I have reached a bit of a watershed in my Citadel history ....
Blue ‘Dragon’Catalogue
Early in 1983 came the Little blue Catalogue with the BIG (Chicken) Dragon on the front.
With this Catalogue Citadel revised their famous ‘C series’ codes of numbering started. It evolved a little with the odd code changing time but the C-series remained as the system for identifying Citadel miniatures for many years.
Whilst this was a reorganisation of existing miniatures under the new codes it also seemed to herald an explosion of new miniatures as they set about producing miniatures for each of the codes and applied the fantasy tribe concept of individualised figures to the entire range.
In the words of Brian Ansell from the introduction to this catalogue:
“Welcome to the new citadel range!
This catalogue represents a major turning point in citadels history!
Most of you will be familiar with our fantasy tribes concept of individualised models, we are now applying that concept to the entire range.
We have recoded our range into groups of the same type of figure and will be working through the codes individualising existing models and adding completely new individualised figures as we go.
For instance C01: Fighters lists 20 models. In fact we have made at least six variations of costume, head shield weapon or equipment for each of these models ; just like we did with our fantasy tribe range.
My next mini is a good example of this:
This guy is : FA10-1 Paladin with Sword.
He got given a new code under the C01 Fighting men code.
Specifically C01/2a
C01/1 Fighting men
C01/2 Paladins & Goodly Knights of law
C01/3 Female Fighters and Amazons
C02/4 Warriors of Chaos
My guy, C01/2a was ...
a) Paladin in Full plate with sword.
However the guy I am going to paint does not have a sword.
My guy is this guy but with a weapon change. His sword has been swapped for a Mace ... but as you can see he is identical to the original mini in every other way:
So .... all crystal clear then?
Less explanation ... more painting.
So here he is done:
Next up is this guy:
FAC10 Mounted Paladin with Sword
The mounted version of the last guy I painted.
and here they are together:
... and with his mates: