Salute Wargames Show 2017 

So many tables there that I didn't see. Those Drowned Earth tables looked amazing. They should have won an award. Wish your D-Day board could have been there.

I really appreciate that you also give credits to other builders Mel! Great respect. I absolutely love that X-wing glass table with the multiple layers! That storage box made me love but it is quite clever because you can put all the stuff back inside the box.

The Rogue One table is genius. Also the rounded corner building, it's lovely.

I thought the video finished after 15 minutes but to my surprise I had been watching 45 minutes. Awesome video Mel! Thank you.

This is the best coverage of Salute. Firstly you cover all the awesome tables, and secondly you edit it with great still shots, instead of the wobbly camera between tables. Top notch work mate.

Fenris Descending at 6.48 was my game, what didn't get mentioned was that all 114 robots were scratch built along with 95% of what was on the table. The rocks in particular are made from a foam yoga block :)

Thanks for the kind words about my Gaslands board! I watched a bunch of your videos whilst working on it, in particular following your "Texturing gaming boards with filler (spackle)" guide for making the dried up river bed. Sorry I wasn't at the table when you stopped by so I could say thanks! Cheers!

much love mel! this type of coverage of the hobby is what we need more of, truly exciting stuff, your enthusiasm in particular is part of what has got me back in to the hobby over the past 2 years

Overjoyed to see you shot our humble "Papers Please" games (34:30) - wish I'd seen you. Btw the roads and buildings are all Slug Industries, the flock is a home mix not 4ground and the trees are Debris of War.

Glad you liked my x-wing table! :)

Great idea to include these HQ pics of the tables - nicely done again :) You know exactly what terrainiacs like :)

Thanks Mel for the report. Sad that I couldn't go there this year, I wish so much to see you at Salute ^^ See you next year!

Mel THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! You do SUCH A GREAT JOB at showing us the best of the BEST tables Buddy!!!!! You have INSPIRED so many people!!!!! A lot of what you see there I BET you helped them on via your channel!!! Again GREAT JOB!!!!!!!:)

Its amazing to see how much effort people put into this tabletops.

I travelled from Australia to be there. I wish I had the chance to say hello.

Man alive! Some beautiful displays and terrain there Mel. I got into this hobby a few years back now to do the whole terrain and mini thing but I have become bogged down in army painting and got a little too enthusiastic tbh. I can only dream of the day my armies are finished and I can get into terrain building like I wanted to originally. All my stuffs premade buildings and even a cityscape board and although its nice there is just something special about scratch built tables. I even have 90% of the materials sitting waiting on me getting started! At this rate I'll be 110 yo before I get going !! Thanks Mel :)

Great Set Ups, Tons of Cool Ideas! Pure Magic Madness! Thanks for Posting. BB

Viv was there, cool! Wonderful to to see aussies visting the first realm, nice too see an ausstraillian aborigonal game too.

Thanks for taking the time to show us all! Well done!

Thanks for sharing it with us!! I hope to go someday... YEV!

FINALLY!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SALUTE VIDEO... MANY THANKS FOR YOU

Very good video! Thank you for your work! Greetings from Germany!

That Jurassic Park table was insane. Beautiful work.

Mel, i just wanted to say thankyou for your videos. Ive only just found your channel and, my god, WOW. I love the knowledge in your tutorials and the atmosphere you use to present your vids. Please keep producing content!

Incredible video! Thanks for your reportage!

I'm going this year for the first time ever, really looking forward to it!

Bexley Reapers always do a good table and jolly nice blokes too.

Nice to see the boards in the vid so some good help with ideas, them barriers on the second infinity board are from AT43 loved them and wanna find some more.

You rock Mel, thank you! (at last I can see the whole show :) )

thank you mel really appreciate what u done

That hessian table at 23:00 is an amazing idea!!!!!

Always liking your vid's keep on going and make us dream of all plays and table :)

Thank you .

Infinity tables look great. You can do a whole blade runner theme with that game.

Nice video tour. "It works really well!!"

Great selfie with Duncan! If you two produced a model/terrain combo I'm not sure the universe could handle the awesome ;-)

great to meet you again mel,good to see i made the selfie hall of fame

I appreciate the table walk through.. Thank you/

Beautiful

Im a model railroader.. i watch your channel cuz lots of info/technics transfer over. Also always appreciate you personality. Thx for showing this , not my cup of tea..lolol but still pretty damn cool modeling.

I love how complimentary Mel is to everyone. I love how the English are more easy going then some of their colonists. (

Great video, really captured the show, unfortunately could not make it this year so was great to see what terrain was on show.. spot on mate. Those nice hex boards you liked were mine :) didn't even know they would be there, big surprise seeing them in the video. Great stuff

I particularly love jungle and overgrown terrain, I wish I could make them

The table at 20:59+ is based on the XCom computer game, and looks very good at that :-)

love love love the boards at 10:30

Wow awesome stuff! Get you meeting Duncan :D

Amazing tables 10/10 ...salut TheTerrainTutor for a great vid...

