Crisis 2018 - Part Two

Hoi,

Yeah yeah, I know this post is way too late, but real life and stuff keeps happening to me.
Anyway here we go! As Arthur and myself were staying at a hotel we were really well on time to...take our place in the cue in front of the doors. French, Dutch, Flemish, English and German was all heard in the parkinglot.

After the opening of the doors, the professional  way in which the people from TSOA managed to disperse the crowd was impressive.
Arthur decided we would pick up our pre-orders first, yet he got distracted by all the brilliant display tables right away. So in no particular order and without captions (sorry, I was trying to keep up with a 7 year old):

As usual Arthur took most of the pictures and thus some are a little unclear.
We met up with a lot of old friends, Johan, Hans and Martin, Good Ole Dave and Sir Roundwood himself. I missed out on friends like Paul and Stephan, but did meet up with new friends Sebastiaan and Karl whom I previously had only known from Facebook.

Dave and me...

Hans was there too, what a great moment to catch up.

Martin was kind enough to pose for a picture with the two of us (Hans took it, thanks mate).

We had a blast, the boy held out far longer than I would have guessed up front and indicated he would like to participate in some demos next year. Some more pictures of the great tables present.

The loot.
Last year I had money left when leaving the building, not so now. I bought pretty much everything I wanted when planning the trip excepting new paint which now I need to order online.
More on my loot later, let's look at the stuff Arthur bought. As he plays a Fire Wizzard (pun intended) in HQ, he needed a fire elemental which he got as well as a "wall of flames". He also wanted some mounted Romans, we ordered them from Foundry, and ended up buying a Ford Falcon (Mad Max's Interceptor) and a few Warlord Scots with bagpipe for his ongoing " band-project". Man it's hard to find a blister with a lot of mixed muscicians.

My loot was a bit more as you can see:

The big box is a Mantic Terrain Crate set, produced for their Dungeon Saga game but very usuable for other Dungeon Crawlers and even for filling your regular wargames buildings with furniture. The big box includes four regular sets. Each set is €30,- and this one cost €60,- so yes you get two for free, well I did at least.
The HäT boxes are some Peninsular Brits for the Salamanca Project and WW1 cyclists both German and Belgian. The remainder are some Foundry odds and bits to fill out existing projects like Indian Mutiny casualties and the like. I also re-subscribed on WI and got a load of freebees to go along that.

The only new project started is a 80YW Dutch gang from the Assault Group. The first figures are already done, more on that in another post soonish.

Well that concludes it for me for this year's event. As said the boy and myself enjoyed this really a lot and will be going again next year.

See ya!

Crisis 2018- Part One

Hoi,

Yup it's that time of the year again: Crisis in Antwerp is on!
The boy and me have just returned to out hotel room after visiting that mother of all conventions.

After last year's traveling debacle I booked a hotel for two nights, so yesterday we came over to Antwerp and we will leave tomorrow. Brilliantly relaxed and very much a fun father-son trip.

I will post more pictures tomorrow or Monday.

Crisis 2017: the Loot!

Hoi,

With the showing of the loot, we conclude my Crisis 2017 report. This year's Crisis never was about buying loads of stuff, but I did have a few things on my list prior to going to Antwerp.
- I really wanted to complement my Iron Duke Indian Mutiny figures. I bungled up a direct order to Empress by forgetting the command blister for Neil's bluecaps and the troops for the Sikh troopers, so I remedied that. I also bought the Stronghold terrain's Viking Seer, needed to complete that series of figures. In the tools section of my, rather short, list was some Valejo filler of which I got two cheep tubes. That pretty much sums up the list, but what else did I buy? Well a lot of stuff I did not expect to find but had wanted for quite some time.

As you can see on the pictures I was able to get a Histoire and Collections issue on the Cuirassiers. It contains the itinerary's of all listed officers in all the regiments as well as some great colourplates. Since the 14th regiment was the former 2nd Dutch regiment there are a lot of countrymen in there which makes it rather interesting.
I also got the Antediluvian Dungeon explorers (i.e. the characters from the 80's TV series but their grown-up versions) in a discount-bin from Studio Miniatures. They also had a box of their Medieval Mayhem Knights there which I got at Euro price instead of Pounds and since the rounding off of the entire buy came out on a strange number I got even more discount. The other Antediluvian blister is of course Raquel Scotch, I just had to add her to the collection. The two boxes to the left and right are Mantic's Dungeon Saga doors and furniture  sets which I also got discounted. That leaves the blister of Wargames Foundry Indian civilians for the IM project and the Dragon Rampant rules. I have heard and read a lot about the latter and got curious enough to buy them.
Apart from the Crisis special figure Tijl Uilenspiegel, that sums up my purchases.

Arthur is determined to enter this year's Painting Challenge and has personally asked Curt whether he was allowed to join, which Curt has magnanimously allowed him to do for 50 points. I tasked Arthur with choosing some figures for him to paint. He wanted to do some Hero Quest figures, as we play that game together a lot, but he also wanted some wizards. Now if we were not able to find any fireball-throwing-wizards, he was of the opinion that Knights would do as a substitute. So because of a lack of easily recognisable wizards he looked for knights and at the Foundry stand found some. These mounted knights, which he really picked himself, had an entirely appropriate label: King Arthur...
He also found a blister containing two British ensigns and a drummer from the Studio Miniatures China range. He wants to paint them too, but doesn't want to wait for the Challenge but do them earlier.

That wraps up my Crisis coverage. Next convention will probably be Poldercon in February but more on that when applicable.

Crisis 2017 the pictures!

Hoi,

As explained yesterday, I have let Arthur make the pictures during our visit at the Crisis convention. Therefore they are not a full descriptive report, but rather an impression of the event from a 6 year old.

Here he is doing his job!

It wasn't until we were at home that I noticed that in the picture below Stefan is included as well!

Now a lot of blogs, including Curt's, show pictures of Jan-Willem's Barsoom game using "En Garde" rules which I have played at the Poldercon last year. But I guess none of those pictures have quite the angle that Arthur's have. 

Since Arthur just snapped away I really could not tell you what games or organisers they belong to.

Here's a mugshot of Dave D. and myself!

As well as one he accidentally took of himself. 

There you have it Arthur's picture report. Hope you liked it.Tomorrow I'll show you the loot!

Cheers Sander