Editorial News/Events Column Feature Profile Scenario Painting Modelling Reviews Advertising Send three and fourpence We are honoured to bit in common with the Old School Wargaming • sho3box.wordpress.com have Chapter Master movement that was all the rage some years ago. As I get older, I have realised that I hate talented Conradicus von All Oldhammerers are drawn to the older people. Cheetor (by name, though not I hope by report on the styles of Citadel figures, particularly the sculpts of nature) regularly turns out absolutely beautiful Kinchslayer Jes Godwin, Bob Olley and the early Perrys. This figures and game boards, using a wide variety joys of Oldhammer revival. actually appears to be the main qualification for of figures from different manufacturers and not Oldhammerers, a deep and abiding affection for just old Citadel lead. It should also be noted

the sculpting style in vogue in the 1980s. that while Cheetor uses the background from Regular column: fourpence Send and three am mainly grateful to Rick Priestley at dinner Secondly, Oldhammerers seem to prefer a Rogue Trader 40,000, most of his games seem parties. This may seem like an odd thing to say, looser sort of game, more a kind of roleplaying to use Pulp Alley rules, proving that one does but I always feel a pang of gratitude towards with miniatures than the average wargamer. The not necessarily have to be Oldhammer to play him when the subject of hobbies comes old scenario packs like McDeath Oldhammer. Iup. “So what do you do for fun?” comes the or The Magnificent Sven are fondly remembered • olleysarmies.co.uk question. Mrs. Kinch’s eyes are usually rolling and enthusiastically imitated. A GM or Umpire Bob Olley is a firm favourite amongst Oldhammer skywards at this stage. I usually answer, “I play is virtually a requirement for an Oldhammer aficionados and still sculpting away. games with toy soldiers”. “Like Warhammer game, not only to adjudicate what can often be • tabletopheroesandvillains.blogspot.ie 40K?” “Exactly like that.” somewhat woolly rules, but also to come up with Just John is a man who divides his time between And that’s usually an end of it, which is the scenario and adapt it to the often eclectic evangelising for Oldhammer at games conventions reason alone for sending a silent prayer of thanks armies fielded by Oldhammerers. (Amazons and building beautiful terrain, sometimes with heavenwards for the continued good health and versus Pygmies? versus Halfling Circus internal lighting. Lovely stuff. welfare of one Master Richard Alphonsus Escobar clowns? Not a problem.) • wargamesfoundry.com Cordwainer Hummingbird Priestley – may he And those things, so far as I can tell, are The lads at Foundry have been firm supporters prosper for evermore. about the only characteristics the Oldhammer of the Oldhammer movement since it began, Like it or not, Warhammer has permeated lads have in common. Most of them have settled not only hosting “Bring out your Lead” (the the public consciousness in a way that no other on Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd Edition and Oldhammer get-together) at their premises, but has before or since. Folk see the high Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader as their rules of also re-releasing some old Citadel sculpts for street shops, the ruined-cathedral-on-a-golf- choice, but even that isn’t a given. What they do those whose wallets cannot quite stand the course-terrain and the very beautiful figures and share is a boundless enthusiasm for the hobby, pressures of eBay. they have some notion of what wargaming is old miniatures and a refreshingly free-wheeling • realmofzhu.blogspot.ie about and for that I am very grateful. But there and anarchic approach to things. I have never More fantasy focused than most of the other is a constituency that like Warhammer, but don’t encountered a more diverse group of wargamers. blogs on this list. Mr. Zhu spends his time care for the direction for it has taken in the last But don’t take my word for it, see what they writing about British industrial relations of the twenty years. These are a strange secretive body have to say for themselves. This is a collection, early 1980s as depicted in Warhammer Fantasy of men, identifiable only by their magnificent eclectic and almost certainly unrepresentative, of Battle scenario packs as well as the 2nd edition beards, collections of early eighties metal T-shirts the Oldhammer blogs that I’ve found intriguing Amazon army list, feminism and Diana Rigg. and their carefully curated collections of old over the last few months. Normally that sort of stuff I would run a mile Citadel figures. from - it is a credit to Mr. Zhu that he manages They are the Oldhammer-ers. • forum.oldhammer.org.uk to make this material interesting. Recommended. Oldhammer is an interesting subset of This is the one stop shop for all things • oldschoolworkshop.blogspot.ie Warhammer wargamers and one that appears to Oldhammer. A lively and active community. There Written by Suber the Spaniard. What always be growing. For the most part, they are chaps is apparently a Facebook page for those as hold bowls me over about this blog is the fizzing who took an interest in the hobby in the ’eighties with that sort of thing, but this is generally the enthusiasm for the hobby that boils out of every and then either lost interest because of work best place to go for your fix of old lead. entry. Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, Heroquest, and family or were put off by the increased • leadplague.blogspot.ie sculpting, painting – the author’s joie de vivre codification of Warhammer Fantasy Battle and A painting blog written by the ever inventive sort of carries you along, just the thing to get Rogue Trader that took place in the early to Jean Baptiste. Definitely check out his beautifully one through basing another 20 Napoleonic mid 1990s. The result has been a lively and sculpted Chicken Knight. A man who manages skirmishers. increasingly interesting wargaming subculture, to combine Highlander and Warhammer 40K is And if, after reading this little lot - you don’t that describes itself as “The Oldhammer alright in my book. find yourself thinking idle thoughts of what Movement.” • talesfromthemaelstrom.blogspot.com might be done with those few ‘beaky’ Space What exactly Oldhammer is has been a matter A blog featuring a lot of beautifully painted Marines that have been lurking at the back of of some debate, ironically leading to several figures and managed by a conglomerate of 40K the lead pile untouched these many long years, attempts to classify what exactly is and is not gamers whose interests include the latest plastic you’re made of sterner stuff than I am. Oldhammer. There are some broad rules of thumb. kits to getting that ‘just right’ paint job on some Conrad’s blog is at These, curiously enough, seem to have quite a old Citadel lead. http://joyandforgetfulness.blogspot.ie

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