{"id":1509,"date":"2009-10-18T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2009-10-18T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:23:55","slug":"selwg-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2009\/10\/selwg-09\/","title":{"rendered":"SELWG 09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the <abbr title=\"South East London Wargames Group\">SELWG<\/abbr> show, back for the first time since 2006. So once again I had a nice stroll up the hill and then a few hours shopping and gawping at the games.<\/p>\n<p>The renovated Crystal Palace Sports Centre meant that there was considerably more room for the Bring and Buy sale and for the first time ever I actually found something I wanted to buy. The B&amp;B wasn&#8217;t helped by people standing in front of it chatting to their mates who were serving. Come on guys, I know that shows are a chance to catch up with old friends but not whilst they&#8217;re trying to run the most chaotic and crowded part of the whole show.<\/p>\n<p>But the highlight was a buying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grippingbeast.com\/shop.php?CatID=370\">these chaps<\/a> and if you don&#8217;t get why they&#8217;re so exciting to me, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/actionforcevsredshadows.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Space%20Force\">original paint scheme<\/a>, and if that still means nothing to you then I can only say that this was a nostalgic trip back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodforthebaron.com\/toys\/002\/space\/index.html\">my childhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the SELWG show, back for the first time since 2006. So once again I had a nice stroll up the hill and then a few hours shopping and gawping at the games. The renovated Crystal Palace Sports Centre meant that there was considerably more room for the Bring and Buy sale and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[35,198],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-miniatures","tag-action-force","tag-selwg09"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-ol","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}