Simon Miller and I will putting on our Roundway Down 1643 game at Colours on Saturday. 28mm this time, but I will have some of the smaller guys to show people as well! Hope to see some of you there, it is always one of my favourite shows, and this year it is FREE to get in. How much lighter your wallets will be when you get out again may be another matter! Pendraken will be there, after all.
QuoteSimon Miller and I will putting on our Roundway Down 1643 game at Colours on Saturday. 28mm this time, but I will have some of the smaller guys to show people as well! Hope to see some of you there, it is always one of my favourite shows, and this year it is FREE to get in. How much lighter your wallets will be when you get out again may be another matter! Pendraken will be there, after all.
Great. A show I have enjoyed in the past but am busy elsewhere this year. Will you be repeating it at WARFARE in November?
Hope to see you there on Saturday :) .
I will be one of the crew on the Oxford Wargames Society's BBB display/participation game of the battle of Pakozd (1848) to mark publication of the Hungarian War of Independence scenario book.
Looking forward to meeting a few Forum members there!
Chris
Just ordered it here in the US.
I wonder if the show will go ahead given the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the period of mourning we are now in? Apparently all football events are going to be postponed this weekend and there is no play in the 3rd test today.
Their Facebook page says it is going ahead, unless Newbury racecourse cancels all events. An update when the racecourse opens today.
It is still on apparently:
https://nrwc.org.uk/colours-2022
Peter
As the government guidance is that events etc. can occur as normal the decision as to whether to cancel/close is down to individual organisations. It's entirely understandable that different groups/venues jump different ways.
All being well I am planning to drive over to Colours tomorrow.
Edward
The venue has also confirmed that it going ahead as planned.
Exhausted after a superb day at Colours. Roundway Down was surrounded with folk interested in the ECW, the rules, and the battle, from start to finish. Astonished by the number of people who came up to say, I live a couple of miles away from the field, and walk it regularly! Devizes must have been empty today. It was great to talk to so many people, and it made the day a real success in my view. So many knowledgeable people in the hobby, so many nice people. A real joy. Many thanks to Newbury and Reading for their superb organisation in trying circumstances, and their invaluable help in getting all our stuff up to the second floor, and getting it back down again!
Great to be at the show again and didn't get chance to speak with you as you were busy chatting each time I passed by, which was good to see. A lovely display of 10mm and 6mm figures too at the front of your game.
Great to hear it went so well Mollinary =D> =D> =D>
A report on the show and some thoughts on the day can be found on my Blog:
https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2022/09/colours-2022-show-report.html (https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2022/09/colours-2022-show-report.html)
It was pretty busy and hopefully the traders had a very good day, as even when I left a 2.00pm it still seemed busy on the ground floor.
Thanks for that Steve, great report. Good you met up with Keith.
I was going to go, right up to a couple of days before, when plans all fell through :(
Good to have a view of what I missed. Sounds like I would have enjoyed it.
Your purchasing self control does you credit!
Thanks for the report, Steve. It was great to catch up with you.
For my part, I had forgotten just what hard work it is to run a display/participation game (especially as I got woken up at 5 a.m.) - basically I was yakking solidly all day - but it was a fantastic day. Lots of interesting games to admire, dozens of traders (not that I got much chance to view their wares, so I only spent £30), and above all, the people: meeting up with old friends, meeting internet friends for the first time in person, and making new friends. A big well done and thank you to all involved in making it happen.
Nice photos and write up Steve
I know what you mean about wandering a show on your own, vs having someone to look at stuff with!
Can't believe you bought so little! I always seem to find a number of extra interesting bits to get, on top of any planned purchases or pre-orders...
Steve, great show report, much enjoyed. Thanks for that.
Glad you enjoyed it chaps. Talking all day and interacting with the punter is exhausting Chris: i'm not sure I'd be up to it these days though. Frankly I have enough projects on the go and in the pipeline, so really didn't need to buy much. The horses will be useful across many of my armies and periods, so I'll get plenty of use out of them. On the book front nothing that interested me, or more correctly, that I could justify buying! Sorry you couldn't make it Guy as I think you would have enjoyed yourself.
Steve, also a big thanks from the other side of the pond for that report. So nice to be able to still follow along, in spite of everything these days.
Steve, great report, sorry we didn't get to chat, but glad to see you got some good photos of the 'Little men'. I was pleased they got a decent amount of attention from visitors for whom the 'big' option we were presenting was not really a practical one for the dining room table! Most of the other shows I have done most of my time has been spent running the games, this time I wanted to concentrate on talking to people as we had some great help running things from Tim Thompson and Ian Notter. Loved the chatting - thinking of taking it up as a career!
Added my own brief report here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2022/09/colours-2022-its-about-people.html
Interesting blog post Chris, thanks.
We really enjoyed Colours this year, definitely more people through the door and it was nice to see so many people out and about enjoying themselves. Sales were good too, not quite back to their best but certainly better than the 2018/2019 events.
Really glad to hear you had a good day on the sales front, considering the increased costs you incur at present for obvious reasons, as well as the punters having fiscal issues too.
Seconded :)
Thanks for the reports, Steve & Chris
Yep, good to hear, Leon.
I wasn't going to be able to make it this year due to a fixture clash with my daughter's first match of the season, but will all soccer cancelled a trip to Croydon with post match meatballs at Ikea was substituted for a nice day out at Newbury!
Saw Mollinary from an distance. (The table looked great, but you were busy every time I passed and I didn't like to interrupt.)
Managed to miss Steve and Chris, but had a good catch up with Leon and Adele.
Happy days!
Hopefully see people again at Warfare in November.