Can anyone identify these figures?

[Cosmic Moose]

I’ve been going through my collection of old Fantasy battle Orcs and I’m having a bit of trouble finding the range that this little chap came from.

I’m wanting to put decent descriptions on the items when I list them for sale, hence the question.  It looks like it says GW on the base and the date looks like 1987 or 1989.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Chris

[Dolmot]

The page "Orc Bosses & Command" in 1993 US Catalog could do the trick...

http://solegends.com/citcat1993usafb/index.htm
http://solegends.com/citcat1993usafb/c1993usp046-140121-02.htm

Didn't browse everything yet to find the original release batch.

[Hobgoblin]

It's one of the riders of the late-80s Citadel orc war wyvern.

[Hobgoblin]

Here you go ...

[Cosmic Moose]

Thank you very much both of you.

Cheers

Chris

[Cosmic Moose]

I have a couple more miniatures that I’m trying to identify. Anyone know what these 2 fighters are. I think they are early 80’s citadel but not sure. Maybe Bryan Ansell?

[Hobgoblin]

That's Buoophut Bane-Arrow from the Knights of Chaos box (by the Perrys).

[Cosmic Moose]

Thanks again Hobgoblin. You’re a star.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

That's Buoophut Bane-Arrow from the Knights of Chaos box (by the Perrys).

Sigh.  That link makes me pine for the days when there were a kajillion different Chaos Gods , each seemingly with a sillier name than the last. 

I wonder if I could get tax exempt status if I founded the Church of Gorth the Great Obesity.  "All praise the Lord of Lard, His Tubby Divinity, Rotund Ruler of the Cosmos!"  Or perhaps a cult devoted to Wenwoch the Waylayer.  Be very popular with the more devout muggers out there.  "Give me your wallet and take this pamphlet or I'll cut out yer liver and lights, I swear it!"

I'd make a crack about Laughing Jokkle, but he's no joke. 

[mweaver]

Yup, and all the Chaos grunts had very different mutations. What's up with Chaos followers all having uniform mutations these days?

I have that archer fellow around here somewhere.  I even painted him back in the day.

-Michael

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Yup, and all the Chaos grunts had very different mutations. What's up with Chaos followers all having uniform mutations these days?

To be fair to GW, the Chaos Spawn plastic kit and the mutations sprue that (I think) still comes with the Marauders-that-ought-to-be-called-Thugs minis give you enough bits to customize to your heart's content, and plastic makes that easier than it was in the days when everything was metal.  They sculpted  alot of variations for the Chaos boys back in teh day, but still not enough to build an army without either doing conversions or having repeats creep in.

[Hobgoblin]

It's the beastmen, specifically, that strike me as the most disappointing in this regard. Imagine the sort of variety you could get with multipart figures if the intention was more like that in the good old days:

[Chief Lackey Rich]

It's the beastmen, specifically, that strike me as the most disappointing in this regard. Imagine the sort of variety you could get with multipart figures if the intention was more like that in the good old days:

FWIW, the Tzaangor plastic set is pretty good for variety, although not quite as easy to kitbash for variety as a fully-modular kit like the Spawn one.  Gave me great hopes that we'd see similarly impressive "aligned" beastmen for each power - whereupon GW disappointed me as usual by releasing the Slaaneshi one with only three sculpts, none of them much good for converting to look unique even if you wanted to carve up $17 models.  Not holding out much hope for the eventual pestigor or khorngor kits, assuming GW even remembers to do them someday.