Our second outing of the year sees us heading to Newark Showground for the excellent Hammerhead show on Saturday 5th March. There's a couple of days left to get your pre-orders sent in, but please make sure to send them over by Sat 27th please.
More info on this show can be found on the Hammerhead website here: http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk/ (http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk/)
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I went. I spent. Somebody from Middlesbrough got a large chunk of my money!
I took quite the number of photos from the show - but I'll be posting them tomorrow. Here's my first, post-show blog post (its got 10mm Pendraken shiny's in it! - if you can see them through the grip-seal bags ;D ).
http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/hammerhead-show-post-1-haul.html (http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/hammerhead-show-post-1-haul.html)
Gosh, someone spent a lot of money, it is good to know someone has more wargames projects than I have! :)
I look forward to seeing some of this on Tuesday?
Oops! So I guess there is no point in me turning up tomorrow then? :) :) :) O:-) O:-) :D
Mollinary
Good blog!
Good stuff, Roy !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 05 March 2016, 08:39:10 PM
Good stuff, Roy !
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Techno :)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 05 March 2016, 08:27:04 PM
Good blog!
Thank you. Its needing a little bit of an overhaul, to keep up to date with my projects and keep on top of the Colonel Bills stuff. Hopefully more games and more painted bits to feature in it soon.
Quote from: mollinary on 05 March 2016, 08:06:24 PM
Oops! So I guess there is no point in me turning up tomorrow then? :) :) :) O:-) O:-) :D
Mollinary
I don't know, its' a big venue (the Showground) so there might be something there for you to see. There's an indoor bowling place next door, or a Go-Kart race track across the road, that could take your fancy? If you'd been there today you could have also seen a dog show.
Quote from: Bodvoc on 05 March 2016, 07:49:19 PM
Gosh, someone spent a lot of money, it is good to know someone has more wargames projects than I have! :)
I look forward to seeing some of this on Tuesday?
Yes, Tuesday's still on if you can make it.
Near-enough all the Frostgrave bits are now done. Bought some spell cards to help me remember the info. Just got to clean the dining room up and bring all the stuff downstairs for us to game. Oh, and re-read the rules.
Bought those Samurai Apes for Warband - and found out Pendraken also sells Sabot Bases to help me not have to rebase to 100x50 - so those'll see use at some point.
I liked those To the Strongest rules so much that I bought some 28mm Ancient Germans from Col. Bills last Tuesday and some more today. 5 of them are already painted (though not based) and I should have enough for three [Deep] Warrior units and a General.
I didn't realise it was at the showground !
When I lived near Newark, Wargames shows used to be held in Kelham Hall.
Cheers - Phil
Yes, Partizan and Hammerhead have now, both, moved to the George Stephenson Exhibition Hall at the Newark Showground. (I'm sure Hammerhead used to be held at Kelham, too :-\ )
The shows had out-grown Kelham Hall, and its facilities were no longer up to the task of hosting a 'modern' show. Too dark. Too cramped. Traders and games dotted around the various rooms and down corridors. It had become a venue for the past, unfortunately. Great memories of the place, and always a pleasure to visit and admire the architecture, but now that the trend for shows has become more trader and public friendly Kelham Hall really had found its limitations. Having to host a Partizan on the grounds, outside, under tented canvas, due to a double-booking error, probably didn't help, either.
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Aha !
I lived 5 miles (by winding road...not as the crow flies) from Newark......When I worked for 'Them/The Evil Empire'...But never once went to anything at the showground.
(I know Mrs Techno went there a couple of times.....Probably horse 'tack' shows/sales....or an agricultural 'do'.
Cheers - Phil
Hammerhead Show Photos - Pictures Of The Games
http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/hammerhead-show-photos-pictures-of-games.html (http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/hammerhead-show-photos-pictures-of-games.html)
I don't have much time, today, so I'm going to upload all of the photo's I took yesterday and then will come back to them when I can and label them etc.
"Show photos from Hammerhead. I don't like to intrude in games, so these aren't very 'zoomed-in', I also like to get the overall view of the table (detritus included) as that's the nuts-and-bolts of the hobby to my mind. I've blanked out the faces of any children captured in the photos - I tried my hardest to minimise their inclusion, but in some cases it was unavoidable. Looking at the photo's taken, I believe I missed two games - I can only apologies to these clubs/groups."
If you click on the photo's, they should enlarge.
Cracking photo's, Roy !
Cheers - Phil
Thanks for posting these Roy :). Some lovely looking games on show 8).
Thank you :)
If people have access to Facebook, then Wargames Soldiers and Strategy magazine have some 'more detailed' photo's of some of the games, plus information.
I'm off now to sort through all the 10mm stuff bought yesterday, and finish off painting terrain for Tuesday night's Frostgrave game against Bodvoc.
Cracking set of photos Roy.
Like the one that features a sign for a 'Bistro'!
