Saturday 8 June 2013

BROADSIDE 2013 Setup

 Arriving at 4pm there was only 4 of us (more slowly trickled in and we got to about 10 all together). The first task was to unload two vans packed full of tables. Which is the first picture. I won't bore you with all the details, but some people helped more than others.... at the end of the second van it was just Alex (in the pink shirt) and myself.





The hall still had some sports equipment and we ad to wait for the "life guards" to put that away safely. Typically there was one young pretty girl who worked hard but could not lift a table on her own. This is not in anyway a criticism of her, she was more than happy to help. It is perhaps a criticism of the other staff in particular the young lads who just wanted to lounge by the pool side ogling the ladies swimming!


 But we got the tables laid out and had to shuffle them about a bit. The dozy twonk who drew the floor plan put no dimensions on it. So we could not work systematically, we had to get it laid out roughly and then continually tweak them. I know the drawing was to scale, but the scale was not on the drawing. When you get on site it is almost impossible when working as a team to get the tables in the right place as everyone has a different idea of how far apart they should be.... Mark please put dimensions on all drawings for the layout next time. We are wargamers and we can use tape measures! Honest!

By the time I left 3 traders had already turned up. Wargames Emporium, Warlord Games and David Lanchester Books. As I had a pre order with Wargames Emporium, they very kindly game me a 15% pre order discount. I paid cash and they got some beer money for tonight.

You all should know I will do the traditional loot blog post early next week. That's it for today. The show's tomorrow and I think I have everything ready..... there was a time when I wrote the rules at 4am the morning of the show for the game we were going to play. They worked we played that particular game 3 times on that day and got 3 different results so I still count that as a success!

Next blog no doubt Monday. But this should tide you over until then. All the best Clint



16 comments:

  1. Ah, another convention I get to be jelly about! :(

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    1. Only a small one Mathyoo.

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    2. Nah, small is when 4 guys put a demonstration games of FOW and WH40k in annual autumn fair in the local neighborhood :P

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    1. The table people delivered the wrong size tables! So I have had to change your table size and make it a tad bigger! Along with most others.

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  3. Enjoy the day Clint. To many Chiefs it sounded like then.

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    1. Just got home. Had a good day, bought loads and loads and loads of zombies..... OK I bought 6. Got your figure will post it out Monday.

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  4. I do like the term "dozy twonk"! Sounds like a strange, slow-moving, tree-living, alien creature - perhaps something like a sloth or a koala. Quite harmless, though.

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    1. Your description is fairly accurate!

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  5. Wishing you all the best on this Clint.

    Now keep those Rejects in line if you can!

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    1. No chance Anne, ask him about the spaghetti!

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    2. Cheers Anne I was a little naughty to Fran. But he took the joke very well, which is a huge credit to the fine chap. As for keeping them in line, I am not foolhardy!

      As for the spaghetti comment it is a military quote from the Falklands War.....I only know because Dave Crook ("wargames odyssey") told me so. But it did make us both ponder for a while with inane grins on our face!

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  6. Its a shame that when there is a lot of work to do very few people stand up... look forward to your loot post.

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    1. It's the way all clubs are! You can either laugh about it, or get upset about it.... but you can't change it.

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  7. Hat's off to you guys. My day started at 5:30 and that was a killer; 4am sounds like a nightmare!

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    1. The set up was 4pm on Saturday. Not 4 am on Sunday sorry for the confusion.

      On Sunday my day started at 2:30am. As a carer I have a lot to sort out before I can step out the door to make sure everything is in place and safe.

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