Greetings…
So it was a bit of a wild dash round Partizan this year…
I was originally going to be there for the whole day but sadly the world and real life intervened…
In the end I was there for about two hours… but what an enjoyable two hours it was.
Apparently they had a record number of people through the door this time…
We got there mid to late morning and there was still a bit of a queue 😱.
My first thought… Apart from wow! It’s busy!… Was to dash round the games and see if a vignette jumped out at me… When I say ‘Dash’ think ‘Determined Waddle’ 🤣.
I didn’t get a chance to take as many pictures as I would have liked… but here is what I took.
A lovely game from First Corps….
I have to confess to an ‘ Interest ‘ in this one, as a number of years ago I painted some of these toys…
It’s nice to see they are still seeing good service…
Phil’s small but perfectly formed Eastern European Renaissance game…
As a demo game this was faultless… Well painted… Well presented… well supported and a well deserved winner of the Best Demo Game Trophy.
The League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers Fiume 1920…
This was another stunning game…
Adrian Shepherd was a member of this group and inspired and contributed to many of their vignette heavy displays… It’s seems only fitting that the Best Tabletop Vignette came from this game…
Mark Hargreaves delightful command group is exactly the kind of thing I can imagine Adrian loving…
It is of course worth noting that the map on the table is the map of the table the game was being played on… The devil is indeed in the details… well done.
The North Riding Wargames Club… “ It’s Hot Here Sir”
Loved that camel filled square…
Really good to see a game like this at the show… It certainly seemed to have picked up a lot of interest.
Well bless me… It’s the Boondock Sayntes…
As always a gorgeous looking table… When I got to it it was actually bathed in sunlight, which really added to the impression of India…
The Bodkins … David Andrews and David Imrie… 3rd Century Rome V’s Sassanids… What’s not to love…
A big thank you to David Andrews for jumping in to present the Best Tabletop Vignette trophy after I had to head off early…
Last but by no means least… A bit of madness from “The Bunker”…
And that’s as many pictures as I took…
Personally I think.. Even with my short time there… This was the best Partizan yet … The atmosphere there was amazing… It was sunny and everyone seemed happy and smiley…
I saw a lot of jolly good friends and I sadly missed seeing many more… here’s to the next one and hopefully I will have more time on my hands…
Did I buy anything…
Well….
Not as much as I had planned…
A couple of traders weren’t there and some who were had actually sold out of what I was after…
But of course I did pick up one or two ‘ birthday presents’
One always needs books…
And a pretty picture that I bought from my chum Peter…
But I didn’t buy any Battleships or anymore books on battleships…
Nope …..
Nothing to do with me…
Not at all…
Honest…. 🤣😂🤣
All the best. Aly
Here are some links to others who were there….
