Today’s Warhammer regiments are characterless, samey and positively vanilla in comparison…”

The individuality of units was the essential essence of Warhammer 1st/2nd/3rd edition. “back in the 1980s Warhammer Fantasy Battle units consisted of individual models without the blocks of uniform dull figures you see today. There’s something else I hear however that really does bother me. I can understand and empathise with all this. “£15 for 1 plastic Chaos hero? I can remember buying 3 metal Chaos Warriors and still getting change from £2.” I plan to paint them properly using only the first 2 Citadel paint sets I’ve bought off eBay. “I had 3 suitcases of metal in my Mother’s attic that I’m now finally stripping the Humbrol enamel off. “Citadel finecast figures have more casting flaws than a snapped up Aero chocolate bar. The original mould and initial castings all disappeared soon after, and when Phil’s photos came back from Boots they were all mysteriously overexposed. “I’m searching for a Tim Prow C666 Invisible Chaos Aardvark Man that Phil Lewis told me he photographed in 1985. “Metal miniatures are all I want to collect because I prefer the weight and feel of them.”

Time and time again the cries go up when people of a certain age still interested in GW miniatures talk about today’s output from GW in comparison to the past. There’s a few people (and not just those who consider themselves ‘Oldhammer’ purists) that think Games Workshop is a mono posed plastic shadow of it’s former multitudinous metal self.

Chaos regiments of renown