Crisis 2016: a great TSoA event again

As each year the Alde Garde visited the Crisis show with a demo.
This year an older demo with additions or a version 2 if you want.

The show is always a great pleasure te visit; seeing old friends, visit various traders  (and spending money), and talking to the same minded wargamers. Crisis 2017; here we come.
And of course a great thanks to all the members of TSoA; they do a great job, year after year.

This year they also baked and baked with great enthousiasm whole mountains of sausages and hamburgers (along with thousands of other things) which turned hal 1 in light blue clouds and bakery smells; we are a little bit glad our demo table was in hal 2.

Some pictures we took of all the great games and demos going on; sadly we had only very litttle time to take pictures. So our excuses to clubs of which we haven't any pictures.
Of course we end with pictures of our demo.

Hope to see you next year at Crisis!

 

And some pictures of our demo:

Building department busy for Crisis

The Alde garde building department aka Peter is perparing new terrain for Crisis.
As we are needing new terrain pieces we used the walls/tower of the old village of Arcen in the Netherlands as an example to build.
The first impression is underneath.

Crisis 2016

As we already said earlier, our planned demo of the War of the Austrian Succession is cancelled as we both (yes, the whole Alde Garde is just two) had too many bussiness and private commitments to finish it.
So now we plan  to take an upgraded early 1500 demo with us.
Hopefully we see you at Crisis.

Warcon Ghent 2017

We saw the sad news that the Warcon 28 Wargames show in Ghent is cancelled. We don't know the reasons as anly a small snippet of news was published on their Facebook site.
It's a pity as last year was a nice day; organised by a new team in a new venue but I suppose they have their reasons.
All the luck to them for 2018 of course.

Open day of the NSM and the cavalry museum

On the 24th of September we participated with our 1692 demo in the joined open day of the Dutch Society for Modelfigures (Nederlandse Stichting voor Modelfiguren or NSM) and the Dutch Cavalry Museum, both at the Bernhard Barracks in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

Almost 1000 visitors were counted who visited the stand of the NSM, an RC club with various scaled modeltanks who often circelled around us, the cavalry museum and ride on the real things, the tanks which were used by the Dutch armoured cavalry in past years.
I suppose for most visitors this was the best part of the day but a lot of them found their way to our table and were were all day busy explaining why wargaming is such a great hobby.


Maybe of interest to you the sites of the NSM and of the cavalry museum are:

NSM:  http://www.modelfiguren.nl

Cavalry museum:  http://www.cavaleriemuseum.nl/

underneath are some pictures but most of them are on our site.

FIGZ 2016

The Alde Garde visited FIGZ 2016, the minitures figurines convention in Arnhem, Netherlands. Partly wargaming, partly modelling (mostly 20mm) it is a nice little show attended by more people then last year which imho is great for the organisers who put a lot of effort in the show.

We always like to come but due to vvacations we didn't mke it with a demo; hope we will succeed next year.
Some pictures of the show underneath

an overview from the "wargaming" side

modelling in 20mm

La Haye Saint

and inside

is this Hougomont?

traders and gamers

Part of a great demo of Arnhem in 1944

where do live all the members of Benno's site

demo's 

Website

Just a quick notice: we have put some more pictures on our website , www.aldegarde.nl.