Fantasy Miniatures: A Mine of Oldhammer Inspiration

The ever knowledgeable Steve Casey (or Bridgend Steve, if you are that way inclined) has written a wonderful little article about the first Golden Demon awards over on his new blog, Eldritch Epistles, and includes some more recent photographs of  one of the winning pieces, the Chalice of Doom, which now forms part of Bryan Ansell's astonishing miniature collection. Steve has gone on to produce for us some very good quality scans of the original article (a real bonus for me, as my copy of the White Dwarf it first appeared in is rather blurry) and these offer a real wealth of inspiration for we old school painters and gamers.

Steve's passion for the subject reminded me of a series of posts I made about the excellent Fantasy Miniatures books way back at the early days of the Oldhammer Movement and I thought that more recent readers would like to have a look at these, as they are packed with wonderful ideas. Below you will find embedded versions of each of the books in the order that they were originally published. Additionally, I will include links to the original posts I made quite a while ago concerning these wonderful publications. Steve promises to cover these books in more detail in the future, so hopefully he has some other scoops for us to drool over shortly!

Fantasy Miniatures 1988

Fantasy Miniatures 1988 by orlygg

Fantasy Miniatures 1989

Fantasy Miniatures 1989 by orlygg

Fantasy Miniatures 1990

Fantasy Miniatures 1990 by orlygg

http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/fantasy-miniatures-golden-demon-1988.html

http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/fantasy-miniatures-1989-golden-demon.html

http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/fantasy-miniatures-golden-demon-1990.html

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Fantasy Miniatures: 1989 Golden Demon Extravaganza

Welcome to the second volume of Fantasy miniatures; this time documenting the Gold Demon Awards of 1989. The event took place on Saturday 27th May and was held at the Assembly Rooms, Derby as part of Games Day 1989.

The book contains the best entries of the competition (the third held by GW) as well as the usual work from various studio painters.

Let's have a quick look through the contents shall we...

Introduction by Andy Jones p2-3: This interesting mini article gives an overview to the day. Compare it to last year's attempt and compare!

Studio Staff p4-9: Lots of miniatures by the usual 80s crowd as well as a few choice pieces by Gw's 80s artists Paul Bonner and Dave Andrews. The release of Rogue Trader and Slaves to Darkness is obvious here, with a lot of early RT and Chaos models on show.

Ivan Bartlett p10-11: 1988's winner is analysed along with some other pieces.

The Golden Demon Awards 1989 p12-13: Short article about the competition.

Miniatures Gallery p14-38.

Enjoy the retro action.

Its difficult to choose a favourite this time; so I'll select one from Warhammer and one from Rogue Trader.

Warhammer is best summed up for me on p34 by Dominic Colbeck with his surfing snotling.

Rogue Trader has to be the Techmarine by Ivan Brooke on page 15.

Both very amusing mini dioramas.

Enjoy!

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Orlygg.