Various entrenchments

 These are all 15mm resin pieces from Ironclad Miniatures.

Above we have some prepared positions with solid foundations lined with ammunition boxes and some smaller roughly dug-out sangars.

Below are sandbagged positions in larger and smaller sizes.

I decided that I would keep the paint jobs to a minimum here, for two reasons. Firstly, so that they could be used for desert and rocky dry settings and secondly because I want them to look freshly dug. Therefore, I didn't use any tufts or flock, reasoning that if they had been assembled hurriedly, grass and weeds wouldn't have had any time to take root. 

These are the kind of basic entrenchments that could be used for tripod-mounted machine guns, rifle sections mortars or guns and would fit into many periods from the American Civil War to WW2. Small entrenchments are required for tripod-mounted MMGs in Chain of Command 2, so the smaller sandbagged positions are going to be very useful.

The rest of my completed figures, six in total.

All rephotographed in better light. First, two Copplestone female archaeologists (yes, I know I already have these, but I wanted them in more tropical attire;

And here are their armed companions (who I also already have);

Next up is a Bad Squiddo Community mini, Queen Zenobia of Palmyra. You can read about her HERE;

And finally, here is a Steampunk version of the Marvel super baddie, Doctor Octopus. He is from Ironclad Miniatures;

He is a suitable colleague for another Ironclad Miniatures bad guy, who I pained ages ago and called The Mad Inventor. I'm going to assume that this chap has been given these extra limbs by the former. The pair of them, plus their Automata should be a real handful in Steampunk, In Her Majesty's Name and Pulp games.

So, that is me finished with painting until I get back from holiday.

Two Steampunk/Victorian Science Fiction vehicles

Both of these are from Ironclad Miniatures excellent VSF range.

The vehicle above is a steam-powered armoured car with a Gatling gun in its turret. This can also be made up with a Nordenfelt gun, which is also supplied. I decided to paint this in a neutral grey and rely on washes (Citadel Nuln Oil), dry-brushing and AK Terrains Dark Earth basing gunk to give the thing the appearance of being a hard-used workhorse. I also used a wash of diluted Vallejo Orange Brown to add a few patches of rust, particularly on the prominent bolt heads.  The figure (also from Ironclad) is there to provide a sense of scale.

The second vehicle is a steam-powered tankette, painted in a slightly more military shade, courtesy of Army Painter Army Green primer. Once again, wear and tear have been added with Nuln Oil, Vallejo Orange Brown rust and AK Terrains Dark Earth basing gunk. The tracks were given an initial coat of Vallejo Gunmetal Grey, which I've also used on both vehicles for the barrels of the weapons and the vision slits.

Both vehicles are cast in resin with additional metal parts, i.e wheels, guns, funnels, and are pretty easy to assemble. Now they are finished, I am looking at the rest of the Ironclad range to see what other vehicles I fancy buying. Hopefully, Ironclad will be at the club's Reveille show at the end of November, which will allow me to buy a couple more of these delightful vehicles.

These should be huge fun to use in a Steampunk/Pulp/VSF setting, probably using The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare's In Her Majesty's Name rules.

Two Determined Young Ladies for Victorian Sci Fi games

 Here are two more additions to my VSF collection, once again from Ironclad Miniatures.

These two Determined Young Ladies are Miss Dorothea Huntley-Palmer (on the left) and her cousin Miss Emily Ward.

Dorothea is the daughter of Sir Arthur and Lady Caroline Huntley-Palmer, and therefor the niece of Sir Henry. Since her travels in Syldavia a few years ago, she has become a formidable swordswoman, an excellent horsewoman and a passable shot with the pistol. She has also earned herself a reputation as a scholar of certain arcane areas of what we might call the Dark Arts.

Emily is the younger daughter of Jacquetta, the sister of Lady Caroline, who is married to a prominent American archaeologist and scholar, Professor Charles Phillips Ward of Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts. Emily is an excellent shot with all manner of firearms and is a noted investigator of the Occult. She has accompanied her father of an number of archaeological expeditions to the Middle East, Central America and the Caucasus.

The Shooting Party

Four more nice figures from the excellent Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Science Fiction range, described on the website as "Victorians armed with sporting guns".

