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Author Topic: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.  (Read 100963 times)

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #465 on: January 13, 2021, 11:07:19 PM »
Thanks dyoods, I do love the old models you know. No rose-tinted specs here, there are some awful models from that time and even the good ones were too often poorly cast. But the character, the understated dynamics, the proportions just appeal to me so much more than most modern ranges.

When I've finished this boxed set I might take a short break from the Runequest stuff and hit some of the my other Citadel goodies in the the pile.
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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #466 on: January 30, 2021, 10:28:58 AM »
So my brother and I don't have a lot of spare cash and sometimes we just exchange some of the stuff gathering dust on our respective shelves instead of buying presents for Christmas and birthdays.

This Christmas MrsCub bought me the old Talisman 2nd Edition and we had a game. I told my brother about this and he said he had a couple of old Talisman figures he'd send me as a late present.

Today this parcel came through the post. Holy crap. So ... I guess that's this year's Oldhammer project sorted then!


Offline Citizen Sade

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #467 on: January 30, 2021, 10:32:03 AM »
Nice score. You have a very generous brother. I hate to think what you’d have to shell out to buy that little lot.

Offline McYellowbelly

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #468 on: January 30, 2021, 11:15:30 AM »
Superb!
Love most of the Talisman figures, very 80s GW.
Look forward to seeing what you do with them
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Offline Roo

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #469 on: January 30, 2021, 11:17:47 AM »
Cannot wait to see these folks coloured in by your wonderful brush skills;  2021 just got a whole lot better!  Send your Bro a big LAF hug!

Offline hubbabubba

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #470 on: February 06, 2021, 12:16:51 PM »
Amazing body of work in this thread, they all look like the kind of character's we'd have seen if Velasquez had painted fantasy.

A pleasure to come back to again and again.

Keep them coming.

Offline sir_shvantselot

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #471 on: February 06, 2021, 02:03:45 PM »
Very bright painting!

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #472 on: February 18, 2021, 02:00:46 PM »
Svenn very kindly 'sold' me 3 Runequest Broo to me for little more than postage (I was only trying to buy the one, and that was cheap, but he very generously lobbed in a couple of bonus Broo in the parcel). I love the generosity of spirit you find on this forum.

Anyhoo, I've always vowed never to start collecting Broo because that's a very expensive rabbit hole to fall down, but I couldn't resist. Here's the wee fella who has kicked it all off.






Offline Hobgoblin

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #473 on: February 18, 2021, 02:33:49 PM »
He's terrific! Great colours - and what a face!

Offline Tactalvanic

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #474 on: February 18, 2021, 02:54:42 PM »
Gorgeous as every PJ you do.

So you have two more to do?

Then squad, skirmish or full on themed army?  :D

I can say that i don't need to bother getting any now, as yours is so much better than I could do, so I guess that's something I am immune to for a change!

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #475 on: February 18, 2021, 04:04:58 PM »
So you have two more to do?

Then squad, skirmish or full on themed army?  :D

Yeah, there are two unicorn-headed Broo, which will no doubt get coloured in some time. The Runequest goodies are there purely for lookin' at, with not even the excuse of a pie-in-the-sky gaming force. The other Citadel goodies I'm painting are for my (purely theoretical I'm sure) Malal warband. Malal is the mysterious 5th Chaos God (who I first read about in the Citadel Journal Kaleb Daark comic strip) whose only purpose seems to fight the other Chaos factions. So I have a collection of vintage Citadel Orcs, Half Orcs, Hobgoblins, Chaos Warriors and eebly Humans who sport the black and white badge of Malal and who are potentially all part of the same Chaos/Anti-Chaos warband.

Offline Donpimpom

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #476 on: February 18, 2021, 04:12:15 PM »
... he said he had a couple of old Talisman figures he'd send me as a late present.
If that's "a couple" I don't dare to imagine his meaning of "a lot"

Really looking forward to see the paint job you can do on these
Ages ago I got mines already painted and I always debate between keeping them painted or stripping it to paint them again myself, but I´m afraid they end just enlarging the pile of unpainted lead

Offline Svennn

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #477 on: February 18, 2021, 04:16:48 PM »
Still in a 35 year old lead pile on Monday and superbly coloured in and on the forum by Thursday  :o

I bet a lot don't realize he is only half the height of a C33 Beastman from a few years later.

Great work which I never doubted and just what he deserved.

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Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #478 on: February 18, 2021, 04:30:05 PM »
Still in a 35 year old lead pile on Monday and superbly coloured in and on the forum by Thursday  :o

I bet a lot don't realize he is only half the height of a C33 Beastman from a few years later.

Great work which I never doubted and just what he deserved.

Svennn

I was excited, I could stop myself! He totally jumped the queue, but then he is Broo, no moral centre. Yeah, his hunched, scuttling pose makes him all the nastier to me and I knew he needed a really disturbing, unnatural paint-job to bring that out.

Offline nicknorthstar

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #479 on: February 18, 2021, 07:17:13 PM »
Looks splendid.
Your paint work on these figures is fantastic as always, but you're also reminding me how great Runequest was (is). Or at least how great I thought RQ was back in the day. Nostalgia overload.