Oldhammer Marvels! The Citadel Giant Chaos Battering Ram...

Opening a box I picked up (I think) in the 90's... a Citadel Chaz Elliott monster of a sculpt (every pun intended). Excuse the wobbly camera, the iPhone needs to go for repair. I did paint one for the GW Manchester shop back in the day but it went the way of my painted Dwarf Steam Cannon unfortunately...

More later!

 

Citadel Dragons - December 1992 and other bits...

Just picked up an old Citadel flyer for Dragons... as the title suggests! Most of these were released well before this however advertising is advertising...

I also had one of those Google memories come up from when I was on holiday in Nottingham a few years back. These pics show Citadel Miniatures' original site on Millgate in Newark. The address was Newark Folk Museum, 48 Millgate, Newark, Nottinghamshire. I think visiting there in the later 70's was when I first met Bryan and Diane. Happy days!

In case you've missed (and if so, where have you been!), Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson have recently published 'Dice Men', the origin story of Games Workshop. Well worth a read and it really helps me relive my youth!

Available from all good booksellers.

More later folks. If you fancy grabbing me a coffee it would be very much appreciated... picking these memories up is thirsty work!

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Citadel Fantasy Tribe Fighters - November 1982

 

Back in the day, Citadel were frantically throwing models into generic ranges. The sculptors were working frantically and turning out some of the nicest minis around. A hobby friend queried a female barbarian type that is purportedly one of this range however, I can't see her on this particular advert from Military Modelling. Feast your eyes anyway, it was a golden age for us fantasy collectors.

Not sure who else beside the Perry twins would have been responsible for these as it's a little early for some of the other names of the 80's.

Edit; Tony Ackland just mentioned that this was his piece of work and he had to work late to finish it!

More later.

Wargames Foundry Oldhammer BOYL 2021

 

Postponed a few times due to that evil coffid thing, we finally got the dates for the first weekend in October... bags packed, dogsitting sorted and we were off...

Booked this year at the Beaumond Cross Inn as my usual (The Ashiana) was booked up... very pleasant and worth a few pics...

One thing to note with Foundry, they organise a lot of social events and are VERY experienced in catering... the grub is wonderful and plentiful... 

Pics are in no particular order from over the three days... I left before lunch on the Sunday due to needing to rescue the hound...

Geoff Solomon-Sims and his incredible Heroquest set up...

The display cases were full of old classics, many of which have featured in the early years of White Dwarf...

The two Tony's, one part Harry and a fleeing Maria...

My shrink wrapped Great Spined Dragon... the Nik Bibby classic... passed over to a certain Phil Gregory in appreciation of some work he will be doing on my The Little Soldier Company website.

Various shots of the shop area and more display cabinets...

The painting competition...

And the judges...

Was this Paul's mini? Please correct me if wrong. Anyway, it was one that Kev Adams had added a new head to at a previous BOYL and now joined in Friday's gaming.

Garth announcing the painting competition results...

The usual assembly, all qdos to Maria who took the pic. I'm looking dazed somewhere on the right hand side...

My lonely Saturday evening first pint as I got to the Prince Rupert about 10 minutes before anyone else... managed to book a room for the rest of the evening which was great... after we were kicked out of there we hit the something Circus... carried on till midnight before being moved on. I'm far too old to drink till that time of night now so must resist next year... or at Salute in November of course...

A quick walk around Newark Castle before meeting up with Mark and Gemma for breakfast... unfortunately the local parking ticket machines reduced my to a gibbering wreck (well, almost) so I went straight to Foundry and had a fantastic bacon and egg roll along with numerous cups of good strong coffee. Thanks Harry!

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