Show Dates for 2016!

[Leon]

I hope everyone has had a good New Year!  With the festive season behind us it's time to start looking forward to the 2016 show season and where you can get your Pendraken-in-the-flesh fix over the coming 12 months.

As always, if you'd like to pre-order anything for any of these events, please make sure to let us know at least 7 days in advance!

There are a few notes to the schedule for this year, including:

- The Triples show has moved on the calendar, now taking place in March instead.
- After a year off while the venue was refurbished, the Skelp show is back again this year.
- As with last year, we won't be attending the Crisis show in Antwerp again, but we will hopefully have the pre-order facility available again through Ian at Eagle Figures.

And of course there'll be our own Battleground show taking place on Saturday 26th November this year!

February
Sun 7th - Vapnartak, York - http://www.yorkwargames.org/Vapnartak.htm

March
Sat 5th - Hammerhead, Newark - http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk/
Sun 13th - WMMS, Wolverhampton - http://www.alumwellwargames.co.uk/
Sat/Sun 19th/20th - Triples, Sheffield - http://sheffieldtriples.co.uk/triples/

April
Sat 16th - Salute, London - http://www.salute.co.uk/salute/salute-2016/

May
Sat 7th - Carronade, Falkirk - http://www.falkirkwargamesclub.org.uk/index.html

June
Sat 11th - Durham Wargames Show - http://www.durhamwargames.co.uk/
Sat 18th - Phalanx, St Helens - http://spartans.org.uk/phalanx-3/phalanx-2/

August
Sat 6th - Claymore, Edinburgh - http://seswc.co.uk/index.php/2015/11/03/claymore/

September
Sat 3rd - Border Reiver, Newcastle - http://borderreiverwargamessociety.blogspot.co.uk/p/home-page.html
Sat 10th - Colours, Newbury - http://colours.org.uk/colours

October
Sat/Sun 1st/2nd - Worlds, Derby/Donnington - http://worldwargames.co.uk/
Sat 8th - Skelp, Forfar - http://www.anguswargamesclub.co.uk/#!skelp/cfvg
Sun 30th - Fiasco, Leeds - http://leedswargamesclub.webs.com/fiasco.htm

November
Sat/Sun 19th/20th - Warfare, Reading - http://www.wargamesassociationreading.co.uk/
Sat 26th - Battleground, Stockton-on-Tees - http://www.battlegroundshow.co.uk/


We hope to see some of you on the road somewhere, make sure to come and say hello if you're attending any of the above.

[Tawa]

Quite possibly be over at Vapnartak, and should definitely be at Phalanx again...... 

[jimduncanuk]

I hope everyone has had a good New Year!  With the festive season behind us it's time to start looking forward to the 2016 show season and where you can get your Pendraken-in-the-flesh fix over the coming 12 months.

I can make Vapnartak, Carronade, Claymore, Border Reiver, Skelp and Battleground.

I will also go to Albanich, Targe and hopefully Crisis depending on how hard I hit the MasterCard when I'm in the States for a month.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Date in the Warfare website s a Wednesday! Madness...

[Leman]

Will be at Vapnartak, Phalanx and Warfare. Likely to be doing demo game at Phalanx and participation game at Warfare. General punter at Vapnartak.

[Fenton]

Sadly yet again I doubt if I will be at any of them air flights and hotels are just too expensive these days and the money can be used to buy online instead

[Leon]

Sadly yet again I doubt if I will be at any of them air flights and hotels are just too expensive these days and the money can be used to buy online instead

You'll have to save up one year and make a weekend of it sometime.  There were a load of guys over from N. Ireland at the Derby show last year, flew straight into the East Midlands airport from Belfast and stayed in the Premier Inn next door.  The show is only 5 minutes down the road so there's not much travel involved. 

I don't know if there are flights from Belfast to London City as that's only over the river from the Excel Centre and Salute?  A weekend in London, booked well in advance, isn't too bad costs wise.

[Fenton]

I know I have done it a few times in the past when it was still in Derby

[Leon]

I know I have done it a few times in the past when it was still in Derby

Derby is the ideal one with the proximity of the airport.  If you stay in the Premier Inn then you get the pleasure of our company as well!

[Ithoriel]

Claymore, Carronade and Skelp should all be doable using the free bus pass.

The rest will have to wait. If I can afford anything it will be a trip to New York to see my son. Life on a pension has it's advantages but lots of spending money isn't one of them

I intend to make it to Donnington, Triples and Joy of Six at some point before I am too decrepit to travel!

[jimduncanuk]

I intend to make it to Donnington, Triples and Joy of Six at some point before I am too decrepit to travel!

And none of them are on tomorrow.

[Sandinista]

1st year with no shows for me for a quite a few years. NZ don't seem to do shows in the same way, all competitions something I try to avoid. I may make Salute in 2017 or 2018 if I behave 

Cheers
Ian

[paulr]

There are often a few demonstration games Ian
The organisers should be able to put you in touch with them and you should be able to join in if it is something you are interested in
Very few, if any, participation games as there isn't enough public to participate 

[Sandinista]

It's the combination of traders and demo/participation games that I like about shows and in NZ there just aren't the traders. I guess I was spoilt rotten in UK with shows, big, small and also in tank museums :-) I'm in Wellington when Battle Cry in Auckland is on so will miss that one.

Cheers
Ian

[paulr]

It's the combination of traders and demo/participation games that I like about shows and in NZ there just aren't the traders. I guess I was spoilt rotten in UK with shows, big, small and also in tank museums :-) I'm in Wellington when Battle Cry in Auckland is on so will miss that one.

Cheers
Ian

I must admit to much jealousy when reading the various show reports from the UK, US & Europe

If you have some spare time when down in Wellington I'm sure we can arrange something interesting, probably involving Pendraken 10mm figures