Showing posts with label Bloggers Convention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloggers Convention. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

BLOG-CON 1....the Reject Road Trip!

Ray: ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz!
Fran: Ray!
Ray: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Fran: RAY!
Ray: What?
Fran: Stop fecking snoring!
Ray: I can't help it!
Ray: ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz!
Fran: Ray!


The committee (Loki, James and Kev) meet to discuss the snoring and budgie smuggler incident!


Fran: WTF?
Ray: What's wrong?
Fran: Put some fecking clothes on!
Ray: I have (lifting his belly up) and showing the tiniest pair of underwear!
Fran: For fecks sake I've gone blind!
Ray: What's the problem?
Fran: Why are you wearing budgie smugglers?
Ray: What?
Fran: Are they from the childrens department?
Ray: No!
Fran: Put some fecking clothes on...something has winked at me!

Separate rooms next year..........!

The trip up in the car was a five hour endurance test with Ray wanting to punch other drivers in the throat, traffic hold ups, heavy rain, tiredness and a sat nav extracting the urine with it's constant journey arrival times getting less hopeful.....how we laughed!

Getting poisoned by The Flaming Dragon was no picnic either (bloody Ray)........caught a movie, checked out the local wildlife (I feel old)..........our neighbours upstairs were lucky to survive as well!

The 2 day event at Wargames Foundry and for which we attended both days was excellent, the foundry is a bright huge area of shiny goodness, several of the tables already had games set up by several fellow bloggers but by the end of two days I had only managed to play three, Ray managed four, there was so much talking to be done and bitching about Ray obviously as well!

Great event, great people, great games, next year they're thinking of holding it on one day with a dinner afterwards, sounds great to me and if I'm still kicking I'll be there!

What follows is a series of pictures from the event..........

The best game for me was Dave's Wild West town of Serenity game, anything went and was allowed, great set of rules!








Excellent scenery............

Blazing dice and blog whore!

The man Dave himself, great umpire and leader of the pack James!

Ian with his 6mm Napoleonic game wondering when the kick in the crackers would come....

Still wondering.....

Lovely little 6mm goodness.........




Next up was a game of SAGA between myself and Ray, first time we ever played these rules......

Mike tries to explain the SAGA rules to Ray for the seventh time, poor Mike.......







A good game but will need more attempts to master it, I would have won as all I had to do was roll a 5 with 4 dice....no such luck!


Another game of Blazing dice well received.......

The glare from that bald spot.......

Pete Barfield and his excellent VBCW game........

The ninja sect of Morris men.......



Really good game with me playing the Irish boys but James sneaking the win with the box challenge......

The Irish did well and sorted Lee's boys out sharpish.......

Warlord Paul in the distance with his Oldhammer game, should have got pictures......

Ray spending a lot of Posties money, a lot of temptation at this venue.......

Missed lots, didn't play as many games as I would have liked, lots of chatting, bullshitting, shenanigans and people ganging up on Ray and finding out I was right all along!

Roll on next year if I'm still around!

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Slug Industries, Wargames Community Currency, Bloggers Convention, Boobs, TV shows, Movies etc...........

....or that Jeremy Kyle and the majority of daytime TV is the devils arse water!

The legend that is 6milphil and some of the lovely stuff from his 28mm Slug Industries company, great stuff on the site (modern, VBCW etc....), I tried to convince him that his 28mm RV model would sell well in 15mm, great chat with the man about casting and the costs of getting miniatures cast......... 

I ended up with the lovely pack of resin models which leads me on to the great idea that James "Great Idea" Brewerton has come up with about lead piles of miniatures and swapping stuff to get other stuff but anyway click on the link and join the community but then he came up with another great idea........

The man himself........

...........he's throwing the idea around about a Blogger Convention to be held in the UK and he's looking for feedback, click on the link to have a look and help him out.

Some movies I've seen or caught up on recently..........

(2 STARS) but interesting to find out how Gettysburg was really won.......

(2 STARS) and that's really only for the epic scene of the White House under attack...........

(3 STARS) but didn't rock my world, I think The Avengers movie with all the super heroes for one price has spoiled us, Ben Kingsley was good though...........

Currently loving some newer and one I just found TV shows........

Violent and grim.....

Violent, dark and grim.......

Just fecking funny.........


Some eye candy for people who have lasted this long.........




When I get up every morning I switch on the computer and go job hunting and blog reading but can't help switching on the TV, arse water for a lot of it including Jeremy Kyle and some of the stuff on the discovery channels but I am thinking of buying a few storage lockers!

 Bryan Scott aka Vampifan is slowly recovering according to his brother, all our good wishes go out to our friend!

...and a picture for the big man!


Vampirella.........