I have decided that these are four associates of Sir Henry Huntley-Palmer, old friends, drinking and shooting partners and also stout chaps who can always be relied upon to accompany him on his occasionally dangerous missions and exploits, which are sometimes sanctioned by a Mysterious Government Agency but might also be unsanctioned freelance operations.

From left to right they are George Davenport, a retired Metropolitan Police Officer, "Gentleman" Jim Mason, a bon viveur and alleged cracksman, Sir Arthur "Binkie" Beaumont QC, a former criminal barrister and Percy "Nobby" Nobbs, Sir Arthur's gamekeeper.

When Sir Henry requires their services they are always available and collectively they are known as "The Shooting Party".

In Her Majesty's Name is clearly where they are going to see most use, but they should also be useful where tentacled unpleasantness and eldritch goings-on are likely to happen.

The Household Staff

 Finally, I've finished something in April.

These are the household staff of Sir Henry Huntley-Palmer, who I have written about here. 

From left to right we have Mrs Miggins, the cook, Molly, the maid, Mr Hodges, the butler and James, the footman.

As you can see, Sir Henry expects his staff to be prepared for all possible situations.

Mr Hodges (known as Mr 'Odges to the other staff) was formerly a Troop Sergeant Major in Sir Henry's old regiment, the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars and the two men have a shared history going back many years. 

James Smith, the footman is another former member of the 10th Royal Hussars, where he attained the rank of Corporal of Horse. James's face carries a terrible scar, acquired from a Pathan scimitar on active service on the Northwest Frontier.

These figures are from Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Science Fiction range, and they are very nice figures indeed. They are destined to find a place in many games of In Her Majesty's Name and probably other things too.

Six More Steampunk figures.

I painted these six a while ago, but didn't varnish them, due to the humidity. I put them in a box for safe keeping and only remembered them yesterday. So, here they are varnished and photographed.

First, Professor Prospero, Criminal Mastermind and his Arch-Nemesis, Sir Henry Huntley-Palmer.

Professor Prospero is a man of great intellect and few moral scruples. His interests include making huge amounts of money, outsmarting the minions of Laura Norder and making even more money. His fingers are in many pies; drug smuggling, white slavery, art theft, forgery, blackmail and espionage are only the most common of his criminal activities. He is often found working for Foreign Government Agencies and Secret Shadowy Powers. The Professor's preferred weapon is his sword stick, but he is also a Master of Mesmerism and other Arcane Talents.

Sir Henry Huntley-Palmer, late of the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars, is a man of huge physical strength, which exceeds his intellectual prowess, and much personal charm. His friends tend to think of him as a clubbable stout chap, always worth having on one's side in a scrap but hardly the book-reading aesthete. His favourite weapon is the fearsome seven-barrelled Nock Gun. A founder member of The Adventurer's Society of Pall Mall, Sir Henry is descended from the famous 18th century government agent and soldier Sir William Huntley-Palmer, and is the younger brother of the diplomat and Foreign Office mandarin Sir Arthur Huntley-Palmer. Sir Henry's father, Lt. Col Henry Huntley-Palmer (b.1801 d.1889) was formerly British Military attaché to Syldavia in the 1850s.

Next, here are four more Agents of a Secret Shadowy Power. The first two are equipped with some long-range firepower. The one on the right has a Nock Gun and his companion is equipped with some kind of experimental gun for firing explosive or gas grenades.

And finally, here are two more Agents with the same kind of pistols and bombs as their comrades I painted a while back.

I think that these Shadowy Agents will end up carrying out the Nefarious Schemes and Damnable Stratagems of Professor Prospero most of the time.

These figures are all from the excellent Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Sci Fi and Steampunk range and will be used for games of In Her Majesty's Name.

Some Boys in Blue to combat those Steampunk villains

Both sets of four are from Ironclad Miniatures. First, constables with capes and pistols;

They are clearly the front line, the Bobbies on the beat.

Secondly, some backup with rifles, a Victorian Armed Response Unit;

These look like a pretty simple paint job, but British police uniforms have always been a lot darker shade of blue than you see on many miniatures. I undercoated them in Halford's matt black spray and started off with a base coat of Dark Prussian Blue, which on its own is too light. I then did the folds in a mix of the same blue with black, then a bit of highlighting with the Dark Prussian Blue mixed with Luftwaffe Uniform. This seemed closer to what I wanted and once given a wash of Peat Brown ink I was satisfied with the results.

