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Hammerhead 2017 is expanding - to include the NEW ‘Gamers Lounge’ as well as the George Stephenson Exhibition Hall!
Hammerhead 2017 will be taking place on Saturday 4th March at theNewark Showground, Newark, from 10am until 4.30pm.
Entry is £5.00 GBP per adult, £3.00 GBP for minors (16 and under), Children under 9 free.


The Gamers Lounge with bar and catering

Plus


The George Stephenson Exhibition Hall with bistro

George Stephenson Exhibition Hall and the Cedric Ford Pavilion - the ‘Gamers Lounge’ offer a welcoming environment with plenty of natural light in which you can play games, shop for wargame goods from the very best UK traders and manufacturers. More than 50 fantastic visitor participation games – Historical, Fantasy and Sci-fi, located in the central areas are the focus of the show. There are two separate catering facilities which will be serving a variety of reasonably priced hot and cold food throughout the day and a fully licensed bar located in the Gamers Lounge.

All games at Hammerhead are visitor participation, which means that you are very welcome 'to have a go' at a wide variety of different historical and fantasy based games run by intrepid gaming clubs, historical societies, wargame companies and enthusiastic groups of gamers. You will be able to play a full game or simply move a few miniatures, roll some dice, have a chat with the people running the game and then move onto the next. The show provides a great opportunity to try out new or familiar game systems and spend a day indulging yourself and friends in this absorbing and fascinating hobby. Whether you're interested in The Great War, WWII, Medieval, AWI, Fantasy or Science Fiction, we are sure that you will find a selection of games you would like to play.

Would you like to run a participation game at Hammerhead 2017? With the expansion into the Gamers lounge we have more space available for games! Visit the Hammerhead website for information. http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk/exhibitinggames.html

There is an excellent selection of top traders and manufacturers selling a wide variety of wargaming wares, miniatures, terrain and scenery, books and gaming accessories.

Hammerhead show will be hosting a Tabletop Sale in place of the usual bring and buy stand. With no commission, you keep all the profits.

The Hammerhead 2017 miniature, is a WW1 Austrian general and will be available for the first time on the day of the show for the token price of £1.00 GBP, or FREE if you purchase your Hammerhead Entry ticket online prior to the show. See website for details.

Parking is plentiful and FREE. Newark Showground is only a few minutes from the A1 at Newark Junction.



For full details of all the traders and games plus tabletop sales and entry ticket sales, visit the Hammerhead Show website, http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk or check out the Facebook page

Looking forward to seeing you there, for a great day out!

Hammerhead 2017 is being run by Kallistra Ltd with assistance from the The Forest Outlaws Wargamers Club and GCN. Supported by Miniature Wargames, Wargames Illustrated and Wargames Soldiers and Strategy magazines.

Trader list Hammerhead 2017

We have, for you, a terrific selection of the very best manufacturers and traders selling a wide variety of wargaming wares, miniatures, terrain and scenery, books and gaming accessories…. (Click on the link to visit their website).

