Salute 2026 and Hobby Updates

So I attended Salute this weekend with some friends instead of going on my own this year and had a fantastic time. Needless to say the spending was controlled but deadly. I've had a huge Ebay clear out of old projects that have been lying round un-gamed for years, and unpainted piles of shame, so I put a lot of that money towards reinvigorating my hobby focus.

As from my recent post my current focus is Silver Bayonet, and this year the goal was to play more games and not worry about painting less than 2025. After all less is more, certainly the games this year already have been fantastic. Lets hope it continues in this manner.

With that said some pictures from Salute.

Some really cool tables this year, but honestly I spent longer at the merch stands than anything else. There was just so much good stuff this year. Managed to grab some awesome terrain pieces for Silver Bayonet/generic Fantasy stuff that honestly I don't know how they make any money, as they were super well priced. Luckily got in the stand early as their stock disappeared quickly for good reason.

So this is what I came away with...

Mainly lots of Silver Bayonet, with plans as mentioned before for a start to a French Warband, and the generic monsters I will be needing for the next missions. Me and my friend also tried a Fallout tabletop game I knew a little about and was impressed with the mechanics and scope of the campaign system, so something for the future. All four of us couldn't resist Burrows and Badgers also. I had been wanting to try this for a while mainly due to the gorgeous miniatures. Lets just say you'll probably see some of this soon on the blog once we have digested the rules and got some warbands painted. The stand was constantly busy this year and last for good reason!

Naughtily I also grabbed some Bicorne ECW for later plans in the year to paint up a small Pikemens Lament project for both sides of Montrose Royalists and Covenanters. The Auldearn campaign is an incredibly fascinating part of the wars as a whole. This will be the next main historical project alongside a lot of the skirmish games I am tackling. The Nick Collier Bicorne and Bloody Miniatures sculpts are just gorgeous.

I also did some slight rebasing with new tufts and adding some static grass to tie the terrain pieces in with my existing Silver Bayonet collection, the result:

Perfect for the gothic horror element of Silver Bayonet, we certainly have our Ruined Chapel for Scenario 2 which I am expecting to play in a couple of weeks.

More updates to come soon, as I'll be back at the painting desk this week.