Return to Oldenheim... or 'Citadel - The Golden Years'

[V]

As a means to get through the small mountain of Oldhammer miniatures, I decided to mix my two favoutire things - Oldhammer figures and Mordheim!

Thus the city of Oldenheim was born, a place where miniatures from the 1980s (with a few exceptions as long as they are OOP) can fight and delve for treasure without fear of being too small or not detailed enough when attacked by a more modern plastic warrior.

In Oldenheim, the ruins of the Golden Citadel look down on the city and its 80's night every night...

To start with I have been working on a Carroburg Warband, always best to start with some humans before moving on too other things. The Warband of Gunther Drakos so far...

[Tungdil]

I like this guys very much. Really nice minis with a great paint job. Interesting choice of colours, too.

[FramFramson]

I think you've made those minis look just fine - they'd stand with any new stuff (well, maybe not in height...  )

without fear of being too small or not detailed enough when attacked by a more modern plastic warrior.

 

[Mr. Peabody]

Good show.  Cue the Banshees!

[Anselm van Helsing]

Great painting of great minis!

and its 80's night every night...

Cue disco music and shadowy figures with big hair and neon wristbands. 

[V]

So a little appraisal as to where I am to date with the various Warbands intended for Oldenheim...

Probably the nearest to completion are the Norse Raider Warband of Harald Sitric, a long time menace to Oldenheim from before the days of the towns destruction...




Next is another local warband - a group of Ostlanders, with an Ogre Mercenary in tow...




Then we have the main opposition to explorers and adventurers - The Warbands composed of the followers of the Chaos Gods...

[Daniel36]

I feel like this should be a proper game! Oldenheim sounds like a game I would totally play!

[Funghy-Fipps]

Great selection of vintage lead and wonderful brushwork. Looking forwards to more news from the forsaken city of Oldenheim!

[Comsquare]

Great idea, lovely minis and painting, pretty cool.
Are you using any mods for Mordheim?

The Sommerlund Guard Captain is my fave

[Tungdil]

I like the ogre mercenary. It's a cool figure.

[m4jumbo]

Very cool.

[beefcake]

Nice. I used to have that devil. I always wanted that snakey chaos guy too.

[Anselm van Helsing]

Really cool. I too have a couple of those minis. They look great painted. Inspiring.

[axiom]

These are lovely. I really enjoy the mix of figures combined with your lovely painting. Those Ostlanders are the stand-out figures for me though!

[V]

Thank you chaps.

Another warband that is well on the way to be finished are the Goblin Raiders of Mama Zog. One of the first Citadel boxsets that I bought back in 1984 was the SS4 Goblin Raiding Party set and I've always had a fondness for that set and the associated early solid based Goblins from the C12 and C13 ranges. So with that in mind, one warband I wanted to feature (especially as my Dwarf Army always likes new opposition too) was one that was entirely composed of Goblins!

So the Goblin Raiders of Mama Zog was born...