On Saturday 12th 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The trade stands had about everything you needed for your hobby, but once again no trader had anything for us out of date, 1/76 plastic figure collectors/gamers.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”
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So here are a couple of photographs that I took at Salute this year, not many I know, I should of taken more.
Great post Steve. Good to meet up again!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks Ray, I hope that you are recovering from the day now. Hope to see you at Broadside.
DeleteJust about getting the feeling back in my toes. How about you?
DeleteI must admit Ray, that I was knackered when I got home but am okay now. Take care mate.
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