What is Salute?

Salute is a huge event where individuals, companies and even other gaming clubs can put on displays of hobby greatness, demonstration and participation games, sell amazing hobby products and exhibit new releases.

Salute hosts its world renowned painting competition, judged by some of the hobby’s most prolific painters. The displays at Salute are truly works of art, with their makers sometimes spending years making them, they have to be seen to be believed.

We also run our celebrity panels show, ‘Hobby Heroes’ where you can meet meet the authors of your favourite games and get top tips from famous painters, hobbyists, historians and wargamers.

Lots of people come dressed in cosplay, play games near and dear to them and try out new games that they might never have had the chance to play.

There are speed painting and model building activities and workshops, learn-to-plays and many new games to try out.

The History of Salute.

The first Salute was held in 1972 at the Surrey Tavern at the Oval Cricket ground, and it was such a success that every year afterwards a new and bigger venue was needed!

Today, Salute is Europe’s largest independent wargaming event, held in the enormous Excel Centre in London. Thousands of guests, hundreds of games, traders and clubs turn up from all over the world to take part in something huge which is still run by the same, small, non-profit club that started it over 50 years ago.