I've just returned from an enjoyable day at the Newark showground Cedric the hall the new venue for the Hammerhead show. I love the fact that every game is a participation game.
The venue is smaller than Kelham hall, last years venue but the lay out is nicer with all the traders around the edges and the games in the middle. The lighting is much better as well. My flash (although I try not to use it) didn't go off much when I'd left the setting to auto.
There was plenty of parking, which wasn't a problem at Kelham and good facilities including catering.
A successful move I think.
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| In Her Majesty's Name, 28mm Victorian pulp by North Star. The beautiful warehouse buildings are 4Ground. |
So what games did I see:
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| Banner says it all |
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| In Her Majesty's Name, 28mm Victorian pulp by North Star. The beautiful warehouse buildings are 4Ground. |
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| In Her Majesty's Name, 28mm Victorian pulp by North Star. The beautiful warehouse buildings are 4Ground. |
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| In Her Majesty's Name, 28mm Victorian pulp by North Star. The beautiful warehouse buildings are 4Ground. |
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| In Her Majesty's Name, 28mm Victorian pulp by North Star. The beautiful warehouse buildings are 4Ground. |
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| Forest Outlaw's To Boldly Go Star Trek game using the adapted X Wings rules |
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| Klingon ship. I think these have been enhanced with some paint having seen the out of the box versions. |
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| Mantic's Deadzone a 28mm SciFi game |
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| Doncaster Wargames Club's Dragon Boat racing in glorious 28mm |
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| Doncaster Wargames Club's Dragon Boat racing |
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| South London Warlord's 15mm Hammer's Slammers game - Attack on Clyde City |
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| South London Warlord's 15mm Hammer's Slammers game - Attack on Clyde City |
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| South London Warlord's 15mm Hammer's Slammers game - Attack on Clyde City |
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| South London Warlord's 15mm Hammer's Slammers game - Attack on Clyde City |
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| South London Warlord's 15mm Hammer's Slammers game - Attack on Clyde City |
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| South London Warlord's 15mm Hammer's Slammers game - Attack on Clyde City |
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| Leicester Phat Cats lovely modern bash in 1/72 called Haribo Hostilities where British troops held back the Soviets. Participants played the RAF and won sweeties for knocking out Soviet tanks. Yum! |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Leicester Phat Cats 1/72 Haribo Hostilities |
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| Kallistra's Mongol assault on a Teutonic castle in 10mm |
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| Kallistra's Mongol assault on a Teutonic castle in 10mm |
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| Kallistra's Mongol assault on a Teutonic castle in 10mm |
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| Kallistra's American War of Independence in 10mm |
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| Kallistra's 10mm AWI Indians |
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| KB's 12mm modern game of Germans vs Russians |
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| German column with mixes of resin, metal and 3D printed vehicles |
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| KB's modern 12mm Germans. Spot the 3D printed vehicles (its the mortar carrier - the ones with the base plate attached to the side) |
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| Lancaster Wargames 28mm WW2 Where Eagles Land |
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| Lancaster Wargames 28mm WW2 Where Eagles Land |
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| Battlefront's 15mm WW2 Operation Achilles |
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| Mark Goddard's 28mm WW2 Pegasus Bridge |
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| Mark Goddard's 28mm WW2 Pegasus Bridge |
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| Mark Goddard's 28mm WW2 Pegasus Bridge |
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| Battle for the Patio by Peterborough Wargames - a life sized game! |
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| Battle for the Patio by Peterborough Wargames |
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| Battle for the Patio by Peterborough Wargames |
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| The Dear Slayers a 28mm French Indian wars game using Musket and Tomahawk rules by the Forest Outlaws |
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| The Dear Slayers a 28mm Musket and Tomahawk game by the Forest Outlaws |
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| The Dear Slayers a 28mm Musket and Tomahawk game by the Forest Outlaws |
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| The Dear Slayers a 28mm Musket and Tomahawk game by the Forest Outlaws |
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| The Dear Slayers a 28mm Musket and Tomahawk game by the Forest Outlaws |
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| WW2 Kelly's Heroes Bolt Action game by Sarge Wargames Doncaster |
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| WW2 Kelly's Heroes Bolt Action game by Sarge Wargames Doncaster Tiger I's guarding the bank |
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| Kelly Heroes game in full swing |
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| 28mm WW2 Kelly's Heroes Bolt Action game by Sarge Wargames Doncaster |
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| 28mm Witch Racing by Grantham Strategy Club |
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| Batman and an Imperial TIE fighter pilot take in the show |
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| Once Upon a Time 28mm pulp game by COGS |
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| Adrian's Walls with a Wargames Emporium 6mm Command Horizon game in the background |
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| Wargames Emporium 6mm Command Horizon game in the background |
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| Seize the Bridge a 15mm WW2 game by COGS |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club. Can you see the GW shop? |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club. Close shot of the GW shop. |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| 28mm Shaun of the Dead by Bingham and District club |
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| Batman unknowingly turns his back on me |
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| The Imperial TIE fighter pilot seizes his chance to strike a pose |
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| I missed time the photo and didn't get a shot of a line of Stormtroopers but clearly go the rear of one Captian Jack Sparrow! |
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| SOSDM's 15mm Scifi game Raid on Tourimoto Soko using Gruntz's rules. |
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| SOSDM's 15mm Scifi game Raid on Tourimoto Soko using Gruntz's rules. I gave this a go and had a blast. The scenario was players forces were searching for a computer uplink to load a virus and bring down the planets defences ready for invasion. |
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| SOSDM's 15mm Scifi game Raid on Tourimoto Soko using Gruntz's rules. |
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| SOSDM's 15mm Scifi game Raid on Tourimoto Soko using Gruntz's rules. Guy's scout bikes speed up the road to see what they can see |
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| My troops, a medium grav tank and an APC with.... |
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| ..... a squad of troopers |
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| 15mm Scifi goodness. I liked the visor effect on these figures. It made me think that the face plate was lit up. |
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| A walker |
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| Another walker |
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| without flash |
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| A light 15mm walker |
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| My tank takes out the pill box and the laser designator inside. This saved us a lot of hits in following rounds. Guy's pinkies move up the left of the buildings. |
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| My force hasd taken a beating from the blue tank top right and the drone on the road. So much so I've dismounted the squad who are hiding behind a building full of baddies. Next turn get a vehicle to shoot the building suppress the baddies and assault. The smoke next to me APC is another destroyed building. Luckily the buildings I'm flattening haven't contained an uplink! |
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| The rest of the table. 2 players have cleared the buildings to the left of the bridge and a player top left has driven the baddies from those buildings. Guy's pink hovery thing is skimming the river shooting up the building with the dish (could this be the uplink?). |
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| Scarab Miniatures War and Conquest game of 28mm Greeks vs Greeks |
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| Scarab Miniatures War and Conquest game of 28mm Greeks vs Greeks |
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| Scarab Miniatures War and Conquest game of 28mm Greeks vs Greeks |
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| Scarab Miniatures War and Conquest game of 28mm Greeks vs Greeks |
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| Are you the droid we're looking for? |
