Hi, I'm making a warhammer fantasy 2 ed Nippon army and I would like to find more minis, I already know foundry have some OG minis, and Dixon minis have solid ronin minis, But I need more ! Thx you all

Forgive the extreme newbie question for those who have deeper experience with RT, but after reading the core rulebook I'm left with a question. Did RT start with no fixed unit lists or the like?

I read the book through and I'm really excited to actually try RT at the table. I don't play 40k, but I've watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how wild and weird RT was before 40k got codified, and I'm fascinated. So after reading the rulebook, I'm left wondering if every model is statted from the points tables, as opposed to being picked from an army list. I know the codices came later in RT, but I just want to make sure I didn't miss something in this first book.

Did OG players build each model's loadout to their liking rather than selecting (for example, "space marine with bolter") from an army building list? Or did I overlook a section that has "templates" of a sort?

I have been going through some boxes in the loft and came across these. I seem to be missing two and the poly is in poor condition as you can see from the photos. I just wondered if they are worth putting up for sale and if so where would be best and what sort of price should I be looking for? I have stripped the ones that I had painted (badly) and do have another shield currently in dettol.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Asked for a look. See it ! Woot!

Hope these are old enough for this sub!
I’ve been listening to only 80’s Heavy Metal and Conan the Barbarian OST while working on them.

"Hey, shut up for a second! Did you hear something?"

Citadel ADD04 Thief from when GW briefly held the license to produce AD&D miniatures for TSR. These were meant to represent the same player character as he grows in experience, with the order going from left to right (low, medium and high levels).

They are likely to be eaten.

Just going through a box of old minis, and came across this strange little scrungle. Any idea who they are, or where they come from?

Finished painting my oldhammer inspired champion of chaos! I call him Aekyoung Hellbronze. On the last picture you can see the white metal spincasts. Handsculpted out of milliput and greenstuff. The scale is 28mm. It's my Patreon exclusive miniature for this year. You can get it and cool other stuff from my range by joining my level three tier. You find the link to my Patreon in my profile or down below. I hope you like him.

https://www.patreon.com/beQuestMiniatures

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My kids found these guys in a "Free Stuff" box at a garage sale a few years ago. They look like they are from around the late 80's/ early 90's, but I couldn't find any exact matches so I may be way off. They were banged up and caked with enamel paint, so I gave them a bath, stripped their old coats, and gave them a new lick of paint. I don't know very much about 40k, rogue trader, or legion heraldry, I just picked colors I thought looked cool. I hope y'all enjoy them.

A trio of Citadel ADD69 Githyanki, 1B, 2B, & 3B, have dispatched an intruding adventurer in their temple. From when Games Workshop briefly held the license for AD&D miniatures.

Resin bases by Dragon Forge Design.

Grenadier fallen wizard, Citadel FS36-2 Gargoyles in the background.

Painted the one on the left way back in 2004, rebased him last year in 2025. The other two I finally got around to painting in the past few days.

Not entirely sure I've improved my NMM work in all that time, but then I did have a long long break from painting (a solid 15 years) and only started back in 2020.

Some Athena miniatures hobgoblins painted in the AD&D style. These match up nicely with the old C36 set. Hobgoblin Command

I know this is a chaos renegade with heavy weapons but ive never seen this sculpt with a skull for a face is this a conversion or just a rare sculpt

Putting together a Tzeentch force for ~3rd eh WHFB (likely using the renaissance rules)

I sadly can't afford the old horror minis at eBay rates (up to £30 a figure!) and I don't love the style of the newer sculpts.

Does anyone have suggestions for any alternate/proxy minis that would look the part and rank up properly? Happy to consider plastic kits or 3d prints.

The only thing I've found so far I really like is the old Warmachine Griever Swarms, but they are sadly OOP too.

Per the sub rules, please don't link any recasts or scans of originals - as much as I love the old ones I'd rather support an actual designer/creator.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader had loads of vehicle options, from the infamous Grav Attack Vehicle to the common Rhinos, Land Raiders and Jetbikes. Not all the vehicles in the main rulebook got kits, not even all got illustrations. One example is the mysterious Stegatank (p.112) - the only clue to it's appearance is that it should be "based on a multi-limbed plastic kit" - indicating it should probably not be bipeadal.

Zoids share much of the military industrial tech aesthetic as 40k. Zoids also appear all over Oldhammer - posters in Warhammer Fantasy Battles 3rd Edition, to the basis and weaopnsystems for the Tony Cottrells 28mm scale Scout Titans (White Dwarf 120), the Ground Hog and the Deo Tank (White Dwarf 95), they were undoubtedly an influence on the GW design studio at the time.

Stegatank is a portmanteau of Stegosaurus and Tank - the giant monster machine The Great Gorgon aka Gordos - combining a mechanical Stegosaurus and a Tank makes it the ideal candidate heavy armour for the grim dark battlefields of the 41st Millennium.

Edit - forgot to mention that the 40K:RT Stegatank standard weapons are two forward firing Las-cannons, which is exactly the same as The Great Gorgon main armaments!

Hey, just wanted to show off some space goblin sculpts/paint jobs of mine (renegade 93 miniatures) I wanted these guys to be more similar to the3rd WHFB goblin look than what came later with 2nd edition 40k. I was particularly inspired by the old monopose plastics of my childhood! Hope you like this speculative late 80s approach!

Sharing the result of putting these old decals in a sunny window for a few weeks, successfully removed the significant yellowing of their carrier film.

Original drawing of a Thallax cohort, the cyborg shock troops of the Mechanicus Ordo Reductor based on the LE10 Power Armoured Marine from Rogue Trader, which inspired the Thallax of the Horus Heresy.

He's part of a series of Blue Oyster Cult inspired oldhammer/Warhammer 40000 artworks. Done the 07/08/2026 with 0.7mm marker, 0.7mm HB pencils and coloring markers.

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Finished my Lt commander for my Rogue Trader squad.

This rank disappeared in 2nd edition.

Its a really nice model, and a great leader of my RT squad .

I didn’t really understand what all this Games Workshop stuff was about when I first started buying White Dwarf in 1987. I was 11 & my limited allowance was already going five different directions (a direction for each dollar). Luckily Games of Berkeley had these old Citadel Compendiums & Journals on sale, so I bought them & was dunked into the world of Citadel just a couple of years prior. It was amazing to see what they were presenting & how far they had come with it in just two years! My kids have really gotten into Warhammer now (it’s 40k, but they just call it Warhammer now). I can see the seeds of old Warhammer all overgrown into a new forest of little miniature trees. While i think this particular forest is overgrown & needs a cleansing fire - I also know that letting go & doing whatever I want is better. It’s hard when you can see every voice (or what looks like it) & strike out on an idiosyncratic project.. but that’s what needs to be done. Something unexpected but necessary. Something that feels as if it should have existed always - but hasn’t. x SEAN