Salute Loot 2026 & Blogger Meet up

 

For a change, when I rummaged through my bags of loot I picked up at this years Salute, I was very surprised at how much there was!! (That never usually happens???)

So firstly was my Salute Goody bag, the Saladin figure, some Dwarf figures, some very handy magnetic bases from Warmag and another base, I've not really delved into what it is yet?

And in no particular order...

From Products For Wargamers, two large ponds, a small pond and some counters.

All of these will be snowified, for the Retreat from Moscow and the Winter War.

A mix of figures for Jason and the Argonauts, from Wargames Foundry, Crooked Dice and Fenris. From Warlord, some Bolt Action dice, (£18 for dice!!, my heart bleeds!) and artillery markers and some free Konflikt 49 sprues. Paints from Sheppey Models and 15mm Ottoman tents form Debris of War.

The Campaign Book, Chronicles of Midgard

I've got the rules already and am seriously thinking about buying 2 armies to paint up!

Hmm???

Stream/River sections from The Last Valley and a few bridges, once again these will snowified!

And finally I picked up a pre-order of some magnetic bases from Warbases and a strip of  Green Stuff!!

So this lot should keep me bust for the foreseeable future, especially if you add all the other stuff I have in my leadpile.

And lastly a rather small Blogger Meet up was held at 1 o'clock, which was a shame, but thanks to all the guys who made it.

Matt, Andy, Carl, Lee, Postie, Steve, Mike, me and Reject Dave

See you all at Salute 54!!!!

AHPC9 Donnybrook - 25mm Jacobite Artillery

Firstly, thank you to all you lovely lot out there who voted me into second place in the 

"Sport" bonus round. I had a lot of fun creating the figures and have been asked what rules I plan to use to play Lacrosse with them. I don't know how to play Lacrosse, never mind make rules up for them!!!

Another week has passed and I've been very busy with the brush!

I've stayed with the Jacobite Highlanders again this week, but have gone for

the simpler form of artillery.

All the Highlander figures are like the Horse in my last post from Reiver Castings, while 

the artillery are from Parkfield Miniatures and Wargames Foundry.

There are 7 x artillerymen

And 2 guns

Also there are a few packs of Trade Goods from Crooked Dice

that can be used as hastily built barricades. 

7 x 25mm  35 points

2 x artillery 15 points??? (Should be 10 points each, but one's a tiddler?)

5 x various trade goods ?????

Lee was very generous and gave me 70 points in total!!!

Which along with another group of figures pushed me up to 7th place.

My highest placing in around 4 years!!!

Salute Loot!!!

I didn't think I bought that much, but it seems as though I did!?!

I've finally had the chance to rifle through my goody bags last night, to see what I bought during Salute 2018.

Three books from Cavalier, all for THE period. I probably don't need these as I've got pretty much 

all the info I need, but.............

My first ever purchase from Crooked Dice.

Some pretty cool terrain items.

A show wouldn't be a show without my fix of Essex minis.

Just a few packs of Cavalry command for the NYW

Flock!

A free gift from fellow Blogger Bob Cordery.

I've always quite fancied the Spanish Civil War??

Tools from Bicorne, for Sedgemoor figures and the like.

Ah Gawd!

Another offshoot for Donnybrook

Scots!

Two Highlander Officers from Crann Tara minis

Character figures from Warlord, maybe be a bit small me thinks??

Woof!

A very nice little collection of counters from Warbases.

Redoubt figures from Col Bill

More Highlanders this time from Dixon

I also bought some pre-painted Redoubt Highlanders from Grubby Tanks, so all in all 

a rather large selection!