Salute 2025 - Blogger Meet up & Salute Loot!

 

There was a great turn out at the Bloggers Meet up, from L to R

Matt - Wargames in the Dungeon

Tamsin - Wargaming Girl

Chris - Horse & Musket Gaming

Stuart AKA Postie

Carl - Hitting on a Double 1

Lee - BigLee's Miniature Adventures

Reject Steve

Mike - The Words of Subedai

Me!

Andy - Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

Steve - General Reeve

David - The Ragged Soldier

I usually get loads of pics of fellow Bloggers and friends of the Rejects, but sadly failed in most part in my duties this time round, but I did remember to take a few...

Lee, Alex Sotheran and me.
We did make it to Alex's talk at 2.45, but I think his mike was broke as we could hardly hear him, we certainly heard the other guests though, in fact they hurt my ears with all their screeching. Oh well....

Carl, Lee and me

Matt 

Lee stopping for snacks and being caught!

I think I had a rather subdued Loot haul this time round

Plenty of freebies including the Salute figures a Dwarf smoking a pipe and an 1918 German. Some sabot bases from Products of Wargaming, some free Salute dice.

Four packs of Perry Minis, the 2 missing Sledges I needed, a Pontoon and a Donkey Cart with French wounded or exhausted, a few paints from Warlord. I couldn't find anyone selling Vallejo paints???

Lastly on the right just one of many sabot bases for trees for the Retreat from Moscow, especially made by our chums at Warbases, for both Lee and myself. Neither of us has much storage space, so we thought using these sabot bases should save a little space. All the holes are 70mm so we can also use them as terrain pieces, not just woods. Add a wrecked wagon, some large stones or something similar, to fill the table out.

And that belive it or not is it!

Salute Blogger Meet up

With all things being considered I thought the Salute Blogger meet up was a great success.

Yes there's not as many of us than normally but as you probably all know by now, the numbers for the show were down.

From left to right

Kyle, Barry Hilton, Peter Brian, Postie, Gary Wright, Peter, Tamsin, BigLee, Dave D, me! 

 

Reject Richard, Reject Dave, Postie and Tamsin

Barry, Kyle and Peter

                                                        Gary, Peter, BigLee and Dave D

I also met up with Dave Crook, David from Suffolk, Pete Barfield and Simon (Blax) who didn't make it in any photos.

Hopefully we'll try again next year!

Salute Bloggers meet up 2019

My third and final post concerning this years Salute and as the title's already told you..

It's all about the bloggers!

The numbers were down this year, with absentees either forgetting or just not having the time. But we did have two new bloggers at the meet Pete and Pete! There are links to all blogs below, so if you haven't joined the Pete's blogs or any of the other give them a follow!

Above we have from left to right

Me, Sir Micheal Awdry, Simon, Carl, Postie, Al, Tamsin, Legutus, Pete, Alastair, Pete, Eric the Shed and Miles.

BigLee got in this one!

Front & centre!!

And a few other bloggers we met along the way.

Simon Miller

Sidney Roundwod.

Andy from Friends of General Haig

Pete from Panzerkaput joined us for a quick pic.

Barry Hilton gets a cuddle from Postie

Dave Imrie and Iain McDonald

And that's it for another year!!

Bloggers meet up @ Salute 2018

At Salute each year we Bloggers meet up for 30 minutes to say hello in the flesh, here are a few photos of the infamous 30 minutes.
The annual Bloggers meet up at 12:30

From L to R 

Simon, Eric, Tamsin, Alastair, Dave, Legatus, Mike, Bob, Postie, Me, Carl, Sir Michael, Al

BigLee took the photo.

Tamsin, Dave, Carl & Paul?

Not sure what Posties up to hear??

Or there??

errrrr?

Sir Micheal Awdry looking slighty bemused too?

Mike looking rather creepy........

Sir M, Al (Not Tamsin!!!) with Sidney Rounwood.

Carl, Simon, Sir M and Al

Postie took the Team Blogger pic, but the poor old bugger can't see properly and ruined 

all of the photos on Tamsins camera!

Alastair and Dave

Bob and Prancing Pony............sorry Lee!

Legatus and Eric the Shed

Salute 2018 - Blogger Meet Up???

