Bugle Call Convention - Adelaide 2012
I seem to have missed a few weeks of posting updates to the blog, so I now have a massive backlog of finished things to be posted, some updates on the computer development, and a tonne of new projects to get into.
Lets start with Bugle Call then ...
A gaming convention held over the weekend of June 10-11th in lil old Adelaide.
Well done to Martin from
www.littlesoldiers.com.au for organising this, and it was impressive to see such a great turnout of displays and visitors.
I will keep the text pretty small in this post, since blogger is really starting to bog down for some reason, and making extended editing very difficult. grrrr ! Crashed the browser twice already - annoying.
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Mal Wright put on a great FIW demo game using Carnage and Glory II, and his own handmade terrain. |
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Back behind the scenes - a French field surgery doesnt seem to having much success :)
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The scenario is a French force trying to prevent a landing of British marines in the port, who are pouring in to reinforce the beseiged fortress. Here some French Grenadiers advance to try and gain a foothold in the besieged port. Excellent hand-made terrain courtesy of Mal.
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French line advance from their protected positions to put pressure on the fortress. |
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Carnage and Glory II plays really well at this scale of game - fast and accurate, its a good solution for a game of this size I think. |
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A number of re-enactors were here as well. I saw Captain America, some Imperial Stormtroopers, and the girl from the cover of Incursion all wondering about the displays. |
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Eureka was here with a wide range of books, rulesets, figures and displays. Was great to (finally) meet Nic as well :) Well worth checking out is the new range of SYW painting guides, Warlord Games books, and the Jurassic Reich 28mm figs. They look so much better in real life ! Recommended. |
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Big range of SotTR figures on display from littlesoldiers.com.au |
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Zombies ! Zombies with GasMasks ! |
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A captivating display of Bushido figures from littlesoldiers.com.au. Looks like a really interesting concept. |
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Nice clean figures - very cool display. |
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A wise Bushido elder ... with spider monkey mascot, riding on tortoise. |
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Kung Fu nuns. |
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Must read up more on this system - I am really liking the ideas in these figs. |
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Especially this guy :) |
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Good to see Incursion getting some exposure. |
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A DBA campaign was in progress, hosted by Group North. Excellent production values here, and backed up by what looked like a campaign manager happening on the laptop. Great effort from Grp Nth. |
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DBA is alive and kicking in Adelaide. These are all DBA tables playing out scenarios from the previously displayed campaign map. If you ever get a chance to go out there, its worth the trip - they have a huge hall near the military airbase, and are well known for being well organised. |
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The Federation strikes back ! |
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Excellent fleet command module ... monstrously huge if you compare it to an Enterprise class starship docking below. |
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A demo game and figures from an expansion set from Warmachine. |
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There is a gaming group that meets in town on Tue nights. |
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Great job on these. |
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BattlePigs ! |
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BattleBoars ! |
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Battle .... thing ? |
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I like the treatment of the tusks - thats a good study of the colour transition. Well done ! |
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Human hero to battle the WarMachines. |
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Lots of demo games in progress at Bugle Call. |
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In all cases, the GMs were friendly and approachable ... as a visitor and total nOOb to any game system, I felt very welcomed to drop in halfway through any of the games in progress, and get an enthusiastic run down on how the game works, game mechanics, etc. |
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More 28mm goodness. |
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Even more 28mm Goodness. Very popular scale. |
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I had to get some good shots in of this display .. enjoy the eye candy here. |
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Zeppelin aircraft carrier ... nice ! |
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Giant ocean going sea squid |
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Thomas, Henry, Gordon ... and Sooty the Traction BattleCruiser. |
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This is of course a .... ah ... I have no idea. But Im loving the colour scheme. Brilliant ! |
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Excuse my poor use of lighting in this photo - a quick snap of some Victoria Lamb Minis. Victoria Lamb herself was there in person .... |
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Quick fly back to the FIW table - a blurry action shot as Indians storm the Fotress walls. These are BlueMoon storming parties, another nicely put together work from Mal. |
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In the Wow ! Department - Nic bought along some of the new AB's |
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Well worth getting. You now have 3 years till the 200th anniversary of Waterloo - so even if you are not into Napoleonics, you still need to get some of these and start painting :) |
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Excellent stuff. You wont believe they are 15s unless you see them in the flesh. |
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A last quick and blurry snapshot before the camera runs out of juice. Eureka 28mm Beowulf Saxons. |
Hope you liked that.
Now I better post this before blogger crashes again and wipes out my captions !
Another great write up of bugle call, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was a great show!
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