The Loose Association of Wargamers

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tim.w wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:14 pmYou think I'm daft, I know full well Copelands is a pie shop!

Oh Cooplands! Where you could buy battenburg by the foot and parkin by the pound. It used to be the best shop ever but it got Greggified a while back.

Spirit Games in Burton on Trent is pretty good but caters more for RPGs and Fantasy gamers these days.

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:36 pm My favourite shop is Lawrence Matthews Art Supplies in Southend.......not great for wargaming stuff but it's an aladin's cave of art and modelling stuff.

Used to be in the precinct but is now down the side road — Queen’s Road?

Was a regular haunt in my schooldays (that and Essex Models on the London Road near Chalkwell Park).

A good memory you have there. Yes, Queens Road.

I believe it was in the original Lawrence Matthews that I first saw the Les Higgins catalogue, with those wonderful line drawings of the figures.

Essex Models! Wow. I still feel guilty for having gotten the owner to order some Minifig Figures for me and then telling him I didn't want them when they arrived.......I was very young and didn't understand the trouble he'd gone to.

He still jibbers uncontrollably and sticks pins in wax effigies of you, I'm told.

Our local butcher's shop is called "Best" - does that count?

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 6:49 pm Essex Models! Wow. I still feel guilty for having gotten the owner to order some Minifig Figures for me and then telling him I didn't want them when they arrived.......I was very young and didn't understand the trouble he'd gone to.

An early example of EB evilness.

Peeler wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:08 pm

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 6:49 pm Essex Models! Wow. I still feel guilty for having gotten the owner to order some Minifig Figures for me and then telling him I didn't want them when they arrived.......I was very young and didn't understand the trouble he'd gone to.

An early example of EB evilness.

Seeing as I still feel guilty about it after forty two years I'm clearly in the lower divisions of evilness.

Clearly.

As a nipper I used a Reb Bus Rover to visit these shops.

Tradition in Piccadilly just to look as I could not afford anything although I did buy my copy of Charge there.

Surens in Lower Sloane and Hinton Hunt in Islington. Still got some of the figures.

As a calliw youth I used to cycle 15 miles round trip to BMW models in Wimbledon where I bought my first metal figures.

I am fortunate to be well served by physical shops.

First of there's Acme in Llandudno that has a lot of FoW, plus all the usual 28mm plastics, Bolt Action, fantasy stuff and board games. They also run lots of club nights for local teenage gamers..

Then there is a wonderful model shop in Porthmadog called er... Porthmadog Models.

And Mona Models in (I shit you not) Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch..

Oh, an Austin's Models in Bangor High Street though that's an odd place selling mainly CCGs these days - but does have Vallejo.