Hotlead 2011: First Pictures

My friend Peter took a bunch of pictures when he wasn't manning the trenches at the Bring & Buy. He has kindly given permission to publish some of them here. I made all the pictures small to save on page loading. click on each to view at full size.



Getting started Friday afternoon.



Pirate game.

Pulp adventures

With silly hats

Pasha Dan shares some fashion advice.

New Vendor. My local video rental store and GW dealer.

Ooooh shiny.....

Some very pretty Turks in a Sharp Practice game.

Sipahis.

Heroic defenders of the Electorate.

General view of the games, Friday night.

Setting up the Bring and Buy Saturday morning

An insanely detailed 15mm War of 1812 lake battle.

Mike is a deal hunting machine!

Keith's 15mm ACW game using Black Powder.

The very popular Chariot race game.

Saturday. We're in full swing now.

Mike M's 20mm AWI game.

More AWI

Mike has almost made a religion out of using the 20mm figures.

ECW using FoG:Renaissance rules.

More ECW

Bir Hacheim in 20mm with Rapid Fire!

B. of Helicarnassus in 15mm using DBM. This GM has been working his way through all of Alexander the Great's battles. Bringing a new one each year.

More Pulp!

The Bring and Buy has a brief and rare lull.

Something going on in Mesopotamia in the 20s....

Punic Wars. 20mm. Might of Arms rules.

Rabbitman asks about something.

Keith's Wild west shootout. Also a perennial favourite.

Keith, (standing, red shirt) Hotlead founder and GMing machine!

Battlemechs battle over Quebec City!

Sunday morning. Still a good crowd.

The VSF Bring and Battle gets rolling.

Pete's Russians and Canadians. Why are they on the same side? Martian mind-control maybe?

The British camp. HRH Queen Victoria excorted by Sir Harry Flashman VC.

A flying machine made by one of the youngsters. He used it to good effect.

Pasha Dan gets some help with the rules.

The Mississauga Dragoons charge!

Pete's spar torpedo finally hits something!

Stopping the Martians!

"I'll be ready for them again. I know their weakness."

This kind of says it all for VSF I think...

Silly unit but awfully well painted.