Wednesday 24 April 2013

Salute Shopping

As mentioned in the previous post I came away from Salute with three large bags of wargaming goodness. I am very chuffed with my purchases and wanted to share these with you...

Top purchase - the farm set from EM4 - for a reduced proce of £65 you get four buildings - beautifully painted. The roofs come off the doors open what more can I say...very very very happy !






Every town needs a graveyard and Ainsty Castings produce a ready made version - all this for £40. The resin casts are brilliant. Can't wait to paint this.


As promised I picked up the two other boats from Ainsty - the merchantmen and sloop. These are somewhat smaller than the big man o war but they look great !


Finally got my Saga dice - on a deal



I wanted a styatue in the town and some time ago I setlled on as bronze stag - this could be used across periods and genres with no problem. I found this fabulous version on the Foundry stand. Its antlers need cleaning up but it is a beauty.


I finally managed to pick up the bases for my irregular troops & Indiansd for the French Indian Wars. These came from Warbases and worked out at just over £1 per base.


Whilst on the Warbase stand I noticved thay were selling doors, windows etc...check these guys out not only does the product look great its also great value - £1 for three doors, 12 windows etc



With Vikings on the agenda in the not too distant future I thougt I had better buy some Monks - these were found on the Redoubt stand.



And finally I came across this company AW Minatures selling a new range of infantry for the French Infantry War. I'd never heard or seen them before but the castings looked pretty good and for £20 I bought 20 British Infantry. If they paint up well I shall be going back.

From a scale perspective they are very similar in size to Redoubt. 

6 comments:

  1. Like the Graveyard... It'd be ideal for Victorian steampunk games (my latest thing) but lots of other settings too.

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  2. Hi great blog, I'm always dipping in and out on it to get ideas and just drool.... but I'm sorry your resin buildings in the Pirate layout look far superior to the laser cut shown here. Resin win (for the win) every time. Sorry, I know you're quite chuffed with your purchase but thanks to you, you have reinforced my belief to stick to resin or goood old build-it-your-self with balsa and card (even if I have to cut out every roof slate!).

    Great blog and very inspiring! Keep it up :)

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  3. Oops how do I edit my comment? It should have read...but I'm sorry your resin buildings in the Pirate layout look far superior to the laser cut buildings. Resin win (for the win) every time. I know you're quite chuffed with your purchase and thanks to you, you have reinforced my belief to stick to resin or goood old build-it-your-self with balsa and card (even if I have to cut out every roof slate!).

    Great blog and very inspiring! Keep it up :)

    p.s dear editor please remove initial comment ;)

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    1. Hi Dax Ex....aka..Marcus Maximus (must be longest blogger tiotle I have seen)

      Thanks ever so much for your great comments. The resin Conflix buildings were bouight in a whim and I am so please that I did. The EM4 farm is a steal and I thionk another will be picked up at the next show :-)

      I have alsp prebuil;t buildings before - so have also cut out slates ..yawn etc

      Best wishes

      Eric

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  4. Wow that's an impressive haul...
    I have the Ainsty sloop too - how did you do the furled sails please? I didn't see reference to that in the posts.
    Great work overall, inspiring stuff.

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    1. Hi Mervyn

      Furled sails came from a kids pirate toy...been looking ever since to get some more...

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