A is for Amazons

In 1984 Citadel produced a range of Amazons.




















They first appeared in the second Citadel compendium.
They were featured on the front cover.

Here is my stash:

Today I started to paint them ....

The characters:

Everything I am going to paint all together:

 

A project for every letter of the alphabet.

So the other day I got to thinking about all my planned projects and how some projects, even ones I am really excited about never get started as they keep getting 'bumped' by the next new project idea I come up with. So I had this idea that I would write them all down and put them in a planned order to do one at a time and try and stick to it.
(Good luck with that!)

I quickly realised that if I did this I would not get around to some projects for 10 years!
So I came up with an idea that what I needed to do was to divide all my projects into the year and allocate each project a month and do something for each project, even if I only did a little something towards a project it would keep all my projects moving forwards each year.

When I started to list my projects I thought 'blimey I must have a project for every letter of the alphabet' ... It turns out I nearly did. The only letter of the alphabet I did not have a project for was the letter 'Y' (Knock yourselves out!).

So over the past couple of weeks I have played with this idea and here is my plan. I couldn't cram all of my projects into a year so had to spread them over two years.

I will focus on a letter of the alphabet a month and try and paint as much as I can for the various projects I have on the go or planned starting with that letter.

So this month I will be painting up a few Amazons, a little something from Albion and Araby, some Fantasy Adventurers and some of the Avengers.

Next month ... well you get the picture ....

Obviously there is a fair bit of overlap between some of the 'projects' to give me some flexibility to return to some projects more often tha once every two years.
Here is the plan:

 

Month

Projects

May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr

A is for Amazons, Albion, Araby, Adventurers and Avengers Assemble (Super Heroes) B is for Bretonnians, Beastmen Barbarians and Blood Bowl C is for Chaos (Combined Inc: Chaos Warbands) Clerics and Castles D is for Dwarves, Dark Elves, Dungeons and Dragons and also Dark Future E is for Empire, Elves and Estalians and Elementals F is for Forest Goblins, Fantasy Fighters and Fiend Factory and Fantastic Four G is for Giants! Gnomes, Goblins and Ghouls H is for High Elves, Halflings, Half-Orcs and Hobgoblins I is for Imperial Dwarves J is for Jungle Scenery K is for Kislev, Khorne, Kobolds and Kremlo the Slaan L is for Lizardmen, Lustria and the Lost and the Damned M is for Men-at-arms, Mercenaries, Monsters, Man-o-War and Marvel (Superheroes) N is for Norse, Normans, Night Goblins and Nurgle O is for Orcs, Ogre Kingdoms, Oriental Heroes and Old West P is for Pirates, Pygmies, Plains Wars and Pre-slotta Q is for Warhammer Quest / Hero Quest R is for Regiments of Renown, Realms of Chaos, Rouges and Rangers S is for Skaven, Snotlings Slaanesh, Slaves to Darkness and SAGA T is for Tomb Kings, Tzeentch, Tilians, Townsfolk, Tunnels and Trolls U is for Undead V is for Vampire Counts and Vikings W is for Wood Elves, Warriors of Chaos, White Wolves and Wizards XYZ is for X-Men (Superheroes) Zombie Pirates and Zoats

Giant update

Here is some Progress on the Giant.

There is someone behind me is't there?

The Norse from the Legend of Kremlo (Done)

So here are these guys finished.
Lovely old minis ... they just don't make them like they used to ... These are even nicer than the Perrys lovely Norse minis they made after these. Lots of lovely detail in the sculpts. Real individual characters each and every one of them.

If anyone has a Kremlo the Slaan they are willing to part with ... I would be delighted to hear from you.

What are the chances of this?

I am painting 'The Citadel Giant' ... here he is W.I.P.

... and here is an inked version of a Tony Akland sketch from The 3rd Edition of Runequest.
(It originally appeared without colour in 3rd Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle).




















I was not even aware of this coloured image until Zhu Bajie kindly brought it to my attention .....
(Please follow the link on the right to his excellent Blog 'The Realm of Zhu' ... well worth a visit).
.... but if I had sat down with this image I couldn't have got much closer if I had tried.

Since my picture above I have gone on to do other bits ... the club and the shoes and have gone with near identical colours ... right down to the wooden shields.

Pure coincidence ... but a happy one I think. I guess I just think in old school colours. :D

The Norse from the Legend of Kremlo the Slaan

Whats up next on the painting table?

I am painting up these guys:

Here they are at the bottom of the page in the second Citadel compendium: (as Fighters)

Originally they were not just any old fighters .....

The first two guys in my pictures above are Sven and Ben Stoutback.
They are the characters from the Norse village of Skeggi (in Lustria) from a scenario published in the first Citadel compendium .....

.... The Legend of Kremlo the Slann. .

IF ANYONE HAS A KREMLO TO TRADE OR SELL ... PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.

The Great Spined Dragon (W.I.P.)

Here she is with some paint on ... not finished yet ... but getting there ...