Salute 52

On Saturday 12^th April I went to my first wargaming show of the year, to “SALUTE 52” at Excel London run by South London Warlords.

It was a lovely sunny spring day as I set off for the show and arrived at 10.50 am, collected my goodie bag and set off looking around the trade stands. The first thing that hit me was the amount of people that had turned out for the event, which was really nice to see.

The trade stands had about everything you needed for your hobby, but once again no trader had anything for us out of date, 1/76 plastic figure collectors/gamers. Although I had some cash in the war chest to spend, I brought it all back home with me. Never seen so many dice of different shapes and colours though?

After lunch I met up with the bloggers at 1 pm and it was great to catch up with most of them that I was able to chat to. Sorry if I missed you.

Around the hall there were many games and a hell of a lot of participation games which were well attended. The only problem for me was that there were not many historical games but loads of sci-fi and fantasy ones again being played. I take my hat off to all of the gamers who made their tables look like museum model layouts. I was lucky enough to see Rifleman Harris from the TV series “Sharpe” 

Rifleman Harris Then

Now

So here are a couple of photographs that I took at Salute this year, not many I know, I should of taken more.

"Caen 1944" Joe Bilton

Not Known

79th Highlanders

"Berlin 1945" Retired Wargamers Reloaded

                                               

To the Strongest-Louis Quatorzes Wars

"Zeppelin" Hornchurch Wargames Club

It was a good show and I will be going back next year, but before that there is “Broadside” in June.

Horses finished at last

 

Here is my last patch of the Scots Greys horses which bringing the total to 23. It’s been quite a challenged to pick up the brush again since late October. I really admire the work that people put in to their model figures on here, but these will do just fine for me being a solo player. I can now concentrate on the first batch of 6 troopers which are nearly done, so still very much WIP but well over due.

Happy New Year from the General

 

I would like to wish my followers and all wargamers around the world a very 

Happy New Year.

Well yet another year has been and gone in a flash once again, so I hope that I can finally sit down now and start to paint once again, as I have said before, that some of my figures just need finishing off. 

I hope once again to go to some wargaming shows over the year and really hope, that we will start to see some more production of new figures coming out from HaT. 

Christmas Goodies

 

I know it's just a little bit too late to post this, but I did get a couple of items for my hobby from my family this year. 

They are the from Sarissa Precision "Waterloo 20mm Windmill (H207) and a couple of 

Hornby, Scatter grass (Dark Green) packets.

So am a happy general, but hope that you all had a great Christmas.

Merry Christmas From The General

 

As we near yet another end of year, once again my output for painting figures is a big fat ZERO. But saying that, I have painted up 16 horses for the Scot Greys but no troopers so far. They are still waiting their final paint check. Also the last batch of horses are also well under way. Unfortunately is now four years without producing any completed painted figures.

There has been some good news in the plastic model world of late, and that is that HaT are back up and running, well sort of which has got me a bit excited, but still no sign of new Napoleonic figures for the 1815 period.

I shall sort myself out once again next year and try to get these Dragoon figures done that have been sitting around for years now. Still have loads of things to put on this blog but once again they need just finishing off a final read over. So I hope that things will improve at my end.

With the people that have taken a look at my blog over the years. Last year I had just over 108,000+ views this year we are up to 133,000+ 

So where ever you are in the world I would like to say, I hope that you have 

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS