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Sorry for the long title but Colours is coming this weekend and whilst I know what two main reasons I'm going for I need some advise about bases and who might have them.......

First up - http://colours.org.uk/ for details about the show.
Secondly I've heard that Malifaux 2 will be at the show as Simple Miniatures have got some preview copies as as I've already pre-ordered my Infinity Artbook I'm going to make sure I grab a copy of the new rules when I'm there.

I'm hoping there will be some left as I can't get there until Sunday

Bases! - Does anyone know of any traders there that will have some 30/40/50 mm lipped scenic bases I'm struggling to find suitable arcane steampunk ruins with the Malifaux style lipped edge. I also need some 25mm sci-fi for my infinity and 40K stuff too. Anyone know of a good trader that might have them on the day I'd rather see them in the flesh so I can work out if some of the more open poses will fit on the base as I've ordered online before and they just haven't quite worked out.

I'm not sure what else it at the show but it's normally a good one and the bring and buy is busy so i can sell off some unwanted projects (and unfortunately normally create some new ones!) Terrain and bases seem to be my main focus at the moment........until new shiny models catch my eye Antenociti's workshop do colours so that will be good to see if there is anything new from Jed this year.

The best thing is to look up the Colours website and they should have a list of traders. You can work back from that to see the style of bases a particular firm will bring with them. Companies going to a big show often put some news on their own website.

Well i was gona look at the traders list and let you know thew best ones to go to, but seeing as its a MS office doc and i dont use that software i cant.
Have a look for warmill, they do laser-cut PDF scenery and is ideal for use with any sci-fi game, there other traders as well that do a good selection of terrain, but for the ife of me cant remember there names (hence want to look at the list...........lol)

TRADERS AND EXHIBITORS AT COLOURS 2013

Trader
Ainsty Castings 46
Always Darkk 59
Ancient & Modern/Donnington/
Xyston 75
Antenociti’s Workshop 29
Antics 82
Anvil Industry 26
Atlantic Publishers (Mini Wgms) 48
Baccus 52
Battle Scene Pictures 101 (Annex)
Battlezone Miniatures 68
Black Box Games 65
Black Hat Miniatures/Fighting 15s 57
Caliver Books 3
CitadelSix Custom Design 44
Clockwork Goblin Miniatures 95 (Annex)
Colonel Bills 34
Conquest Games 41
Crooked Dice Game Design Studio 47
Dark Realm Miniatures 43
David Lanchester Books 60
Dreamholme Scenics 5
Eagle Figures 93 (Annex)
Early Wars Miniatures 56
EM4 Miniatures 33
Empress Miniatures 37
Essex Miniatures 17
Figures in Comfort 12
Foundry 100 (Annex)
Front Rank Figurines 45
Glenbrook Games 49
Grand Manner 58
Great Escape Games 70
Gringo 40s 24
Ground Zero Games 25
Grubby Tanks/Britannia Miniatures 53
Harfields Military Figures 32
Hawk Wargames 30
Hedgerow Scenics 94 (Annex)
Heroes of the Dark Ages 50
Instant Armies 51
K + M Trees 20
Kallistra Ltd 18
KR Multicase 67
Lancer Miniatures 76
Last Man Last Bullet 9
Lesley's Bits Box 63
Magister Militum 7
Magnetic Displays/Coritani 36
Midlam Miniatures 77
Milicast 27
Miniaturemen 91 (Annex)
Miniature Wargames/Atlantic 48
MMS Models 19
Model Display Products 8
Mongoose Publishing 90 (Annex)
Mutineer Miniatures 54
Newline Designs 74
Oshiro Model Terrain 42
Parkfield Miniatures 55
Paul Meekins Books 10
PDC Gaming 96 (Annex)
Pendraken 4
Perry Miniatures 31
Peter Pig 72
Products for Wargamers 23
Purbrook Models 73
Red Eagle Miniatures 97 (Annex)
Redoubt Enterprises 16
Red Wyvern Games (Sunday only) 98 (Annex)
Scarab Miniatures (Saturday only) 98 (Annex)
Sgts Mess 69
Shell Hole Scenics 14
SHQ Miniatures 13
Simple Miniature Games 79
Slade Military Books 21
Somerton Hobbies 92 (Annex)
Stafford Games 22
Stonewall Figures 39
Tablescape 62
The Last Valley 38
The Plastic Soldier Company 40
The Square 64
TSS/QRF 99 (Annex)
Tumbling Dice 6
Urban Construct 11
Warbases 35
Wargames Emporium 15
Warlord Games 28
Warmill 66
XIII Legion 78

Stands 1 to 54 on Ground Floor, Stands 55 to 79 1st Floor, Stands 80 to 83 2nd Floor, Stands 90-101 Annex.