And now...........the Mad Inventor.

I have alluded to the Mad Inventor previously. His biography is below.

Here he is with his fiendish Mechanical Progeny, each powered by a portable steam-powered Arc Generator. These Automata are his ultimate warriors, controlled via electro-mechanical waves transmitted by his ingenious control device. Clever though this device is, he must stay within transmitting range of  his creations, otherwise they will simply halt until he is close enough to regain control of them. Although these mechanical warriors are slow-moving and without the power of independent thoughts or actions, they are heavily-armoured and resistant to damage from many conventional weapons. Their only independent action is their ability to fire at anything that comes within range of their "eyes", which are actually complex lenses that serve as a targeting mechanism for their weapons. Of course, the Mad Inventor has the ability to direct their fire when they are under his control.

These figures are all, once again from Ironclad Miniatures.

The Mad Inventor's name is Professor Erasmus Van Hulst, and he was born in Amsterdam. Always physically small and weak, he was inquisitive and interested in mechanical devices as a child. He was often bullied by his schoolmates, which led him to find ingenious ways of inflicting his revenge upon them. As he grew up, Erasmus nursed many grievances against the men who, as boys had made his life a misery. He studied at a number of universities and institutes across Europe, eventually ending up as a professor at the University of Strelsau in the Kingdom of Ruritania. There, he was able to test certain hypotheses about the creation of Automata and soon began to construct models in his laboratories in his home in a secluded manor outside the city.

He supplied a number of Automata to a local impresario and they quickly became a huge attraction in the main theatre of Strelsau. After the mysterious death of the impresario, Van Hulst quit the university and founded a touring show featuring his ingenious creations. Styling himself as Count Cagliostro, Master of Mysteries, Professor Van Hulst began to develop his control system and embarked on the construction of more and more complex Automata. As his experiments progressed, he began to plot and then wreak his revenge on his childhood tormentors. 

Finally, he perfected his most powerful Automaton, the Steam Jäger. With this step forward, Van Hulst turned his attentions to thoughts of crime, chaos and domination. His psychopathic tendencies, always there under the surface began to take him over, causing him to withdraw from society, using the vast fortune he had accumulated as Count Cagliostro to turn his Ruritanian Manor into a fortified headquarters where he could build an army of Steam Jäger Automata. 

Professor Van Hulst frequently visits the capital cities of Europe, keeping homes in Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna. He uses his mechanical skills in many ways, not least in experiments in the area of electro-mechanical prosthetics and the creation of bio-mechanical human beings. 

An Inventive Genius and his equally Inventive Sister

Obviously, in a steampunk world, the science is always going to be weird, and even the good guys embrace the weird. See below for details;

Here we have the Inventive Genius and his equally Inventive Sister, staunch opponents of those who seek to pervert science for their own ends and regular allies of the Mysterious Government Agency (MGA).

On the left is Professor Henry Hardy, physicist, chemist and engineer and his sister Amelia, a mathematical prodigy and student of the Occult.

As you can see, they are both equipped with Hardy Portable Arc Generators and Hardy Arc guns, considered by those in the know to be the finest weapons of their type available.

Professor Hardy works closely with the MGA and Scotland Yard, and has designed weapons for both organisations. Miss Amelia Hardy is less well-known but has links to certain secretive bodies who investigate inexplicable phenomena, arcane lore and other unusual areas of interest to the authorities. As a team, they are invaluable to the British government, and are close associates of a certain Consulting Detective, who finds their services crucial to some of his more puzzling investigations.

These figures are both from Ironclad Miniatures, although the female one isn't on their website, as far as I can see. I bought her at the 2020 Crusade show in Penarth back in January, when the world was normal.

And the Punk Steams on!

Here are my latest characters for In Her Majesty's Name and other such games. They even have some backstory (see below).

They were finished off yesterday but I was worried about varnishing them because it had been raining all week so far and I was worried about the humidity. However, it was dry in the evening and I decided to varnish them and see the damage in the morning. Luckily, there was no fogging, which was a relief!

These are also from Ironclad Miniatures and are probably the most obviously steampunk of all the figures I've done so far.

