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The other day I popped into Games Workshop in Cribbs Causeway and managed to have a really good look at the new Warhammer buildings as I posted earlier.
I also managed to have a good look at the new plastic trees.
I will say I was not impressed!
They look like plastic model trees.
I am sure that some will like them, but they are plastic model trees!
Yesterday I popped into Games Workshop in Cribbs Causeway and managed to have a really good look at the new Warhammer buildings. The shop had constructed theirs and had given it a black undercoat. They had constructed the fortified manor house, which consists of the tower, the chapel and a joining section.
It is a very nice model, however it was smaller than I thought it would be, but there are some really nice details.
It looks like it will be nice to paint, but may need some texture to bring out the fact it is in fact stone and not plastic!
The details are nice and include swivel guns, skulls and has a range of options.
I also had a good look at the chaos temple ruins which are very nice and look like they can be used equally with Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40000. You get quite a bit of ruin and I personally thought it wasn’t bad value for £15. I think I would have preferred it in resin over plastic and like the buildings would benefit from a stone texture.
Overall I was impressed with both plastic kits.
This is the old Citadel Orc War Wyvern, which is from the Games Workshop archive and was on display at GamesDay 2006.
An early release for Warhammer, I do in fact have one of these, somewhere!
This is the old Citadel Monstrous Orc War Machine.
An early release for Warhammer, I do in fact have one of these, somewhere!
Here is a picture of some more Warhammer stuff which is from the Games Workshop archive and was on display at GamesDay 2006.
There are some things here which I remember buying when released such as the plastic Warhammer boxed set of Fantasy Warriors.
These are the three-ups that were used to create the Citadel Bretonnians from ten years ago.
Things have improved since then, but I still think the quality back then was still pretty good. True though you had limited poses and therefore a lot of uniformity (something which works for WHFB but less so for WH40K).
Compared to the first plastics that Citadel did (a long time ago) these are fantastic.
With the new 3D scanning and laser technology Citadel are now using, it will be interesting to see where they go now!
Older Warhammer Miniatures from the displays at GamesDay 2006…
Here are some older Warhammer miniatures including some three-ups.
They were on display at GamesDay 2006.
So early they are in fact in bags and are not blister packs…
When Citadel first started selling metal (okay lead) miniatures they used plastic bags and card labels, as seen here at GamesDay 2006.
In the background are some Warhammer supplements, notably Warhammer Armies.
Some of the early Warhammer supplements that were on show at GamesDay 2006. There are also some Warhammer blisters as well.
One nice thing about the supplements were that they were when first released usually hardback books.
Really big (as in three-up) Dwarf pony and wagon.