"Trade space running out for Colours 2015@Newbury,12th Sept!" Topic

There is still some trade space available on the 1st floor for Colours this year. Booking forms and an email address is available from the colours website.

Here's the current list of traders:

Parkfield Miniatures
Magnetic Displays/Coritani
Colonel Bills
Redoubt Enterprises
Essex Miniatures
Warbases
Gringo 40's
David Lanchester Books
Tumbling Dice
Minibits/pendraken
Figures in Comfort
Great Escape Games
The Dice Bag Lady
Kallistra
Rapier Miniatures
Heroics and Ros
Ancient & Modern
Stafford Games
Products for Wargamers
Instant Armies
Eagle Figures
Paul Meekins Books
Glenbrook Games and Painting Service
Brigade Models
Twisted Pinacle Games
Lords of War/Black Box Games
Anita Books
em4 miniatures
Crooked Dice
Charlie Foxtrot Models
Harfield's Military Figures
Urban Construct
Grubby Tanks/ Britania Miniatures
Ainsty Castings
Empress Miniatures
Antenocitis Workshop
Stonewall Figures
Caliver Books
Lancer Miniatures
Magister Militum
Baccus 6mm
Wargames Emporium
Warlord Games
Peter Pig
East Street Games
Tiger Terrain
Tablescape
Lesley's Bits Box
PE2 Collectables
Battlezone Miniatures
Silmple Miniatures

Tony

That is big Tony. Peter Pig will be there with a participation game. Looking forward to it.

martin

Well that's all very encouraging but why has publicity been low key to non existent?

People I spoke to at Salute were asking if anyone had heard if the show was even going to be on this year or not.

What's happening about people putting on games at the show?

And now you can tell them it is and point them to the Club website which says it is
colours.org.uk/colours

I'm guessing it has taken time to decide to be a one day vice two day event, get the venue sorted on a new arrangement and get sufficient commitment from traders.

Great news that it's on again. Looking forward to it.

Great news it's back, second shopping event of the year!

After a year off publicity hasn't been great, sorry. I'm new into the traders post and spaces are filling up on that side. A new website is in production but for now the old one will have all the basics on.

Trajanus, email me about club/demo games at tonysilvey@outlook.com and I'll pass it on.

Looking forward to seeing you all there :)

Thanks Tony, I'm assuming we are still talking about the Racecourse as the venue, right?

"N&RWG are pleased to share that Colours will run in 2015. The big change is that it will move to a one day format rather than the two day show that we've run previously. This change is a really important one as it is driven by our desire to bring a high quality show with all the best traders and demonstration games. Colours will be on Saturday 12th September 2015 at Newbury Race Course".

Thanks RM.

Tony, any chance of listing demo/participation games too? I and some colleagues are booked (we hope) to help Bruce Wiegle put on a demo FPW game.

I'm afraid that I don't have a list of those to put up at the moment. I'll see if I can get one!

Tony

Trajanus
Did you not notice the information RM put up is from the club site for which I previously put up the link?
I was being helpful.

It is interesting that the one day is the Saturday rather than Sunday. Is this a deliberate choice in order to get better attendance, or was it more convenient for the venue?

Salute is always on a Saturday as well, of course. This is slightly irritating for me as I work on a Saturday and have to faff about booking the day off. I would guess more people work Saturday than Sunday?

By contrast, in the car world Sunday is the most popular day to hold events!

Sorry about the whinge. You can't please all the people etc….

Gwydion,

Only noticed after I posted. Frankly the website is not a lot of use which I assume is why Tony said its being replaced. Personally, I would have thought that would have been the first thing to fix but there you are.

Irony for me is that one of the three games shown at the bottom of the page is an Ancients game we put on last time we were there four or five years ago!

no Perry Miniatures on that trade list ? !! Oh well I will leave my wallet at home !

Can someone tell me if anyone will be selling the Minairons range at Colours ?

Opening times, prices and a list of demonstrating clubs are now up on the revised club site at nrwc.org.uk/colours.. There are no ads, but we'd appreciate your click through for search ranking.

For those using old browsers that don't work with our host, the salient details are:

Newbury Racecourse, RG14 7NZ, Saturday 12th September only
10:00-17:00, adult £6.00 GBP, under 16 / OAP: £3.00 GBP, Family (2+3) £12.00 GBP

To answer a question up-thread:

Abingdon Wargames Club – Assault on La Haye Saint
Braintree Wargames Group – A Day at the Races
Crawley Wargames Club – Stretcher Bearer!
Double Six Gamers – The Boys are Back in Town
ECW Role Playing Games – Dark Age Adventure
Grand Tactical Games – Battle on the Lisaine
Huntingdon & District – Wizard's Duel
Keith Deeprose – Heliopolis 1800
Liverpool Wargames Club – Kasar El kebir 1578
Loughton Strike Force – American Civil War
Penarth & District – Pennsylvania 1777
Reading Independent Wargamers – Monscar
Skirmish Wargames – The Battle of Newbury
Society Of Ancients – Hannibal's Last Stand
Society of Gentlemen Gamers – Bir El Abd: Ariete's Last Stand
South London Warlords – Aruare 1813: the Lake of Death
Southbourne Tabletop & Boardgamers – Blackadder Goes North
Staines Wargamers – Fame and Glory at Agincourt
Tring Wargames Club – Pickett's Charge

No Dave Thomas = 2nd Division Show ;-).
But then again all the other traders will be happy.

Here is the revised list of traders attending Colours this year:

7th Heaven Games
Ainsty Castings
Ancient & Modern
Anita Books
Antenocitis Workshop
Baccus 6mm
Barwell Bodyworks
Battle Studios
Battlezone Miniatures
Brigade Models
Charlie Foxtrot Models
Colonel Bills
Conquest Games
Crooked Dice
David Lanchester Books
Eagle Figures
East Street Games
em4 miniatures
Empress Miniatures
Essex Miniatures
Figures in Comfort
Forlorn Hope Games
Gideon Miniatures
Glenbrook Games and Painting Service
Great Escape Games
Gringo 40's
Ground Zero Games
Grubby Tanks/ Britannia Miniatures
Harfield's Military Figures
Heroics and Ros
Instant Armies
Kallistra
KR Multicase
Lancer Miniatures
Lesley's Bits Box
Lords of War/Black Box Games
Magister Militum
Magnetic Displays/Coritani
Minibits/pendraken
Newline Designs
Parkfield Miniatures
Paul Meekins Books
PE2 Collectables
Peter Pig
Plastic Soldier Company
Products for Wargamers
Rapier Miniatures
Redoubt Enterprises
SHQ Miniatures
Simple Miniatures
Stafford Games
Stonewall Figures
Tablescape
The Dice Bag Lady
Tiger Terrain
Tumbling Dice
Twisted Pinacle Games
Urban Construct
Warbases
Wargames Emporium
Wargames Foundry
Warlord Games

The show floor plan is now available as a download from our interim web site, nrwc.org.uk/colours

Looks like it is going to be a good show. Looking forward to it

I tried to get there today but was defeated by traffic. I'd prefer a Sunday slot when I could get there in an hour!

It was a magnificent show! Well done to the organisers and to the great numbers that attended the show.

Thank-you, Stuart. I'd like to think that we did fairly well for a novice team, and a number of lessons have been learned. There should be further news on this board next month.