It seems Tamsin has beaten me to the punch this year? 

The Annual Bloggers Meet up will be taking place once again this year.

And as ever it'll be at the Big Red Dot.

As the LAF have there meet up already organized for our usual time of 1pm, so I

guess we'll have to change our time.

Let's go with 12.30 o'clock?

See you all there!!

Saturday 14th April 12.30 !!

Salute 2017 - Bloggers Meet up

Numbers were down at the annual Bloggers meet up at Salute this year, but it was still great to

meet up with some old comrades for a quick chat.

Above we have from left to right

Legatus Hedlius, Alastair, Reject Dave, Postie, Mark, Young Padwan, BigLee, Simon Miller, Tamsin, Simon, Carl, Jez, Andy, Moi, Provost Marshal, Sir Michael Awdry, Al.

Salute 2016.........Well are you? & Blogger Meet-up

In just over a week the Rejects, (well, some of us), will be making our annual trip to
Salute 2016 on 16th April.

Are you????

And we'll have our annual Blogger Meet up at 1pm in the big red spot.

So if you fancy coming along and putting a name to a face, it'll be great to see you.

Also there's a rumor that a certain Irish chap may make an appearance??

Blogger Meet-up 2015

A meeting of like minds

A mini blogger meet up occured last Thursday evening. Bloggers Tamsin, Lee and myself met up with the Uber Geek himself, Miles Reidy. Miles was over in the UK from the US on business and contacted us all to see if we wanted to meet up. As Tamsin knows London a bit better than me she suggested a Greek restuarant near Charlotte Street. Don't ask me what its called, I couldn't tell you?? I'd never been for a Greek meal before in the UK, apart from our local kebab shop of course, but I was told, that doesn't count!
We all had a great evening talking all things wargaming. The grub was very nice indeed, don't know why but I seemed to pick all the hardest things to pronounce from the menu, and made a right tit of myself trying to say them. Hopefully we'll do it again one day. And if Miles can sort it, he may even come over in April for Salute and a game at Reject HQ!!!

Thanks for a great evening everyone and thanks for picking up the tab Miles!!!!

Salute 2015 Blogger Meet-up

The 2015 Blogger Meet-up was a great success, we had around 30 bloggers turn up, I tried to say hello to them all and failed miserably!

I've named everyone in the pic above (pic pinched from Pendragon Without's blog) that's him kneeling in the front. There are three bloggers that I couldn't identify, the lad in the green T-shirt

(Mike C has owned up and said its him in the green T-Shirt)

and the two chaps in the middle, between Carl and Ashley (Paint it Pink)

Who are you??

One chap has been identified as Neil Shuck from Meeples & Miniatures!! Link below

And we are now complete, Neil's Meeples chum Dave Luff completes the line up.

From Left to Right

Dave Docherty

BigLee

Loki

Eric the Shed

Clint

Pendragon Without

Me

Phyllion

Postie

Smiffy

Mike Whitaker

Carl Packham

Dave Luff from the Meeples & Miniatures

 Neil Shuck from the Meeples & Miniatures

Legatus Hedlius

Ashley

Tamsin

Blaxkleric

Markus

Mike C

Mike Reynolds

Sir Michael Awdry

Provost Marshal

Sydney Roundwood

Michael Fisser

Legatus Hedlius and Mark G

BigLee, Loki, Dave D & Whisperin Al

Mark G, Alastair, Simon Miller & Postie

Now this is embarrassing??

 I promised the chap on the right, that I'd pimp his blog as he's in need of some more followers.

But.......

 I can't remember either his name or his blog title. I've gone through my entire bloglist

but can't find the poor chap???
Dave has commented below, with his blog address
to if you would all be so kind and go join his blog.
At the moment I'm his only follower.
http://dave1958showell.blogspot.co.uk/

And there he is again, between BigLee and Loki??

Mike Reynolds & Tamsin

Phyllion, Whisperin Al, Sir Michael Awdry & Loki

Sidney Roundwood, Provost Marshal, Phyllion & Whisperin Al....again??

In the back ground Postie gives me the V for Victory sign

while chatting to Clint and Dave D.

Provost Marshal & Whisperin Al yet again???

Sir Michael Awdry doing the twist with Dave D