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!!!!

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