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Is this Oldhammer?

Recently, I've heard or read that question, and I confess that I am getting more than a bit pissed off by it. 'Oldhammer' is a very recent term, but it's not 'official' or 'sanctioned', nor is it sacrosanct and above critique. People who were in many cases not even there at the start of the Warhammer craze, or whom were just wanks waiting to get lucky (as we all were at some stage) have somehow become arbiters of taste and propriety in the fields of vintage gaming, and it just isn't right and proper. OK, I would say that if you were there between 82 and say 89 you witnessed Warhammer at it's pinnacle ,before it became that over-hyped cash cow we all know today. If you played the game in the first two editions and especially the first, then you'll know that in those days, you didn't need 'official' models, that there were more companies making wonderfully strange and beautiful figures which could be dragged into the game (mor