The chap on the left in the picture is former bare-knuckle pugilist Gentleman Jack Spratt. A dissolute and brutal man, he had both arms broken in a bizarre Hansom Cab accident which was probably caused by one of his Underworld enemies. A shadowy figure was seen leaving the scene of the accident and the cab driver was nowhere to be found. Jack's mangled body was found in the wreckage, his career in the ring finished.

A Mad Inventor (whom we shall meet in a future post) offered Jack to "mend" his useless arms if Jack agreed to work for him.

The results can be seen here. Jack's arms have been augmented by electrically-powered mechanical prostheses and he wears a small generator on his back, which also doubles as an Arc Generator.

As a result, Jack is now a feared member of the London Criminal Underworld where his powerful augmentations provide all manner of assistance to a wide range of illegal activities.

Jack's companion is the beneficiary of another of the ingenious creations of the Mad Inventor. His name is Grigori Blok, a merchant seaman who was the only survivor of a boiler explosion on a Russian steamship docked in London. His body suffered terrible burns and internal injuries and it looked to the staff of the hospital in Limehouse as though he might not survive. However, the Mad Inventor used him for another one of his experiments and had him encased in a specially constructed armoured metal suit, powered by an Arc Generator. Taken together with a number of obscure drugs, the electricity generated keeps Grigori's heart beating and allows his damaged nervous system to function normally. The human cost of this is that Grigori can never take off the armour. To do so would cause his death within hours of it being removed. Like Jack, Grigori has found useful employment in numerous nefarious enterprises where his strength and near invulnerability to many weapons makes him a useful weapon. Never a great intellect, Grigori's powers of thought were badly-weakened in the explosion. The life-preserving drugs are therefore also useful in keeping Grigori under the control of the Mad Inventor.

Two more Steampunk characters

After all those villains, it is time to turn again to the Forces of Laura Norder.

These are once again from the excellent Ironclad Miniatures range. On the website they are called MIB Agents "L" and "H". I am simply describing them as Mysterious Government Agents, which can clearly be an umbrella which might cover a multiplicity of roles.

They could be plainclothes officers from Scotland Yard, members of the Secret Service or even agents from some even more secret government agency, perhaps one concerned with occult or otherwise inexplicable phenomena. Seeing as we are operating within a steampunk world here, I would think that combating the threat from Weird Science and Evil Inventors would also be part of their brief. Clearly they might wish to engage a Consulting Detective from time to time.

Identifying and neutralising political subversion or exposing foreign agents might also be part of their duties, whether that might involve internal threats or external agencies from unfriendly nations.

These are clearly two very experienced operators.

More Steampunk villains

These were pretty quick to paint, because of the limited colour palette. Once again, they are from the  excellent Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Sci Fi and Steampunk range.

I have labelled these as being "Six Agents Of A Secret Shadowy Power". You will note that there are a couple of duplicated figures, but that doesn't really matter. What I like about them is that they could turn up as all kinds of different things; anarchists, agents of a foreign government, assassins for hire, members of a secret society etc. The possibilities are almost endless.

There are a couple of extra figures in the range, that I am really going to have to place an order for, not least because I am a completist in such matters and I cannot see why I shouldn't have all of them. Also, there are a few more figures that I think I'd like to paint, some of whom could work well as leaders of this faction.

These are definitely destined to be used in games of In Her Majesty's Name.

More Victorian Steampunk

I painted these yesterday and spray varnished them earlier this morning when the doggies got me up to let them out into the garden.

These two are a Dastardly Villain and his Cold-Hearted Villainess companion. I have decided that their weapons are Arc Pistols, a type of weapon used in the In Her Majesty's Name rules, but they could quite easily be something else. Anyway, whatever they are, they aren't standard handguns. As with my earlier figures, these also have minimal bases. The Dastardly Villain, like the Consulting Detective is also armed with a swordstick. I am sure that the Cold-Hearted Villainess has some other weapons secreted about her person too.

I have decided that the Dastardly Villain's name is Colonel Sir Jasper Benbow and his companion is Mme Mathilde du Méchantcoeur.

