Vapnartak 2025

Hello There! I have just returned from Vapnartak and had a lovely weekend out and about in York with my partner.

I was a great weekend and here are some quick posts about the weekend and some of the sites, and buys, there,

First the show. Unlike Partizan the show has some demonstration games and some for display. While the game quality is not up to Partizans standard there were a number of games that had been at The Other Partizan, from last year and looked splendid.

This 'Wings of War' games had a nice base mat for the ground which went well with the game. The players were also very welcoming.

This game was very well attended and had a number of players which did seem to move along quiet well. I liked the castle walls, which appeared to be foam board with block work etched into it.

I have a few large 28mm ships sitting in my store cupboards and this game reminded me I need to get them sorted!

Here is a close up of the castle walls. The cannon was obviously manhandled from the ship!

This 28mm game was certainly a different period of history for me but looked good on the table.

Close up it was possible t see these were 28mm Perrys plastic ACW cavalry, converted.

The Yarkshire Gamer also bought this magnificent set up from The Other Partizan.

This game, set in a snowy waste, looked good and there were some nice snow effects used.

I have been experimenting with different foliage for trees recently and I thought these trees could have benefitted from the seafoam I have been using recently.

Tucked in the corner of one of the sub floors was this 28mm AWI game which while it was good was in a position in the building with poor lighting making it difficult to get some good photos of it.

Another way of making trees for scenery can be seen here.

Lastly this spectacular D Day game in a very small scale.

This view reminded me of a feature in one of the very old wargames magazines from the '90's where 1/300th Normandy bocage scenery had been made for a large table. I must dig up that edition!

The water effect was very well modelled.

Overall a very nice day. We arrived at 10 am and while there was a long queue that went down very quickly indeed and was well stewarded.

I left at 1.30pm and felt like I had been there for hours!