Am I getting too old for all this?

All this being getting up before sparrowfart to travel to Newark Showground and attend The Other Partizan? Standing in a queue even to get in...

I really thought that I was past all that, rolling up at 11.00ish more my style. All to miss the anticipated but non existent traffic queues with multiple events staged across the showground. Any way, enough moaning. In just after 10.00 for £2.00 as an OAP, can't complain at that. A quick visit to The Last Valley to collect two terrain items, to Colonel Bill's to hand over some surplus painted figures I'd sold him, and to give some more Crimean War figures to good friend Dave O'Brien, whose Gothenburg Gamers group were staging a Crimean War display game, Turks v Roosians!

Then on to see The Bodkins' Medieval extravaganza - best game in the show it transpired and best vignette award too for my son Matt! Well done all! The standard of games was exceptional this year, surpassing all previous in my view. In fact, almost too much really to take in. Anyway, The Bodkins ~

The Boondock Sayntes with another magnificent game table featuring so much talented brush and model work ~

So many other marvellous games to OD on! A few more pictures from those I particularly enjoyed in whole or part ~

Shrewsbury Wargames Society. A long time since I'd seen this special model of Stokesay Castle.

The Bunker's WW1 in Palestine game.

The Back of Beyond, according to the League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers anyway.

A rather spiffing Anglo-Zulu War game 

Long Range Desert Group, or SAS?

THE western Front! Trenches, tanks, biplanes! Very evocative!

The Very British Civil War, a stiff upper lip is mandatory...

Vietnam, a small but beautifully formed game.

Well, that's my take on The Other Partizan 2023 games, no doubt you will have your own. Roll on Partizan 2024 hoping folk can top even these!