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Not a massive haul but I do tend to be strict with myself.

Of course the beauty of it was that, due to taking out the Wargames Illustrated sub, the Hail Caesar book, Romans and Centurion figure only cost me a fiver.




Being amongst the first to make it to the Perry's allowed me to have a chat with my heroes as well as picking up the new Afghanistan/ Sudan British infantry. I now have terriers that may be drafted into my 40K Praetorian IG army every now and then.

Some more blog reports with lots of shiny pictures...

http://gamingfromthecupboard.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016.html

http://www.blmablog.com/2016/04/salute-2016-photo-review.html

http://doctorphalanx.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-somewhat-jaundiced.html

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/2016-salute-pictures.html

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
[The Prodos stand in particular had a gigantic queue that was extremely slow moving.

Was that a giant queue of angry AVP backers finally getting their stuff

 JoeRugby wrote:

Was that a giant queue of angry AVP backers finally getting their stuff

They didn't seem angry.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 JoeRugby wrote:

Was that a giant queue of angry AVP backers finally getting their stuff

They didn't seem angry.

They were probably entranced by the rhythmic vibrating of a couple of the Alien models in their revolving display cabinet.

Ok I will be updating slowly with more pics but the 1st post is on.

http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-report-1-of-10.html




Bad Squiddo, SHQ, Milicast.

Ahh, Navarro - looking forward to your blog updates


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Ohhh, and the rock giant looked awesome in the flesh stone

I got::

Garden of Morr - This was a good find, they are hard to get hold of.
Renedra Gravestones - To go with the Garden of Morr.
Reaper Bones - Assorted resin miniatures. Nothing major just the bargain bucket ones, I went for monsters mostly included a nice Chimera and a few otgher D&D miniatures I will find very handy.
AVP Sentry Guns - These were popular, I missed out on getting some Predator hounds.
AVP Facehuggers - Both of these will be a gift for our groups AVP owner.



Not a lot really, but then I mainly go to connect to certain faces once a year. I tried to get a copy of Frostgrave, but it sold out show-wide, good indicator of the games ballooning popularity.

alphaecho wrote:

They were probably entranced by the rhythmic vibrating of a couple of the Alien models in their revolving display cabinet.

There was only 1 rocking alien when I was there but he was really going for it

It was surprisingly hard to get Poly cement, and painting stuff in general.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 JoeRugby wrote:

Was that a giant queue of angry AVP backers finally getting their stuff

They didn't seem angry.

Very angry, but most reserved it for Jarek rather than have a go at his employees. The irony was having to queue in their sales queue to get your Kickstarter stuff validated was costing them money. Lots of people put down purchases and walked away because of the wait.


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 Silent Puffin? wrote:

alphaecho wrote:

They were probably entranced by the rhythmic vibrating of a couple of the Alien models in their revolving display cabinet.

There was only 1 rocking alien when I was there but he was really going for it

It was surprisingly hard to get Poly cement, and painting stuff in general.

Really? I saw pretty much every paint brand plus some really obscure ones present and all types of glue all over the place. Definitely no shortage of hobby supplies.

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:

Really? I saw pretty much every paint brand plus some really obscure ones present and all types of glue all over the place.

It took me ages to find poly cement.

 Ruglud wrote:
Ahh, Navarro - looking forward to your blog updates


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Ohhh, and the rock giant looked awesome in the flesh stone

Cheers for that. The Giant was selling very well too! I have some news regarding it but I will leave it for later.

Now I have updated with 20 more pictures, this time its all about commission painters.

http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-report-2-of-10.html


Siege Studios surprised me a lot! Holy mother they had great stuff. Giraldez on the other hand had a nice... mug

I hope no-one minds me cherry-picking some stuff from the blogs, some really interesting bits.

Some new Mike McVey sculpts, no idea what the game is but they looks awesome


'Formula Minion', lol


Mental

The studio McVey stuff is the Apocalypse expansion for the CMON 'The Others: 7 Sins' boardgame (as yet undelivered KS), presumably resin masters

Re. Mr. Giraldez. Overheard someone asking him how he rectifies mistakes made with an airbrush? Answer: Don't know, never experienced that... (with a sly smile...)

So, did anyone put in an order for the epic Galaxy tower on the TTCOMBAT stand? If I had somewhere to store it I would have put down the £150 asking price there and then!

Did anyone get a look at the new Gripping Beast game Swordpoint?

Wow there was a Battlestar galactica battle going on? awesome!

..did anyone play the classic era Star Trek game ?

The scenery was quite impressive.


http://www.polyhedroncollider.com/2016/04/dark-souls-board-game-preview.html

has some info about the dark Souls game.


http://wargamesillustrated.net/salute-2016-after-show-point-and-shoot-photo-report/

lots of pics...

Did anyone play any games? It sounds like most people went there just to buy things. I guess I can see the appeal of being able to see things in person before you buy, rather than purchasing over the internet when you can't find things at a local store.

Yes you certainly can play games, some of the tables are more display orientated but you do get a certain amount of club presence, and the likes of Hawk giving demos of DZC and the like.

The appeal is also in some of the truly mental display pieces that you will only ever get at shows of that size, some of which must surely take years to prepare (take a look at some of the photos in the links reds8n put in the post above yours for instance)

As I type Update 4 I leave you guys a link to the 3rd one.

http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2106-report-3-of-10.html

Will post the next one tonight.

Thanks for that,

those trees do look pretty special

Yeah the trees look even better IRL I was tempted to grab some painted minis and put them next to the trees just to take cool pictures

Update 4 is live now. http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-report-4-of-10.html

Cheers

Wonderful reports, I totally missed the company selling the ultra-realistic trees - certainly gives Last Valley some competition finally (and I love Last Valley - have a forest full of his trees )

Some more pictures... I don't read Dutch, but the pictures tell the story...

Products.
http://murphysheroes.nl/?p=6314

Demo Games.
http://murphysheroes.nl/?p=6380

Participation Games.
http://murphysheroes.nl/?p=6428

The 5th update is online now.

http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-report-5-of-10.html

Guess who?

 NAVARRO wrote:
Guess who?

Yeah, but who is who?
I forgot to stop and chat, so missed out finding out.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Ok I will be updating slowly with more pics but the 1st post is on.

http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-report-1-of-10.html




Bad Squiddo, SHQ, Milicast.

Hahahaha brilliant! Front and centre are two of my friends, say hello to Jack and Dave of the Phoenix club Rushden.

 Pete Melvin wrote:

Spoiler:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Ok I will be updating slowly with more pics but the 1st post is on.

http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/salute-2016-report-1-of-10.html




Bad Squiddo, SHQ, Milicast.

Hahahaha brilliant! Front and centre are two of my friends, say hello to Jack and Dave of the Phoenix club Rushden.

Got to admit, I spend as much time looking at the crowd as the models when going through al the pictures, just in case I spot myself or friends

Last year we were photographed in the main queue waiting to go in and also at the Warlords stand... This year, alas, no sightings yet :(

 Skinnereal wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Guess who?

Yeah, but who is who?
I forgot to stop and chat, so missed out finding out.

That is me (darrkespur) on the left, then Jon (yakface), JP (JP1138) and the boss himself, Jim (legoburner) moving things on top of the cabinets. Steve (StephenGaskell) was also there. Thanks for everyone that visited the stand, we had a lot of fun chatting to people about MEdge!