I've not posted for a week or so after a break in Paris and Salute.
Gloarmy Greg and his wife stayed here over Salute, which was great, and it was also a lot of fun meeting some of my fellow bloggers in the flesh at the show, including (but not limited to) Iron Mitten, Saxon Dog and Andres of Einar Olafson Painting. I chatted with James Morris about his beautiful Ethiopian set up. Also met Nick Speller and gave him some more stuff to paint for me, and Paul Darnell who delivered a pretty piece of terrain which I'll photograph later. Saw local boy George Moraitis. Also met lots of others (apologies if I missed you)! I helped Greg with his very pretty Memoir '14 game, but not nearly as much as I should have (sorry Greg).
Of the games I saw, my overall favourite piece was the Gallipoli terrain, which was simply the finest bit of terrain modelling I've ever seen. Astounding! Saxon Dog/Paul Darnell's game and Ethiopia were very impressive, too.
I didn't spend much money, except on a copy of the Hail Caesar, rules which are presently giving me an unfortunate sense of deja vue, as they rather remind me of Warmaster, which I never took to. Except they includes recipes for cooking milk-fattened nails, which Warmaster certainly didn't. I have a serious hunch I may regret the purchase of the rules... but I suppose I might give the snails a go.
I finally finished basing the Late Romans tonight; photos to follow, tomorrow I hope!
I didn't spend much money, except on a copy of the Hail Caesar, rules which are presently giving me an unfortunate sense of deja vue, as they rather remind me of Warmaster, which I never took to. Except they includes recipes for cooking milk-fattened nails, which Warmaster certainly didn't. I have a serious hunch I may regret the purchase of the rules... but I suppose I might give the snails a go.
I finally finished basing the Late Romans tonight; photos to follow, tomorrow I hope!
4 comments:
Welcome back!!
I bought few things too, there ware so many miniatures and traders that I need to think about at home!! I bought the two Warlords Games ruleset, I get sleep in the train so I couldn't read them.
Regards.
Andrés.
Jolly nice to see you Simon and put a face to a blog
I wish I could go to the salute event :-(
Glad to see you back :-D
Cheers
paul
Welcome back. I had been away as well, hunting some Vikings and lots of gorgeous landscape in Norway.
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