Postponed a few times due to that evil coffid thing, we finally got the dates for the first weekend in October... bags packed, dogsitting sorted and we were off...
Booked this year at the Beaumond Cross Inn as my usual (The Ashiana) was booked up... very pleasant and worth a few pics...
One thing to note with Foundry, they organise a lot of social events and are VERY experienced in catering... the grub is wonderful and plentiful...
Pics are in no particular order from over the three days... I left before lunch on the Sunday due to needing to rescue the hound...
Geoff Solomon-Sims and his incredible Heroquest set up...
The display cases were full of old classics, many of which have featured in the early years of White Dwarf...
The two Tony's, one part Harry and a fleeing Maria...
My shrink wrapped Great Spined Dragon... the Nik Bibby classic... passed over to a certain Phil Gregory in appreciation of some work he will be doing on my The Little Soldier Company website.
Various shots of the shop area and more display cabinets...
The painting competition...
And the judges...
Was this Paul's mini? Please correct me if wrong. Anyway, it was one that Kev Adams had added a new head to at a previous BOYL and now joined in Friday's gaming.
Garth announcing the painting competition results...
The usual assembly, all qdos to Maria who took the pic. I'm looking dazed somewhere on the right hand side...
My lonely Saturday evening first pint as I got to the Prince Rupert about 10 minutes before anyone else... managed to book a room for the rest of the evening which was great... after we were kicked out of there we hit the something Circus... carried on till midnight before being moved on. I'm far too old to drink till that time of night now so must resist next year... or at Salute in November of course...
A quick walk around Newark Castle before meeting up with Mark and Gemma for breakfast... unfortunately the local parking ticket machines reduced my to a gibbering wreck (well, almost) so I went straight to Foundry and had a fantastic bacon and egg roll along with numerous cups of good strong coffee. Thanks Harry!
A big shout out and thank you to the Ansell team for hosting.
Well, that's it until next time folks... do me a favour and join the blog (towards the top left of the page) and help me feel wanted! Any questions (or if you're offloading old stuff!) send me an email (or leave a comment)... I do so love to chat about lead.
8 comments:
Great seeing you again David! Hope to catch you at Salute.
Did you see the 'already painted' BOYL 2021 figure in the cabinets??
Fantastic report as always. It saddens me to think that I was just a little away from going, but next year I will go yes or yes ..... by the way, the last thing I would imagine seeing in a classic English pub is seeing a "San Miguel", I didn't know you had the taste so low ..hahahaha
I can't believe how pretty the boyl exclusive miniature is. I would love to own one of these :(
Such a lovely report, David. And it fills me with joy, seeing the community is getting back up on its feet.
Thank you so much for this great report. We would have loved to have been there and seen tons of beautiful painted miniatures. Who knows if we can come next time? Meanwhile, we enjoy your photos!
What a thrill to see this event, even vicariously!
The little goblin miniature with the shield and mace, just above the photo of the three judges looking in the glass case-- can anyone tell me where that mini is from?
Thanks.
@slovak - he's from the 1984 C12 goblins. Link to most of those ranges here;
[url]http://www.solegends.com/citc/c012goblins1/index.htm[/url]
Post a Comment