Games Day 1981 Programme Guide

 

With many thanks to a great hobby friend, I thought this might be of interest... great to see many of the old companies that are now long gone listed as being present. It was held at the Royal Horticultural Society's New Hall on Greycoat Street... possible pic below. I know I went to at least two of the Games Days back in the day down in London, but I cannot for the life of me remember which ones. One trip was organised by the GW Manchester shop and another I drove down to. No programmes kept unfortunately... not sure why as I normally keep everything.

And on to the programme...

I've scanned and uploaded them as .png files which should allow them to be enlarged (or saved and looked at later).

If you enjoyed the read, a coffee is always appreciated... https://ko-fi.com/davidwood 

Any thoughts on anything please do leave a comment and/or email me on enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk, even if it is to berate me for my penchant for coffee :)

Happy Easter!

 

Empire of the Petal Throne minis on eBay...

 

Not often I eBay stuff from my collection but needs must... one Churstalli and a Hluss Neuter Warrior... edit; just the Hluss Neuter Warrior left now...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/deartonyblair/m.html

 

Around 1980, PHD Games Inc picked up the license to produce the Old Guard / Ral Partha range of EPT miniatures. They seem to have been produced in a lead free type pewter alloy which is very hard and not the easiest to clean up / drill. The Churstalli comes in 9 pieces and will require some cleaning up and gluing etc. One of the feet have become separated so will require some fiddly sorting out... I would say it would glue to a base easier than attempting to drill and pin as the metal is extremely hard. I picked up a few of the minis a long time ago from the States, I assume they were from a shop closeout or similar. The figure does not come with the card, that is staying with my copy as I only got the one. This is not a recast and is sold as I received it. 

The Hluss Neuter Warrior comes in 9 pieces and will require some cleaning up and gluing etc. I picked up a few of the minis a long time ago from the States, I assume they were from a shop closeout or similar. The figure does not come with the card, that is staying with my copy as I only got the one. This is not a recast and is sold as I received it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/deartonyblair/m.html

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Minifigs ME1 Man-Orc with Sword - the box!

 

Every so often I dig out something that makes me smile. This is just a box, very true... however this isn't just any old box, this is a Minifigs box! The first coded mini for the Middle Earth / Mythical Earth range. There's still argument over who produced the first of the fantasy ranges... people still argue that Jack Scruby may have been the first but I think they came after Minifigs around 1975 whereas Minifigs advertised in 1973... the way adverts went back in the day you needed to send your material well in advance as well.

Minifigs ME over on the Lost Minis WIKI here.

Jack Scruby fantasy here.

Note the COMING SOON section at the bottom (Military Modelling, July 1973)

More details on this post;

http://www.deartonyblair.co.uk/2020/09/beginnings-of-fantasy-minifigs-me.html

The old Minifigs ME catalogue page...

An earlier box of unknown date... picked the image up off eBay some time ago so unsure where from. All kudos to the original poster. 

My own painted ME34 Giant... tried to make him more worrying looking than the casting suggests!

Lots more Scruby and Minifigs posts if you want to have a browse, check the tags on the right of the blog. Don't forget that Dave Ryan over at Caliver Books / Minifigs is slowly rereleasing all the old fantasy... 

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Home.aspx

If you're interested, I appeared on the Rollin Bones show the other night... Canadian time 20:00... UK time 02:00. I'm still recovering! A good chat about the history and evolution of miniatures in tabletop gaming although I think I kept straying back to my own love of old lead.

 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1446655812

I've also put a couple of old Empire of the Petal Throne minis on eBay... got to pay that mortgage somehow!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/deartonyblair/m.html