Original Games Workshop/Citadel Champion of Chaos

Welcome back after a bit of a break ahem.

Anyway have a bit of treat for you today as we have a very old Warrior of Chaos to show off. This was one of my brothers miniatures and I remember when we got, Games Day down in London probably in 1982. Caught the train from Birmingham to London and along with a number of goodies we came back with two of the new boxed sets. I had Dark Elf Patrol and this guy is Braxus Dwarfbane from the Speciality Set 1 Champions of Chaos (info courtesy of the excellent stuff of legends).

Braxus Dwarfbane

Speciality Set 1 was an amazing set as it came with nine bodies with 12 interchangeable heads and shields, so you create your own unique Chaos Champion. In this case whilst it is the body of Braxus Dwarfbane it is with the head shown on Goron Widowmaker on the body.

The figure above is pre slotta and so is rebased on a 25mm base with the standard method that we used to use which was to surround the normal base with milliput and build up to the edges of a piece of plastic-card cut to the right size.

It is painted in oils, which is unusual and difficult to work with but does give a very distinctive look but you do need to varnish otherwise the oil rubs off too easily.

Comments

Legolas Greenleaf

Well got some of the first figures in from Ebay for the LOTR strategy battle game. They are a mixed bag and I am always amazed at how badly painted and prepared most of the figures are. It is as if no one has ever seen White Dwarf or the Games Workshop website and haven't a clue. Learn how to use a brush. The most overused and innacurate statement on Ebay for Games Workshop figures is Pro Painted! Anyway this is the first example, I am going to tackle, our little pointed ear friend Legolas Greenleaf, prince of Mirkwood and son to Tharanduil. He appears to have green hair in the figure that I have got, so much work to be done to turn him into a decent figure again. I got the whole Fellowship on their presentation stand as one of my first purchases and I will go through the reasons for which models I got in a future post.

Slannesh Warhammer Army

As mentioned before have built up quite a few Games Workshop armies over the years, and one that I have for Warhammer is the that of the Slannesh Chaos Champion Valsav of the Hrud. Yet again since it has been built up over time it has a number of old models in it as well as some of the newer ones. So for example the Chaos Lord incarnation of Vaslav is the latest Chaos Slannesh hero, but the Demon Prince alternative uses the original Keeper of Secrets. I also have some of the first Chaos Warriors from the first box set in there. Below are two figures, mostly finished although the bases need more work. A Chaos Warrior and a Marauder. The Chaos Warriors are using a basic black scheme for speed of painting whilst the Marauders unifying element is the red and white shield design. Warhammer Chaos Warrior Slannesh Chaos Marauder

Old Apothecary

I do have one of the new style ones that I need to paint up, but this is an original guy. Still have the White Dwarf article somewhere where they were introduced along with Imperial Guard Medics (have to finish and photograph that army at some point as well). The only Dark Angels iconography is in the painted pin shoulder pad. Uses a blue white rather than just using whites and greys. Dark Angels Apothecary

Painted Figures: Older Citadel and GW Miniatures, A Song of Ice and Fire TMG and more

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