When you wish upon a star...

It doesn't matter who you are - 'cos that limited edition scenario mini will still be rarer than rocking horse poo and it'll all end up in divorce if the wife ever finds out how you much you paid for it should you actually win it...

Actually quite a few of my wishes have come true from my original Top Ten Citadel Minis Wish List (and my marriage seems to have survived) - so much so that I thought an update was warranted.

Lets see what we've got:

10 - Dragon Masters - Got the dragon but need the riders and horse that came in the original box.

9 - Elven Attack Chariot - Got and currenly in the dettol bath.

8 - Goblobber - Still on the look out.

7 - Citadel Giant - Skarsnik has cornered the market here and snaffled them all up ; )

6 - Fimir - I have one, who will be appearing in my very mixed up Beastman/Chaotics regiment. alongside Beastmen, Mutants, Snakemen and other assorted weirdos.

5 - Villagers and Townsfolk - ongoing, as there's a few of them!

4 - Zombie Dragon - Got! Currently having a dettol bath...

3 - Orc's Drift Characters - Just got my hands on the Druid Snart, courtesy of Bridgend Steve, so he'll need painting up before the Oldhammer weekend at Foundry. The seldom seen Mayor Leofwine unfortunately slipped through my fingers, although at £34 I wasn't too upset! Still that price will make Steve very happy I'm sure!

2 - Slann Wizard and Bearers - Got!

1 - Hobgoblin on Temple Dog - Agh, just missed one with an Oriental Hero as rider for £16. Curses!

So what will the new list look like?

Well, I'm going to shuffle a few things around and drop a few things as they're a tad unrealistic and if I did go for them would pull much needed resources away from my current and future projects. Items like the villagers and Knightmare legion come up on ebay regularly and I figure I'll just pick them up as and when they're going cheap (fimir?!).

So it now looks like this -

10 - The Horse rider (any of the variants really) from the Dragon Masters set!

9 - Goblobber - I'm idly collecting a small Dwarf force as an Allied contingent, and I love the mini!

8 - Notlob's Orc Artillery - Because you can't have enough chucky/throwy things in your Orc army - and I've got most of the other Orc and Goblin artillery!

On the subject of Orc artillery, I really want to find the Orc with his hands by his sides to complete my Monstrous Orc War Machine set

7 - Mudat's Mercenary Half Orc Maniacs - specifically Mudat, his champion and his musician. I have the standard and a bunch of troopers, although a few more of them wouldn't hurt! These chaps will be part of the Half Orc contingent for the massive Orc, Hobgoblin and Goblin horde I have been hoarding for a while..

6 - The Dragon Ogre - similar reason to the Hydra.

5 -  C29 Hydra - My Chaotic host needs some more Reptilian action to go with the Hippogriff, Manticore, Marauder Hydra and Marauder Death Chicken, erm, I mean Cockatrice I've got already.

 

4 - Looking back at my extended list I realise I have also gathered enough Troglodytes for the Lustrian project, so instead I'll be gunning for Huris, the Champion from Karnac's Lizardmen Raiders to complete the set. I know the background has them based in the Caverns of the Old World but what the hey!

 

 

3 - Huscarl from the Kremlo scenario. It'd be great to have the complete set by the time I play through my Lustrian campaign. (Got him now!)

2 - Hobgoblin on Temple Dog - Still need a suitable general for the Hobyar Horde I have stored away in boxes, waiting to set the East ablaze... Oh and I love the mini!

1 -  Orc's Drift Characters in no particular order - yep its another itch I've just got to scratch! Be nice to do it before the Oldhammer Event at Foundry this summer...

Hagar Sheol

Osrim Chardz

Mayor Leofwine

although I do own this Half Elf adventurer who might end up getting converted - or is that cheating?!

King Fyar and his Wyvern (Got him now!)

The villagers I could possibly live without although if these fellows and fellow-esses ever turn up I'll be sure to try and nab them

Wishful thinking...

Having enjoyed reading Orlygg's wish list of his 10 most desired citadel miniatures (and smiling a little smugly because I own a few of them like the Marauder Giant, Wyvern and Ambull - gnashing my teeth at selling my Nurgle palanquin a few years back...) I thought I'd flesh out the list I posted as a comment here.

So here is my absolute Top 10 Citadel miniatures I'd sell a kidney (perhaps not mine) to own:

10 - The Dragon Masters

I think this box set was on the same shelf as the Orc War Wyvern I picked up many years ago in the little model shop somewhere in Manchester, where I went very occasionally with some saved up pocket money. I always intended picking this set up as adversaries for my Orcs but alas it was never to be. I always liked the fact that you got a second character mounted on a horse - great set!





