Bring Out Your Lead!

Courtesy of those wonderful folks at Wargames Foundry, for the first time I am travelling along to a weekend of Oldhammer in East Stoke, Newark. 

OLDHAMMER!

FIFTH ANNUAL OLDHAMMER 2017

The fifth Oldhammer: Bring Out Your Lead! event is fast approaching and will be held at our shop in East Stoke near Newark, Nottinghamshire on the 28th, 29th and 30th of July.

"BRING OUT YOUR LEAD is the annual gaming event that brings together the best of the tabletop retrogaming community.

There will be demo games, participation games, a spectacular amount of vintage fantasy and science fiction miniatures on display, old-school gaming paraphernalia, great beer and much more.

The event is open to casual moochers, as well as the hardcore Oldhammer fanatic, so feel free to drop in and see what’s going on.

…And, whilst the event is all about celebrating old games and old figures – any and all games and figures are welcome"

For more info: https://bringoutyourlead.co.uk/

There is even a show mini...a 40K Imperial Guardette....sculpted by the inimitable John Pickford... 

All pics above c/o of the BOYL and used purely for the purpose of pushing people into the joy of old lead.

As most know, I am not a gamer....merely a hoarder of dusty lead. Back in the 70s and very occasionally the early 80s, I played D&D and Warhammer. That was my lot. The Lead God called and I was willing. I am hoping to spend some time with various luminaries such as Tony Yates, Steve Casey, Kev Adams, Tony Ackland, Bryan (and Marcus) Ansell and to finally meet up with the Oldhammerers from across the hobby......

Car parked up in the grounds.....middle of nowhere, what's not to love.....





Various cabinet pics of drool-worthy painted legends....

Bryan and Maria Ansell photobombing my shot :)

40K Inquisition style vehicles, scratch built and not released unfortunately....

Slann on Cold Ones painted by the great Kev Adams....he came along on Saturday to sculpt heads for people at a bargain price of £10 for charity. I'll post pics later. A visitor was chatting away slightly confused, I gently pointed out this was Kev Adams and his jaw hit the ground as he hadn't realised. He will be bringing models on Sunday for Kev to put a head on!

I was speaking all day with Tony Ackland however only took one pic of the artwork he brought along! This firearm was created using an airbrush...

Various pics from the display cabinets. Maria and Marcus have spent days organising these lovingly so we can drool to our hearts' content.....first 3 pics are a bunch of (very) old sculpts mostly by Tony Yates from back in the day for playtesting Rogue Trader rules.....Steve Casey generously presented me with a bunch of old Citadel baggies containing some of these but I thought them better placed with Foundry so passed them over to Marcus and Mariah. 

Miniatures that Marcus has cast up for the show, some re-released old Citadel/Foundry, some unreleased Citadel and some of the maestro Tony Yates' sculpts.

Today's loose loot.

Yay! My own copy of the event mini.

Freebie resin mini courtesy of Curtis Fell, the mad genius behind Ramshackle Games. The character is a mayor in a scenario game at BOYL.

Pics below later :)

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Oldhammer Citadel Combat Card dwarf wizard.....a little commission...

My good pal Kevan over at Stunties asked me to paint this piece up some while back....probably took me the better part of a year to get it back to him of course but it was a fun job on an unreleased mini. Well, a fan sculp of an unreleased mini from what I gather....only a couple of the original have ever been seen, one in Bryan Ansell's collection and one that appeared on eBay a little while ago. I forget what it went for but it was quite a hunk of schmoolie.....

Harrig the Wise....I had to paint it as close to the original as possible, hence the wonky eyes....

The original miniature (both pics c/o Stunties)

Games workshop developed the Combat Card game back in the 80's, each card featuring a painted Citadel miniature. To my knowledge only Harrig was unreleased however I await an update!

The rest of the dwarves are on Stunties' site here.

Lots more information on the whole series is available on the wonderful Realm of Chaos blog here. on Boardgamegeek here and even via a Facebook group here.

Have fun and happy memories!

McEwan miniatures have returned...........

John McEwan has finally given in to popular demand and re-released his old role playing miniatures. These are gems that I picked up via Games Workshop mail order back in the 70s. I couldn't afford many but still have a wonderful dungeon double doorway that was, until recently, available from Alternative Armies. The sculpts are true 25mm so not too compatible with modern minis however you owe it to yourself to pick at least a few up! The images below are off John's site and remain his copyright, only borrowed here to push this old school loveliness!

http://tin-soldier.com/

  

A pic of my AS-26 Gates of the Dungeon; Minifigs and Citadel parts added to the base.

A pic off Lost Minis of the unpainted parts.....courtesy of a good hobby friend Vincent.

I am looking forward to ordering a bunch of his old Acheron Legion minis....shades of Robert E.Howard of course. I do have a few of these, some of which are pictured below...

More pics here on the Lost Minis WIKI.

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