders in before Saturday 5th September please!
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Hope to see you there. :)
I imagine it will be rather busy and somewhat hectic, being only a one-day show. Does anyone know if they still running the competition games? Still awaiting news on our demo game but will be on the Bruce Weigle games for some of the day no matter what. Looking forward to it as it is my favourite show.
Quote from: Steve J on 27 May 2015, 03:12:41 PM
I imagine it will be rather busy and somewhat hectic, being only a one-day show. Does anyone know if they still running the competition games? Still awaiting news on our demo game but will be on the Bruce Weigle games for some of the day no matter what. Looking forward to it as it is my favourite show.
We've not had any more information on it yet, just the initial booking form that we sent off late last year. I'm hoping to see some advertising/promo for it soon, as it's only a little over 3 months away.
Damn! It's a second Saturday again, which is my monthly walking day with the local walking group.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 May 2015, 08:53:28 AM
Hope to see you there. :)
Me too :D
Have to get that poll organised to see who's buying the drinks... ;)
Cheers!
Meirion
QuoteDamn! It's a second Saturday again, which is my monthly walking day with the local walking group.
Get them to either walk Newbury racecourse or the nearby Civil War battlefield ;) :D.
Bit of a trek for a day out from Formby.
Well full details of demo games and traders are finally up on their website:
http://www.nrwc.org.uk/colours (http://www.nrwc.org.uk/colours)
Maybe it's just me but there seems to be less demo games this year compared to previous ones. For anyone attending I will be helping out on the Double Six Gamers table as well as the Grand Tactical Games one. Craig (Tiny Terrain) has done a sterling job on the former, which is a modern skirmish game set in a fictional African country. Bruce Weigle's table is sure to be stunning and is 1871 Franco-Prussian War.
So who else is going? I know some forum members are due to help out on Bruce's table, but it's always good to put faces to names at shows. Hope to see some of you there.
There's also a lot less traders this year, the 2013 show had over 90 companies, but only 62 this time around including no Dave Thomas.
This is probably not a bad thing in the short term, as any drop in visitor numbers this year due to the format change won't be felt as badly amongst the traders. If the visitors turn out and supoprt the show as usual then they can look at increasing the trader numbers again in the future.
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A 30% drop in traders is quite large :o.
Quote from: Steve J on 01 September 2015, 07:24:07 AM
A 30% drop in traders is quite large :o.
Indeed, and I'm not sure what the reason behind it is. Hopefully the club have cut the numbers due to the year off and the rearranged one-day format, keeping the trader levels lower in case the visitor numbers drop substantially. There may also be some natural casualties, either companies who are not around anymore, have stopped doing as many shows, or found themselves a replacement show in 2014. I'd suspect the latter would include Dave Thomas as he does a lot of the continental shows, so he might have found a weekend away in Europe somewhere that brings in comparitive sales in a sunnier climate...!
I'll be there!
Mollinary
Well hope to see you there Mollinary. Are you on Bruce's table for a bit by any chance?
Quote from: Steve J on 01 September 2015, 06:34:50 PM
Well hope to see you there Mollinary. Are you on Bruce's table for a bit by any chance?
That is my general intention, General! :D. See you there. The usual carnation and rolled up copy of the Times as recognition aids, I assume? ;)
Mollinary
Unfortunately I am away on Holiday for this show. - rats :(
Quote from: Leon on 01 September 2015, 05:34:29 PM
Indeed, and I'm not sure what the reason behind it is. Hopefully the club have cut the numbers due to the year off and the rearranged one-day format, keeping the trader levels lower in case the visitor numbers drop substantially. There may also be some natural casualties, either companies who are not around anymore, have stopped doing as many shows, or found themselves a replacement show in 2014. I'd suspect the latter would include Dave Thomas as he does a lot of the continental shows, so he might have found a weekend away in Europe somewhere that brings in comparitive sales in a sunnier climate...!
If shows were more conveniently located, they'd be able to draw in more customers. Why, in Bangkok alone there must be over twenty of us by now!
QuoteThe usual carnation and rolled up copy of the Times as recognition aids, I assume?
Tinned milk around my neck should make me stand out :D ;).
We should all get badges made - maybe with a picture of Leon in shades: 8) and our forum moniker underneath :D
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 02 September 2015, 09:58:53 AM
We should all get badges made - maybe with a picture of Leon in shades: 8) and our forum moniker underneath :D
I'm working on something...
How about a forum monocle?
Quote from: Fenton on 02 September 2015, 07:49:53 PM
How about a forum monocle?
Awesome idea :-bd
I'd wear one 8)
Ooh that sounds interesting... :)
If shows were more conveniently located, they'd be able to draw in more customers. Why, in Bangkok alone there must be over twenty of us by now!
Lucky you, here it's only me and my...brush!
China, is it? If so, you have my most profound sympathy!
Good show, I'm coming down for a few days, staying at the Newbury Hilton, I'll see you on the Saturday if not the Friday evening.
