A few images from this year's Bifrost show held in Birmingham. Like a fool I've lost my copy of the show layout, so I'm guessing a bit about who's who and what game is what. If I've made an error, please feel free to mail me with corrections. There were quite a few traders and games, so apologies to anyone who isn't featured here. I think I've managed to feature most if not all of the games. Hopefully these might help put faces to names for those on the SFSFW discussion list - I've tried to name everyone I know but if you're there and I've missed you, tell me and I'll add your name to the captions.

Organisation

Mark Caldwell was mainly responsible for getting the show together and booking the traders, but he managed to avoid the camera for the day so doesn't feature here. Well done Mark anyway !

Steve Flanagan fights off the hordes of ravening punters. This photo provides conclusive proof that the sun does indeed shine out of Steve Blease's A**e !

Games

Rob Martin's 15mm SF game based on Harry Turtledove's 'Balance' series of books. Rob was responsible for organising the games at the show and did a magnificient job pulling together enough participation and demo' games to fill the hall

Rob (centre) explains the finer points of how to shoot a lizard. Other luminaries in this game include SFSFW supremo Steve Blease (right, green footie shirt) and David Manley (right with camera).

Combat in progress between lizards and human forces. Models are Peter Pig (humans) and Brigade Models (aliens).

Maidstone Wargames Society brought an Aeronef Game (Flight of the Lord Nelson) up from Kent. Maidstone is my club so I'm biased, but I think the game looked rather good ...

The first game of the day in progress. Dave Shillito (standing) and Trevor Pearless (centre, seated) watch an unknown participant attempt to stop the escape of the HMAS Lord Nelson.

A rather busier game later in the day. Andy King (centre, standing) watches Dave fail to grasp one of the world's simplest set of rules. Participants unknown.

Some more detail showing the Nelson (the big white 'Nef in the centre) attempt to evade the combined German and French forces amongst the clouds. All models by Brigade.

GZG's rather fun Pig Tickler game, run by Ray (right in the big hat) who looked away just at the wrong moment ...

Games Workshop staff put on a demo' of their new Lord of the Rings game. I don't know if it's just me, but I somehow expected something a little more spectacular from them ... still, at least they turned up.

Ilford came up with a Star Trek participation game that drew the crowds all day. The inanely grinning organiser is Madan Mitra, the chap to his right is Philip Atcliffe.

A Starship Troopers game (based on the film) with hordes of bugs lined up to catch our heroes unawares.

Plastic toy bugs hide by GZG buildings.

The 'hoppers' (flying bugs) are toys again, I believe the warriors are from Eureka in Australia.

Paul Radford ran a number of Full Thrust games during the day, including a massive multiplayer DeathMatch featuring ships from all sorts of manufacturers.

A Fantasy game which looked pretty intriguing - sadly I know little about the game or whoever was running it (sorry).

An SF game (Stargrunt ?) featuring some ingenious fold-flat card terrain. Despite the fact that I chatted to the chap running the game for a while, I didn't get his name.

Traders

Amazon Miniatures	The GZG stand, hidden behind plenty of willing punters as usual. Behind the stand are Alex Stewart (left) and Jon Tuffley (right, grinning). Despite having spent far too much with GZG over the years I still don't know the name of the chap in the middle !	A rare shot of the Brigade stand with a customer in front of it. Behind the stand are Steve Oram (left, glasses and not much hair) and Phil Richards (right, glasses and slightly less hair). The third Brigadier is of course me (contact lenses and as much hair as the other two put together).
The Old Crow stand. The proprieter is inconveniently hidden behind a punter at this point.	The Kallistra stand which did a grand impression of the Marie Celeste. I can only assume that there was someone hiding behind it ...