A few old mags (for nostalgia’s sake)

[Brother Meredith]

Dug these out of the archive (aka the old folks’ home) and thought might be fun to share to spark some interest.

Have another issue of Mars, was a American magazine, not sure how long it lasted?
Sure we all know about Red Giant… Some fun article nevertheless.
Anvil was a little sparse on content, but nice enough production.
Picked up The Awakening on sale at a Derby Games Day when GW was still off loading their older RPG and board games
The Grenadier catalogue has plenty of awesome Copplestone minis.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Does anyone else have some old publications they want to share?

 

[ManicMan]

whoa.. the Red Giant Mag looks... very Ego-centric. we have the name 'Red Giant' clearly to rival 'White Dwarf', and the 'for intelligent games'. yikes..

 

[Brother Meredith]

Bit of a silly vanity project for Mr Chalk et company, but check the use of older Citadel minis on the cover too… D’oh!

 

[Eric]

A few of the older ones, although that Dragon is 1993 - is that too new?

 

[Brother Meredith]

It isn’t now…

The handful of Dragon mags are still in the “storage”, mainly before it went square bound. Some classic Brom Dark Sun covers that were so inspiring in art classes!

 

[Eric]

I sold quite a few of mine to clear some space when I was having a "really need to cut down RPG stuff" purge. Still they all went to good homes.

 

[Brother Meredith]

I only ever had a handful as the mountain of text about a game I never played(!) didn’t persuade me to pick it up very often…

 

[Citizen Sade]

Does anyone else have some old publications they want to share?

Go on, then.

 

[Brother Meredith]

How were the Black Library GNs and comics, they passed me by (during the interview-hobby years and not sold at “proper” comic shops)…

 

[Citizen Sade]

Can't say as Ulli & Marquand is the only one I've ever seen or read.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Just had a gander at the art, has a naive charm to it, not quite to standards of 2000AD. Guess that is quite early Karl Kopinski? Not developed to the style he is better known for.

 

[Citizen Sade]

Could be. Mordheim was released in late 1999 and the compilation of earlier Ulli & Marquand strips was published in 2002.

FWIW, there were two other artists involved (Paul Jeacock & Mike Perkins). The cover of the compilation is Paul's work.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Unearthed an envelope of old Harlequin Miniatures mail outs from late-90s, including some neat colour flyers, details of their licenced minis (Dr Who, Babylon 5 and Lord of the Rings) and the fateful final letter introducing their sale to Black Tree…
Been checking out their dwarf minis as a cheaper alternative to expensive Citadel stuff, some lovely sculpts amongst the catalogue.

 

[Citizen Sade]

Caveat emptor if buying them from Black Tree Design as their customer service is legendary and not in a good way. To be fair, my one order was delivered though it wasn't quick.

 

[Eric]

I got the impression from this thread that Blacktree's UK operations were now essentially dead, although it's been many years since I last personally ordered anything.

Love the old flyers.

I saw an action on ebay in passing and snagged the snaps for this thread:



Not a publication which crossed my youth, but plenty of old school vibes coming off it!

 

[ManicMan]

The company is out of business now. I don't know if John died or not but no-one is running the site or anything, so that also means it can't be taken down.

So sadly, you can't buy from them and the site is kinda a no-go to site cause, due to how things are set up, it'll take your money. Not just UK but US as well. Eoe Orbis is defunct.

 

[dieselmonkey]

Unearthed an envelope of old Harlequin Miniatures mail outs from late-90s, including some neat colour flyers, details of their licenced minis (Dr Who, Babylon 5 and Lord of the Rings) and the fateful final letter introducing their sale to Black Tree…View attachment 13583
Been checking out their dwarf minis as a cheaper alternative to expensive Citadel stuff, some lovely sculpts amongst the catalogue.

Interestingly, I'm pretty sure 10 larch close was their mum's house as it was across the road from my grandparent's place when I was a kid.

Dean was my manager at GW back in the early 90s, pretty sure our parents knew each other.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Love the old flyers.

I saw an action on ebay in passing and snagged the snaps for this thread:


Not a publication which crossed my youth, but plenty of old school vibes coming off it!

When do they date from? RPG content or wargaming?

 

[Eric]

The company is out of business now. I don't know if John died or not but no-one is running the site or anything, so that also means it can't be taken down.
So sadly, you can't buy from them and the site is kinda a no-go to site cause, due to how things are set up, it'll take your money. Not just UK but US as well. Eoe Orbis is defunct.

Well I guess when the Shopify money runs out they will die. You'd hope if it was sadly down to death that the executor would be able to notify them to take down the sites. I wonder how many sales they are doing without anyone knowing. Hopefully someone might pick up some of the IP, they had some nice models.

When do they date from? RPG content or wargaming?

I didn't bid on them, just snagged the pictures as I'd been on this thread earlier and thought they were appropriate. 1970s apparently. Bit about them on RPG Geek.