Who's been taking photos of me... >:(
Kelham Hall was bought up by someone who wants to turn it into a luxury spa / wedding venue type affair, so the wargames shows weren't attracting quite the right crowd for them...! From talking to the other traders (we never did Partizan) the venue was a nightmare for them, no easy access, stairs everywhere, bad lighting, etc. This new venue for Hammerhead is fantastic, with everything you need as a trader.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 06 March 2016, 04:29:44 PM
Cracking set of photos Roy.
Like the one that features a sign for a 'Bistro'!
I was stood at the end of the Hall, holding the camera above my head like a nutter to take that shot!
Quote from: Leon on 06 March 2016, 05:41:39 PM
Who's been taking photos of me... >:(
Just delete it, if you like. :)
Those first 4 pictures make me think about an air combat game, i have the same water tiles :-\
Also the witch racing gamelooks fun ;D
Quote from: petercooman on 06 March 2016, 09:24:07 PM
Also the witch racing gamelooks fun ;D
It was very popular with the female children, full tables and always busy from what I saw. I had to come back a number of times to try and photograph the game, literally jumping-in between games.
I also had that problem with Black Pyramid's game (the Wargods of Aegyptus game with the Sphinx models). First attempt at photographing there was a father and son playing, second attempt a mother and daughter.
One of the games that I completely missed (I've only spotted it in the background of a photo) looks to have been popular with the male children, too. Big dinosaurs in the jungle, from what I can see.
I never bother to get pictures in at crisis, always too many peope strolling about the tables, and too little time to look around myself.
Roy, superb work on the photo's, thanks for doing all the work.
Great work Roy :-bd :-bd =D> =D>
:)
Wargames Illustrated has some great photos up on their website, too.
Don't tell Leon, but... In one shot you can just see him in the background, behind the till on the Pendraken stand (well, you can see his body, at least).
Terrific report, Roy. And a nice blog, too. Also a very good idea about blanking out the faces of the children (a practice I recommend everyone adopts). Unfortunately I once knew a wargamer who turned out to have a predilection for little girls - a complete surprise and immense disappointment to me and very awkward explaining my association with such a person to my wife and family. Needless to say I have nothing more to do with him.
Great photos, thanks.
Personally I try to get shots of people playing the games at shows, after all that's what they're about. It does cause occasional confusion when people stand back to give a better view of the table and I'm asking them to carry on playing. A beautiful game with not a soul in sight, except the chap supposedly minding the shop who's engrossed in a book or eating lunch, is a desolate sight.
Thank you
Quote from: Westmarcher on 07 March 2016, 01:36:28 PM
Also a very good idea about blanking out the faces of the children (a practice I recommend everyone adopts).
There was a notice before entering the show about photography. Can't remember it exactly, but the gist of it was that if you remained inside the venue then you'd given consent to your image being used in photos, under such and such a British Law. As I say, I can't remember it exactly.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 07 March 2016, 02:31:26 PM
Personally I try to get shots of people playing the games at shows, after all that's what they're about. It does cause occasional confusion when people stand back to give a better view of the table and I'm asking them to carry on playing.
Yep, I had that. I even was telling them to not mind me, as I was the one interfering in their game. The chaps who won the best terrain (I think it was something like that) even offered to let me play around with setting up their Orcs and Dwarf WW2-type figures, so I could construct a battle scene to photograph. That's the chaps from this game
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I've got to say that everyone I spoke to, while photographing, were really nice and very accommodating.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 07 March 2016, 08:12:23 PM
Thank you
There was a notice before entering the show about photography. Can't remember it exactly, but the gist of it was that if you remained inside the venue then you'd given consent to your image being used in photos, under such and such a British Law. As I say, I can't remember it exactly.
Interesting, Roy. And here was I thinking the worst (and the best). The incident* I mentioned was before Facebook and obviously made such an impression on me that I sometimes shudder at how freely people post pictures of their kids on the internet nowadays. I'm probably over-reacting but it did shock me at the time. With regard to the notice, Contract Law perhaps (?) e.g., on the basis that children being under age, not having the capacity to enter into such a contract? Anyway, whatever the reason, please take care everyone.
* without going into detail, from what I read in the papers, involved 'pseudo' computer images.
Yeah, the notice wasn't specifically dictating photography around small children. I stood and read it just to make sure that I wasn't going to be doing anything wrong when I did begin taking photos - thinking, before reading, that it was telling not to capture images of children. Its all so tricky nowadays to know what to do.
Anyway, I took the decision to blank out the children's faces, and not take close ups of female gamers playing, since the photos would be displayed on my blog and associated with my name, as it would all, in-directly, link back to Colonel Bills. I thought, maybe, I'd receive a few comments asking why I'd chosen to blank out the faces, but since I've stated why I did everyone's, seemingly, been happy with it. I thought someone would tell me I'd ruined the images of a game etc.