Thanks Man

Great video tour

Nicely done.

fantasic video !

Hudson & Allen make some nice castles.

thx for sharing..

Thank you

È um conhecimento muito além da imaginação.

I often wonder how people who fought in these major wars like the Civil War and WW1 and WW2 would feel like if they knew people today played games based on these major events. I served in the U.S. Army for many years and I was deployed to Iraq 3 times. All 3 times I hated being there and just couldn't wait to get back home. Being there I just tried to focus on doing my job right and making sure my operators rode in as safe as possible vehicles when they rolled outside the wire. And If I had to go outside the wire it was usually to recover these guys after something happened. I always dreaded those calls because I never knew before I got there how bad the situation would be. Most of the times they were bad but not terrible. Terrible did happen sadly but its something you burry inside and just try to focus on the current job before you. But now that's all behind me and I have had time to think about what happened there and I guess maybe mellow out some. If you had asked me back when things were still fresh in my memory and I was still filled with all of the emotions I was back then I don't think my answer would be as forgiving if I was told people played games based on events I was a part of. Back then I had the sadness of losing too many friends and other things still fresh in my mind. But I am older and while I will always have that part of me with me till the day I die. I think my answer now is that its only natural for people to find ways to remember past wars and conflicts. And I think table top war gaming is a respectful way of doing things. I used to play BattleTech and a couple other table top games before I joined the Army. But when you start talking about games that deal with actual battles and wars then you are dealing with material where actual people fought and died. I think being in war has removed allot of the little boy romanticism I had with all things WW2. Once I saw what it really was like and felt the loss of friends. I learned its not just pictures in a book. Or black and white new reels. There is a level of suffering and pain that is attached to those events. And you haft to be respectful of those people and their sacrifices they made. I am currently getting back into gaming and I have no doubt I will deal with terrain making at some point. But no matter what my own personal experiences will shape how I see things going forward. And maybe alter choices I might have made if I hadn't seen first hand some of the things I have seen versus if I had never gone to war. Anyways thanks for the vids man. I enjoy them and your terrain works and advice on making them.

Very nice show and well presented. The photographs are amazingly well lighted compared to the video-parts. What camera and/or settings did you use for the photographs?

Awesome stuff... :O

Some tables have way to much on them, each unto their own. I believe in the "Less Is More" adage, although the ideas are fantastic. :)

I belive the one that you may have thought was war of the roses was playing a tabletop. Eraion of xcom 2

The 19:30 laser-cut buildings are TTCombat, I think.

Yes, very nice..

Ahhh so many wargames are already mades, but my favorite game is already probably totaly death. Rest In Peace Warzone Mutant Chronicels. I know, here is the Warzone Resurection, but that suckers made models one inch higher, so we (players of old Warzone) can´t combine models from Resurection with old models from clasic Warzone :( . Was been some Warzone games on Wargames Show 2017?

The table @14:35 reminds me of some Turkish guys back hair... just green...

The medieval Wall with big towers at The gate, was that new sarissa precision stuff?

I wish your video quality was the same as the quality of your photos.

Did i miss you go to your Turf War Z table in this video?

Any idea what the game system on the Oshiro table is called. The models look sweet.

Hey Mel, how many feet tall and how many inches deep would I need to plan for an Arch De Triumph approximation for 40K scale would you say? I have only ever seen pics from a distance but love the idea for a Shrineworld board.

HI Mel, I heard you mention wire war trees a few times but what are wire war trees I can't find them anywhere online? Are they a manufacturer? love the channel, best wishes, J

shame you didnt catch anvil industries table, they really bring it.

6:50... What game is it??? Fenris descending? I can´t find anything about this

Need to know how to make those trees at 39:00

Wait Wait Wait, is that a Jurassic park miniatures game?

Who are the guys at 9:06? Seems to be called Warsong, but can't find anything by that name.

I thought the white hair at about 4:35 was a cloud :')

Mel - Ever consider coming to the States for Historicon?

What does he say after you ask him if it is a warlord fort?

LETS CRACK ON!

can anyone tell me what the vietnam game at 8:40 is?

Hey Mel, what was the warehouse terrain called at 9:00?

what is the game at 11:10 called?

@ 31:00 who makes the castle?

wery nise

A-ma-zing, did I miss any Lord of the Rings battle wargames?

20:30 maaa boiiii

why are there no age of sigmar tables😭😭

Nice tables but yall got nothing on us train guys

21:20 X-COM

I was there, won't go again! A really good show ruined by the worst lighting I have ever encountered. This shows in the comparison between the video and the still pictures

Minute 42:00 sooo org... Bin neidisch...

Grown men playing with toys ...