'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.

[OSHIROmodels]

Superb work 

[McYellowbelly]

Superb paintwork.
Not a range of figures i've considered, but really like these.
Remember reading the scenario and wishing I had the money to buy the figures back then, now it would need a remortgage!
Inspirational

[Hobgoblin]

Fantastic work on these!

It's interesting - and inspirational - to see how you've addressed the Great Slann Conundrum: paint them with a unifying skin colour or just go wild and bold with all manner of froggery, as you've done here. They look terrific in all their variety.

Hope you make a swift recovery from the lurgy!

[steders]

Lovely stuff Cubs. I always wanted some slaves! Not actual slaves, the figures obviously.

[Cubs]

Thanks dyoods, very kind. As I said, they're not to my taste, but the oldschool Slann are still pure nostalgia. 

[Vanvlak]

You do the more than justice, terrific paint job. Great colour palette too.
And the slaved are just creepy - I only now noticed the chain motif on the shields, grand job there. 

[DivisMal]

I never did that, but I found them incredibly inspiring. Did you ever see Mr Blanche's similar cover to Heroes? What inspired me was that the drawings brought an element of fantasy art to boring Dark Age figures. Instead of just drawing Vikings in trousers and tunics with some puttees arounds the ankles, he added layers and furs in a way the young Nick hadn't seen before. Did you notice the masked Viking on the right has a pelt of a  badger over his knee, fantastic. Don't miss that when you come to paint him, I thought whichever Mr Perry made the figures was really faithful to Mr Blanches work, even the badger head is there.

Great stuff Mr Cubbin!!

It’s moments like these which reveal the awesomeness of early citadel;)

All these books were tremendously hard to get in Germany when I got hooked. But I can even from a far retrospective enjoy the little innovations John Blanche brought into fantasy illustration.

[Muzfish4]

Lovely work as ever, Cubs.

Best wishes for a quick and lasting recovery.

[plessiez]

Dipping into this thread for the first time. I haven't made it through the whole thing yet but this is a lovely collection with some great brushwork on these old sculpts.

[Cubs]

Dipping into this thread for the first time. I haven't made it through the whole thing yet but this is a lovely collection with some great brushwork on these old sculpts.

Welcome in, you get bonus points for the Reepicheep pic (I had a pet rat called Reepicheep).

[Cubs]

Right, thought I'd sneak a couple of fellas in under the wire before Orctober is done.

First up is a C-series Orc champion, a variant on the Harboth model.





Second is a quick Black Orc from Ugezod's Regiment of Renown - a range of models I find hard to love with their low stoop, dish-rag hats and ultra-deep eye sockets (I had to paint eyes in there, but it wasn't easy and you can't see them anyway). Having said that, I have a lot of a great memories of these guys, so I can't help but love them, despite all that.

[Cubs]

I have no idea why they're so small.

Edit: My hosting site is mucking about, resizing my photos down to thumbnails when I try to share. I've found a ball-ache way around it, but at least it is a way around it.

[nicknorthstar]

The Black Orcs were Nick Lund rather than the Perrys, so I wasn't a big fan either. Except for his Wolf Riders. I love them still, I think he got them just right.

[Pattus Magnus]

I have a soft spot for Lund’s orcs, so the black orc’s style appeals to me (I also no longer paint eyes on most 28mm figures, so trying to get into the eye sockets wouldn’t be a worry.)

Both figures are just beautifully painted! I thoroughly enjoy each of the figures you share in this thread.

[Cubs]

Here we go then, the other half of the Legend of Kremlo collection, Kremlo himself with his Norse warriors. I thought they were really poorly cast when I first got them, but it turned out to be very thick paint which, for some reason or another, had then been painted over with silver paint so it looked like bare metal! A quick soak in Dettol revealed the mystery.