I absolutely love that idea Chris, that’s a perfect way of giving it character.

I was lucky enough to find a 5th edition siege Rulebook in great condition at my flg store. Now to buy/build a castle...

Ah that’s a good find! Best of luck finding your castle.

Thank you. A Lego castle sounds amazing, I’m sure I used Lego back then as well at times, not sure I had enough regular bricks for a castle though.

That sounds like an awesome project, are you recording/sharing your progress anywhere?

That’s a great idea, might give that a go.

Thank you 😊

Thank you Mike 😊 I’m very jealous of your collection, sounds amazing, wish I didn’t get rid of so much stuff.

Your paint job on the Mighty Fortress is absolutely stunning!! I also love what you did with that extra tower to make that little outpost, very very cool!! Partially melted packing foam for the rock formation, man we think so alike, lol.@@MiniatureRealms

@@MiniatureRealms The only thing I have from that era that I can consider a true relic or antique is a copy of the OLD, OLD styrofoam Mighty Fortress from 1988! The one that came in the giant rectangular black box and had brown plastic doors, siege ladders, etc. We're talking Warhammer 2nd/3rd Edition era. I got in from Ebay a couple years back for about $175 and the box was in amazingly good condition for being over 30 years old. If you have happen to have a copy of White Dwarf #101, May 1988 there's an article about it in there...

That’s an excellent idea, I keep having thoughts about playing some WFRP again.

Thank you. They sound useful, I’ll have to keep an eye out for some of those.

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

You definitely should, and that siege equipment is super rare.

I definitely had loads of fun working on mine.

Darren that’s amazing, can’t believe they didn’t give you one for doing that. Did you work for GW then, how did that come about?

I worked in the studio for 18 months painting and model making and mostly for adverts for White Dwarf from 1987-89. First was on a freelance basis and then full time. I was part of the 'Eavy Metal Team which consisted of Me, Mike MC Vey, Colin Dixon, Sid and to some extent Dave Andrews. Later Tim Prow joined the team. Our studio boss was John Blanche and we were mostly trusted to just get on with painting but did work from briefs. It was a bit like herding cats at times but we worked on a lot of different projects and there was a good vibe. Mostly we could get hold of a copy of the project we had worked on but the Mighty Fortress in polystyrene was a limited run and I was promised one but they sold out fairly quickly and I never did get one. My best memory from that period was painting the first Harlequin miniatures for the back of the box and they became very big sellers. I worked on the first Titans, Space Hulk, the Genestealers, Imperial Guard when the first plastics were developed, Space Wolves were the Space Marine force I was building but never finished it and mostly the first plastic beakies. I left in mid 1989 to go back to archaeology which I was trained in. They were good days and fond memories

You must have some amazing stories, I’d love to hear more. I remember those Harlequins very well, stunning paint jobs.

The Harlequins were painted as overtime on a very long Bank Holiday weekend and I took the set home to paint and was challenged I could not have it done by the Tuesday...I hardly slept and loads of coffee but I won the challenge much to everyone's shock. Looking back each day was different and it was a challenge at times with a limited palate as the paint range back then was very limited. The order from above was things had to be bright and no browns...or at least limited tones due to the photographic process at the time. I was never a fan of the pastel shades for some of the Chaos stuff that was the order of the day and I tried to avoid painting them and focused on Khorne and Nurgle. Many of the miniatures were painted a month before the next White Dwarf but sometimes things were sprung on us and a range we nothing about landed on the main table normally mid week and the deadline was the Friday. I was guilty of the bright reds on the Khorne stuff and the Ork in red power armour. We also painted the Marauder Miniatures range but had to keep it quiet at the time and In painted most of the Dwarves, Chaos Dwarves and Dark Elves. John Blanche was a superb manager and I felt sorry for him at times with all of the crazy antics but it was a talented crew and a bit of chaos and anarchy got us through each week and lots of good natured banter. The studio was small, often a sea of chemicals from the spray booth for car body primer and we drank massive amounts of coffee. They were good days

Darren thank you for sharing, if you ever fancied chatting about it for the channel let me know, I’d love to. I could talk about painting for hours, and to mix in takes of studio past would make it even better. All my contact details are in the video description if you think that’s something you might be interested in, no pressure at all if not.

