Angus Wargames Club held their annual show, SKELP, over the weekend. I usually try to support the local shows, so I set off on Saturday morning, along with my gaming pal Jeff Smith and my two sons. The weather was atrocious, with pouring rain for most of the day. It became apparent that this probably affected the attendance figures for the show (although it has always been a very small anyway).
The quality of the games on display was of a high standard and the entries in the painting competition were also very good.
There were a good selection of traders present and I managed to pick up stuff from Crooked Dice, Warbases, Pendraken, Graham's Wuerkshoppe and Dave Thomas.
Anyway, on with the photo dump...
First up we a couple of Dropzone Commander games from the Glasgow Gaming Group.
A very nice Blood Eagle game with two longships coming together to fight in the middle of the table. I wish we had had time to play this one...
A GW Age of Sigmar game, which only confirmed that I am totally disinterested in the new GW fantasy miniatures.
Tanks! Not much more to say about this one...
A lovely Feudal Japanese game
RAF Lechars Veterans always put on a fun game and this time was no exception. An excellent Custer's Last Stand participation game in which the participants take on the roll of different Native American tribes competing to kill Custer...
My sons and I had a go at the Leuchars Custer game (thanks for the photo Jeff). It was a close run game, with 5 of the 6 tribes reaching Custer, and a roll of the dice to see who actually got him...
Probably the most spectacular table, had to be the Lion Rampant game put on by Kirriemuir Wargames Club, with a wonderful Gand Manner monastery taking centre space on the table. As well as the table itself, they also had a side table with colouring sheets of knights and pencils to keep the kids happy (my youngest son spent most of the drive back up the road and yesterday colouring them in). On top of all that, they had distilled the Lion Rampant rules down to a two-page play sheet, which will come in very handy when we are ready to play...
Moving on to the painting competition.
I entered my Aliens into the Open category (there is enough there to qualify as an army...).
There seemed to be only one other entry, which was a huge and very attractive 6mm army. However, I got 2nd place and the winner was apparently a zombie horde, which I missed completely. Still, I was very happy with the second place.
The Vehicle or Monster category attracted some very well painted pieces. I took this photo mid-morning, and several were added after this. I think they deserve a closer look...
Not really my genre, I am not a big robot, or manga fan, but nicely painted.
More pink robots, still, very crisply painted...
This next monstrous beasty, had a beautiful paint job (if you can describe it as beautiful)!
The chipped paint job on this next mech is very effective.
I am not sure if this Panzer III was 1/72 or 15mm, either way, the paint job was very nice indeed...
I had put my camera away by this point but managed to grab these last two with my phone. Firstly a big Tyranid beast.
THe final monster/vehicle was this scorpion-like Chaos vehicle. The paint job on this was wonderful, with some excellent blending on the armour plates.
My son entered the Junior painting category with his Hoplite figure from Crossover Miniatures (painted up as Iron Man).
He actually won the Junior competitiona and was really pleased to come away with the trophy...
The Wargames Unit category was hotly contested with a large number of entries. I entered my Colonial Marines and Predators, but the competition was to fierce for me...
The single figure category was also well supported with some very high standards.
I managed to get this photo of some of the trophy winner (No.1 son, front and centre).
Overall we enjoyed the show, although there was a lack of things to do later on, as we had seen all we wanted to by around lunchtime. Having to wait around for the raffle and the painting competition results did lead to a little boredom setting in, but it did give us time to chat to a few of the traders.
It was a good,if long,day.
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