I've been meaning to make a start on a chaos warrior regiment but wanted a couple of ranks of broo finished first. The first pair are done and I've gone for two rarities to kick off.
On the left we have a very rare model indeed. In fact, I only purchased this a couple of weeks ago and had never even seen it before, other than the image in the unreleased section of the Collecting Citadel Miniatures wiki page. I think it had been in my ebay watch list for about 12 years and was stunned to see it come up. I'm delighted to have been able to add it to the army and to be honest, never expected to ever get my hands on one.
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On the right is the fairly scarce chaos warrior from the Counter Collect range from 1984. Basically, you would collect counters from blister packs that would form the image of a particular miniature; Wizard, Barbarian, Ogre etc, then send them off to claim the figure. This particular model is one of my favourite chaos warriors. I just love that armour and his elaborate mace. The shield is very unique also.
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I don't always take photos of the backs of my miniatures these days but seeing how scarce these boys are, it makes sense to.
There are more chaos warriors to come and should hopefully have another two or three ready next week, one being a converted standard bearer.
Those are SO cool! I have never seen these particular ones before and I am thrilled with their sheer early '80s Chaos vibe. Great pain jobs as well!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much! It's been great to enable others to see this rare figure painted and documented, when there's only been one online grainy photo of it unpainted
DeleteI'm not at all jealous. At least they've found a good home after 40 odd years!!
ReplyDeleteIt makes me wonder where that model had been sat for all this time and how the previous owner procured it.
DeleteBeautiful painted minis!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michał!
Deleteawesome - keep it up
ReplyDeleteCheers Mike. More warriors coming this week!
DeleteWow, I didn't know these minis, but they look great. Lovely paintjob!
ReplyDeleteThank you Suber! It's great to add these rarities to the army.
DeleteCongrats on seeing a 12-year wait finally come to fruition!
ReplyDeleteAnd double congrats on the beautiful paintjobs. They're colourful without being flashy. There's something about gaudy chaos warriors that seems silly to me.
Thanks Matthew! I'm so pleased to have got hold of him. Gives the army that real uniqueness.
DeleteAlso, I agree with you about gaudy chaos warriors. I can't be doing with that look these days.
DeleteLove the muted palette on these. Good painting on some classics as always sir.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Dai. Much prefer the bronze and Iron look to red armour etc these days
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