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[MichaelStockin]

I did not sculpt the models. Just the terrain and some of the vehicles.
I made the terrain and cast them at home in resin.
The people were sculpted by a number of various people and were cast out of house, same with some of the vehicles, so some I did my self and some were resin which I cast at home.

If I could sculpt models I would be doing that for sure.

Though sculpting to cast and sculpting to use yourself are two very different things.

 

[ManicMan]

I started gaming with Heroquest which must have started when I was 9 or 10 (2011, 2012), with my dad's old set that he'd kept around. Unfortunately all his old gaming stuff had gone for the most part but Heroquest and my love for Labyrinth and Skyrim really got me going on fantasy stuff. The Hobbit was my favourite book as a kid. Started actually wargaming after tasting role-playing (getting allowed in a friend's big brothers game of One Ring RPG) and then getting upsold some space marines by a GW store manager.

So it depends whether you count my teenage gaming as Oldhammering. Many of my models were post-millennium, and I mainly played current edition 40k, but owing to my folks being skint a lot of the time a large proportion of my stuff was second hand (usually free from family friends who'd quit the hobby years ago) and my favourite models were some of those old ones. That and my start with Heroquest makes me think I started Oldhammering pretty early.

I got really into Oldhammer during uni where I ran my uni's role-playing society where we played a lot of old-school rpgs, so old warhammer followed on pretty naturally. Had neither the cash nor the space to actually do anything with this interest, so I've started painting my old models and building up a proper collection since graduating (2023).

ohh, such a young boy eh?

Heroquest, Battlemasters, Space Crusade and Space Hulk when they were new, to Warhammer, to 40K, to not really doing much cause no-one to play with much but still interested and enjoyed doing bits and pieces, mostly limited to model kits for a while which I did anyway, then back into miniatures in more full swing

 

[dieselmonkey]

I started collecting minis for D&D/AD&D in the very early 80s and I got 1st Ed WFB not long after it came out, we used it as a way of playing battles using our figure collections. Then I started collecting specific armies and our group got into Warhammer properly. This carried on through 2nd/3rd Ed WFB and Rogue Trader, and eventually I ended up working at GW HQ in 1989.

After I left the Studio in 1991 to go to uni, I stopped chasing new stuff when 4th Ed WFB and 2nd Ed 40k came out as I liked the style of models and rules less, so basically I carried on playing RT and 3rd Ed WFB. I sold a lot of my collection in the mid-90s when I was really strapped for cash, including most of the really rare and unreleased stuff I had, so have been rebuilding that since. Some of the unreleased stuff I've never seen since though, even as pictures on places like Stuff of Legend or Collecting Citadel Miniatures sites.

So yeah, basically I've only ever played Oldhammer, lol.

 

[Citizen Sade]

Tell us more about the unreleased and uncatalogued stuff.

 

[dieselmonkey]

Tell us more about the unreleased and uncatalogued stuff.

Well, for one I had a set of modular Chaos Warriors that looked very much in the Marauder style, including some horse barding that was designed to fit over the white plastic horses at the time. They had separate heads, torsos, legs, arms and weapons etc. I've never seen pictures of those since. There were also some ships that got used for playtesting Battleship Gothic that weren't the eventual plastics or the earlier C43/44 Spaceships.

There were loads of other bits and pieces, mostly individual test sculpts that never got out of the studio and into the hands of recasters, lol. I sold most of it to a large private collector in the US, so it's probably all still over there in someone's display cupboard.