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maddadicus said:
I agree about Valley Forge becoming a smaller show. It seems when the club moved the venue for a bit, the show lost its spark. Some of my best and unique buys came from Valley Forge in the early days. Now, I basically go around the room a few times and pick up odds and ends. If it was not for lunchtime with Louis and company, the show last year would have been a snooze...Michael
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It has less to do with the 3 years we held the show in Wilmington, and more to do with the dwindling number of smaller vendors. We did lose 1 vendor I know of, who wouldn't come the extra 30 minutes down I-95 from his location in Stroudsburg. But a lot of the hobbyists who took tables in the past don't want to pay the price--which I can appreciate, and we're all getting older. I know some vendors who just don't set up as shows any more, because they have trouble getting around.

Wilmington would be a great location, if there were a hotel at the Chase Center. But that development never took place.

Upper Merion Township is a real bite in the bum, with their itinerant merchant license fee. That means no room trading, officially, or at least, it's underground and advertised through word-of-mouth. The township also implemented an amusement tax, while we were in Delaware, and they take a percentage of our ticket sales.

Plus, ours is a hybrid show, a combination of figure show and toy soldier show. I have always thought that both types have their own requirements, and their own customers, allowing for overlap, of course. Depending on your perspective, it's a toy soldier show with an exhibition area, or it's a figure show with a dealer area that has a heavier concentration of toy soldiers than the other figure shows on the circuit. There is no other figure show or toy soldier show, with the same, sometimes contradictory characteristics. Sometimes I think that eventually, the show can't continue to be all things to all people, the demands will pull in different directions, and we'll have to decide, what it is we want to be.

Prost!
Brad
 
I'd like to express a BIG Thank You to Shannon, Peter and the Mods for creating this sectinon!!!

^&grin ^&cool :salute:: {bravo}} {bravo}} {bravo}}
 
theBaron said:
It has less to do with the 3 years we held the show in Wilmington, and more to do with the dwindling number of smaller vendors. We did lose 1 vendor I know of, who wouldn't come the extra 30 minutes down I-95 from his location in Stroudsburg. But a lot of the hobbyists who took tables in the past don't want to pay the price--which I can appreciate, and we're all getting older. I know some vendors who just don't set up as shows any more, because they have trouble getting around.

Wilmington would be a great location, if there were a hotel at the Chase Center. But that development never took place.

Upper Merion Township is a real bite in the bum, with their itinerant merchant license fee. That means no room trading, officially, or at least, it's underground and advertised through word-of-mouth. The township also implemented an amusement tax, while we were in Delaware, and they take a percentage of our ticket sales.

Plus, ours is a hybrid show, a combination of figure show and toy soldier show. I have always thought that both types have their own requirements, and their own customers, allowing for overlap, of course. Depending on your perspective, it's a toy soldier show with an exhibition area, or it's a figure show with a dealer area that has a heavier concentration of toy soldiers than the other figure shows on the circuit. There is no other figure show or toy soldier show, with the same, sometimes contradictory characteristics. Sometimes I think that eventually, the show can't continue to be all things to all people, the demands will pull in different directions, and we'll have to decide, what it is we want to be.

Prost!
Brad
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Is the official name really an 'amusement tax'?
 
fubar said:
nar, the buidlings are from grand manner. Found a deal for painted spanish village on ebay. They were even better than expected and for less than the cost of unpainted sets too.
Have a nice anglo allied army for waterloo. X 4 battalions of kings german legion, a few line battalions, highlanders and rifle battalions for elite troops, lots of dutch,belgians and brunswick.
Never took any pix of the austrians.for once we managed to put everything away after a day long game.my opponent has the russians and it was the first outing on the table top. 2 years worth of collecting and painting and they did what the russians are supposed to do.his batteries and cavalry were silenced or routed and the infantry did their best to block the way.in square. They fared poorly but did not retreat.
We'll have a rematch soon.
I'll start a new post for small scale next week when we get our lotr deployed.
Fub
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great figures, are they lead or plastic
 
I myslelf have a ton of airfix and esci. Then i found myself in the emperors headquarters in chicago about 1992 and i saw a great display of 20mm russians running thru a forest with a farm house in the middle and there were germans hiddin waiting and waiting in ambush. They were combat miniatures. I left with an arms full of figures, paints and some buildings and was hooked on creating my own. By 97 my kids were born and my sight was not as good and it got a way from me. I have so many unpainted combat, faa, drews militia, shq and britannia i could outfit an army. Plus i globed onto a bunch of old glory foriegn legion, alamo, 7th cav and french and indian war. Now that i have really about come to a halt collecting 1/30 figures i am looking into getting some glasses and painting and creating again. If i could find the remagen bridge by scenic effects that would probably push me over the edge.
 
