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Sunday, February 8, 2026

Good Day at Beachhead

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Visited Beachhead in Bournemouth yesterday which is a fun little show. And managed to bag a few goodies. Including the new Victrix market stall and relics sets which I split with a mate.

The bargain for me was this paint set for a £10 and I was sorely tempted by several other sets they had. But by the time I had noticed it, I had spent most of my money!

We managed several games of Wings of Glory which is an excellent game (I will be looking for a copy). We won the first game by shooting down the British observation plane but then I got shot to bits on the second game in my Albatross.

This was a really super looking second edition game of game of WH40K.With so many classic minis.

Some of the many excellent entries to the Duncan Rhodes painting competition.

Really love this guy, he has real character.

Some of the other great games on display.

Thanks to all those people who have read* and commented on the blog. It is always interesting to read the comments. The number of page views has shot up over the 12 months, with nearly 50k over the last year.

*And strangely thanks to the gamers of Singapore who have consistently visited the blog over the last 5 years. More than any other country.

Rob

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Beachhead 2024

A Day Out Beside the Sea

After missing Beachhead last year it was good to get back this year. And the weather was considerably better than the last time I attended. Beachhead had the usual mix of traders, display games, competition games and special events. Although I thought the mix of traders included too many traders just selling RPG dice. Often with a great deal of overlap on the dice for sale.

I did buy a few minis but it was mostly hobby supplies such as paints and brushes. And this regard Beachhead has a good selection of traders.

All sunny on the South coast

This Age of Sigmar troll army caught my eye.

Proving that Citadel still makes some great minis.

And this dryad army also looked really good.

As usual the titan guys turned up with so many titans.

There was a big display by a group of Star Wars reenactors which was very well done. Probably should have taken more pictures!

Truly impressive the amount of detail on these 10mmm minis from Rok.

Played Wings of Glory at the show for the first time. I thought it was a great game and the dice less mechanics were were excellent. My Fokker DR.I Triplane managed to take out one of the Sopwith Camels before being shot out of the sky.