DEMONSTRATION AND PARTICIPATION WARGAMES AT COLOURS 2013

Club or Organisation
Assault Publishing F6* 15mm Sci Fi (Participation Games)
Bedford Gladiators F10 Paraetakena, 317 BC (15mm, Ancients, Demonstration Game)
Black Box Games F5* Fantasy Card Collectible Game (Participation)
Braintree Wargames Group F11* ‘Pyramid of Peril’ (25mm, Fantasy, Participation Game)
Bruce Weigle S21* Rossbrunn, 1866 (6mm, 19th C, Participation Game)
Clockwork Goblin Miniatures A4 (Annex) 15mm Alternative World War II (Demonstration Game)
Combined Ops Group S14* Japanese Attack on Fiji & Samoa (World War II,
Participation Game)
Crawley Wargames Club S13 (Saturday) Battle of Fraustadt, 1706 (GNW, 18th C, Demonstration Game)
Crooked Dice Game Design Studio G2* Wargaming in Cult TV (Participation Game)
CTK Wargaming S10 ‘Von Kluck Attacks’ (20mm, World War I, Demonstration Game)
The Deeprose Project S15 Warhammer 40K (Games Workshop, Sci Fi, Demonstration Game)
Devizes & District Wargames Group A6* (Annex, Sun)Rearguard Action at Rowde Ford (54mm, ECW, Participation Game)
Double Six Gamers S13 (Sunday) Battle of Deorham (10mm, Dark Ages, Demonstration Game)
ECW Role-Play Games G3* 28mm Dark Ages Role Play (Participation Game)
Great Escape Games F2* ‘Dead Man’s Hand’ (28mm, Old West Skirmish,
Participation Game)
Hastings & St Leonard’s A7 (Annex) 15mm World War II (Demonstration Game)
Huntingdon & District Wargames Society A5 (Annex) Koroften, 28mm World War II (Demonstration Game)
Lance & Longbow Society F3* (Saturday) 15mm War of the Roses (Participation Game, Saturday)
F3* (Sunday) 28mm Wars of the Roses (Participation Game, Sunday)
League of Historical Wargames S18 Operation Sealion (28mm, World War II, Demonstration Game)
Lincombe Barn Wargames Society S7* ‘Malice at the Manor’, (Empire of the Dead, Participation)
Liverpool Wargames Club S5* Battle of Bicocca, 1522 (10mm Renaissance, Demonstration Game)
Loughton Strike Force S9 15mm World War II (Demonstration Game)
MAD (Maidenhead & District) Gamers S16* ‘Zee’ - post the Zombie Apocalypse (28mm, Sci-Fi,
Participation Game)
Midlam Miniatures F14* ‘Stalagbite’ (15mm, Dwarves Fantasy, Participation Game)
Mongoose Publishing A1* (Annex) World War II Victory at Sea (Participation Game)
A2&A3* (Annex) Judge Dredd (Participation Games)
Muswell Hill Militia F4* Battle of Thapsus (28mm, Ancients, Participation Game)
Naval Wargames Society S11* (Saturday) Fletcher Pratt Naval Game (Participation Game, Saturday)
S11* (Sunday) Sails of Glory (Participation Game, Sunday)
Penarth & District Wargames Society F8* Sci Fi Skirmish (Participation Game)
The Plastic Soldier Company G1 20mm World War II Battlegroup (Demonstration Game)
Reading Independent Wargamers F9* ‘Quest’ (28mm, Fantasy Adventure, Participation Game)
Scarab Miniatures A6* (Annex, Sat) 28mm Ancients (Participation Game, Saturday only)
SELWG S8* 28mm Viking Skirmish (Participation Game)
Sheffield Wargamers S1 Crusader Battle (25mm, Demonstration Game)
Simple Miniature Games F15* 28mm Wild West Steam Punk (Participation Game)
F12* (Sunday) 28mm Sci Fi (Participation Game, Sunday only)
Skirmish Wargames S4 Battle of Leipzig, 1813 (54mm, Napoleonic, Demonstration Game)
Society of Ancients S3* 28mm Ancients (Participation Game)
Society of Gentlemen Gamers F13 ‘Naqb Rala’, 1942 (20mm World War II, Demonstration Game)
South London Warlords S19* Hammer Slammers (15mm, Sci Fi, Participation Game)
Spartan Vanguards S12* ‘Dystopian Wars’ (Sci Fi, Participation Game)
StaB (Southbourne) F12* (Saturday) ‘Space Vixens From Mars’ (Sci-Fi, Participation Game, Saturday)
Staines Wargamers F1* (Saturday) Pickett’s Charge (15mm, ACW, Participation Game)
Terragnosis S6* ‘Ruination’ (54mm, Heroic Fantasy, Participation Game)
Thames Valley Gamers F1 (Sunday) Gravellotte-St Privat (6mm, 19th C, Demonstration Game)
Wednesday Night Warriors S17 Viking Saga (28mm, Dark Ages, Participation Game)
West Wind Productions/Figures in Comfort G4&G5* ‘Empire of the Dead’ (28mm, Gothic Horror, Participation Game)
and Victorian Steampunk (Participation Game)
Weymouth Levellers & Peter Pig F7* Viking Raids (15mm, Participation Game)
Wings of Gory Aerodrome S20* World Wars I & II air combat (Participation Games)
XIII Legion F16* ‘Treasure Trap’ (28mm, Fantasy/Pirate, Participation Game)

