FIFTH ANNUAL BRING OUT YOUR LEAD 2017
A short video kindly shot by Alex Brooks.
Group photo from Saturday lunch time, thank you to everyone who joined us over the weekend and especially to those who spent all three days with us.
Bryan Ansell and Tony Ackland (Picture via Tony Yates via Mark Stevenson).
Goblin Master Kevin Adams was once again sculpting heads and raising money for charity, below are just a few examples of the work he did over the weekend.
Bryan and Diane with Rick Priestley and John Stallard.
In the end 5 people from the 1985 Who's Who at Citadel article turned up at BOYL 2017:
Also in attendance was the legendary Nigel Stillman.
A few lucky people got to see the actual Bretonnian army he used at Games Workshop including the one off figures he sculpted for it as well as masters of his unreleased range of ancient buildings.
The illusive Anti Chrissy returns to the wargames industry after 34 years especially to attend BOYL 2017. Here she is with her favourite figures: the Green, Blue and Great Fire Dragons:
Her last sighting had been in the bottom left of this picture of Citadel Miniatures staff from 1982:
Every year there is a painting competition. This time around we were we uncharacteristically prepared (probably due to organiser Garth and his sign up sheets).
The categories were: Single Figure, Unit, Big Thing.
Winner of an honourable mention, the 'Inconvenienced Minotaur' by Steve Casey.
Organiser Garth announcing the painting competition winners.
The winners!
Artist and friend of Foundry, Tony Yates was present with his table of art and miniatures. Seen here with Dave Wood.
Tony Yates and Maria Ansell (Thanks Dave for the photo).
One of Tony's sculpts was a prize for the painting competition last year and made it's way back in to a game this year!
In the shop where people could have a browse in-between gaming.
One of the two new cabinets we added to the shop just in time for B.O.Y.L. Filled with all sorts of special editions and conversions you may recognise from the pages of White Dwarf.
The second shelf from the top was mostly full of the Tony Yates sculpted figures Bryan used to play Laserburn and playtest Rogue Trader.
We also changed most of our display to old Citadel and Games Workshop figures from Bryan's Collection. Most these figures had been in storage for a very long time until sorted out relatively recently by Steve Casey. We tried to arrange them in the same groups as the original White Dwarf releases as much as possible so that you could get a proper look at the paintjobs shown on the Stuff of Legends website.
This cabinet was recently installed and filled entirely with 1980s Citadel human armies: Men at Arms, Normans and Feudals. All these figures are still in production today.
The Marquee was a bustle of excitement with multiple games going on in every corner.
(Some of these pictures via Tony Yates blog).
The Snorkling Space Hoppers game, we hear that there are plans for more additions, exclusive miniatures and an orcling raptor game next year?!
We had to include this Orcling/Beatles conversion.
Diane Ansell saying farewell to Tony Ackland at the train station, until next year Tony!
We are already thinking about B.O.Y.L 2018, by then I am sure we will have found lots more painted models to display and release.
Save the date August the 3rd 4th & 5th 2018.