Sir Jasper is a former officer in the British Army who has sold his services to numerous rulers and governments across Europe and beyond, but the rank of Colonel is purely invented. In reality, he was cashiered from the army, when a mere Lieutenant, after being caught embezzling his regimental funds to pay his gambling debts. It is often claimed that his knighthood is similarly fictitious, but it seems that he acquired the honour from a small central European principality for dubious services rendered. It is said that Sir Jasper will do anything for money, so long as the sum meets his approval.

Mme du Méchantcoeur's origins are unknown, although it is believed that she emerged from the slums of Belleville to become a major player in the Parisian demi-monde, making many enemies, but also with many Friends in High Places. It is rumoured that she once worked for the French government, but other rumours also claim that the French secret police would happily see her dead. Perhaps all these rumours are true? Who can tell in the looking-glass world of shadowy agents, criminal masterminds and secret organisations?

Once again, these are from Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Sci Fi and Steampunk range.

More Isolation Painting - the start of my Steampunk Victorians

Last year I started buying some figures to use for the In Her Majesty's Name rules from the Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare. I have so far concentrated on the excellent range of figures produced by Ironclad Miniatures. I've bought quite a few to date, and I am now in the process of painting them.

Here are my first results. They may look quite familiar.

They are, on the left, The Consulting Detective and, on the right his Medical Amanuensis. These will obviously be valiant defenders of the Queen and her Empire against all manner of dastardly and evil opponents. Both are equipped with pistols and the Detective also carries a swordstick. The Amanuensis carries his medical bag, which is no doubt packed with all manner of interesting potions and lotions.

I have decided that I want the basing on these figures to be pretty minimal, so that they fit into urban settings predominantly, so all I have done is mould a layer of Miliput to cover the whole base and disguise the puddle bases on the actual figures.

I hope that people like them.

Next up, a couple of villainous types.

Women's Militia Lewis Gun team

A couple of years ago, I started to create a Women's Militia for VBCW, that might also work for Home Front imaginary scenarios for WW2. Once I'd done the original figures, here, I bought a Lewis Gun team from Ironclad Miniatures, and then put the figures away and forgot about them, mostly due to other things taking prominence in my To Do painting list.

Of course, I now have no excuses, because I have no painting deadlines that are more pressing, so I am painting things just because I want to paint them.

I've tried to keep them as similar as possible to the originals I painted back in 2017. I hope that I have succeeded. I even put them on 2cm bases, instead of the 2.5cm bases I use more frequently nowadays.

More resin scenic stuff

I am always looking for more 15mm scenic items, especially for IABSM and Chain of Command WW2, and I've bought some nice pieces from Ironclad Miniatures before. So, at the club's latest Reveille show, back in November last year, I bought a few more odds and ends which will fit in with the overall collection. 

First, a couple of burnt down wooden buildings, with just their brick chimneys still standing. Perfect for the Eastern Front, but also with possibilities for games set elsewhere;

Next, another ruined house and a fallen tall chimney which will be perfect with the bombed factory I bought the year previously.

As with all the resin pieces I've bought from Ironclad, the models are really crisp and cast using high quality resin. They are a joy to paint and look excellent on the table.

The 15mm range is quite large and there are a few nice buildings that are designed for games set in Normandy, which I really should buy sometime.

In addition to these buildings, I also got round to painting up a few resin buildings from The Square, who still don't seem to have a website, but they do have a Facebook page. The Square seem to have a presence at most wargames shows, and I always have a browse of their stuff because there is generally something I see and think would be useful. The latest things from that that I've pained are some wooden thatched houses and sheds, which I think will be perfect for the Eastern Front in WW2.

I could see these popping up in earlier periods too, most likely in my 18th century Imagi-nations Sharp Practice games 

15mm resin scenic stuff

I am always on the lookout for 15mm scenic items, especially things for WW2 that I can use in games of CoC.

Therefore I was really pleased to pick up these nice resin ruined buildings from Ironclad Miniatures at the club's recent Reveille show. First, there is a really nice ruined factory. I very much like the two storage tanks at one end of the building.

The other one is a ruined building that could either be a house or part of a larger factory complex.

Both of these paint up really well. The models are clean and have no flash. I hope that more buildings of this type will appear in the future. Well done, Ironclad!

