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Citadel Miniatures Limited is a producer of metal and plastic miniatures for tabletop wargames, such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle. While it was a separate company in partnership with Games Workshop in the past, today it is a brand for Games Workshop miniatures. Although primarily used for wargames and roleplaying games, the painting of Citadel's creations - and miniatures in general - is a hobby in its own right. Expert modellers also make conversions, whereby miniatures are chopped up, modified and swapped around to create either new creatures or old ones but with new weapons. Image File history File links Citadel-miniatures. ... Image File history File links Citadel-miniatures. ... 15mm British Camel Corps and Heliograph Team from Peter Pig A miniature figure -- also known as a miniature or just a mini -- is a small figurine commonly used in role playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons. ... Tabletop game is a general term used to refer to card games, board games, parlor games, role-playing games, miniature wargames, tile-based games and other games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface. ... This article is about the 1983 US movie. ... Warhammer Fantasy Battle 7th edition rulebook Warhammer Fantasy Battles (often abbreviated as Warhammer or WHFB) is a tabletop wargame created by Games Workshop and set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. ... For the defunct company, see Game Designers Workshop. ... Figure painting is the hobby of painting miniature figures and/or model figures, either in its own right or as an adjunct to role-playing games, wargames, military modeling, etc. ... A conversion kit released exclusively with Battle Games in Middle Earth magazine Miniature conversion refers to the practice of altering the appearance of a miniature or model so as to deviate from the standard version purchased in a boxed set. ...

Early history

Citadel Miniatures was formed in 1979 as part of the British game company Games Workshop^[1] Its formation was announced in White Dwarf issue 11 in early 1979, with the announcement reading: For the defunct company, see Game Designers Workshop. ... Cover of White Dwarf issue 90, June 1987. ...

The following issue contained the first Citadel advertisement for its forth coming figures, a feature that has continued ever since.

Materials and Construction

Traditionally miniatures were produced using a white metal alloy including lead, although in 1987 Citadel began to produce plastic miniatures as well. These were an innovation being made of a harder plastic than other plastic miniatures at time so they allowed greater detail and avoided the tendency to flake paint as they did not flex.^{[citation needed]} Even as plastic technology has improved to allow plastic to reach or even in some cases surpass metal detail,^{[citation needed]} Citadel miniatures continued to produce white metal miniatures as the economics of plastic make it only suitable for large runs.^{[citation needed]} For this reason many core troops are plastic but specialist and rare troops are still made from white metal.^{[citation needed]} Some models are a combination of both materials, with the arm-less bodies and heads metal and the arms, weapons and other accessories plastic. The white metals are any of several light-colored alloys used as a base for plated silverware, ornaments or novelties, as well as any of several lead-base or tin-base alloys used for things like bearings, jewellery, miniature figures, fusible plugs, some medals and metal type. ... An alloy is a combination, either in solution or compound, of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, and where the resulting material has metallic properties. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish white Atomic mass 207. ... Household items made out of plastic. ...

In 1997 Citadel switched to a lead free white metal because of concerns about lead poisoning particularly in children.^[2]

Most of the models created by Citadel require some form of construction after purchase. With smaller models (such as Space Marines) this usually involves attaching arms, weapons, backpacks and the base. Larger models - such as daemons, dragons and tanks, come in many pieces and require careful construction using various techniques such as pinning and filling and in some cases actual modelling to ensure that the kit is assembled as intended. This article deals with dragons as dealt with in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, a series of novels by Patricia Wrede. ...

Model ranges

From 1979 to 1984 Citadel had a reciprocal distribution and manufacturing deal with Ral Partha to bring each others products to Britain and North America respectively.^[3] Ral Partha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Over the years, as well as producing their own original miniatures, they have produced licenced ranges based on characters from games, movies, TV and books. These included figures based on RuneQuest, Fighting Fantasy , Judge Dredd, Doctor Who, Paranoia, Eternal Champion, Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Traveller, Star Trek, Lone Wolf and recently, figures based on The Lord of the Rings. Initially, Games Workshop were awarded the licence to make The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game miniatures for the trilogy of films directed by Peter Jackson and released by New Line Cinema. Since then, they have also made miniatures based on the actual writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, originally published by Puffin and now by Wizard Books. ... This article is about the the comic-book character. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Paranoia is a humorous role-playing game set in a dystopian future similar to 1984, Brazil, Brave New World, the downunder civilization of A Boy and His Dog, and especially Logans Run; however, the tone of the game is rife with black humor, frequently tongue-in-cheek rather than... The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ... Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, first published in 1977 by Game Designers Workshop. ... Star Trek is an American science fiction franchise. ... First Lone Wolf book, American edition Lone Wolf is a collection of 28 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated (books 1-8) by Gary Chalk. ... The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English academic J. R. R. Tolkien. ... The complete One Rulebook to Rule them All. The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (LoTR SBG), often referred to by players as Lord of the Rings, is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, based on The Lord of the Rings films and novels. ... Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which he, along with his long time partner, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens adapted from the novels... New Line Cinema logo New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. ... John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 â€“ 2 September 1973) was an English writer and university professor who is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. ...

Citadel Miniatures sometimes release limited edition models of specific or unusual characters, such as Thrud the Barbarian, drunken Space Marines dressed in Christmas outfits [1] and one representing a white-bearded dwarf, the logo of White Dwarf magazine. Thrud the Barbarian is a comic strip that was created by Carl Critchlow in 1981 and soon went from appearing in fanzines to becoming a highly popular feature in White Dwarf magazine in the latter half of the 1980s. ...

Along with the standard range of miniature soldiers, Citadel's lines include fantasy based war-machines, like catapults and chariots, and when Warhammer 40,000 came out, Citadel Miniatures also branched out into vehicles, such as the Land Raider and Rhino transports for Space Marines. Replica catapult at Château des Baux, France Catapults are siege engines using an arm to hurl a projectile a great distance. ... For the torpedo-shaped underwater vehicle ridden by two frogmen, sometimes referred to as a chariot, see Human torpedo. ... Cover of the Warhammer 40,000 4th edition rulebook This article is about the tabletop miniature wargame and the fictional universe in which it is set. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ...

Contents

Early history

Materials and Construction

Model ranges

See also

External links

References

Contents

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Materials and Construction

Model ranges

See also

External links

References

Early history