An Oldhammer charity shop find

James Holloway

James Holloway

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So last weekend I was browsing through old books in a charity shop when my wife handed me this, which she'd just picked up:

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It's a little boxed diorama made using mainly 80s Citadel figures (and one from Pendragon).

I've identified the figures: Citadel ME61 Sauron, some C03 Clerics, a C02 Wizard and a reclining princess from Pendragon, together with her parrots and "hubble-bubble."

The image behind the arches is an Alan Lee illustration of Gormenghast, which seems nicely appropriate.

Some more closeups (a bit fuzzy):

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I wrote a blog post about it, although mostly what you see here: http://gonzohistorygaming.blogspot.co.u ... stery.html

I don't know how I feel about it. It's such a lovely little piece that I don't want to break it up, but at the same time what am I going to do with it? And I'm sure there are folks who would like those figures. I myself might find a use for the friar. It's a puzzle.
 
Cool...

But yer... Get the figures out and let them roam to glory on the tabletop after their incareration!

Love that Cleric, been after him for a while... Great find.
 
It's quite fun, but not so pretty that I wouldn't want to dismantle it and do a better job on the figures. An you could do a stonking job on recreating it if you wanted. ;)
 
Wow. that's an amazing piece of outsider art in the tradition of the Chapman Brothers. but with the sanctimonious political commentary replaced by a psychedelic earnestness.

Stick it on http://www.saatchiart.com for $1000 for 6 months. :)
 
I saw some of those Chapman Brothers mannequins in the Fitzwilliam Museum and they gave me the whimwhams. But actually "psychedelic outsider art" is not bad.
 
Not keen on the children with genitalia on their faces, disturbing and a bit tabloid. I was thinking more of Fucking Hell.
 
Yeah, I must have missed those ones. I meant more that the term is not bad for a lot of 80s gaming art -- it's definitely weird phantasmagoric art from outside the conventional art world.
 
You've now documented it here far more than the creator of the work intended or achieved, I am sure.
So having done so, break it down and re paint the minis as you see fit!

Bonus points if you post them in this thread after having done so :)
 
Orjetax":mbygimjh said:
You've now documented it here far more than the creator of the work intended or achieved, I am sure.
So having done so, break it down and re paint the minis as you see fit!

Bonus points if you post them in this thread after having done so :)
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I'm with this. If it is not something you like enough to put on the wall ...It will now live on the interwebz forever ...so crack on and use the minis.
 
Quite remarkable! A very imaginative composition.
I dont know what to say. Maybe keep it as it is for as few months and then decide.
 
What a lovely thing! Personally, I'd look to restore any damage and then display.I know it's probably bad form to ask, but what were they charging for it in the charity shop?
 
James Holloway":1u93anim said:
Yeah, I must have missed those ones. I meant more that the term is not bad for a lot of 80s gaming art -- it's definitely weird phantasmagoric art from outside the conventional art world.
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Fucking Hell is amazing, like 40k on acid, probably deserves its own thread.

A lot of early fantasy gaming works - thinking OD&D and the Judges Guild, as a kind of Folk Art, or at least Folk Art seems to provide a more interesting approach to reading it than just dismissing it.

It almost has the feel of one of those domestic devotional shrines that Hindus and Catholics seem to employ, but of a remixed psychedelia drawing on postwar fantasy literature.
 
Actually yes, Italian shrines and nativity scene dioramas sometimes do have a similar aspect down here.
 
axiom":1yjfn3ix said:
What a lovely thing! Personally, I'd look to restore any damage and then display.I know it's probably bad form to ask, but what were they charging for it in the charity shop?
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£4.99. :grin:
 
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