Oh wow, another Salute article from Hasvik! Look, I just had such a gosh darn good time I physically cannot stop my mouth from making sounds about it. This time, I just wanted to give praise to some outstanding gaming boards and dioramas beheld in the halls of Salute 2025. These incredible feats of craftsmanship hewn from foam, MDF, flock and paint are sure to intimidate and inspire in equal measure. In no particular order have a gander at these companies and gaming clubs flexing their hobby muscles:
Yorkshire Renegades Starting off strong, check out this incredible board for blasting some bugs. These lads were definitely doing their part! Bonus points as two of the players were in full cosplay while gaming. Sadly not as the bugs though.
Gravesend Gaming Guild
Now these guys knew how to have fun with this Gaslands board. Maximum colour, maximum speed, maximum carnage. Check out this amazing board dripping in synthwave carnage but don’t stare too long or you’ll burn your retinas.
Footsore Miniatures & Games
While not as unique a setting as many other entries here, I want to give a heartfelt shout out to this little Warhost board because I love to see a realistic environment still popping with colour and grab the eye… and I’m an autumn kid. What a pleasant little place to smash someone’s face in, I guess.
Hornchurch Wargames Club
Yep, that is an actual floating zeppelin assaulting a castle. I’ll let this one speak to itself.
Titan Owners Group
Ever seen a wargame so big it takes up a space larger than the downstairs floor of your house and costs about twice as much as your mortgage deposit? Now you have. Poor guys were probably only 2 turns in by the end of the event.
Ashford Gaming Club
So not only is this a gorgeous feudal Japan board, but look closely and you’ll see they are playing on it with Skaven. If those scheming little lads are not clan Eshin then that’s an opportunity missed.
Ashford Gaming club, again….
So mad respect to this chap who 3D sculpted, printed, hand painted and magnetized this modular dungeon. Chap said he’d put over 2000 magnets in to it. I can only assume he stores it on his fridge. Great work!
Modiphius
Always good to see manufacturers representing their own games with some high quality boards. Get a load of this Nuka-World board for Fallout Wasteland Warfare. But they built up a thirst building this one. Sorry not sorry.
TTCombat
On to one of the heavyweights of quirky settings check out this wrassling ring for TTCombat’s Rumbleslam wrestling game. The perfect environment to fill with their increasingly bizarre wrestling miniatures!
Broden and Wyre Forest Wargamers Back to historics again for a look at some adorably tiny miniatures. Special attention needs to go to this stunning slice of starfort not to mention the perpetually expanding cotton wool smoke as the day went on
Para Bellum
I thought something had gone wrong my kitchen counter at a glance but upon closer inspection this incredibly cool display board was in fact an old marble quarry. Gold star to the hobbyist who incorporated the miniatures i nto the display by having one about to yeet a block of the same marble.
Essex Warriors
Yep, that’s a tabletop representation of Mario Kart. You have no excuse not to wargame now.
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Board never boring
Well I hope you enjoyed that little eye opening for some of my personal displays, terrain and built in boards from this year’s Salute 25. So what’s your excuse? Time to get hacking at foam, sprinkling on sand and flock, and anxiously pouring out resin to get your board ready for next year. Godspeed my little craft gremlins.
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Hasvik is as Hasvik does. Hasvik enjoys wargaming, TTRPGS, and board games, as well as Jaffa Cakes, frogs, and rolling my dice on the floor to intimidate my opponent. Hasvik has no socials and cannot be followed for he travels only the hidden paths.