To complement these two, I have also painted up some pieces from Baueda, again purchased at Reveille, from the Magister Militum stall. I am a big fan of Baueda resin stuff. It is always a joy to paint and the WW2 stuff has lots of nice details. This small building was made from two pieces glued together on an MDF base to  make another ruined building for the factory complex. I added more debris using Javis crumbled cork boulders and sand and stone mix. I really like the way this turned out once it was painted up.

Finally, here are two other Baueda pieces, plus a resin fuel dump I picked up from the The Square stand at Colours.

Clearly, the two Baueda pieces will work as part of the factory complex. The fuel dump is always going to be useful. It will work nicely with the one I painted earlier in the year. I reckon that if you want a fuel dump, you want at least two stacks of oildrums.

I have a game of CoC planned for a couple of weeks' time, so I think that my Germans might be defending a bombed out factory against the evil Bolshevik hordes.

I've got quite a few other resin things that still need work. So, it is either get those done first, or go back to my 28mm FIW Régiment de Guyenne troops, which I need for the end of January. Decisions, decisions!

What I bought at Reveille

I really meant to post this last week but, mea culpa, I forgot!

Anyway here is my haul of goodies and shinies. First off, here are some figures from Annie at Bad Squiddo, including the new Lizard Woman for Frostgrave Archipelago, who I don't think is on the website yet, and the excellent Land Girls with shotguns.

I bought a Saddle Goose dice bag/token bag from Glenbrook Games (no artificial giraffes were harmed in the manufacturing of this bag).

I bought various dice (we always need dice, surely?). The gold, silver and bronze 8- and 10-sided ones are from Magister Militum and the rest are from Annie's bargain bins. 

I bought a female Lewis Gun team from Ironclad Miniatures' VBCW range.

I also bought some 15mm wizards and some gravestones from Magister Militum, for a couple of new projects (of which more will follow in due course).

In these bags are some new resin and metal sci fi vehicles for another project (a new ASQL army). They are new items from The Scene but they aren't on their website at the moment. They are very nice, as are the vehicles which are there. I may have to buy more. I do like what The Scene is doing with these vehicles. They are very nice and have lots of possibilities.

And finally, and no, I am not doing a Star Wars project, I bought these two flyers from fellow club member John Curry. These will get a paint makeover and be reincarnated as distant flyers for a future ASQL army.

Not a bad haul, really, and lots of painting ahead of me.

Reveille II - 2017

Yesterday was the Lincombe Barn Wargames Society's annual show, Reveille II. It was held in the usual location, the Lincombe Barn, Overndale Road, Downend, Bristol BS16 2RW.

The show was pretty well-attended in terms of traders, private sellers and demonstration and participation games, so without further ado, here are the pictures.

First, some of the traders (I really wish that I'd photographed the Scene UK stall, because they have some really very nice new science fiction vehicles (quite a few of which aren't on their website yet), and their items are excellent stuff. I did buy some of the vehicles, though, for a future army I am planning for Alien Squad Leader. For anyone who is interested in these rules, Alex will be self-publishing the V 3.0 rule book via Lulu Publishing shortly, so it is worth checking their website in the new year.

Anyway, the traders;

Above, we have Matt Slade of Glenbrook Games Painting Services, plus some of the excellent dice and token bags produced by Saddle Goose Designs

Annie Norman from Bad Squiddo Games. I love Annie's stuff and her sheer enthusiasm for the hobby is brilliant. I could chat to her for hours.

Instant Armies

Magister Militum

Ironclad Miniatures

Scarab Miniatures

Geoff from Ham and Jam. His 28mm buildings are excellent.

Gloster Models.

The biggest game was this huge one run by the Skirmish Wargames group, with 54mm troops and some nice scenery and terrain;

Another fun game was Airspeed, a post-apocalyptic jet-bike racing game that clearly has nothing at all to do with a well-known sci fi film franchise at all, the rules being written by club member Clive Oldfield (the bikes come from Ramshackle Games and the buildings are Clive's own work);

Some terrific models and scenery here too.

Of course, being a show with traders, it was impossible to keep my purse in my handbag. I'll do another post with my purchases later this week. I could have spent a lot more than I did, but I have two new projects in the pipeline for 2018, so I restricted myself (a bit!) because there is online spending to be done.

There seemed to be a lot of happy people at the show, both traders and visitors and it was nice to catch up with people, including a few that I'd not seen in quite a while.

Apologies to all those whose stands didn't get photographed.