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A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break and haven't looked back since. I must admit that I seem to be more of a painter/collector than a gamer, but do hope to correct that at some point in the near future. My gaming interests span the ages, from the "Biblical" era all the way through to the far future. I enjoy games of all sizes, from a handful of figures up to major battles (see my megalomaniacally sized Choson Korean and Russian Seven Years War armies).

Saturday 7 September 2019

Colours 2019 - The Loot

After an horrifically early start this morning, having stupidly decided to catch a train that would get me to Newbury before the show opened, I attended this year's Colours. Yes, three weeks after going to "The Other Partizan" I was at another wargames show!

I had a good day out and bumped into various people throughout the day for chats - Carole, Simon, Simon and David from the blogosphere; Guy Bowers (editor of WS&S); Annie of Bad Squiddo Games, Damian of Donnington/Ancient & Modern; Ian N from the club, who was helping with Simon Miller's game; Dave and Lynda who I know from my (limited and not recent) forays into tournament gaming. And a few others.

After getting in through the doors, I headed straight up to the top floor.

For those who don't know, the show is held in the Dubai grandstand at Newbury Racecourse. For the last few years, all the games and the bring & buy are on the top floor; the traders are on the first and second floors. Previously the games and traders had been on all three floors. the current arrangements does work quite well though, although perhaps the various games don't get as much attention from attendees as they should.

After a quick tour of the games to see what was being put on, I worked my way back down to take a look at the trade stands. I would say that overall the show was less busy than last year, but still quite busy.

After popping outside for a quick cigarette I headed back up to the top floor to take photos of the games. There were the usual bugbears of clubs/groups not having any information displayed about their games and some not even having a sign to say who they were. In one case it was understandable though - they'd been asked at very short notice if they could, after all, put on a game. there may not have been anything on their table to say who they were, but at least they did have some information on the table about their game and were happy to talk. Oh, yes, another bugbear - clubs/groups ignoring people who are looking at their games.

With photos taken, it was time for shopping. I had a couple of pre-orders to collect (books from Paul Meekins; MDF terrain and bases from Warbases). I did have a few things on my shopping list or that i wanted to take a look at if they were there - hunting them down took me a while. Not everything I wanted was available at the show, but I did pick up a few things which I was after or saw and thought "Need! Need!".

I'll be posting pics of the games tomorrow, once Ive had a chance to go through them.

Now for the highly anticipated loot pics:

Quite a bit of loot

Books pre-order from Paul Meekins

Rubicon kits, paints, superglue and some airbrush lubricant

Essex - SYW Russians* and a pack of Para command from Foundry
 * commanders, some more artillery and enough figures to do two more converged grenadier regiments.

folding dice trays from Deep Cut Studios;
the black one was a full price (£6) design, the other was a cheap (£3) one made from offcuts

Various Warbases kits

Phew! Looks like enough to keep me busy for a little while!


11 comments:

  1. Very nice haul Tamsin, and sounds like you had a good time

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  2. Great haul, Tamsin, and an utter pleasure as always to catch up with you. Terrific to see you have such a loot-filled time. I thought it was quite a bit better than last year's visit tbh, and certainly plan on going again next year.

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  3. Quite a shopping expedition.

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  4. I was at Border Reiver today, not as big as Colours, but fun!
    I got a lot of loot too!

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  5. Great haul, I did not know I needed that Rubicon utility and light pole set until I saw yours ;)

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  6. @ Dave Stone - I did indeed, thanks! :)

    @ Blax - good to chat with you yesterday. I'll definitely go again next year :)

    @ Khusru - it was, it was :)

    @ Herkybird - I think the clash might have hurt both shows to some extent. Hopefully they'll avoid it next year :)

    @ Paul SS - cheers! Happy to have reminded you :)

    @ Dave D - thanks! :)

    @ Carl - cheers! :)

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  7. It was good to meet you. I thought that the show was less crowded than in previous years, but there were some excellent games upstairs, and I even managed to get about 80% of my shopping list!

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  8. Wow that's quite a haul. Looks like you had a 'successful' show!

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