There and Back Again a BOYL Tale

 

G'day M8's, sit down and grab a pint and I will tell you a tale of high adventure!  This trip has been three years in the making.  We consulted the astral alignments, and knew it was the right time to go.  After traveling about 36 hours with hardly any sleep me and my man BulldogLopez arrived at the Foundry Estates.

M8's for life

After much bro-hugging we got to the task at hand and started exploring the grounds.
Here are some photos of the vast Ansell collection, many of these you will have surely seen before, but I think you can always find something new.

This one got a bit blurry, but that barbarian paint job is a thing of beauty.

This Spartan army is amazing in person.  We always see the fantasy minis, but the historicals are just as nice.

Everyone get's a bit shaky when photographing Slambo...you never know when he will frenzy

That's gonna hurt

While chatting with Marcus Ansell about the Foundry paint system, he asked if I had seen the tutorial minis.  I hadn't so he took me over to take a look.  He said these were done before photo shop.  So Kevin Dallimore had to paint all 20+ minis step by step.  Mind boggling, but gorgeous none the less.  Truly inspiring to look at.

The man himself chatting with Golgfag1

After that it was off to meet our friends from the Combat Burger chat at Warhammer World, we found those beardy dobies drinking in Bugman's Brewery.

After having a pint....or two with the lads we headed...stumbled, over to the museum.  Where many treasures awaited our eyes. 

So much more amazing in person.

Some chaos champions who have seen some heavy gaming.

Even though these are modern armies, the terrain and back drops are very inspiring!

The Studio Salamander army from one of my favorite battle reports.  Fight for the Tank Factory WD 248-249

Whiskey Priest and Axiom

Cheetor and Andy Hoare

Curis and Erasmus

Antipixi and Asslessman

Here we are in front of an M113....I mean a Rhino

Fresh fish for the Emperor

Then off to the pub...

Erny, Weazil, Me, and Bulldog

Event day!!!!!!

Oh ya it's Lit fam!

Saturday started off great with Whiskey Priest's Eternal Champion game. I will cover this later with a comic report.

Then probably the highlight of my trip....getting to meet the Stillmaniac himself...
Nigel Stillman. ;)

We got to chat about a variety of topics.

Busting out the White Dwarf Bretonnian army

You might recognize these from earlier Stillmania posts.

Look at the yacht varnish!

When you varnish your minis with boat lacquer you can store them like this.

I will cover our meet up in more detail in another post.

Whiskey Priest's Giant Slayer game was quite a delight. I'm not sure how long the overall winner survived, but me and Lopez lasted less then 5 minutes.  Even though it played fast, it was so action packed.  Slayers leaping to their deaths, Giants putting slayers in food bags for snacks.  It had it all.

Ultimate Slayer, and Banzai Slayer prepare to go down fighting.  And they did...without causing a single wound. LOL

Next up was meeting Kev Adams and getting my face sculpted onto a Heroquest barbarian.  Kev is such a great guy to chat with, and he does this all for charity at Boyl.

I think he got my likeness perfectly. ;)

The rest of the day Saturday was left visiting and checking out the other games....such as Curtis Fell's Race through Hells Reach

Erasmus Papafakis awesome vehicles

We did snap a pic with the attending Combat Burger's Crew

Watch out ladies...they let these sexy bastards out on the town!!!

Sunday started off with a "bring what you got" Rogue Trader game with the Combat Burger's and Scale Creepers filling out most of the gamers.  More in a later comic report.

Rick Priestley was in attendance, so I got my copy of 3 ed. and Bulldog got Rogue Trader autographed.

To finish off the event I got in a great game of Third with my man Weazil!  Yes this will get a comic report as well.

Watch out it's Kissy Snake!!!

Then it was off to London to see more sites.

Got some awesome Windsor Newton Brushes, and some milliput.

The first couple days we got to run around with Erasmus taking in museums, and the Orc's Nest.

Erasmus showing us how they cure baldness with magic Down Under.  LOL

Went out to Stonehenge to try and harness the power of the warp spasm. 

I HAVE THE POWER!

I am Egtved Man

Me an Bulldog doing other Bronze age task's...like eating wood.

Also met up with Mathew Street, who did a small piece for me and Bulldog each as a thank you for hauling some commissions to waiting Oldhammers in the states.

We had such an awesome time!  I had so much fun visiting with everyone in person.  Big shout out to Weazil for organizing everything, and the Ansell's for hosting such a great event.  It really leaves something to be desired for us here in the states.  Me and Bulldog are already planning to come back next year. 

If I left anyone out or got your handle wrong just let me know in the comments and I will get it sorted.  ;)

Stay tuned for more Boyl Comic Action over the next couple weeks. ;)