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Author Topic: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.  (Read 100636 times)

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #150 on: July 18, 2019, 07:13:21 PM »
Stunning

For me too the citadel spikes have been a,n enigma - to file or not to file...

The plastic shield system was pretty innovative in fairness and works fine for the more 'cartoonish' subjects, but if it was up to me, I'd have flat shields on all subjects with a central design. For me, the aesthetics are more important than retaining the original state of the old models. I can completely understand when a customer just wants the classic models preserved as authentically as possible though.
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Offline Belligerentparrot

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #151 on: July 18, 2019, 08:00:22 PM »
Just fantastic painting Cubs, absolutely stunning!

On the shield-spike issue, as a super-super-shite painter I always appreciated them, as it gave the shield some character. The good painters among friends I knew generally filed them off, while the one really fucking good painter left them on and worked around them.

Offline Blackwolf

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #152 on: July 18, 2019, 08:23:52 PM »
Lovely,as always   :-*
I always clipped the spike off, and filled the hole,except for Chaos Dwarves, hahaha
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Offline thebinmann

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #153 on: July 18, 2019, 08:36:56 PM »
IIRC I filed the knobs off but left the spikes...

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #154 on: July 22, 2019, 10:55:08 AM »
Some Orc nostalgia fun now, just for happy joy-joys inbetween paying work.

First up a lovely Orc brusier (one of the C-series bodyguards is he? something like that) with an awful shield. Honestly, I don't know what possessed the sculptor to lob that giant skull thing and the stipply putty background on it, but hey-ho. Lots of 'dead area' extra metal on this guy as well - not much you can do with that except paint it black (cue Rolling Stones intro).





Now a model that I never really liked much, but he's painted up nicely and I've come around to him. This guy's very plain other than the severed head (I probably appreciated these sorts of gruesome details better as a kid). He's also wearing a battered chain shirt over skin … damn those orc hides are tough.







And last but not least, the Champion from Harboth's Black Mountain Boyz. Again, it's not an overly attractive model (I think my original had his Christmas tree decoration removed from the hat sharpish) with a bizarre weapon, but again he's painted up nicely and has a great face. I actually made a mistake with the shield and plopped way more blood onto it than intended, but decided to work it in rather than remove it all, and I quite like the effect.









Offline Bloggard

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #155 on: July 22, 2019, 11:00:15 AM »
do love your style. All look great.

Offline Keith

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #156 on: July 22, 2019, 11:53:39 AM »
Oh my days - all lovely but that last fellow is amazing!
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Offline Duff

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #157 on: July 22, 2019, 12:44:08 PM »
This thread is like a comfort blanket made of nostalgia. You seem to have selected all of my favourite Citadel minis to paint, and then made them look better than I would have thought possible. Bravo.

Offline Hobgoblin

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #158 on: July 22, 2019, 01:05:26 PM »
Superb! And Yaskin Forit too!

Offline Dr Mathias

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #159 on: July 22, 2019, 02:17:09 PM »
Great painting man. I like that orc with the thin jutting jaw with the severed head quite a bit.
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Offline majorsmith

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #160 on: July 22, 2019, 03:08:01 PM »
Loving those orcs, particularly the 2nd one

Offline randycarter

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #161 on: July 22, 2019, 03:38:56 PM »
Wanderful, wanderful job on these, I like the palette choice!

Offline marrony

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #162 on: July 22, 2019, 07:47:27 PM »
Simply superb orcs
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Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #163 on: July 23, 2019, 09:09:37 AM »
Thanks guys, I do like painting up my old Orcs in a grimy style. Clean Orcs seem wrong.

Offline thebinmann

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #164 on: July 23, 2019, 10:25:49 AM »
Stunning!

Looking for Orcs at the moment, was thinking of Ral Partha but might go back to pre slotta Citadel now....