{"id":25098,"date":"2022-02-07T00:07:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25098"},"modified":"2023-06-25T01:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T00:36:52","slug":"sitrep-vapnartak-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/07\/sitrep-vapnartak-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"SITREP: Vapnartak 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday was Vapa in York, the first one since 2020. It was good to see the show return &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the first of the year and among my favourites, a place to catch-up and see people or find out the new release gossip. This year it seemed to be running at 75%, with a few notable people missing (such as the old standby Empress) and a lot more space to move around. I&#8217;ll admit, the extra space was pretty great, with less of a snarl just trying to get around the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_194804442.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_194804442.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_194804442-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see I came away with a few things. Two more Comets to fill out the platoon for Big Chain of Command (giving me a cruiser tank platoon as well as the Churchill infantry tanks) and two figures from Crooked Dice. I&#8217;ve always liked the look of them but was constantly undecided on them. Skipping postage fees to pick up at the show, definitely helped me to decide. They should be fun to paint, but I did have a moment of &#8220;oh&#8221; when I got them out the blister &#8211; the Divine Immortal definitely is an older style of casting &#8211; flat surfaces where the arms attach with 0 guide pins and the face looking a little bit odd in the raw metal. I think 3d printing has spoilt me on how quality castings can be and worse case I might prepare some heads to potentially replace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC00207.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC00207.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC00207-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I was not actually at the show for hugely long. After a quick tour around and purchasing, I disappeared off into deepest York (read: the scout hut around the corner from the race course) to play a big game of Chain of Command in North Africa with the guys. We managed to grab a few new players to introduce to the game (including my opponent from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/03\/battle-report-operation-kinder-ultramodern-chain-of-command\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"25027\">last week&#8217;s battle report<\/a>) so hopefully from this we may see them pop up in the campaign I&#8217;m running later this year. The actual battle was pretty damn fantastic, and I&#8217;ll have the battle report for it up soon. There was some dramatics you will want to see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Vapa in York, the first one since 2020. It was good to see the show return &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the first of the year and among my favourites, a place to catch-up and see people or find out the new release gossip. This year it seemed to be running at 75%, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","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":""},"categories":[1093,1069,903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-sitrep","category-wargaming"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Michael Charge","author_link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/author\/chargedog\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_194804442-1.jpg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220206_194804442-1.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/features\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Features<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/sitrep\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">SITREP<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Features<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">SITREP<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 07\/02\/2022","modified":"Updated on 25\/06\/2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 07\/02\/2022 12:07 am","modified":"Updated on 25\/06\/2023 1:36 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvEn5-6wO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25177,"url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/08\/sitrep-roll-on-the-recce\/","url_meta":{"origin":25098,"position":0},"title":"SITREP: Roll on the Recce","author":"Michael Charge","date":"08\/02\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to the Dastardly Regular Opponent, I got a Rubicon M5A1 kit. 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