Salute 51 Part 2 The Tables

 

After my quick brake I headed back in to the hall and had a look around all of the gaming tables at the show.

Salute 2019 The Tables!

As always at Salute there are some fantastic tables on show were demo games are played from many different clubs and companies...

Lets take a look and theres a lot!

Salute 2019 Part 3 More More More.

So after a quick pit stop I was back on the show floor and went to visited two stands that I have had the pleasure of reviewing their products..

First up The XLC stand were the crew had some great looking terrain as well as a new XLC centre that plays disco?

(Here is a link to the review of the Desecration City terrain)

Salute 2019 Part 2 The Doors Open...

It hits 10 am and the doors open for Salute 2019!

Just as the doors open I continue my look around the show...

Salute 2019 Part 1

Its that time of year again Salute is upon us!

I headed to the Excel Centre bright and early to get ready for the day ahead.

Warhammer Fantasy Vampire Counts....Army Number 2

I'm on a bit of a Warhammer Fantasy painting trip at the moment must be due to Riot Ville Live a few months back.

After painting Dwarfs I wanted a change and as I was in Fantasy mode and liking Macca's list at Riot Ville I knew I had roughly the same models as him so why not get a proper Vampire Counts force together....

Salute The Goodies..

So Salutes was a week ago now and the dust has settled and after a hectic week I am able to show you what I managed to get at this years Salute.

Salute 2018 Pt3 The Tour Continues

Off I went to 4ground who have taken a fair bit of space this year at Salute.

Salute 2018 Pt 2 Terrain and Game From Kickstarters at Salute.

After a quick pit stop I began wondering the Salute halls and noticed that there seemed to be a lot of kickstarter projects on display.

Salute 2018 Pt1

Its that time of year again gamers flock to the Excel Centre in London for a whole day of gaming fun!

Salute the Swag and the best table..well i like it.

The Salute bag this year came with 2 minis one from Warlord Games of a Russian Lady as a flag bearer and a model from Wild West Exodus and of course the dice which to be honest I was a little disappointed with as it just had a star on the 6.

Salute Part 3 Fabled Realms Demo and more...

Off  I went to the table for a quick demo game

I was playing with the Druggoi the infected band of monsters that where once men.

I called him Fluffy

Salute 2017 Part 2

After a short brake off I went to Hassle free Miniatures and look at these minis which if I was a rich man would get all of them! I am sure I can find a game that would be able to use these surly.

Ready for a picture overload?

See anyone familiar?

Salute 2017 Part 1

On Saturday Salute 2017 was upon us. I got up a stupid o Clock and made my way down to the excel centre for a day of gaming heaven.

I arrived really early and was in in the front of the line but it soon begin to fill up in the hall.

It hits 10 am and we are ushered into the main hall to start exploring the stalls and tables at Salute.

Badger, badger, badger, badger and dwarfs part 1

This video sums up what my minds been like the past few days..

Anyway I have been painting up some badgers from the Brock Riders kit from kings of war. Think angry badgers being ridden by angry dwarfs who like nothing more then hitting things.

The minis are in Mantic's rustic plastic resin mixture and from my experience with this from the Deadzone minis  I was worried this would be a difficult job.

Thats a lot of parts...

Well it was not that bad at all the dwarfs fit together really easily and so did the badgers but they did need some green stuff to fill some gaps.

  

  

Once all the minis were put together I started off by spray painting the dwarfs grey and set them aside while I sprayed the badgers black as this would speed up painting as they would be mainly black.

Slayers!

As you can see they like hitting things.

 
I used GW bone colour to dry brush all the badgers and then applied brown to the straps and bronze to the armour plates. Red was applied to the eyes and brown wash to finish off.

After that I started work on the bases and used the GW brown texture paint and dry brushed it again with bone and washed them in brown. I also added the army painter grass I bought from Salute and hey presto some badgers are ready to rock!

Next up are the Dwarf Slayers which are going to take a bit of time but I am looking forward to getting this angry mob out on the table top.

Salute Part 3 The Goodies...

After wondering the halls of Salute this year this is my haul......

So lets start of with the free stuff shale we..

The Salute Mini For This Year Steam Punk.

I was surprised to get these in the goodie bag this year. These are from the game Maelstrom's Edge and look pretty good.

You can never have enough dice

The free dice this year was also steam punk themed dice (bottom of pick). I also got a nice D10 dice for free. I did purchase however the Blood Bowl dice and the blank D6 as they will come in handy no doubt.

As I was one of the first 50 people at the Siege Studios stand i got these brushes.

Free brushes. Don't mind if i do.

I also got this mini from the GCN stand.

So what did I buy you ask well here go's......

This lovely looking show exclusive Jezebel Mini from Prodos games...

This fantastic looking mini from Anvil Industries which is either a black smith with an anvil or a bloke with a sword on fire...Which one am I going to make I wonder...

I found a company called Midlam Minitures which produced some lovely metal minis perfect for any fantasy games like frostgrave at £2 a model!

So a Barbarian, Bard, 2 Thieves and a Towns Folk walk into a bar.

Talking of cheap how about these two fro 20p each..

Now I must admit I saw this on the web from Crooked Dice and I loved them so when I saw them up close I had to get them..

Doooo, Raaaaa..Egon!

Who you gunna call The Paranormal Exerminators of course.... They even had an Ecto 1 on sale but I resisted just.. I did see how ever that TTCombat make a fire station....

I may have to check out ZTV for some rules...

After my KOW demo I decided to get this as it was going very cheap. I liked it was fast paced and seemed pretty easy to set up and play.

Now I saw this from Hasslefree Miniatures and had to get it..... I cant figure out who he is supposed to be though?

I think he has forgotten some rules again..

Now salute from me would not be complete with out getting some hobby bits and terrain so here go's..

Some nice flesh colours working out for £1 each

Forests

I have been wanting to try these for my bases to see if they can give a bit more life to them as seen as I now have the Wargames Bakery die to create my own bases now this might give a nice finish.

Run to the hills!

And last but not least some market tables from TTCombat.

So as you can see this year was very fruitful in terms of hobby supplies. I defiantly have plenty to be getting on with. Now I just have to find a place to store it all..

So heres to Salute 2017....