Hi all,

I wondered if any of the heads on here could help me out please.  About 15 years ago I picked up a squad of Renegade Ogryn from GW HQ, *grandpa Simpson hat on* back then they didn’t have a Forgeworld shop in the HQ and the staff had to go over to the studio directly and collect them.

I’ve got the point where I need to clear some of the pile of shame so I listed them on Reddit’s miniswap sub. Immediately I was accused of trying to sell a recast.  They’re in the original ziplock bags and the outer large bag has the serial number. Annoyingly I didn’t keep the assembly instructions or a receipt.

So I wrote to the moderators and asked how I can prove they’re genuine beside having the original packaging and the sculpts still being on sprue.  They said that the sprue channel’s shape was wrong (and there’s apparently ‘too much flash’ to be Forgeworld, which I find baffling that they believe they’re experts on the amount of flashing the notoriously wonky casts from Forgeworld should have), and when I sent other images from ebay of models with the same sprue channel they said those must be recasts too.  I’ve even tried emailing Forgeworld directly, but they said they can’t check packing sheets to check casting because the models are too long oop and their records don’t go back far enough to check the serial number.

I guess just for my sanity as much as anything now, if there was someone who could just confirm that Forgeworld cast with straight flat sprue channels like this one around 2002 (the date on the packet) I would be super grateful: