Today saw the latest Diceni games show in Norwich, a free to enter event run by the Aftermath gaming club. Proceeds this year went to the Guide Dogs. Having a 5-year old and an autistic 9-year old in tow meant that I wasn't able to see everything, so the following collection of photographs are fairly random, but show how much there was. What I captured is probably less than half the show! Things I didn't get to photograph included: Pandyman's excellent WWI trench scenery participation game; a huge 2 or 3mm scale game Strength & Honour; Occult Wars spooky mansion; lots more.
Quite a few of these pictures were taken on high zoom from the balcony of Pizza Express overlooking the main hall while we were having lunch, so apologies for the slightly fuzzy nature of some images.
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The event organisers
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Local games cafe
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3D prints for sale
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1980's Afghanistan game run by Aftermath
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The main hall.
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Great footwear sported by one of the ladies!
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Number 1 Son and I joined a participation game run by Aftermath. We took the part of 2 groups of Mujahideen. An American supplied Huey had crashed and local tribesmen had captured the people on board. Our objective was to locate the hostages concealed in a couple of buildings. Our opponents were a group of Spetsnaz and some others, possibly just regular Soviet troops, who were aiming to kill the hostages. Scattered across the board were some locals who started neutral, but would attack if they were attacked, or if we found the hostages.
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Afghanistan, 1980's participation game I joined.
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We managed to locate the hostages and were well on the way to evacuating 2 of them by the time we had to leave the game for lunch. We succesfully wiped out the Spetznas team (the last one fell to one of the locals whilst searching a building).
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I was keen to see the ROK Minis stand, they had lots of 6, 10 & 15mm 3D printed models from a number of designers. It included some Full Spectrum Dominance models for which I have the stl files but have only ptinted out a few so far. I liked some of their paint schemes, I have some ideas to try on mine now. They were wlao running a tiny game of participation game of Space Hulk but we didn't get a chance to look at that.
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ROK 15mm fantasy
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ROK 15mm fantasy
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ROK Gaslands set (6mm?)
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Full Spectrum Dominance
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Full Spectrum Dominance
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We got the usual range of goodies from the show. Number 2 son was given a free bag of extra large dice by Cymbeline Games, so now he can roll a D1000 whenever he feels the urge.
I bought a Ford Capri from Kore, he threw in a Mustang and a DeLorean time machine for free.
Sirplus Wargaming Emporium were dishing out goodie bags again this year. The kids each got one, here is the contents of one bag: sprue of 3 Space Marines, sprue of 1 Dwarf, 1 Goblin, Hot Wheels car, Ty Beanie Baby bird, Pokemon cards, Disney Lorcana cards, baseball cap, post-it notes, cardboard £50 note, Simpsons keyring, pencil (hidden under hat!).
I entered a few models in the Black Dragon painting competition, sadly no prize this year, but never mind. The organisers were overwhelmed by the number of entries, they hadn't expected nearly as many and were still judging when I had to pick up my models to head home! I didn't get a chance to look at the other competitors' models at all.
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My vehicle/mecha class entry
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My squad/team class entry
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Diorama class entry (may look familiar)
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Single figure under 1:35 scale
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Remember I pointed out the small aircraft on the Kore stand? I has some space in the competition models box, so took a couple of my 3D printed 15mm LARC (Low Altitude Rotor Craft) flyers to see if they wanted to display them on their stand. They were delighted to do so, and I left them there all day.
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Stretched Larc (top), gunship LARC (bottom)
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LARC gunship.
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Stretched LARC troop carrier.
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It was an enjoyable day, as always, but next year I might try to go on my own, or just take Number 1 Son because he is able to focus on things a little better and can usually be trusted not to try and pick up every fragile model that he sees...
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