It is the day after Little Wars…

I got a late start on Friday. I had planned on leaving the house by 9:00am, but didn’t get until 11:00am. Some of the delay was just being lazy (hey, I wanted to sleep in just a wee bit) and some was that I decided to do a little last minute casting. I almost forgot a few things, but managed to remember all but the spring clamps  use to secure the pegboard display boards to the table; a quick pit stop at Home Depot solved that problem (and now I have a cheap set of clamps to keep in the convention supply box, so I won’t forget them again).

I arrived at the convention hotel a little after 2:00pm. I spent the next few hours getting the table setup. The dealer area was open until 7:00pm and we hit our break even point by the end of this first session. Saturday we got off to a slow start, but that gave me time to finish setting up (there are always little things to do to improve table setup). The dealer area closed at 5:00 (or was it 6:00) so, I took a short break and went to my room for a quick rest period, then back to check on the SYW Big Battalions game being put on by Bill, Jim and Randy. The game was looking good, but it was too hot in the game area for me, so I took a walk outside to catch some fresh, cool air. SUnday was a slow day in the dealers area. I managed to buy a few Roco Minitanks (some need new paint jobs) and then arranged ofr a trade for some more. I now have a fair selection of tanks to use with my Scrub/Eriksson 20mm WWII troops (both are 1/87 scale). I still need trucks, jeeps and half-tracks should you happen to have any for sale/trade.

What items were popular this year? The usual suspects; Resistant Roosters USMC and Japanese Company Boxes sold well. We also sold out of a new Blasted Planets release (the Bolotomi, more on these later this week when I have some pictures to share). Other popular items were the N-Gauge terrian pieces we talked about recently. The other popular ‘theme’ was our small selection of gently used board games and (S&T) magazines.

The two contests didn’t seem to be really popular (maybe I needed to promote them better?). However we do have two winners. The Winner of the Hugh Ambrose book: The Pacific is Alan Cockrell. Alan wasn’t at the show on Sunday, so we wil be mailing him his prize later this week. The winner of the “How Many Figures in the Jar” contest was…

OK, nobody guessed correctly, and all guesses were over the actual number (which was 86 – a quart jar filled with Scruby 30mm AWI minitures). Since everyone was over the mark, and we couldn’t really have a contest without a winner, we put all the enties in a basket and drew one at random. The lucky winner is Mike Prawn (We will be calling Mike to let him know that he won).

Overall this was a good convention for us, no games played, but a fun time talking with folks and relaxing when not working the table. It looks like our next convention will be Rock-Con in the fall (to much farm work to do this summer & I want to finish a few remolding projects).

Look for more HistoriFigs news in early May.