Ainsty Castings – http://www.ainsty-castings.co.uk
Ancient and Modern – http://www.ancient-modern.co.uk
Baccus 6mm – http://www.baccus6mm.com
Bad Squiddo Games / Dice bag lady – http://www.badsquiddogames.com
Baggage Train – http://the-baggagetrain.com/
Barwell Bodyworks – http://www.barwellbodyworks-shop.com
Black Pyramid Gaming – http://www.blackpyramid.co.uk
Caliver Books – http://www.caliverbooks.com/
Colonel Bills – http://www.colonelbills.com/
Crooked Dice Games – http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk
Curteys / 1st Corps – http://www.1stcorps.co.uk
Dave Thomas
David Lanchester Books – link
Eagle Figures – http://www.eaglefigures.co.uk
Early War Miniatures – http://www.earlywarminiatures.com
Empress Miniatures – http://www.empressminiatures.com
Figures in Comfort – http://www.figuresincomfort.co.uk
Glenbrook Games and Painting Service – http://www.glenbrookgames.co.uk
Graham's Wuerkshoppe – http://www.grahamswuerkshoppe.co.uk
Great Escape Games – http://www.greatescapegames.co.uk
Grubby Tanks & Britannia Miniatures – http://www.grubbytanks.com
Hawk Wargames – http://www.hawkwargames.com
Helion Books – http://www.helion.co.uk
Hysterical Games – http://www.hystericalgames.co.uk
Ironclad – http://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk
Kallistra – http://www.kallistra.co.uk
Lancashire Games – link
Last Valley
Lesley's Bitsbox – http://www.lesleysbitsbox.co.uk/
Leven Miniatures – http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk
Magnetic Displays/Coritani – http://www.magneticdisplays.co.uk
Mantic – http://www.manticgames.com
Mierce Miniatures – http://www.mierce-miniatures.com
Military History Live – http://www.militrayhistorylive.co.uk
Minibits – http://www.minibits.co.uk
Miniaturemen – http://www.miniaturemen.co.uk
Northumberland Painting Service – http://www.paintinghistory.co.uk
Pendraken – http://www.pendraken.co.uk
Rapier Miniatures – http://www.rapierminiatures.co.uk
Redoubt Enterprises – http://www.redoubtenterprises.com
Reiver Castings – http://www.reivercasting.wordpress.com
Sally 4th – http://www.sally4th.co.uk
Scarab Miniatures – http://www.sarabminiatures.com
SGTS' Mess – http://www.sgts-mess.com
Shell Hole Scenics – http://www.shellholescenics.co.uk
SquareHex – http://www.squarehex.co.uk
Studio Miniatures – http://www.studiominiatures.com
The Tree Fella
TimeCast – http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk
Tumbling Dice – http://www.tumblingdiceuk.com/
Warbases – http://www.warbases.co.uk
Wargames Foundry – http://www.wargamesfoundry.com
Wargames Illustrated – http://www.wargamesillustrated.net
Warlord Games – http://www.warlordgames.com
Warploque Miniatures – http://www.warploqueminiatures.com
Zinge Industries – http://www.zinge.co.uk

For all the information on the Hammerhead 2016 show, visit the dedicated website: http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk or find us on Hammerhead Show Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Hammerhead-Show

Looking forward to seeing you there!

2 weeks to go to Hammerhead 2017 - Saturday 4th March at Newark Showground – The Gamers Lounge and the George Stephenson Exhibition Hall, Newark.

There are 70 great visitor participation games, historical, fantasy and sci-fi,booked in, plus 56 top traders/manufacturers selling a wide variety of wargaming wares, miniatures, terrain and scenery, books and gaming accessories.

If you would like to book a tabletop sales table, there are only a few tables remaining, first-come, first-served!

There's still time to buy your online entry ticket and collect your free Hammerhead miniature on the day!

For those of you wanting to plan your route around the two halls, the floor plans for Hammerhead 2017 are now available

The George Stephenson Hall

And the Gamers Lounge


For larger floor plans visit https://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk
Parking is plentiful and FREE. Newark Showground is only a few minutes from the A1 at Newark Junction.


For full details of all the traders and games plus tabletop sales and entry ticket sales, visit the Hammerhead Show website, http://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk or check out the Facebook page

Looking forward to seeing you there, for a great day out!

Hammerhead 2017 is being run by Kallistra Ltd with assistance from the The Forest Outlaws Wargamers Club and GCN. Supported by Miniature Wargames, Wargames Illustrated and Wargames Soldiers and Strategy magazines.

Just over a week to Hammerhead – 70 games/activities booked into the main central gaming area of the George Stephenson Exhibition Hall and the Gamers Lounge. With a good mix of genre and scales, we are sure you'll find a selection of games you would like to play.

