Paint Table Saturday #24

Having skipped a few weeks of this, it's about time I re-entered the fray. So, it's

With the FSE ships cleared from my paint table, I've had to decide what to work on next and what to get prepped. I really do need to finish those pirates buccaneers, so I reckon I'll get those back onto the paint table tomorrow. I'm off work until Wednesday so there is a reasonable chance of me finishing them, or at least getting close.

I've also got to paint up a figure for Fran as his prize for being the top-scoring Reject in the Challenge. If you recall my Salute Loot post from last Saturday, I thought that one of the figures in the Blue Moon "Named Gangster" pack would be perfect to represent the big fella. Last night I prepped the figures, washed them and left them to dry overnight. Today I've stuck them onto some washers (as holders for painting them) and primed them in black.

While I was doing the prep I had a silly thought about painting up some of the others as Christmas pressies for family. When they are done, expect to see a silly post outlining the criminal history of the Piper-Malkin Gang. Hmmm, I think that means I'll need to find a suitable car and scenery for the photographs. Oh, hang on a second - that probably means buying stuff. Yippee!

I'll also have a few figures left over to use for my next giveaway. Come to think of it, I was meant to do a giveaway a little while back. Yikes!

Salute - The Pics Wot I Took of the Games

I didn't get around to posting these yesterday. There was a very good reason for that though. The third module of my health and safety course was to conduct a safety inspection and then write up a "report to management". The deadline for this being received is next Tuesday, so today was the last point at which I could post it. That meant I had to get it all finished, printed and signed last night. I'd actually had plenty of time to do it at work, but was never able to get into it and my brain just kept drawing a blank whenever I tried. I think it must have been that I needed the rapidly approaching deadline to concentrate my mind to get it done.

Anyway, I'm pleased to say that it is all done, dusted and posted off. Now I just have to wait a couple of months for the results.


But that's enough blather for now. On with the pics I took of games at Salute. I didn't make notes of all the games I took photos of, so I might not be able to identify them all.

WSS and Simon Miller present "C-Day - Caesar's Invasion of Britain"

A lovely game by John (with Dave - or was it the other way round?) in 54mm

Victorian Sci-Fi/Steampunk game set on Mars:

The Lance and Longbow Society were demonstrating some jousting rules.

Scrivs and co had this superb Battle of Keren - what lovely terrain!

Terrain by Oshiro - can't remember who was running this Samurai game

Normandy glider landings at the Orne:

Not a game, but I couldn't resist taking a pic of this superb Norse settlement in winter by 4Ground

Not sure what this game was....Great War?

Kursk 1943 - lovely terrain

Another game from the Warlords - Pelennor Fields in 1/16 scale

Passing Le Port

A Bolt Action game of Brecourt Manor

I think this was a Great War game. I seem to recall seeing it at a couple of shows last year.

As always, Wargames Illustrated had superb terrain for their game

I didn't take as many photos of games this year as there didn't seem to be as many that really grabbed my attention. I obviously missed a lot of games as well, having seen them on other folks' blogs.

FSE Fleet Upgrade

Errmm, yes, well. It has been a few days since I posted and I still haven't posted my pics of Salute games. I'll try to do that tomorrow.

The last few days have seen me paint up the extra ships for my FSE fleet. So here they are in all their glory.


All the extra ships together:

Cygne class scout ships:

Daphne class corvettes:

Colbert class escort cruisers:

Tourville class heavy cruiser:

Da Silva class battleship:

Littorio class battle dreadnought:

Charlemagne class super dreadnought:

The full mega-fleet snuggly stored in a foam tray (with space for more ships)