Hammerhead, Newark

[Leon]

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/

[Roy]

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  ).

http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/hammerhead-show-post-1-haul.html

[Bodvoc]

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?

[mollinary]

Oops!  So I guess there is no point in me turning up tomorrow then?   

Mollinary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good blog!

[Techno]

Good stuff, Roy !

Cheers - Phil

[Roy]

Good stuff, Roy !

Cheers - Phil

Thanks Techno 

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.

Oops!  So I guess there is no point in me turning up tomorrow then?   

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.

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.

[Techno]

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

[Roy]

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.

[Techno]

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

[Roy]

Hammerhead Show Photos - Pictures Of The Games

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.

[Techno]

Cracking photo's, Roy !

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Thanks for posting these Roy . Some lovely looking games on show .

[Roy]

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.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cracking set of photos Roy.
Like the one that features a sign for a 'Bistro'!