Salute Prizegiving
Photos of the games prizewinners are on the Facebook album now – if I have mislabelled anyone, please let me know!https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.388908117822771.83786.117541388292780&type=1Cheers!
Posts Tagged ‘Salute 2012’
Salute 2012 Painting Competition results
Apologies for the delay in getting these pictures up, I’ve had a (not so) short stay in hospital. However – pictures of the best in class are here, and I’ll be uploading the ‘best of the rest’ to Facebook this evening.So without further delay, here are…
Salute 2012 – part 2
It took a while getting here but the Salute 2012 part two video has finally been finished, We had a few problems with some corrupt and damaged clips, but these were eventually sorted out, and now the video is up on here an…
My Salute Loot! – Salute 2012
Just a quick post today, I thought I’d share my Salute Loot, (the title was pinched from BigLee’s blog).As you can tell by the pic, most of my money was spent on the Gripping Beast stand, I finally bought the Saga ruleset and two packs of dice, the Nor…
Bloggers of the World unite at Salute 2012
Myself and Dave D from One Man and his BrushesAn open invite to all and any bloggers went out by blogpost from myself, Fran and BigLee, the week before Salute. I must say I was very pleased and impressed with the turnout. I’d like to thank you al…
Salute video – part 1
We may not be the fastest to get pictures up online, but we have some access that nobody else does. On the build day for the show, Friday 20th April, Romanas spent some time walking round with a video camera to get footage which would let you see what …
Salute 2012 in review
Yes, I’m finally back on the interwebs after quite possibly the most shambolic house move in the history of the world. However God was smiling down upon me as we completed on Friday afternoon, meaning I could still go to Salute with Lee & Jeremy of The Chaps. Huzzah! Having been to Salute before, albeit [...]
Salute 2012, Fieldworks Models and 80 pence!
The weekend nearly killed me, between the show, the Sunday gaming and cooking and all the smiling I was fecked! The show was great, met loads of fellow bloggers, stayed until the end (first ever time and never again!) and I admit people coming up to yo…
Salute 2012 – Games prizes
We had over 100 games of various types at Salute 2012, and the sheer quality is enough to knock you out. Jim would like me to thank each and every club who brought a game to the show this year. We do recognise how much time and effort you put into…
Salute 2012 – My pics
Its all over, all the build up, all the lists and all that walking about. And what a day it was too! Myself Fran and Postie made it up to the Excel centre, for our yearly visit to Salute. There we met up with BigLee, to handover his Rejects shirt which…
Salute 2012 – Crooked Dice 7Tv Participation Games
The main Crooked Dice participation game this year was On Her Majesty’s Crooked Service featuring a mountain top villains lair. This game was multi player and was run twice during the day to great acclaim. Here we see the base before the chaos.Crooked …
Salute 2012 – 54mm Victrix Commission
Three pictures of some of the 54mm Victrix figures which I painted for their demo game at Salute 2012.A really spectacular game with buildings and terrain by Victrix owners Julian and Steve.
Salute 2012
Like a thousand of other good gamers I made the annual pilgrimage to Excel to attend Salute yesterday, and it was it’s usual brilliant shiny self. Big thanks to everyone involved. Here are the pictures, the usual rules apply; if the photo is of y…
Thank you!
We would like to thank every single gamer, painter, trader and significant other who came to Salute today. We were really pleased to see so many through the doors (recession, what recession?), and the whole place seemed to have a buzz this year – thank…
He Who Dairies
As this post was published the doors have just opened for Salute2012 and if you’re reading this shortly afterwards then you’re probably not lucky enough to be there – unless you’re reading this on some smart device as you line u…
Wargames Show Lists!
While wandering around the blogs this week I’ve come across a lot of people doing lists for Salute 2012 of what they’re buying and visiting, a damn good idea and many years and shows later I decided I need to do this, there’s been a lot of times where …
South London Warlords 2012-04-19 23:00:00
The TFL site now has all the information for this weekend’s planned engineering works, and it looks like everything will be running. I’ll be out there testing it tomorrow, as we start building the show from 9:00am.Also, for those of you coming in for t…
A Sebstitute Gamer?
The day after Salute some of The Rejects are getting together for a ACW game. We invited Curt from Analogue Hobbies and Dallas from Fawcett Avenue Conscripts, to come and join in the fun, as they were both over in the UK on their holiday and of course …
Salute 2012
I’m taking advantage of popping over to see my folks to use their Interwebs. My house move has become something akin to a Carry On film. Except it’s not funny…so it’s exactly like a Carry On film. Regardless of the waking hell I’m currently living through I will be attending Salute 2012. Afterall, that Relic [...]
Salute 2012, For Sale and Polo Shirts!
Ray has done a post about the Rejects on tour at Salute and out willingness to meet fellow bloggers and wargamers primarily because we can, we should, we want to and especially to put faces to names (maybe a group shot), the one thing that this bl…
Salute 2012 …Meet the Rejects!!!!!
Four of Posties Rejects Fran, Postie, BigLee and myself are all off on a jolly to Salute this Saturday. We’ve all been saving up our pennies and will hopefully go on a mad spending spree. I’m very imaginatively hoping to find some 1…
What are they bringing to Salute (1)
Maidstone Wargames Society - GD21 - www.maidstone-wargamers.org.ukMWS are bringing a 6mm game of the British Airborne assault on the Orne River and Caen Canal bridges on D-Day – plenty of pictures of the terrain, the troops and the buildings,…
Travel to Salute 2012
To plan your travel to Salute, have a look at the TfL website: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/tube/default.html shows the situation as it is now, but by setting Future Dates to the 21st April you can see what they have plan…
Salute Tickets Closing Date 5th April 2012
Please be aware that Advance Ticket purchases through the Salute website has now closed.We will be posting the last tickets off, in the next few days.Many thanks for those who have purchased Advance tickets and we will see you all at the show.
Prizes for games at Salute 2012
Those very nice people at the Wargames Holiday Centre have kindly donated a pair of free tickets to be given away at this years show. This is a really great prize – just go to their website to look at the games they put on. And so, we thought that…