Jack said:
Is the official name really an 'amusement tax'?
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Yep. That surprise awaited us, when we returned to Valley Forge after 3 years in tax-free Delaware. Small governments have been just as profligate as big ones, and they look to any source of income they can get. I'd love to go back to Delaware, if only there were a hotel at the Chase Center. Or Fort Washington, or even up here in the Lehigh Valley.

Prost!
Brad
 
All my plastic 1/72 scale are Napoleonic, but now in storage. Bulk (about 3 thousand +) of small scale metal figures or stands of figures for dioramas are 15mm Napoleonic, ACW, and Japanese Clan War period. Have a few hundred 25/30mm Napoleonic figures but only displayed in cabinets or again stored. All present dioramas on display are now in 54mm scale. My age (steadiness of hands in painting) and sight (need magnifying lenses) playing a big part in choosing the larger scale now.
 
I have seen the WW2 figures from Valient.
Some of the figures in each set are multipose.
They are hard plastic for easier painting.
 
Warrior said:
Salute is on my bucket list, I've seen pictures of the traders area and the demo games at shows past, it looks spectacular on every level, have a great time...........
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Hi George,

I had a chat with David today (email that is) and he mentioned how great the Salute event was last week, he also published on his blog a series of photos of his tables he did for the show, sounds like he took best table display and another award as well, I'll see if i can upload the pics here or at least his blog site, the Normandy table is fantastic!! and the Alamo table is just as nice, David is the man, whether it's 1:30th or for wargaming the dude is just bad *** when it comes to building any type of dios...Sammy
 
here's another pic of the same table but with troops on it, I think if you click on pic it will enlarge it...Sammy
 
Dave's making something for me also.A section of Ft.William Henry in 1/56 scale.
Mark
 
I had a great time at Salute. I am a wargamer and always will be so being surrounded by loads of games was just great.
Personally my terrain also went down very well which is always a relief.
Here is a link to a friends photos of the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/troop-of-shewe/sets/72157633291466243/

Also, some general info abot Salute, have a look here:
http://slwarlords.blogspot.co.uk/
look at the list of games and traders to give you an idea how big it is.

This covers the Normandy game that I did the terrain for. It is 28mm scale.
Neil, who took the photos also painted the vehicles on the game. Have a look at his other albums and just admire his work. He is a master.

I am pleased this new section is here as it might encourage more cross over from the collecting and wargaming hobbies. I didn't realise there was a difference but the definitely is and I think both hobbies would benefit with input from the other.

David
TMterrain
 
sammy719 said:


here is a photo of the Normandy table, the detail is unreal!!
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I saw pictures of this table in a huge photo layout from Salute, it is spectacular, David had sent me pictures of this awhile ago.

Superbly done to say the least.
 
attic_david said:
I had a great time at Salute. I am a wargamer and always will be so being surrounded by loads of games was just great.
Personally my terrain also went down very well which is always a relief.
Here is a link to a friends photos of the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/troop-of-shewe/sets/72157633291466243/

Also, some general info abot Salute, have a look here:
http://slwarlords.blogspot.co.uk/
look at the list of games and traders to give you an idea how big it is.

This covers the Normandy game that I did the terrain for. It is 28mm scale.
Neil, who took the photos also painted the vehicles on the game. Have a look at his other albums and just admire his work. He is a master.

I am pleased this new section is here as it might encourage more cross over from the collecting and wargaming hobbies. I didn't realise there was a difference but the definitely is and I think both hobbies would benefit with input from the other.

David
TMterrain
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That is some awesome looking terrain. Great to see three giant of the wargaming hobby come together on a project; David, Neil and Toby, I own items created for me by each of them, such a treat to have talented folks like them doing work for a collector such as myself...........
 
I am an inspired 1/72 scale collector, trully speaking I like to collect painted figures and enjoy their appearance. Now I am in 2 minds, don*t know what to by to add to my collection, what do you think about this model?
 
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