The 2025 Lincombe Barn Wargames Society (a.k.a Bristol Wargames Society) Tabletop sale

 Attention all wargamers in the Bristol area, or even further afield!

The annual LBWS Tabletop Sale is almost upon us.

The TTS will be on Sunday May 18th at Lincombe Barn, the usual venue, address below. Doors are open to the public from 9:30 for Early Birds (entry £5) and 10:00 (£3 adults, £1.50 juniors, under 12s free). The TTS will end at around 12:30.

The address is Lincombe Barn, Overndale Road, Downend, Bristol BS16 2RW.

There is a certain amount of car parking available and public transport runs to the venue, see THIS LINK.

Hot and cold refreshments and snacks will be available.

The sale is already sold out for private traders but that means that there will be lots of goodies on sale to the public. There is always a wide variety of things on sale, from wargames figures, vehicles, books etc to boardgames and sets of rules.

So, if you are looking for that special something, be it a few extra barbarians, Romans, medieval knights, WW2 tanks, fantasy figures or whatever, or maybe even a complete army come along as see what the sellers have on offer.

Wargames Atlantic Ogres (all nine of them)

I've had a project in mind for a while, and these guys are the starting point. There are nine bodies in the box and I've used all of them. First, the Boss;

He's clearly the Boss, because he's got a nice tidy moustache and beard that almost keeps his fangs hidden. I bet he even uses moustache wax!

Next, two ogres with halberds, which they probably call Ver Big Choppas or suchlike.

Then, a couple of swordsmen with bucklers that would serve as a full-size shield for a human.

Another leader type, but not a Pwoper Boss and a guy with a dismounted cannon he's using as a "handgun".

Finally, another "handgunner" and an ogre with a Big Club and a dagger, which would probably be a two-handed sword for a standard human.

These are the start of my Midgard Fantasy army, which will be using Wargames Atlantic conquistadors (both foot and mounted) to make up an army based upon the old Warhammer Fantasy Empire province of Averland, hence the predominance of yellow and black in the colour palette I've used so far.

These ogres are huge, over 5cm tall and really bulky chaps too. I've got movement trays to turn them into two units of four figures, who would be led by their own Hero figure.

I've got all in foot figures for the army assembled and undercoated and I'll begin painting them fairly soon. I have Roman auxiliary archers to finish first.

Three mounted figures from Bloody Miniatures

I painted these a while ago but forgot to do a post. They have even featured in a game or two. First, a trumpeter.

Next, a standard bearer;

And finally, a commander;

As the title says, these are all from Bloody Miniatures and they are excellent sculpts and really nice clean casts too.

The standard needs improvement, it is just a simple thing but needs to be replaced with something better. I haven't found anything I like yet, though.

They featured as my brigade's command in a game of Never Mind The Matchlocks recently, leading three battalia of pike and shot.
 

More 15mm vehicles - a British recce troop

More models I've had for a while and finally got round to finishing off.

This is a British recce troop, part of a Reconnaissance Regiment in a British Armoured Division in the later war period.

The Troop consists of two Daimler armoured cars and two Daimler Dingo scout cars. The Troop commander is in one of the armoured cars. The troop would probably have operated in pairs, each pair being an armoured car and a scout car. 

These models are from Flames of War and are nice and simple to put together and paint. The box contains options for 2 pdr guns with Littlejohn squeeze bore adaptors, but I left them off, because it appears that the squeeze bore shells provided extra punch even when fired from a standard 2-pdr gun.

These are a nice addition to my 15mm Late War British and I've already put them on the table in a recce force scenario, where the armoured cars suffered heavily from Panzerfausts fired by their Volkssturm opponents.
 

Four Soviet light tanks

I've had these four tanks for years, probably since 2021 or 2022, so I thought it was about time I did something with them.

These are a pair of T-26 light tanks, originally introduced in 1931 and staying in service in various variants until the end of WW2. These are (I think) the T-26 Model 1933 with a 45mm main gun and a co-axial 7.62mm machine gun. This was the most common variant produced and one of the mainstays of Soviet armoured units in 1939-41, by which time it was obsolete and outclassed by Germany's Pz.Kpfw III and IV tanks and was being replaced by the far better T-34 tank with a 76mm main gun. Some did stay in use for most of the war on some fronts and even featured against Japan in 1945.

Below are two T-60 scout tanks, which began production in 1941. Originally armed with a 20mm cannon, it was later upgunned with the 45mm gun used by the T-26 above.
 

The T-60 was too thinly armoured to be used in a front line role but was used by reconnaissance units until it was replaced by the improved T-70 light tank.

These are all Zvezda kits,  which are now quite hard to find because of sanctions against Russia. I bought mine at my club's tabletop sale from private sellers, so none of my cash went back to Russia.

Anyway, I'll be able to use these for CoC games set during Barbarossa and later.

Wizards project - the final two wizards plus two group shots

Well, this is the end of the project, finishing of with a Bright Wizard and an Amber one. The members of the Bright Order deal in raw power, harnessing fire energy to bring down destruction upon their enemies. I've deliberately given my Bright wizard burning orange eyes, signifying the pent-up power he is barely keeping under control.

 

The final wizard is a Shaman of the Amber Order, a college whose members deal with the raw power of the Wild and understanding the ways of the many savage beasts and wild creatures that inhabit the natural world. Amber wizards live apart from other humans, drawing their powers from their innate understanding of every aspect of the wild world.

This is the only figure that I've added something to not included on the wizard sprues. I've taken an animal skin cloak from a Victrix Roman legionary sprue to emphasise this shaman's attachment to wild beasts. His owl is his constant companion.

So, finally, the nest two photos show the eight representatives of the Imperial Colleges of Magic assembled together. Overall, I am really pleased with how this project turned out in the end.

 

Wizards project - wizards five and six

Wizard's five and six represent two very different approaches to the Art of Magic in the Warhammer Fantasy world. First, an Amethyst Wizard, a practitioner of magic that deals with Death, the spirits of the Dead and the ability to deal Death upon the enemies of the Empire. 

Such magical powers are deadly and dangerous, bordering on such Dart Arts as necromancy and the raising of the dead for evil purposes.

The sixth wizard is the opposite of all that Darkness, being a White Wizard of the College of Light.

White or Light Wizards are healers, discoverers of truth and bearers of the holy light that banishes darkness and the denizens of the dark. Their skills can be used to exorcise the possessed and to combat the forces of Chaos.

Of the two figures, I think I did a better job with the Amethyst wizard, because at this magnification I can see all manner of things wrong with the face of the Light wizard, which is a shame because I really like his robes, staff and Orb of Light. Still, he looks OK to the naked eye, which is what really matters.