Oldhammer weekend photos. Day 1

With the posting of photos from the day beginning to take off I thought I should contribute too. These are straight shots unedited or generally selected fro quality.

Day One:

I managed to mislay my camera on the first day so the following shots were taken with the iPad. The first set are general shots in no particular order and with no story to tell.

Gaj's Chaos/undead Nurgle mashup.

My Brothers ratmen.

More skaven.

The two armies above battle.

So excited to see these in the lead.

And these...

Never thought to get a photo with TMDWALC, this is the closest I get to that.

Obligatory Nico shot, froth...

 

And another.

Trolltastic action from Golgfag1.

Cabinet goodies (mainly Harry's but Nico's Chaos dwarves.)

More of Harry's but do I see some Epic....

This second set contains taster photos from the game Bug16 and myself played. I intend to produce one of my comic based battle reports about this in the near future so I shall not give away too much here.

The battle lines.

Gulp I see skullchucker.

I love these sort of views across the battlefield.

Death riders, five of em.

The lines close.

Frenzied boar riders.

Death riders, two of them. Go Fanatic, go.

Getting crunchy in the middle.

Run away!

A decisive challenge but whose across the board sixes are they?

Oldhammer weekend, a big thanks to all!

Ashcan The Great poses for a photo on a local monument.

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all the Oldhamnmerers out there for making the weekend so awesome. I had several great games, saw some fantastic armies, met the Mighty Dark-Winged Avenging Lord of Chaos and heard some of his thoughts on toy soldiers and got to see some classic miniatures and scenery from the pages of White Dwarf. Not Bad.

Special thanks to Gaj for doing the lions share of organising our side of things and more importantly the Ansells for allowing this to happen and organising magnificent tables, displays, putting rare miniatures back into production ans supplying food.

How many Rudlug's boxed sets are too many Rudlug's boxed sets?

When bidding on something I want on ebay I often find the bargains are in the big lots which also often means you end up with something you already have.

Now one boxed set is my original from '88 and I ain't repainting that. Another is destined for my new orc force and a third would be nice to keep as a complete unused set. That leaves me with a spare. What to do with it. Either I could see if anyone needs a swap and has something to really tempt me (seriously if you have something great and want a boxed set let me know but it would need to be pretty special) or I could run a competition. You know one of those sign up to the blog and say you want it kind of jobs but that seams a little mercenary and someone who wouldn't show it the right kind of love may get it. I don't know but four Rudlug's boxed set are too many Rudlug's boxed sets.

OK just for you box lovers out there, I love a good box. Not the full collection by any means.

Erny's Roamers, Goblin Wolf boys for 3rd edition Warhammer

With Oldhammer weekend fast approaching it really is time to get the brush hours in. I've promised to run Forenronds Last Stand, you know that scenario you've had ever since you bought 3rd but never played. I've played it a few times, with card counters and a couple of times with painted minis. So I can field all the forces but I've set myself the task of sprucing up, or in this case replacing some of the units.

These are  Erny's Roamers, Erny is a good name and it is from this enigmatic leader of gobbos that I take my on line moniker. They are MM goblin wolf riders though the champion is a converted infantry champion. I prefer him to the actual MM wulfboy hero model which is also almost painted. The standard is also non-standard representing a trophy captured from a unit of quarellers they quarrelled with. The standard dwarf's head now decorates the top of the banner and I've tried to go for a Gary Chalk look to the banner itself. Anyway enjoy:

Now these photos should be in focus, I recently rediscovered my tripod in the garage. The last set of photos of the gobbo spears were not so whilst I had the lights and scenery out I took a few snaps of the infantry. Let me know what you think.

The green skins are gathering.

Que the ominous music. 

I've been through a bit of a doldrums of late, Oldhammer just wasn't doing it for me creativity. Heresy I hear you say burn out I reply, you may have noticed my blog goes in bursts unlike some of these endurance bloggers.. Still I've had a dalliance with CoC of late and a bit of pulp gaming, I though it best to ensure I was hitting peak enthusiasm .

Thankfully the Oldhammer bug is rising again so should be frothing fully by late August. In the mean time I'm getting busy sprucing up old paints on old greenskins. 

A few days late but here is for Mr Ray Harryhausen.

                                          Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013)                                          

Dadhammer, gaming as a dad rather than in spite of it.

So a great many of us have time commitments that far outweigh this trivial business we call fun.  I cannot see it as a mere coincidence that most of us Oldhammerers are within the same generation and have young children, some time ago I coined the phrase Dadhammer and this is perhaps the first true Dadhammer post. Dadhammer is all about, “cheating”, to get the most bang for your precious time. In the future I’d like to start posting up tips of how to do that or links to other sites such as Blues one.. Blue has specifically gone for dipping because of the time constraints of a busy Father. Dadhammer is also about sharing your hobby with the little ones and Rabhere is leading the way with his Goblin quest, it may not be warhammer but it’s close enough to consider it Dadhammer. Or how about Springinsfeld over at Broadswords andthe Beasts proudly having a Dadhammer moment. In short if it makes the most of your limited time or brings the kids into the fold its Dadhammer.

Now to bring the predicament of a Dadhammerer into focus here is a list of things to do in no particular order:

Get some more roll20 games in with Oldhammerers.

Get some real world games in with my brother and friends.

More dungeon cards, I have quite a stack written and just need to get them edited and pasted into the cards.

More games of Hammers and Helms with my eldest. Lots of fun and I promised to explain the dice.

Post regularly to Sofonto’s pbp forum game of Labyrinth Lord. My hafling Esro is proving to be lots of fun as we delve into Stonehell.

Finnish those third ed Orc crossbows. Base colours done and layers are being added as we speak.

Post up the last Realms of Chaos Warband battle as a comic style report.

Work on warband to finish painting it.

Update the painting on my existing O&G army, needs to look good for August.

Paint some otherworld goodies, monsters and adventures.

Post up a 4^th ed battle report.

Post up more 4^th ed articles.

Oldhammer fanzine, some good people on board now so should be able to get a good zine out incorporating Oldhammer stuff, RT stuff and perhaps some 90’s love too.

Forenronds last stand terrain to paint.

Show my elf cavalry some painty love to update for August.

Look forward to receiving some Dwarven forge stuff this October (this is Dadhammer at its laziest, throw cash at it!).

Update the list of Oldhammer blogs on the Oldhammer blog.

Write some dadhammer articles!

That’s all to get done in whatever free time is left after the more obvious dad duties. Mutual support and encouragement that’s the way forward.