Just before we headed over to Sweden, we heard that there was going to be a friendly soccer match between Australia and England in October at Wembley Stadium. We booked our tickets and then had a few months wait until the weekend arrived.
We decided to head to England on the Wednesday evening and spend a few days before retuning on the Sunday. Accommodation in London itself was expensive and fairly limited so we looked into a few other options. I was keen to check out Warhammer World in Nottingham, so we looked into staying there. It would be a bit of a drive from the London airports, but we could get a house with a kitchen that would save money on having to eat out every night.
We flew in on Wednesday night with Ryanair. The flights were cheap, but the cost to add any bags other than a small under-seat bag were pretty high. In the end we settled for two checked bags of 10kg each. We landed at 6:30pm and picked up our car, getting an upgrade to a sky blue MG5.
The drive to our apartment took about 2.5 hours and it was dark by the time we arrived. The apartment had street parking, but the road was packed and it took some time to get a park.
After a decent night sleep, we got up and headed out to Warhammer World.
Warhammer is a tabletop miniature game that I had been interested in since I was about 12, and it was based in Nottingham. Warhammer World opened in 1999 and consists of an Event Hall, Exhibition Centre, Bugman's Bar and a large Warhammer/Forgeworld store.
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| Rhino |
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| Space Marine |
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| An edit of the Hersey book - on display in the entrance |
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| Exhibit in the entry |
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| Uruk-hai from Lord of the Rings |
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| Overlooking the foyer |
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| Heading up to the shops |
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| Display of some of the Forge World Knights |
The store was pretty quiet early on the Thursday morning, it was quite a bit busier when we popped back briefly on Saturday. This was the event hall:
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| Thursday morning |
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| Saturday afternoon |
Next we walked around the main shop area. They had models from the Forgeworld and main Warhammer stores as well as displays of some of the painted models:
It cost £20 for us all to visit the four exhibition halls featuring some huge dioramas of various battles in the Warhammer 40,000, Lord of the Rings and Age of Sigmar story lines, as well as an army display for each race. There were also some smaller displays of other Warhammer based games and some of the History of Warhammer models. It was scary that I have some of the box sets and models that are now part of the 'history' section.
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| The 'Slayers Sword' - The prize for the best painted miniature of the Golden Demon competion |
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| Some of the old models |
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| Warhammer - Battle of Volganoth |
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| Age of Sigmar - Gates of Sharrowmourne (over 2,500 miniatures) |
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| Warhammer board games |
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| Age of Sigmar - The Siege of the Craw |
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| Age of Sigmar - Chaos Musters |
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| Warhammer 40k - The Burning of Prospero |
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| Space Marine Chapters |
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| Imperial Might |
Coming into the third room of the exhibition hall, there were signs about the assassin challenge. A single assassin figure is hidden in the massive "Battle for Angelus Prime" display. The first cut of the display had 5,500 standard models and 1,200 scenery kits included but it is constantly added to. It took 9 months to build and is 22 feet long, 12 foot wide and 20 foot high. We spent some time searching but had no luck finding the hidden assassin.
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| Marenus Calgar's Chainsword |
Our final stop was Bugman's Bar - a themed bar and restaurant, where we grabbed some lunch before heading on.
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