OK, it's two days late but here is my photo round-up of Salute 2025. You can also take it as proof of life, given that I haven't posted here since last year's Salute. I still haven't broken through my painting block, despite several attempts.
Anyway...
Saturday morning saw me up bright and early. I got to the ExCel Centre just after 0900, had a smoke outside and then dawdled down to the queuing hall. It was only 0915 and the hall was already very full. Rather then go in and join the queue I decided to go to the loo, grab a coffee and head back outside for a while, intending to go back in after 1000. When I went back in just after 1000 the hall was still very full so I joined the queue, finally getting into the show about 1015. Apparently they had sold about 7000 advance e-tickets, which explain why the queue was so long and why it took so long to get people in through the doors.
After a quick stop at one games table to drop off some fliers for the club, I set off to do my shopping, The first stop was Eureka Miniatures to see if they had Shuvalov howitzers for my SYW Russian Observation Corps; they did so I was able to scratch one item off my list for the next stop, Essex Miniatures where I bought some more SYW Russians to complete my Observation Corps. After that it was a quick trip to Warlord Games to get a pack of Judge Dredd figures that I didn't have. And that, dear reader, was the sum total of my show purchases. Here's a photo, with the show freebies (missing the Lt Colonel MacDonnell figure, which I gave to someone from the club who hadn't got one in their bag):
After the shopping, I did a brief tour of some of the trade stands, then went out for another smoke before heading back in to take photos of all the games. I skipped games on trade stands and it turns out that I missed at least one of the games somehow.
Central London Wargames Club - Emperor of the Battlefield Demo
Goblin King Games - Moonstone Fantasy Skirmish
CGT Studios - Bushido
Retired Wargamers Reloaded - Gotterdammerung Berlin 1945
Gravesend Gamers Guild - Gaslands Neon Streets
Corvus Belli - Infinity
Corvus Belli - Warcrow
Loughton Strike Force - Warsaw 44
Great Escape Games - Dead Man's Hand Redux
Oathsworn - Burrows & Badgers
Uhrwerk Verlag - Chronopia
Marquee Models - Star Wars Legion
Mantic Games - Halo Flashpoint
Mantic Games - Kings of War Champions
Crow Industries - Dune
79th Cameron Highlanders - Reenactors
Simon Miller - "Lust for Glory"
Gentlemen's Wargames Parlour - Like Cricket, But With Guns
1/72 Wargames - Dargal Heights 1897
Skirmish Wargames - Shootout at Excel City
BattleTech UK South East - BattleTech
Warlord Games - Bolt Action
Warlord Games - Konflict 47
Warlord Games - Black Seas
Ioan Davies-John - Packing Heat
Parabellum Games - Miniature Fantasy Game
The next table was listed as Oshiro Model Terrain - Sengoku period Japan Skirmish, but clearly wasn't.
Rifleman Harris (Sharpe!)
Ashford Gaming Club - Crypthulk and Tarati's Castle
Deep-Cut Studio - speedpaint marker workshop
Duncan Rhodes/Trans Atlantis Games - Two Thin Coats paint-and-take
Anschluss Publishing - The Defence of Tobruk 1941
Bad Squiddo Games - colouring in
War Fulcrum Games - 1918 Battle of Villers=Bretonneux
Essex Warriors - ?
Weymouth Levellers Wargames Club - AK47
Abingdon Wargames Club - Asteroids
ROK Minis - small scale demo games
Spectre Miniatures - Spectre Operations
Not sure who - Soldiers of Napoleon
(was meant to be A Few Brits and the Hobby - Battlegroup WW2)
Brecon Wargames Club - DAK Attack
Parabellum Miniatures - Struggle for Middle Earth
Warlords - Laseburn (Tribute to Brian Ansell)
Warlords - the mountain
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| Salute The Captain |
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| Battle for Umurgrobol Mountain, Pelelieu 1944 |
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| Typhon Primaris |
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| Escape from Moria |
Reverance Games - Last Living Souls
Society of Ancients - Guagamela 331 BC
Cornwall Wargames Association - Brandy for the Parson
Cornwall Wargames Association - Port Royal
Battleground Bobmack3D & Flank March Miniatures - Battleground HD
Famous By Our Swords - ?
Wars of the Gelderland Succession - Vauban's Wars
Whitehall Warlords - The Ballad of Kinmont Willie
Scimitar Games Group - WAAGH Machines
Veterans Wargames Association - Digital Racing
Titan Owners Club - Titan Walk
King's Wargaming Network
Tangent Miniatures/Twisted Pinnacle 3D Printing - Dystopia City - Rookie Night
Friends of General Haig - Breaking the Stalemate, Iran-Iraq War
Pendraken - Future War Commander
Models for Heroes
Planet Smasher Games
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| Hobgoblin |
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| Pukeapocalypse |
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| Gaslands |
Games Masters of Windsor - ?
'Eaviest Metal = Speedpainting
Crooked Dice - Night Terrors
Magrathea Builder of Worlds - Burrows & Badgers and Judge Dredd
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| Mark Backhouse - Strength & Honour: Battle of Beneventum 275 BC |
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| Chain of Command V2 |
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| Joe Bilton - What a Tanker! |
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| Joe Bilton - What a Tanker! |
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| Dave Brown - General D'Armee 2 |
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| Dave Brown - General D'Armee 2 |
