"Phalanx 2013 St Helens UK " Topic

Just to let you all know Phalanx will be held on 15th June 2013

Traders attending :
A BRUSH WITH THE WAR
AINSTY CASTINGS
ANGEL BARRACKS
BACCUS 6MM
BLACK PYRAMID
BOF STUDIO
CALIVER BOOKS
COLONELBILLS
CORITANI / MAGNETIC DISPLAYS
CRITICAL MASS
CUIRASSIER BOOKS
CURTEYS MINIATURES / 1ST CORPS
DAVE THOMAS, PERRY, CRUSADER, FOUNDRY ETC
DAVID LANCHESTER BOOKS
EARLY WAR MINIATURES
FIGHTING 15S
FIGURES IN COMFORT
GLENBROOK GAMES PAINTING SERVICE
GREAT ESCAPE GAMES
GRIM TREE GAMES
GRUBBY TANKS
INSTANT ARMIES & VETERAN MINIATURES
IRREGULAR MINIATURES
KALLISTRA
KURIOSITY KINGDOM
LANCASHIRE GAMES
LAST VALLEY
LESLEY'S BITS BOX
MINIATUREMEN
MUTINEER MINIATURES
PENDRAKEN
S & A SCENICS
SCARAB MINIATURES
SHQ
THE BAGGAGE TRAIN
THE DICE SHOP ONLINE
TIGER MINIATURES
TINY TIN TROOPS
TUMBLING DICE
UNDER FIRE MINIATURES
WAR AND HOBBY
WARBASES
WARGAMES EMPORIUM
WARGAMES SUPPLY DUMP
WARLORD GAMES

spartans.org.uk

Yay, my first time at the show and my first time up t'north!
Very much looking forward to it.

Michael.
angelbarracks.co.uk

Hi Michael

Make sure you pop in at Tiny Tin Troops stand for a chat.

Phalanx is my local show

Tony

PS the rest of you lot are welcome too, of course.

LOL @ the PS.

If I get chance I ceratinly will, probably during set up as hopefully it will be a bit quieter.
Unless we end up next to each other of course, in which case you will regret that offer!

Michael.

This is THE show for me every year. Best in the North West

It is a good show and it's one of my favourites but I think its the only show in the north west.

Yes … Phalanx is a great show … The Society of Ancients will be there. Martin Charlesworth will be running his dirty DBA challenge as usual so do pop over and have a quick game. I will have the latest issues of Slingshot for you to have a look at.

Phil
Ancients on the Move

Phalanx is certainly the only show left of any size but there are a few smaller shows & tournaments and there is also Britcon in Manchester.

Its a good show. And only a couple of weeks before Gauntlet : TMP link

So a regular for many of our club members, being only 45 mins down the road from it.

EWM went last year for the first time. Great show, and we are there again this year.
Looking forward to it and seeing all our customers up there again.

Cheers
paul t@ewm

It's the only show I go to nowadays.
Looking forward to it.

Go sustainably. The Lea Green railway station is within 5 minutes walk.

Look forward to it.

Managed to get a table at the show for my Four A miniatures range.Note to self book earlier ;).

I see that we are next to each other Tony:

link

You will regret that offer!

Looking forward to a show I can actually manage to go to!

Bump before the show.
If anyone needs to order anything for collection, now is the time to let me know.

:D

Phalanx in the morning. :)

Always a good day out.

Seemed busy as normal, bought some bits, more impulse stuff. Got some wind turbines of Angel Barracks who nearly got me into 6mm and for me was amazing as I generally view all non 28mm stuff as heresy. Some acrylic tokens I thought I could use for tomorrows war was my biggest buy (Litko is good but not cheap over here) altogether though a pleasant trip all round.

Got a steal on the B&B, and my house once again smells of laser cut mdf.

An excellent morning out – nice show that seems to be returning to it's glory days when it was held later in the year. Seemed very busy.

The day only got better – great win for The Lions down under.
Wales slaughtered by Japan – oh how we laughed.
One of THE finest tries I've ever seen by The All Blacks v's France.
Finished off with a fine series win for England v's Argentina.
Oh happy, happy days! And I'm still laughing at the Welsh!

Luke. That was Wales' second team. The first team are the British Lions.

That aside, Phalanx was encouragingly busy and bustling. I hope money was being passed around.

Congratulations to the St Helens' Spartans.

Was a good day out.

Good fun, met up with quite a few folk and spent more than I meant to.

Well done to the organisers – well run as always and two very friendly people on the door.

Plenty to look at and draw inspiration from. I really liked the 10mm Napoleonic (Pendraken) game that was played on a short haired blanket type cloth, draped over hill forming lumps and bumps. I am now on the lookout for that type of cloth. It was done in a pale olive green colour. I liked the basing of their figures – more open than mine but I thought they looked better for that and a sense of some 'motion' had been brought into the cavalry stands by not having strictly straight lines – looked good.

Got pulled into a new period / theatre for me by picking up Texas Glory, a block game boardgame from Columbia Games, covering the Alamo 1885 / 1886 period at the strategic level.

Overall there seemed a really good balance of traders, I was able to pick up some Fathers Day treats, surely a convenient clash of dates that must help this show.

Seemed busy as normal, bought some bits, more impulse stuff. Got some wind turbines of Angel Barracks who nearly got me into 6mm and for me was amazing as I generally view all non 28mm stuff as heresy. Some acrylic tokens I thought I could use for tomorrows war was my biggest buy (Litko is good but not cheap over here) altogether though a pleasant trip all round.

Oohhh ooohh which chap were you?
You should have mebtioned your TMP name..

:P

I would've said but in the short while we were talking you had about 3 sales. I was the one who saw you get attacked by a display rack. You seemed to be prettty busy, I've assembled the turbines and I think I need some more… so I'll be ordering in the near future.

Ah-ha, were you the one that said "you never touched it" or something like that?

Yes, they are cool.
Good for the bigger craaaaaaazy scales!

:D

Yep that's the one, did you have a good show?

It was a good day out. Spent a good amount of time chatting to passers by and put some faces to names from forums.

Didn't get much time to have a proper look around at all of the games, just a quick scoot round to a few stalls before manning our table. Does anybody have photos of all the games? I've scoured the internet and found pictures of a couple of games but not all.

There are some photo's on Will's Wargames blog; link

Photographs of my game are on my blog; caseshotpublishing.com/blog

Regards

Garry Wills

Cheers, Garry. I met you at Phalanx, btw. I'm the lad from the VBCW stand with an interest in the French Revolutionary Wars.

There's the Wargame Amateur blog as well:

link

Oh, and well done on winning the 'Best in Show' award

Thanks Adam, it was good to meet you again. I was pleasantly surprised at the end of the day to receive the award.

Garry