Showing posts with label The Rejects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rejects. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 April 2016

An Irish Reject on tour Part 1: Salute 2016

Currently wandering around Kent, England, attended Salute 2016 with a mate and met up with fellow bloggers and Rejects........


Spot the Irishman among the bloggers..........


This one is harder.........


Postie the dark destroyer himself......


Ray Rousell pretending to be the.........


.........press!!!!!!!!

Seemingly I passed out............



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!

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

The Rejects and a Tiger at Salute 2012?

The Rejects met Paul Darnell at Salute this year and myself and Ray had been following his blogs for a while, had a chat with him at the show, took some pictures and went our separate ways but we would meet again seemingly, Paul runs two blogs Battles in Miniature and Hadrian's Wall Live , he is a prolific model maker (very good and can turn his eye to any piece of terrain you could want) and has several publications to his name, more information on those blogs (go visit).

Anyway his latest post on his Battles in Miniature blog is about a WW2 game he will be hosting at Salute 2012 and the rejects will be assisting on the day (now I hope Paul knows what he's getting himself into because we're gits when we game and Ray has terrible social skills).

It's a 1:1 late war WW2 skirmish at a radar station......anyway go over to his blog and read the post.

This is one of his old WW2 layouts from issue 3 of one of his model books.

The Rejects at Salute 2012 and participating and not being asked to leave hopefully (I'm talking to you Ray), could get in free aswell (£12.00 extra to spend on figures).