1796 French Invasion of Ireland - a Napoleonic what if? - Pennine Megagames
1879 South Africa - Wyvern Wargamers
7TV - On Her Majesty's Crooked Service - Crooked Dice Games
Achtung! UFO - Warlord Games
Aggro 70'S Football - Ainsty Casting
All out War - The Walking Dead - Mantic Games
ArcWorlde Battle for Troll Bridge - Warploque Miniatures
ArcWorlde Trouble in the North - Warploque Miniatures
Armada 1588 - Helion Books
Battles of the Biblical Age - DBA - Paul Murgatroyd
Battletech Alpha Strike - RAF Cranwell
Bolt Action - Holland 1944 - Warlord Games
Burn the Burh -Lion Rampant - Derby Wargames Associates
Cats at Play - Redcar Ironbeards
Chaos in Casablanca - Sally 4th Gamers
Congo - Warmonger Miniatures
Crusaders - Fire and Fury
Choisin Resovoir, Korea 1950 - Pennine Megagames
Dalek's Invasion Earth - South London Warlords
Darklands - Mierce Miniatures
Dinosaur Attack! - Leeds Night Owls
Dropfleet Commander - Hawk Wargames
Eat Hitler! - Dragoons Den
El Dorado - the search for the golden pyramid - Peterborough Wargames Club
Formula Minion - Royal Air Force Wargaming Association
Has Anyone Seen Stanley? - A Very British Civil Forum
Heinkels over Hastings, Check Your 6 - Leeds Wargames Club
In Her Majesty's Name! - Chesterfield Open Gaming Society
Kings of War - Chesterfield Open Gaming Society
Lord of the Rings - Battle of The Pelennor Fields! - Reveille
Mad Max - Fury Road - Mad Max and the Humungus
Maneovre Group - Sci-Fi - KB Club
Mexican Revolution - Shellhole Scenics
Mike Salwey's Painting Clinic - 6mm and 12mm
Natural Beorn Killers - Dragon Rampant - Black Pyramid Games
Oldhammer Grail Quest - The Bunker
Open Combat - Second Thunder
Operation Claymore - Doncaster Gamers
Oudenarde - What if the French been more active... - Forest Outlaws Wargamers
Over the Hills - Forager I - Stand to Games
Panzerfäuste - Hysterical Games
Raid on Halflington - North Star
Pirate - Trade Game - Pennine Megagames
Robin Hood - Forest Outlaws Wargamers
Roman Invasion of Britain - Forest Outlaws Wargamers
Romano British V Saxon - Forest Outlaws Wargamers
Rorkes Drift 1879 - Like a Stone Wall Wargames Group
SAGA - Gripping Beast
Sails of Glory - Wings of Glory Aerodrome Forum
Sands of the Sudan - Guisborough 'Occasional' Gamers
Sharps Practice - Sons of Simon De Montfort
Strike on Kar'A Nine - Beyond the Gates of Antares - Warlord Games
Swords and Sandels - Sons of Simon De Montfort
Team Yankee - Reluctant Conscripts
The Chicago Way - Great Escape Games
The Chicago Way - Yorkshire Renegades
The Italian Job 1509 - Harrogate Wargames Club
The Somme 1916 – to the Green Fields Beyond - Scarab Miniatures
The Walking Dead - Yorkshire Renegades
The War of Bones - Doncaster Wargames Society
Thermopylae - Defending the Hot Gates - Phoenix Gaming Club
Up the Creek Without a Paddle (Boat)! - Dave and Malc Victorian Steel
Veni, Vidi, Mortem - Kings of War Historical - Forest Outlaws Wargamers
War of the Worlds - Leicester Phat Cats
Wings of Glory WWI Airwar - Wings of Glory Aerodrome Forum
Wings of Glory WWII - Wings of Glory Aerodrome Forum
Witch Racing - Grantham Strategy Club
World War II – 1947 - KB Club
Wot, No Parachute! - League of Gentleman Anti-Alchemists
Zombie Bash - Lincoln Miniature Warfare Society

Visit The Hammerhead Show Website for more information.

See you there for a great day of tabletop gaming!