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Wednesday 24 October 2012

Citadel Newsletters July / August / September 85.

Next from the newsletter archive is one from early 85 - not sure what month but the first Citadel Journal gets a mention. In this one we have some Fighting Fantasy figures, which I must admit I don't even remember them, some of the Lord of the Rings range, the Dark Disciples of the Red Redemption (my mate Rob had LOADS of these and they were a chilling site on our Warhammer battlefields!) plus some Orcs and Hobgoblins. My faves here are the C06 Dwarfs, of which as you can probably tell I had most of. They are currently getting a well deserved paint-job after over 25 years!



Next is a couple of pages from the July 85 newsletter - I didn't bother to copy all this one as it was just repeated lists. This one contains some old D&D / AD&D figures, more Orcs and the excellent range of C46 Villagers and Townsfolk. I still have these and will get around to painting them (one day...)


Next is the August 85 releases. More AD&D, Lord of the Rings, the LE3 Gumshoes (which I still own and actually painted!), the second slotta-based version of Golgfags Ogres, the excellent Giant Hill Troll (want!) and best of all a tantalising advert for Blood Bath at Orc's Drift. Was it really on £5.95...


Lastly we have the September 85 releases. More AD&D, Lord of the Rings and Hobgoblins. This also has some nice Beastmen which sadly I never managed to get hold of. Interestingly on here is the Limited Edition  LE2 Imperial Space Marine. Wonder how much he is worth these days?


Next up are some 86 / 87 newsletters!
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4 comments:

  1. private wierd24 October 2012 at 07:03

    Wardy-la, again, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! What an incredible thrill seeing these treasure maps/newsletters (which are really complete treasures themselves!) of hidden/forgotten/as well as never-even-knew-about miniatures! Now if you can build us all a Time Machine, please count me in...

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  2. Thantsants24 October 2012 at 07:08

    Ahh lots of classics here - got quite a range of the minis featured here.

    Still gotta collect 'em all though! ;)

    I'll second the request for temporal transport - I want that Megadeal!

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  3. Coopdevil24 October 2012 at 18:30

    That red-on-yellow sheet was the first ever I received - back when I saw an advert for Citadel in the rear pages of a Lone Wolf page and dutifully sent my SAE off!

    Haven't seen it for 27 years and never expected to again...

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  4. wardy-la24 October 2012 at 19:09

    It's been great fun to find these again. Glad people are enjoying seeing them! How I wish I had spent a few more quid of my pocket money at the time...
    Showing my age now, but I still love the old line drawing ones most! More to come!

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