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Sunday, 14 September 2025

Border Reiver 2025

 Today (yes, a Sunday!) - we went to the Border Reiver show at the Gateshead  International Stadium again!

I have done a picture report, showing the traders and the games, I hope you like it!

The happy guys on the front desk!

The Traders:

First, we had 2 very nice ladies offering a lovely selection of Sandwiches and cakes

Next we had Faux Geek they have a lovely mix of toys and bags, amongst other things!
On to Sarissa Precision!
Apart from their own selection of lovely MDF buildings...
...they sold much more!
Their own buildings paint up very nicely!
This is Paul, from our club!
On to ? (Help please!)



Bow and Blade, they sell a lot of nice paints, brushes etc
This is Phil, also from our club! at IGS Miniatures


On to Reiver Castings.

They do some very nice WSS figures!



Now, who is this?...
Ah, Graham from Grahams Wuerkshoppe 
One of the most recent...and welcome! traders to come to the frozen north...
Ontos Games! who do a lot of interesting lines!

Now, Mardav Miniatures, who do a lot of very nice WW2 minis in 28mm
Also some good solid terrain!

Next...Gecko Gaming!


A new Trader, selling painting lights/angle poise lamps etc: Gloforce

Now - my favourite terrain guy at Last Valley.



Now, Phoenix Miniatures, they do lovely terrain mats and flocks etc






Now Dave Thomas, the go to place for plastic figures at Border Reiver!




Pendraken Miniatures produce lovely 10mm figures.

They also sell Litko game accessories...
...and a mass of useful Decals!

The Bring and Buy, I actually bought something from here this year!

Crescent Creations do a fantastic display!
They also do lovely 3-d printed figures!


ABC brushes sell, well - very nice brushes!


The Games:

John Blenkey's - Always Above WW1 game

Uhrwerk Spiele - Chronopia (this looked very pretty!)


General's outpost (Gateshead) Bolt Action.



More Uhrwerk Spiele - Chronopia
(Sorry, not sure what this was!)

Our friends in North Shields!
Whitley Bay 3D Gamers - Midgard
Newcastle Knights - Russian Civil War - East Ablaze





Ironclad Forge - Halgrad

Leeds Wargames Club - Leviathans: Monsters In The Skies

Dougies Wargaming Blog Show - Winter of 79 Tyneside Firefight - Fireteam Modern
Very pretty terrain!

Westerhope Wargames - Metaurus
The nice guys at Westerhope always have nice trinkets to play with!


Something to do with Dice - Terminator - Police Station Attack


A game of Kill Team, apparently?
Greg Ward - Wargaming World Solo Fantasy - Jason and the Argonauts.

South East Northumberland Wargamers - Chain of Command 2 29th Lets Go!
Another lovely terrain!

West Alottment Wildlings - Warmaster


And finally, the lads of our club's Battle of Raphia 217 BC.




And that was it! Sorry if I missed anyone, and please feel free to comment with any errors I have made!

Finally, may I thank all the people who organised and participated in this fun show, well done to you all and thank you! 

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    1. Thanks! I enjoyed the show muchly and am only glad others like my effort to show it to a wider audience!

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  2. Thanks for the photo report Herky.

    A second TIA has restricted my mobility a little bit.

    Jim

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  3. Cheers Jim, I am so sorry you are still unwell, I missed you today and really hope you are well enough to come next year.

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