The Oldhammer sculpting movement is an informal grouping of professional and amateur model makers who create figures inspired by the classic Games Workshop studio style from '80s and early '90s Warhammer 40k. Chaos corrupted genius Neil LeFort has made some of the largest figures I've ever seen in the Oldhammer style, a collection of grotesque demonic tanks, and is putting them on sale via Kickstarter.
LeFort made the prototype version of these tanks back in 2025, sharing shots of the heavily customised original to his Instagram account as he worked on it. That tank used vast quantities of modelling putty, guitar wires, nylon cables, and actual rusty nails, creating an abomination worthy of grandfather Nurgle.
Between the bio-organic "doorifices" and chunky sculpting style, this vehicle would look equally at home in first edition Warhammer 40k, or as a strange living war engine from Warhammer's Realm of Chaos. If you wanted to use it as a proxy for a unit from one of the Warhammer 40k factions, a Death Guard Land Raider seems like the obvious pick.
Since making that original tank, LeFort has created four more, two with gaping doorifices, and two with mouth-mounted mega cannons. They're not quite as heavily detailed, but that simplicity has allowed him to create molds to cast copies of each tank.
And apparently, the molds work - he already has a whole box of resin copies of these monstrosities. If you want to get one of these crimes against the natural order for yourself, they will be on sale via Kickstarter from Friday July 11. The prices haven't been announced yet. I don't expect them to be cheap, because although the miniatures are hollow, I'm guessing there's at least a pound of resin in each one.
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If you're a fan of grimdark grotesqueries, keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming video documentary The Grim and the Dark - and check out our interview with the director and producers, to find out how the actor who played Napoleon Dynamite came to be its host…