Thank you

Thank you 😊

Thank you

😂 Cheers mate

You absolutely should, oldhammer/middle hammer should not be left in lofts.

@@MiniatureRealms I’ve gone back to playing 6th edition - partly as I have so many armies, and with the huge size of 8th, The Old World looks to be going back to more sensible sized units, perfect for siege games!

I’ve been playing 6th this year, I prefer a lot of it to 8th, especially unit sizes. It looks like we might get something closer to that for TOW, that will be positive.

I’m very chuffed to finally have one.

Thank you 😊. You will be able to make something pretty epic with two, hope you have as much fun as I did working on them.

I think a lot of people seem to have ended up with just a tower, selling them separately probably tempted quite a few people.

Wow Mike thank you, that is super super kind of you to say 😊.

Wow you have a real gem there. I’m hoping my first siege games live up to my childhood expectations 😅.

That seems like a pretty good deal, I forgot how many deals they used to do, shame we don’t see more of that now.

@@MiniatureRealms Very true. GW at a casual glance seems to take their customers a lot more for granted these days which is slightly odd because there’s more competition now than there was back then. I actually wish that I valued that competition a bit more as I have largely stuck with GW products for quite a few years now. However I have in the last couple of years been getting a few extra minis from elsewhere and the quality can be very good.

Yeah it’s an odd one, the market is so much larger now with even more competition. Though at the same time they have grown even more, I guess they feel they don’t need to do that kind of sales marketing. The discount and deals are primarily through third party sellers I suppose.

@@MiniatureRealms I find it a little bizarre that 3rd party suppliers are given the opportunity to offer discounts. I suppose that is a reflection of the modern times post internet. Years ago I can’t recall getting any kind of discount at local games shops and you either could afford to buy it at the offered price or not. Back then the very best place you could go was direct to a GW store as they had the biggest range at identical prices. These days sadly it is the opposite from a price point of view.

I think it’s just a reflection on changes in retail in general. In the past RRP seemed to be followed more closely (at least until something was reduced to clear), but online has changed the market, competition forces the kind of discounts we see.

Thank you 😊

Cheers mate 😊

Thanks Ben, I’ll definitely be doing more terrain tutorials, for all the games I cover.

😆 Yep that’s a decent amount of basing material.

Thank you 🙂

Cheers mate 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you. I’ve always been captured by sieges too, from that first siege book, to Helms deep in Lotr, they always stand out. Might have something to do with toys as a kid, and still love to visit castles now.

Thank you Paul 🙂

I’ve got a lot of fondness for that old poly version, I may be tempted one day if I can get it at a decent price. Thank you

That’s an interesting idea, I’ve used emulsion before on terrain, great for sealing foam hills etc, takes ages to dry though.

That’s amazing, what a first issue!

Love that book so much, I had to repurchase it recently.

Lost the cut out army's I. The back. But I still like going through the Artwork, and the Army's of old. Good times

Thank you Martin. I’ve looked at that one, it might be an option for a keep.

That’s a good idea, I have all the MESBG rules they’ve published, so will have to have a look back through and see what might be useful.

Thank you. I like the Tabletop World stuff, it’s one of the options for a keep for this castle I think.

I was thinking about getting an extra wall section to convert up as destroyed, great idea.

OUTSTANDING! Please keep us posted on how it turns out!@@MiniatureRealms

When I get round to adding to it, I’ll definitely share what I do one way or another.

I feel that’s going to be a familiar tale for many, most of my GW stuff didn’t survive me being away at uni.

Horrifying! 😢

Ah thank you, I’ll have to source a copy of that.

If I was building fresh I’d have definitely used that method. It was mostly because it was already built that I didn’t, it was glued in a way that it was pushing the parts apart, but of a pain. So I could have tried to take it apart again and risk damage, or fill the gaps. I did use hot water to part correct the warping, wasn’t too bad in the end. Thank you though.

Thank you Stevie 😊 I’ll go and check that video out this weekend.

@@MiniatureRealms would be most appreciative . Thank you 👍. Meant what I said your painting of the castle was on another level to us ,ere mortals. S

Thank you 😊 I do tend to thin it a little, probably about 20/25% water (as a guess).

@@MiniatureRealms thank you so much

Thank you for watching and the sub 🙂