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Fighting Fantasy minis.

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Richie the Orc –

Something that made me smile in the new White Dwarf: In the back of the new WD is a small piece about Dan Abnetts new book , based on his Eisenhorn/Ravenor characters. Now accompanying said article is a picture of one of the miniatures for Inquisitor, and I qutoe from the bit under the picture '...All of the models for the game were released in a new scale for Games Workshop, standing about 54mm tall.'
WTF are they on about , didn't Citadel do a series of Fighting Fantasy minis in the '80s/'90s in 54mm? I'm sure the knobs at GW know nothing about the company history...or did that just start with Sparse Morines!!!

Anyone else remember these? I wish I still had my collection of them, I don't think I've ever seen them for sale on Ebay either.

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lurkio

Re: Fighting Fantasy minis.

I think these were large plastic minis. I can vaguely remember a White Dwarf article on how to paint up the dwarf as a stone statue or a Jolanti type giant stone golem.

MortiS-the-Lost

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Richie the Orc wrote

didn't Citadel do a series of Fighting Fantasy minis in the '80s/'90s in 54mm? I'm sure the knobs at GW know nothing about the company history...or did that just start with Sparse Morines!!!

Technically the Fighting Fantasy plastics were 60mm scale according to GW's writings at the time, still there are very few people left at the GW design studio from those days and GW's current policy on their history seems to be "Everything from the old days is rubbish, here buy a single 28/30mm plastic model on foot for £12!"

I've seen a few of the FF plastics around, but not many - I don't think they were quite as popular as GW would have liked.

The Ogres were often used a Giants in people's Warhammer armies (several pictures in the 3rd edition WFB rulebook have examples of this) and adverts like the following appeared in White Dwarf and the Citadel Journal advertising the figure's use as extra large monsters.

^stole this picture from Stuff of Legends for this post, but I'll scan a better image from one of my old White Dwarfs later

I think Citadel expected them to be snapped up in large numbers by kids who were reading the Fighting Fantasy books at the time (yes, I once up on a time was the target audience for a GW product) - evidently they weren't and the 'use them as giant monsters in 28mm' seem to have been an attempt to widen the market for them. Reading the paragraph on plastic miniatures in the front of the WFB 2nd edition's 'Battle Bestiary' seems to imply Citadel wanted to make all their plastic miniatures in 60mm scale to share the market with the 'toy soldiers' made by Britains and the like - a market they failed to break into, so the FF plastics are mostly forgotten. But a few years later Citadel would of course start producing their first 28mm plastics and the first Warhammer Regiment sets that eventually (for better of for worse) led to the all-plastic armies of today.

^Britains 'Knights of the Sword' figures

^Early Citadel 28mm plastics (click to enbiggun)

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