Games G1-G5 Ground Floor, F1-F16 1st Floor, S1-S21 2nd Floor, A1–A7 Annex, (NB. * = Participation game).

DISPLAY STANDS & OTHER FEATURES

Berkshire Scale Replicas 2nd Floor
Bring & Buy Stall 2nd Floor
Earley Risers (Model Club) 2nd Floor
Earl Rivers Regt. of Foote 71 (1st Floor)
Hounds of the Morrigan
(Medieval Combat Re-enactment) 71 (1st Floor)
Information (N&RWS) 1 (Ground Floor)
IPMS Branches 2nd Floor
Lance & Longbow Society 61 (1st Floor)

Mencap Charity Stand 2 (Ground Floor)
Newbury Scale Model Club 2nd Floor
Newbury & Reading Wgs Society 1 (Ground Floor)
The Pike & Shot Society 81 (2nd Floor)
The Society of Ancients 80 (2nd Floor)
South West Figure Modellers 2nd Floor
Wallingford Model Club 2nd Floor
Wargames Competition Control 83 (2nd Floor)
The Wargames Holiday Centre WHC (1st Floor)


NB. All above details accurate at the time of publication; further information available from Newbury & Reading Wargames Society Stand at COLOURS 2013 (Stand 1).

Thats a lot of stands, I didn't realise that Colours was such a large show. It looks to be bigger than Salute.

I wasn't aware of this show, shame as I have a tournament this weekend.

Lots of demo and participation games. It has grown a lot. It was a lot smaller in the early 90s when it used to be in the Newbury Corn Exchange.

Another proof of how wargaming has expanded as a hobby, I hope!

The first time i went to colurs it was at the Hexagon in Reading, and that was about 91-92 i think

As always, I heartily recommend everybody to visit the Crooked Dice stand for some smashing demo games.

 fynn wrote:
The first time i went to colurs it was at the Hexagon in Reading, and that was about 91-92 i think

That may have been Armageddon, or maybe the show I went to in Newbury wasn't Colours.

Thanks Fella's - As long as I get my new Malifaux 2 Rulebook and the Infinity LE mini I'll have the rest of the day to wander and ponder bases and scenery

well off to colours in about an hour, hopefully may run into some fellower daka users
look out for a guy with a red walking stick, an iron maiden "final frontier" Tshit and dark blue combats, will be with my wife, and 8 year old daughter who is wearing her Maiden "Trooper" T-Shirt

A T gak?

I wish I was going but I am on an economy drive ATM.

I admire your wife and daughter for taking part in your hobby -- hopefully they may find something interesting at the show.

Have a great day!

well the wife always looks at the terrain, to see whats on offer, and my Daughter loves looking at the verious tank kits, and will probaly spend time on the armourfast stand building a tank or 2 to add to her own collection of tanks as well tring to get me to buy her more.
As for me, if i can sell all my bits at the B&B, i be hitting the warlord stand for some bolt action toys

Your 8-year-old daughter makes tanks!!!?!

My daughter just laughs at my models. I don't mind that she doesn't like them but she shouldn't make fun of them.

yeah last year she built a crusdare and a Jadgpanther all by her self, so see what she does this year. also may pick up some armour fast kits for her (that should stop her pestering me to let her try and make my 1/35th scale Abrams kit.....lol)

Well, had a good 2 days at colours, and come back with new toys, Bolt action 1000pt German army starter set, picked up the dust tactics revsed core set for £35, and 80 Mantic apoc zombies for £35, and picked up some wars kits for my Daughter to build and use with her collection of 28mm Star wars minis