Sunday 30 July 2017

BOYL 2017. The Photo dump


So this Sunday I was up bright and early to begin the drive up to the 'lead belt' and visit the Foundry for 'Bring out your lead' 2017.

The weather was gorgeous and the roads clear so it was a lovely drive and a great beginning to the day.

As always I had that little tingle of anticipation as I walked towards the main marquee and thought about what wonders would be on display on the alpha tables.

My word I was not going to be disappointed as this year everyone had brought their 'A game'!

To my left was the construction of 'Heldenhofen', a massive contruction of a fully fledged Warhammer Fantasy town, complete with . . . . . .



Underground lairs, Hobbit villages and graveyard . . . . . . .


Town square. . . . . . .


Bier Bowl stadium . . . . .


Port . . . . . .


Gatehouse district / market hall . . . . .


Dwarf quarter / Giant Slaying arena. . . . . .


With protesters . . . . .


Court house . . . .


The great thing was the whole town was just one big 'bring and play' sand box with activities including . . . .

Bier Bowl and Snorkleball (6 a side Bloodbowl) . . . .


World Giant slaying championships . . . . .


The first Heldenhofen "Blood on the streets" Chariot race. . . . . . . . .


Squig Hopper racing in the under city. . . . . . . . .


Jabberwocky hunting outside the city .. . . . . .


As well as WFRP and Warhammer skirmish fights breaking out throughout the city. . . . .


Fucking brilliant from top to bottom and a sterling effort from Fimm McCool of Oakland games. I am sure there were other contributors and apologies if I do not know your names.

If that was not enough I then looked over to my right and there was a complete construction of 'Helsreach' of Rogue Trader fame!


Another 'sand box' bring and play townscape which saw all sorts of 40K riff raff fighting it out in the city . . .


Or trading. . . . . . .


Or Jet Bike racing . . . . . .


Or Grox herding !!!!!! . . . . .


Or just going for a walk . . . . . .


Or avoiding Imperial authorities . . . . .



All in all another amazing effort of Curtis Fell of 'Ramshackle Games' fame.

This really was something special!!!!!!!!


Also got to see 'Mr Papafaki's' Walker in the flesh and very impressive it was to. Really pleased it survived it's trip all the way from Australia!


Not sure who built / painted these but the Jetbikes below really caught my eye.
 



That's not all. This pyramid was also plonked on a table by a bunch of Hitching Oldhammers for a game of goodness knows what . . . . 

Another top effort!
 

Of course Kev Adams was on site with his sculpting tools to raise money for his favourate charity . . . .
 

. . . . So of course I had to get my face sculpted onto something . . . .

Can't help but notice he has scutpted my head a LOT bigger this year!!

I really need to sort out that diet!


And last but by no means least . . . . . . . 

The swag!


Only a small haul this year and nearly all from the Foundry 2000AD collection for some reason.

Still need to get my mitts on a BOYL 2017 miniature but hopefully that has been sorted and once again Curtis sculpted and cast a free 'Mayor of Helsreach' figure. What a bloke.

It was great  to meet up again with various peep's I follow via the interweb and even make some new contacts within the world of Oldhammer.

For what little my opinion is worth I have to say I think this years BOYL has been the best one yet!

Can't wait for next year!

13 comments:

  1. Sensational! What a fabulous day out.

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    1. This year really was a bit special!

      If it carries on like this I might have to turn up on the Saturday instead and spend the full day.

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  2. It was a fantastic WE, glad we could shake hands a chat a bit at least.

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    1. It looked like an amazing weekend and I was disappointed I only turned up on the Sunday.

      Great to meet up again and have a chat (and steal some of your ideas ;0)). Hopefully we will get to roll some dice next time.

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  3. What fun! The Heldenhofen table was a joint effort by GROG (Gloucestershire Retro and Oldhammer Gamers)- myself, Harry and Chris who wrote the Bier Bowl and Snotling Space Hopper rules and GM'd the WFRP on Saturday afternoon. Giant fighting by Colin/Whiskey Priest whilst the dwarfish protestor was Curtis' handiwork.

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    1. Oh, and the Jabberwock fight on Sunday morning (more accurately- the Jabberwock feasting!) was run by Tim/OrfeoCulzean who was a stalwart resident of Heldenhofen over the weekend, even engaging in some dodgy sheep herding!

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    2. Thanks for the info drop. I knew there were other contributors but they had completely slipped my mind by the time I got home.

      I have to say again the whole enterprise was AMAZING and I am still raving about it to anyone who will listen. It has even inspried me to try a little 'homage' for the game this weekend.

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  4. Wow, that looks bloody amazing... *drools*

    Maybe next year my planned trip back to Blighty might coincide with BOYL?

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    1. Real shame you missed out ;0(

      If next years BOYL is anything like this years I would fully recommend coinciding your return from exile with BOYL. Maybe we will even get to roll some die together?

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    2. That would be a great result.

      Bit early just yet to sort out plans, but I'll let ya know for sure once they are being thrown about.

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    3. That would be great man. Keep me in the loop.

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  5. Some fine inspirational modelling there, fantastic stuff :-)

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    1. It really was and all DIY efforts just like yours!

      You would LOVE it!

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