Salute 51 Part 1

 

It's that time of year again Salute is back and It my first visit back since 2019 and I have been looking forward to walking around the Salute hall.

The sun was out and I was ready for a good day of miniatures and miniature gaming.

Painting And Hobby: Update Feburay 2022

 Well its been a busy few weeks for me with work and with my hobby time.

Firstly you may have noticed the blog has had a little refresh and has a snazzy new logo.

I decided to make the logo more clean and hopefully represent not just this blog but also any future projects online that I may pursue.

Thanks to my brother for the new logo designs.

So other then the new logo and blog refresh what have I been up to?

Well let's take a look.

Unboxing: Model Box Halfling February 2021

   In todays unboxing we dive into the world of hobbits and Halflings as we explore February's Model Box

Let take a look inside.

Unboxing: Your Model Box Artificial Intelligence January 2021

 

Welcome to the first unboxing of the year for Your Model Box and this month its Artificial Intelligence.

Let's take a look inside.

Painting and Hobby: Motivation & The First Miniature Painted For The Year

Last year I painted a lot of miniatures and it was my best ever out put, but for some reason I have lost my hobby mojo over the past few weeks.

I can't put my finger on it. It could be due to work, the times or I am starting to miss getting out more than I think.

In any case this week I wanted to get myself motivated to start painting again and took my first steps to get my 2021 hobby underway.

Painting and Hobby Update

On the blog today I have another hobby update as the grey pile list gets smaller.. or does it.

So what have I been up to this week then..

Lockdown Hobby: Progress..

My hobby has been a lot slower then usually these past two weeks as work has started to gather pace and finding new routines and a new way of working is taking its time.

Saying that though I have managed to get some things painted from the grey pile.

So let's take a look.

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...

New Terrain Day.. Thank You Ebay! Shadow War Armageddon Round 2...

After last months Shadow War Armageddon Day Riot and I got talking about round two in April and we should try and make some taller towers for the board.

Wargame Tournaments make a great terrain set which I have seen for a few years but it has gone up to £80 now and TT combat have also started to make there one Industrial sector which for about £40 which is not bad but I thought I would have a look on Ebay.

Wargames Tournaments

TT combat Platform B And More Terrain..

After meeting up with Riot before Christmas at the Creative Biscuit we decided  we would have a go at Shadow War Armageddon. This was due I think to one of my post about the Battle Zone Terrain.

Well since then I have been on terrain building mode. I have kits and ideas floating around and I started with this from TT Combat.

TT Combat Warehouse Boxes Review

Itching to do something hobby related I have added to my ever growing terrain mountain as I wanted some scatter terrain that I could use across all the games I play be it Fantasy or Sci Fi. So it was off to Ebay and TTCombat had the perfect solution Warehouse boxes.

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.

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....