Quote from: cameronian on 04 September 2015, 01:37:47 PM
Good show, I'm coming down for a few days, staying at the Newbury Hilton, I'll see you on the Saturday if not the Friday evening.
We can't afford drinks in the Hilton, we'll be slumming it in the Travelodge in the city centre...
Placed my order(s), got to come now! <:-P
Well I'll be down early Saturday with Dave Fielder and Mike Embree, both of whom will be helping on Bruce's table. Look forward to seeing all who can make it on the day. Please say hello if you have the time.
Looking forward very much to meeting Mike, he's been incredibly generous with book lending and with his time. Good news.
Mike is a lovely chap. I met him quite by chance at Bruce's table two years ago and we got chatting about the game, as he was explaining things to the 'punters'. It transpired that we lived closed to each other, had daughters of a similar age etc. I ended up helping Bruce pack the game away, having bought his rules as I was so impressed by the whole set up, and then gave Mike a lift back home.
Fraid I can't be there this year either.
Second Saturday is not good for me either - Messy Church!
But hope to be at Warfare which falls near my birthday so I have some money to spend.
Leon
If there is any chance there will be some AVBCW figures to peruse, I may well be in the market for some.
(So much for getting back in to the hobby slowly!)
- Neil.
Quote from: NeilCFord on 06 September 2015, 12:43:51 PM
If there is any chance there will be some AVBCW figures to peruse, I may well be in the market for some.
We wouldn't have those on the stand with us, but if you pop me an email with a list of any codes in particular you'd like to see, we can bring them along.
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Quote from: Leon on 06 September 2015, 10:16:11 PM
We wouldn't have those on the stand with us, but if you pop me an email with a list of any codes in particular you'd like to see, we can bring them along.
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Done!
- Neil.
I'm intending to be at Colours on Saturday so hope to see people there.
Regards
Edward
Quote from: NeilCFord on 07 September 2015, 04:33:50 PM
Done!
- Neil.
Just to check, which email did that go to as I've not seen anything at this end yet?
The one we have previously exchanging email on, the btinternet one.
- Neil.
Quote from: NeilCFord on 07 September 2015, 06:31:25 PM
The one we have previously exchanging email on, the btinternet one.
That's odd then, nothing's arrived here. Can you resend it?
Just done. CC'd info@ as well, just in case.
- Neil.
Quote from: NeilCFord on 07 September 2015, 07:35:59 PM
Just done. CC'd info@ as well, just in case.
Got it now, we'll get those extra bits sorted out for the show, no worries.
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Hullo, I managed to convince the missus it would be a grand idea to visit UK this weekend, thus I will be able to visit the show.
Leon, will you be bringing any of the League of Augsburg figures to the show? I realise I've missed the pre-order deadline and you don't seem to have any ready made army packs for the range which I could just grab. I am rather desperate for something colourful after all the ACW uniformity.
Cheers,
Aksu
Quote from: Aksu on 08 September 2015, 07:14:50 PM
Hullo, I managed to convince the missus it would be a grand idea to visit UK this weekend, thus I will be able to visit the show.
Leon, will you be bringing any of the League of Augsburg figures to the show? I realise I've missed the pre-order deadline and you don't seem to have any ready made army packs for the range which I could just grab. I am rather desperate for something colourful after all the ACW uniformity.
Cheers,
Aksu
Pop me an email with what you need and I'll see if I can get one of the casting lads to sort it out on Wed/Thurs.
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Well the Gods have conspired against Dave Fielder and I from attending the show :(. His boiler started making funny noises last night and so is awaiting British Gas today, whilst the starter motor on our car went this morning, having loaded the car up and all ready to set off :'( :'( :'(. Bugger.
So I hope those of you that can make it to the show have a great day out and please take plenty of pics to make me feel better...
Quote from: Steve J on 12 September 2015, 07:23:58 AM
Well the Gods have conspired against Dave Fielder and I from attending the show :(. His boiler started making funny noises last night and so is awaiting British Gas today, whilst the starter motor on our car went this morning, having loaded the car up and all ready to set off :'( :'( :'(. Bugger.
So I hope those of you that can make it to the show have a great day out and please take plenty of pics to make me feel better...
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
That's pants! Was looking forward to meeting you again :(
I'll see what I can do!
Cheers,
Meirion
Hi Meirion,
yep, I was looking forward to meeting some of the chaps again :(. Pop by Craig's table and say hello and you may even be able to get a bit of a game in. He's down as Double Six games and should have a big Skirmish Sangin pop up display by the table.
Any pics greatly appreciated. I'd love to have some form of game to compensate for missing the show but have family over so all stashed away out of sight until end of play tomorrow.
Steve 'at a loss as to what to do' J
Quote from: Steve J on 12 September 2015, 07:23:58 AM
Well the Gods have conspired against Dave Fielder and I from attending the show :(. His boiler started making funny noises last night and so is awaiting British Gas today, whilst the starter motor on our car went this morning, having loaded the car up and all ready to set off :'( :'( :'(. Bugger.
