Oldhammer Weekend 2026 summary

Just like 4 lears ago I 've just came back from Oldhammer Weelend Poland. This time I was double motivated to move mu ass to the capital city by the fact, I didn't manage to go last year, and I had the Slaanesh Chaos Army painted especially for that event. Oldhammer Weekend Poland is always special thing. This time it was even more special for me, 'cause in the middle of Saturday Warhammer Fantasy campaign I got sick, puked twice (luckly for everyone around there was toilet nearby) and had to drop the last Saturday game and big battle on Sunday. Apparently Papa Nurgle didn't like me painting Slaanesh stuff... 🙄

But despite that, the even was pretty cool thing - for everyone who likes middlehammer era games that is. Just like every year there was painting contest - I brought 3 entries and the Bloodthirster / Daemon Prince brought me bronze statue in large model category. In 2022 Carnifex brought me the same prize, so I guess painting large models is my "thing". Not sure I was hoping for anything more, but other entries were just supercool, so the judges had tough job to pick only 3 in each category.

The think I was waiting for the most was the Warhammer Fantasy Battle campaign. Thie time teams were made of 2 armies of 1500 points (good vs evil) and my Warriors of Slaanesh were matched with Lizardmen force. It was pretty cool experience to stand at the same side with Lustria's reptiles. We got our arses kicked by Chaos Dwarves + Empire team, won (by total accident methinks) Dark Elves + High Elves and that was it for my Warhammer gaming.

During the games I had some thoughts about Warhammer: no matted how much I like the fluff, artworks, models, painting models etc, gaming itseld is just fucking stupid. I mean 5th edition. I know it's the matter of convention, but that "herohammer" attitude makes painting most of army just necessary evil - if a single model mounted on large creature is able to wipe out almost every unit single-handedly. The army I fielded was painted for the display case and that's it, so I didn't expect much of them on "real" 5th edition field of battle, but still - 6 edition ot The Old World are much more player and fun-friendly. 

Anyway - here's what I brought. Army list is based or earlier Armies of Chaos box (the red period era):

Friday evening I've manage to see some Gorkamorka gaming. I was pretty cool thing to see orky-junk staggeing on the battlefield. Must say I really regret I never managed to give it a try - all those vehicles bring so much converting opportunities! The battles were raging till the late night, but I've managed to see just part of that mayhem. Some pics below:

What else? Ah yeah!

Friday night there was also Necromunda RPG which I definitely didn't want to miss! It was really cool experience to finally play some RPG as player - not as keeper of secrets. For the first time I saw "dungeon crawler" in action which was much better fun then I expected - ace work Rob! Some pics from the Vault:

And last but not least - some random photos of armies I've managed to take while I was there. Sadly I didn't see all armies - all participants put tons of work in preparing the forces and below you can see some examples: 

Big thanks to organizers for keeping the event alive! 

Hope to take a part in another edition of Oldhammer Weekend Poland in the future - with better heatlh condition 😷
Nurgle be praised!

Bloodthirster / Daemon prince

Actually I was hoping to paint something slightly different but it's hard to drop Warhammer Fantasy habit when it hits back... 🥴 Slaanesh warriors army has been finished but there was one more oldie daemon model dug deep under the pile of shame which could be used as alternative genral: Khorne's Bloodthirster.

It's really old model and I got it somewhere during high school era - which was really long time ago. Since that time I tried to paint it several times - with no success. Since that time model also got it's original whip-hand broken and then lost. In fact I was more then lucky I found spare hand in bits box which could be used on this model...

As for painting I was hoping for more reddish tone but Vallejo reds I have are more rapsberry then red - no idea why. In fact I had other bottle of red ink which was red as fu#c but this one is just damn rapsberry... On the other hand that's not much of loss because apparently it's the only model from under Khorne banner, so decision was made to paint it as Chaos Undivided creature or maybe even Slaanesh style to fit Warriors army.

I am really glad I've FINALLY crossed this one off the list. It was way too cool piece of Oldhammer history to be left in the bucket-of-shame-purgatory. So here are the pics.

First - one of the most epic duels possible back in 4th /5th edition: mighty Bloodthirster facing Lord of the Dead - Nagash! These were days there single models were pure metal and pretty small compared to modern (stupid as fu#k 🙄 ) standards...

And below - Bloodthirster and Dusk Real Demon in deadly struggle with Daemon Prince of Slaanesh:

And some solo pics:

Gotta check if there are any more old farts on the bottom of bucket of shame worthy rescue...

Take care!

Khorne Champion found new home

It took a while but it happened - Champion of Khorne who's been preparing for battle for many years has finally found new home. Kinda by accident.
After coming back from Oldhammer Weekend I decided to re-arrange some miniatures stanting in display cases, which means changing unused models for Undead... 😋

This one was painted long time ago but since I don't have Chaos army it's been only display case model. Really cool but not Undead...

I remember I tried to sell it before but there was no responce. This time new home was found the next day after posting the advertisment. It's surely Oldhammer magic (or Necromantic - cunning Undead lords can do everything to get some more dedicated space in Detlof).

 So farewell Mr Khorne Champion and happy plundering realms of men!

Daemon prince (Warhammer)

Hey again,

It took me bit longer to prepare anything worthy posting (longer then I expected that is) but I'm just so glad I can see it standing in the glass case finally.

The star of this post is oldie Daemon prince of Slaanesh. 

Or Khorne - model fits both options in my opinion.

As almost always there's a story behind the model:

this one is a piece I've seen in the very first WD I got back days, when Middlehammer was just on the top. New Chaos rulebook was being released bringing Daemons army.

Back days full metal army was totally out of my reach but just when the daemon gazed upon me from White Dwarf page I've been tained by Evil and knew one day I'll get it painted.
And that very day came just came.

Nowdays most stuff being released is hi-tech placcy.
Fuck it. That's just not my cup of tea.
But few months back I've spotted auction where someone was selling painted oldschool piece, which actually arrived to my place few days later...

Model was broken to pieces and spent quite a long time marinating in breaks fluid so whole paint came off nicely. Must say I was so hyped I finally got the model I didn't notice there was claw arm missing...
Too bad, because that piece is just sooo Slaanesh'y.

But that wasn't the only thing I've noticed while drilling and assembling the model again:
I've noticed the metal it's made of was just much harder to drill compared to metal models assembled ever before.
Did some research and it turned out the piece I got was most probably a recast...

I've seen recasted resin models on market but metals?
Ok, it's old model and available only second-hand but if it really is knock off the fuck who casted if could be at least decent enough to cast the missing arm as well...

Nevermind.
The model is painted and I am glad so see it done. There are still some Chaos models waiting in the bucket of shame, which one day might leave it and form Mordheim warband.

Scale shot:
this bad boy would a a BLAST in Warmaster game! Truely daemonic entity!

And just if anyone's interested: here's what complete model (arm!) should look like:

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