Hinchliffe Models promotional film from circa 1975...

Posted by Airtek on YouTube, this is a fantastic snapshot of an earlier era. I did visit the Hinchliffe shop at some point in the 80's and regret not picking up a TSR John Carter of Mars ruleset that was hidden away under a table. A great chance to see some of the old legends of the hobby including the sculptor Peter Gilder...

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Wargamer's Newsletter - Donald Featherstone

During a search for some pics of old Almark 20mm ranges, I stumbled across this wonderful resource. A complete labor of love from John Haines, a retired civil engineer with a love for the hobby. His main page includes some great holiday pics relevant to history buffs and the hobby.

http://www.fourcats.co.uk/

My complete joy at discovering he has scanned most copies of Wargamer's Newsletter cannot be underestimated and I envisage frequent return trips to his site.

http://fourcats.co.uk/mags/index.html

December 1964 front page

Wargamer's Newsletter was produced from 1962 to 1980 by Donald Featherstone, further info on the great man on a WIKI site here.

On a separate agenda, I've just finished painting the (soon to be released hopefully) Khamaí beast handler and beasties. Could do with a better name for them really... 4 more command figs to paint up and then they can be fielded with the recently released horde...

https://thelittlesoldiercompany.co.uk/the-tenoch

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Derek the Troll and Tony Blair by Lew Stringer

If you read Games workshop's White Dwarf magazine back in the 80's then you'll know of Derek the Troll. Great fun little comic strip that I always enjoyed... I picked up a sculpt some years back (by George Fairlamb) but only for my own enjoyment. As Lew said back in 2013; 

'Hi, just to clarify something: the character Derek the Troll was entirely created by me as a comic strip for Games Workshop, and I've always owned the copyright. I'm fine with you doing a model though (as long as it's not sold obviously) and you've done a great job!'

Back in 2017 Lew was doing some signings and a friend (thanks Geoff!) wangled me an illustration for the blog which I mislaid until just now!

He recently compiled all the old White Dwarf cartoon strips...

Grab a copy here; http://www.lewstringer.com/

Also, Lew's blog here; http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com/

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Afternoon's plans have changed...

Postman just dropped off a bundle of reading material via a friend in the States... going to be a busy afternoon...

More later!

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New Tenoch now available - Kev Adams' Oldhammer goodness...

Apologies for pimping my goods again but I really need to get these out there... they've sat on my painting table for far too long however, the first batch are now production moulded and up on the website...

https://thelittlesoldiercompany.co.uk/oldhammer-miniatures-by-kev-adams

Inspired by the likes of the old Dragontooth Saurians and Citadel Slann, the Tenoch have a large amount of sculpts to follow... both Pete Brown at The Mouldmaker, Chris Nicholls at Macrocosm and Chris Taylor at Lancaster Casting have done me proud.

  

Hopefully these will be met with enthusiasm and allow me to get the rest into production!

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Chameleon Khamaí finally released!

Sculpted by the reknowned John Robertson, these come as a blistered set of 10. More are to follow soon as is a large expansion of the ranks of the Kev Adams sculpted Tenoch... watch this space! Miniatures are painted by Andy Hides.

https://thelittlesoldiercompany.co.uk/oldhammer-miniatures-by-kev-adams/the-khamai

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Oldhammer at last! Marauder Miniatures 1989 Catalogue...

I was searching the attic for some minis and found a box full of papers including this catalogue. Sculpting legends Trish and Aly Morrison left the fold of Games Workshop in 1988. There is a little more info on Stuff of Legends. GW mail order sent out flyers and such like so I'm not sure how the arrangement was administered. Around 1993 they went back under the GW umbrella and the sculpts were integrated into GW lines. I totally adore the Chaos Dwarves which were all based on Citadel Knights of Chaos - there's a site showing the comparisons here (thanks Mike and Jason). It's amazing the things you find when looking through old boxes.

Hope you're all keeping as safe as possible during this weird time we live in.

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