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First Post: the Golden Age of Citadel Miniatures
Welcome to my website, showcasing my collection of classic Citadel miniatures from the 1980's, also known as Oldenhammer miniatures. In the mid-1980's, a unique genius descended upon Citadel Miniatures...
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The Valley of Fire: Painted Talisman Miniatures
I ended my last post with a plea for some information about the identity of the sculptor of the original Talisman miniatures. Tonight, I found the answer in a tome of eldritch horror chained to a dais...
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Citadel Monsters: Testicles, Spectacles, Wallet and Watch
During the 1980's, Citadel made some of the best monsters that have been rendered in lead. The reason for their success is simple: they were sculpted to emphasize personality and character. A harpy...
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Ravening Hordes: Five Sample Armies
One of my favourite parts of buying old Warhammer materials from eBay is that you never know what you're going to find when you tear off the paper from the parcel. Â Recently I bought a near-mint boxed...
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Citadel Monsters Part II: How to get ahead in miniature painting
There'a a point in every man's life when he can finally step back and take the true measure of his own self. As I looked at my pics before pasting them on this post, I realized something important...
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Citadel Monsters III: Painting with a Twist
In the mid-1980's, the sculptors at Citadel hit upon a winning formula for making miniatures that gripped the imagination. In my view, the key to painting these minis is to understand this formula and...
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Foldio Light Box Review: Charge of the Light Brigade
This photo of two Oldhammer Dwarfs comes courtesy of my new Foldio Light Box from Orange Monkie.When you photograph 28mm miniatures, everything depends on lighting. If you wish to expose the...
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Naval Combat in Oldhammer: "All the Nice Dwarves Luv a Sailor"
Ship to ship combat -- with boarding parties, grapples and rams -- is the one thing missing from old school Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Or so I thought... until yesterday. I was flipping through an old...
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The Blue Yonder: a review of the Flotone graduated photography background
I'm not saying that you have to have an obsessive streak if you're going to paint miniatures, but it certainly helps. My latest obsession has been improving my miniature photography, as evinced by my...
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The Web of Eldaw: the first warhammer fantasy roleplay adventure
Thirty years ago or so role playing games and war games were not yet separate hobbies. It’s well understood that D&D evolved out of miniature war gaming rules like Chainmail (1979). But it’s also...
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The Age of Dark Technology: Rogue Trader Miniatures
It's time to break out (and refurbish) some of my Rogue Trader miniatures! My last post was a rumination on the close and mutually beneficial connection between roleplaying games and war games in the...
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Beyond Rogue Trader: Ultramarines
If you are a Oldhammer fanatic, it's easy to bash the miniatures of the 1990's as clunky, awkward, and abnormally prone tosplayingtheir limbs. Sweet Jebus - why did they think that men charging into...
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Orctober Fest: Evolution of the Orc
Welcome to Orctober! I'm proud to joining my fellow Oldhammer fanatics Erny (who invited me to the party) and Zhu (who drew the gorgeous Orctober Fest banner). I hope lots of others join the fun!Big....
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Orctober: Green Orcs and Ham
For Orctober I've been discussing the evolution of the orc, from Tolkien to the present. There's one feature I'd like to zero in on today... the colour of their skin. How did they become green?I've...
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Orctober: Harboth's Orc Archers
If you can't already tell by the nostalgia rages that often engulf this blog, I'm a fan of classic, 1980's style Warhammer. But there's one issue on which I part company with the canon. I've never been...
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Pig Faced Orcs: Off the Endangered Species List
As a coda to my series on the evolution of orcs, I'd like to return to the pig faced orc. As other scholars of orcish lore have already noted, the pig faced orc's origins can be traced back to the...
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Citadel Gothic Horror Miniatures
Call of Cthulhu, in my view, is the greatest role-playing game devised by hand or pseudopod. First published in 1981, Call of Cthulhu was an early entrant on the field of role-playing games, and in the...
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Gothic Horror meets Eldtritch Horror
After I finished my first game of Fantasy Flight Games latest Cthulhu boardgame, Eldritch Horror, I was certain of two things. First, it was the best Lovecraftian boardgame that I've ever seen, leaving...
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Oldhammer Battle Report: Orcs vs. Skaven
Despite collecting miniatures, painting miniatures, and writing about miniatures all the time, I haven't actually gotten a chance to play 3rd edition Warhammer for over 15 years. So I was delighted...
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Bob Olley and Iron Claw: the Weird Turn Pro
Bob Olley was the most artistic miniature sculptor during Citadel's golden age of the mid-1980's. I wouldn't say he was the best sculptor; that is a matter of taste. Nor was he the most popular (I've...
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