9 - Elven Attack Chariot

Surprisingly this is the second Elf entry in my list as I've always been more of an Orc and Goblin fan. However, having just run an inventory on the Wood Elf Warhost I've been slowly putting together for some years, this fantastic mini is very conspicuous in its absence.

8 - Goblobber

Can't remember which year's Golden Demon it was, but one of my favourite ever entries was a converted version of this Dwarf warmachine. It was entitled Revenge and involved the Dwarf crew getting their much deserved come-uppance by being turned into ammunition for their own catapult by some rather pissed off Orcs - oh yeah and its a really cool mini as well!

7 - The Citadel Giant

A whole load of lovely lead. As it says on the Stuff of Legends site - One of the two most sought after citadel pieces - 'nough said.



6 - Fimir

Ever since playing Heroquest these evil cyclopean monsters have captured my imagination. How I would love to have a small skirmishing force but alas the high prices they command will probably keep them just out of reach. I'll just have to live vicariously through Mr Saturdays afore-mentioned fimir army project.

5 - Villagers and townsfolk

Quite a big one this as there's loads of them and they don't often seem to come cheap. Why do I like them even though they're fairly useless in terms of gsming? Because they're fairly usesless in terms of gaming! I suppose it was Orc's Drift that turned me onto them as they lend such flavour to the Linden Way scenario. Not to mention the minis are all full of character. One of my vague ideas is to build the inn that was featured in one of the old White Dwarfs at the time and populate it with drunks, staff and various other hangers on.



Whilst browsing around on Stuff of Legends I came across the section on WFRP character minis. As I'm currently participating in a play by post version of The Oldenhaller Contract as a warmup for The Enemy Within (link if I haven't mentioned it before -  http://theernywithin.blogspot.co.uk/) I was most excited to find miniature versions of the characters our group are playing - Kirsten, Malmir, Harbull, Wanda, Werner and my character, Johann, are all pictured here - Seems they've all been moonlighting in the Death on the Reik scenario!http://www.solegends.com/citc46/c46whfrpscenarios/index.htm 

Handsome devil 'aint he! 

4 - The Zombie Dragon

This is another favourite that was inspired by White Dwarf. Again, I can't remember which issue it was, but there was an undead army featured. Among the many fine and fetid offerings was this fabulous miniature, which if I remember correctly had been slightly converted to have a marauder skeleton armed with a two-handed sword as a rider. If I get my hands on this it will definitely go nicely with my plastic skeletons from the old Skeleton Army boxed set that have survived years of storage surprisingly well...

3 - Orc's Drift Character

 I'm going to blame this one on Gaj, of Warhammer for Adults fame, who is currently nearing Citadel scenario pack nirvana in that he nearly has all the scenario character models to play Terror of the Lichemaster. His dedication to the task has humbled me and I now feel the need to plug the gaps in my own collection of Orc's Drift characters - most notably Ozrim Chardz and Hagar Sheol to go for ourageously high prices. I mean we're talking about hundreds of pounds!

I fear these little lead men will probably become my Moby Dick - forever dooming me to rummage fruitlessly through Bring and Buy's and ebay for that seller who doesn't know what he's got and has priced them at 99p each...

What I'm still after:

Osrim Chardz

Ferndale Snart

Mayor Leofwine - only ever seen one on sale

Hagar Sheol

All the villagers except the baker and busker

King Fy'ar and his wyvern

2 - Slann Wizard with Bearers

As I'm currently putting together a Slann force this is a bit of a no-brainer, although having read the entry on Slann wizards in the Armies book there is now a practical reason as well. Apparently, as Slann wizards are extrememely spiritual creatures, they believe that touching the floor with their  feet leads to spiritual pollution and the destruction of their magical abilities. So basically unless I get a palanquin my Slann magic users will be limited to Level 1 spells only!



1 - Hobgoblin mounted on Temple Dog

This would make the perfect General for my growing force of Hobgoblin mercenaries. I've seen Temple dogs with Samurai riders go for a fair whack on ebay before and there was the first and only Hobgoblin rider I've ever seen, which was by itself and still sold at a high price. Not seen one since so they must be rather rare...



So there we have it - my wishlist. I'll be a happy man if I ever get round to ticking them all off!

There were a few also-rans who didn't quite make the top ten -

Huscarl - the last mini I need to complete the Kremlo scenario set.

C29 Hydra

 Dragon Ogre

Tom Meier's Troglogytes

 The Nightmare Legion