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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Events and Conventions => Topic started by: gringo on November 11, 2015, 12:21:38 PM
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Wondered who is going from LAF to the Show..?
James and Doug for sure :)
who else? :D
regards
Ged
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Local for me so will get there at least for a couple hours..
other commitments and wife permitting :)
Hoping not to be to excessively tempted, but my wallet is already looking scared.
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I'll be heading into Reading on the Saturday
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Yep - we'll be trading. Pop over and say hello!
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I'll be popping along on the Saturday all being well.
Need a paint and tufts restock!
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I hope to get over for an hour or two.
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Not looking forward to the task of finding a parking space in that wretched car park though... ::)
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Haven't been for a few years, is the parking still bad?
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I haven't been for a couple of years, but I can't imagine the car park has changed much. Always rammed by the time I get all the way over there. Still, I'm sure I'll manage... ;)
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Yeah, parking is shit :(
I'm going to try and get there for around 9:30 and get a decent spot :D
cheers
James
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9:30 ish also. try the coffee maybe, see how bad it is and then have an amble about a bit
Not worried about shitty parking thankfully... :D
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09.30 it is then....let's not tell everybody :D
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OK
Loose lips and all that :D
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Top Show good to see and chat to Eric,Richard,Karl,Ollyreed ...most
enjoyable show :D
regards
Ged
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Good to see you there Ged, plus other LAF friends :)
I had a reasonably successful shopping expedition, although unbelievably, out of (allegedly) 70 traders, only two had partial ranges of Vallejo Model Color - and neither of them had Red Leather of Flat Earth, which I really need!
Ah well, back to eBay...
The parking was indeed abysmal as usual. It was also incredibly crowded inside. Couldn't really get to look at half the stuff I might have wanted to buy without getting barged and elbowed... It's always the same at wargames shows, but this seemed worse than usual. Some wargamers really are rude bastards... ::)
It's an interesting event, Warfare. Basically one hall given over entirely to shopping, and another given over almost entirely to swivel-eyed competitive gamers all pushing two lines of lead towards each other across a sea of green baize and arguing about rules loopholes.
The display and participation games were few indeed, and most of those that were there were deeply uninspiring, played out on cloths or TSS tiles. I only saw two or three truly display-worthy games on show featuring great terrain and figures. The rest - meh.
Ah well... Only five months until Salute ;)
All in all, fine for a shopping trip, but that's about all.
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Just posted some photos up on the blog...
http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/warfare-2015-few-photos.html (http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/warfare-2015-few-photos.html)
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Yes, good show but could easily be a one-day event. Colours showed the way by going to a single day. Most of the fellow traders I spoke to would prefer a single day. Like a few other shows, it is two day for the benefit of the competition games. OK, since the comp games have their own separate room(s), they could still play on the Sunday and limit trading to the Saturday only.
Anyway, that seems to be the prevalent opinion amongst a majority of Traders. What do those very important people, The Customers, think?
Doug
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One day good for me...I doubt very much whether folks would go for two - perhaps open at 09.00hrs
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I doubt very much whether folks would go for two
Which begs the question - why is it two now? As I said above, presumably entirely for the competitions....
Doug
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With my trader's hat on, 2 day shows are mostly a complete waste of time and money - hotels, night's out, hangover cures et cetera.
Warfare at least has a thriving competition scene (and 2 of 'my' team were taking part so weren't under my feet for once ;)) - so there were still plenty of people around on the Sunday to make trading worth while.
The same cannot be said of other 2 day events. *cough* Triples *cough*
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I have to agree that from a trading point of view it does get costly but would it be unsuitably busy if it were one day. It was busy enough Saturday morning and even more so last year with Colours not being on.
cheers
James
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I have to agree that from a trading point of view it does get costly but would it be unsuitably busy if it were one day. It was busy enough Saturday morning and even more so last year with Colours not being on.
cheers
James
Most shows now seem able to cope with being one day. Colours worked fine this year as a one day-er.
Doug
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Indeed - Colours was VERY good for us this year (our highest ever total for the show) and, although an extremely long day, cost effective. Even then, by early afternoon the show was quiet.
A 2 dayer means, realistically, £250 in expenses which have to be covered.
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Indeed - Colours was VERY good for us this year (our highest ever total for the show) and, although an extremely long day, cost effective. Even then, by early afternoon the show was quiet.
A 2 dayer means, realistically, £250 in expenses which have to be covered.
Yes- Colours was a good trading day. Slightly better than the two days of Warfare combined, along with the reduced overheads as you mentioned.
Doug