Bring and Buy Bargain and Dadi&Piombo No.44 Magazine.

.......a bring and buy gem and a magazine article from a fellow blogger and my retirement fund.

Picked up this beauty at Cavalier 2011 for £12.00 and this is my second only purchase from a bring and buy stand ever (the other one was a book years ago), chain link fencing for my zombie/modern gaming (will probably paint the base grey), it is shown on a 2ft by ft gaming tile with a couple of 28mm figures for scale, delighted with the purchase and the versatility of the item.

Received my free signed copy of Italian wargames magazine Dadi&Piombo No.44 (Dice and Lead) from Bryan Scott a.k.a Vampifan over at  http://vampifansworldoftheundead.blogspot.com/, in it is a great article he did for the magazine on 28mm zombies (now that I've read it for myself) he compares the sizes of 32 zombie figure manufacturers plus rules, movies and book recommendations, there is other great stuff in the magazine including zombie gaming rules, samurai article........but here's where it gets to my retirement fund, I expect big things fro Bryan and when he rises to become a publishing great I will have this signed copy and sell it to retire to somewhere hot for my old age with Pamela Anderson. So drop over to Vampifan and read the full article if you have not already done so.

The magazine in question.

The article and the all important signature.

I have purchased this magazine before at shows and while it is italian it does have a english translation by the side of the italian text.

Cavalier Wargames Show 2011.

The reject's met up yesterday at Cavalier 2011 Wargames Show at Tonbridge Wells, it's a small show we go to every year and to me it's famous for it's bad yellow lighting in it's new venue and me wanting to leave after a short amount of time (half hour) but this year the lighting has been improved/changed and it greatly helped my staying power. Got some paint, pig iron miniatures, west wind WWW2 wolverines, a pack of copplestones partisans and a wargames illustrated. The show seemed to be well attended with the bring and buy especially heaving, a lot of familiar faces and traders, we arrived at 1000hrs and were gone at 1230hrs. Then back to mine for a small quick zombie wargame and cheese and ham rolls, mars bars and chocolate cake (which people forgot to eat (Ha Ha).

Apologies about the quality of pictures and captions, it must have been the good light.

The good light!

Some nice wargames on show.

Ray from Don't Throw a 1.

The bring and buy hall, the calm before the storm.

More lovely wargames in progress. 

And again.

Excellent display game, best in show to me.

The bring and buy scrum, kept this way most of the day I hear.

Some re-enactors wargaming what they were re-enacting through uniform.

Traders in general said business was good.

A lot of people were at the show with the usual bottlenecs.

Easy to put on wargaming not many models or figures required but it looked good and they seemed to be having fun.

Relaxing Sunday my arse I'm knackered.

All the rejects have left after the zombie game, we were back from the show at 1330 hrs, fed and watered them, the computer is acting up and I'm posting this from an iPod touch but it was a good day.
I will post pictures tomorrow, hope you had or are having a good Sunday.

Cavalier Wargames Show on Sunday, upcoming Zombie Game and 28mm Ford Transit

This Sunday I'm going to my first wargames show (I try to get to Salute and SELWG aswell, anything else is a bonus) of the year http://www.twws.org.uk/cavalier2011.htm , smallish show but it's not that far away from where I live, several of the rejects going and afterwards I've been convinced to put on a zombie game for the rejects and Lee from http://bigleesminipaintingblog.blogspot.com/ who we're meeting at the show. If you've never been to this show in it's newest location it's now infamous for it's terrible hall lighting but that won't stop me from taking pictures with my one good eye. If you're there and spot me speak up I'm quite pleasant but don't appear so especially with the ongoing trials of Bell's Palsy (massive strawberry blonde gentleman with short hair and glasses).

I know this probably only helps people who live near the monstrosity that is Bluewater in Kent but they have an expensive little shop called MODELZONE that I picked up a 1:43 scale white Ford Transit van for £6.99 now I don't know if it's a good deal or not but I went all mad and bought it, now my modern zombie gaming is set in the US and so I asked a fellow blogger Das Auto! Among other things... http://archatypical.blogspot.com/ for information on the make in Amerca and he said it's called the Ford Transit Connect and was named North American Truck of the year last year, there were a lot of these beauties left in the shop last week when I bought mine. Will post pictures from the zombie game next week aswell as the show. Have yourselves a good weekend people.

A few comparison and size pictures.

28mm Copplestone, Hasslefree and Foundry miniature for scale.