So I hope those of you that can make it to the show have a great day out and please take plenty of pics to make me feel better...
Awwwww...... X_X
When you're really looking forward to something and those sorts of things happen......
Hey Ho ! :(
Cheers - Phil
Hey Ho! as you say Phil. A nice long walk in the sunshine has cheered me up. Wife and daughter feeling sorry for me as they know how much I look forward to this show.
Well, whatever you were going to spend at the show could be a nice order into Pendraken. :D
I went to the show today, but no photos - sorry!
Picked up my order of a High Elf warband army. The figures look great and I can't wait to start painting them.
Cheers, Andy
No photos from me either I'm afraid, was too busy either spending money with Pendraken or pushing planes around. The show looked busy. Hopefully all the traders did good business and it was considered a success.
Didn't see much 10mm stuff in evidence amongst the demo games though.
- Neil.
What was the 1871 game like
QuoteWell, whatever you were going to spend at the show could be a nice order into Pendraken.
I had a pre-order for collection at the show which Craig kindly picked up for me. Had hoped to start work on them this week but that will have to wait until we meet up, hopefully at the weekend if the car is fixed that is.
Good to see everyone yesterday but a shame Steve couldn't make it along.
The show was really good, the move to a one-day format was a big success as far as we're concerned. The worry is that all those people who would normally come on the Sunday don't bother at all and you lose all those sales. That didn't seem to be the case to me, and the visitor numbers didn't seem to be affected at all. I haven't heard any official door stats yet, but it was manic for the first 3 hours and still busy enough through the rest of the afternoon. Takings were higher during this year's single day than in the previous incarnation's two days, so all good from this end.
The only negative would be the space available and the size of the tradestands. We were only allowed 6ft depth in our stand, which is a bit 'old school' and less than any other show on the circuit these days. That meant we had to really compact everything just to fit in, and the space within the stand was minimal. As a result we had a couple of displays knocked off shelves by folks squeezing past each other, one of which completely shattered and will need to be replaced.
Great to hear that the show was a success from your point of view Leon :).
Quote from: Leon on 13 September 2015, 03:52:40 PMAs a result we had a couple of displays knocked off shelves by folks squeezing past each other, one of which completely shattered and will need to be replaced.
There needs to be a cloakroom and a blanket ban on rucksacks in the main trading hall. And in some cases, straight jackets to prevent excessive arm waving might be a goo idea too!
Great to hear the day was a success. Even though I wrote a list, i still managed to fail to pick up a couple of things, so an order will be incoming in the not to distant future.
Would definitely return to Colours next year.
- Neil.
Quote from: NeilCFord on 13 September 2015, 05:07:47 PM
Great to hear the day was a success. Even though I wrote a list, i still managed to fail to pick up a couple of things, so an order will be incoming in the not to distant future.
Would definitely return to Colours next year.
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I'll keep an eye out for the order!
Quote from: Leon on 13 September 2015, 03:52:40 PM
The show was really good, the move to a one-day format was a big success as far as we're concerned. The worry is that all those people who would normally come on the Sunday don't bother at all and you lose all those sales. That didn't seem to be the case to me, and the visitor numbers didn't seem to be affected at all. I haven't heard any official door stats yet, but it was manic for the first 3 hours and still busy enough through the rest of the afternoon. Takings were higher during this year's single day than in the previous incarnation's two days, so all good from this end.
As Leon said, it was frantic early on, but far more relaxed and civilized later on.
Due to escorting my daughters around - one of who is currently suffering from severe fiddleitis :'( - I was a bit preoccupied for most of the day, but somehow managed to be there from pretty much start to finish, which is a first.
I did take some pictures which I'll post once I can get them on Photobucket and work out what they are of!
All-in-all a good day :)
Cheers,
Meirion
PS Many thanks for the surprise Picton in amongst the ratty throng! I shall have think of something special to use him for :-bd :-\
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 13 September 2015, 09:49:16 PM
PS Many thanks for the surprise Picton in amongst the ratty throng! I shall have think of something special to use him for :-bd :-\
No worries!
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Boiler fixed ... but no show! :( Bugger. Any images?
Here's a few I found:
http://thewargamestable.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/colours-2015.html (http://thewargamestable.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/colours-2015.html)
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/colours-2015-photos.html (http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/colours-2015-photos.html)
Thanks Steve
QuoteCrawley Wargames Club put on a very nice WW1 participation game where the players were in charge of stretcher bearers racing across no-man's land.
This sounds a really interesting idea and a quite different take :-\ :)
I'm definitely not sure about the plastic hats :o ;D
Nice links, Steve ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: paulr on 19 September 2015, 11:30:34 PM
Thanks Steve
This sounds a really interesting idea and a quite different take :-\ :)
I'm definitely not sure about the plastic hats :o ;D
I am also not keen on the dressing up for the over-10s.
I've seen quite a few demo games where they have dressed up to varying degrees. Can't say it works for me.