Category Archives: Kings of War

Citadel Blood Bowl Trolls (1988) – and a big Oldhammer Unit

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Citadel Blood Bowl Trolls (1988)

Blood Bowl Trolls (1988) with Fantasy Battle-style basing.

Both of these trolls were released in July 1988 – with White Dwarf 103 and following Blood Bowl 2nd Edition. I got my first one of this sculpt around that time, alongside the ogre. Over the following years I picked up another two of the trolls, and as I already had one painted up for Blood Bowl, decided to paint them as Warhammer Fantasy Battle Trolls. The pair have remained prety much untouched since they were originally painted. The green one had an awful club made of sprue that I’ve since removed, and I’ve recently rebased both to bring them up to my “modern” speed.

Citadel Blood Bowl Trolls (1988)

I believe that these two were both painted before the C20 trolls shown recently were started. I removed the horn/spike from the shoulder in an effort to differentiate the two, which is obviously who one was painted green and the other purple. It’s also why one of them had an awful club, which I’ve since removed.

Blood Bowl Trolls, C20 Swamp Troll

My latest batch of Oldhammer Trolls, arranged as a Kings of War Regiment.

 

I based the BB trolls in a very similar manner to the C20 Swamp Troll, using Army Painter Swamp Tufts. Hopefully they give the impression wet, rich soil when combined with my standard bases.

C20 Swamp Troll, C20 Cave Troll, C20 Hill Troll, C20 Warrior Troll, Blood Bowl Trolls (1988)

All Six Oldhammer Trolls – Arranged as a Kings of War “Horde” Unit.

 

And now the full “Oldhammer Troll” group shot. All the rest of my trolls are newer models, though only one of those 4th? 5th? Edition trolls is even started. I might need to try to finish him off soon now…

Citadel Miniatures’ C20 Trolls – All four!

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How do you best follow up a post featuring a Dwarven Slayer?

With Trolls, of course!

I’ve shown two of these trolls before, just two weeks past a year ago now, as it happens. Last week, while stuck for something to paint I asked Marouda to choose some models for me to finish and as a result, I finally got a third finished for them.

C20 Hill Troll

C20 Hill Troll – It’s Clubberin’ Time!

Hill troll suffered a broken wrist many years ago, and with my meager skills of the day I “repaired” it by pinning and then wrapping wire around the join, as though it were bound with rope. Not the neatest of jobs, but it works passably, and I’ve not got the desire to destroy his wrist again in an attempt to repair it.

C20 Hill Troll

The two that have already been shown were painted Blue, as GW-style “Stone Trolls” probably sometime during the period of 4th Edition of WHFB. Most likely the one with the boulder overhead “Cave Troll” was painted as he was a pretty good approximation of a Stone Troll. “Warrior Troll” was no doubt painted to match, and the “new” guy, “Hill Troll” was definitely started with the other two in mind. He just took a lot longer before I got around to completing him!

C20 Hill, Cave and Warrior Trolls

C20 Hill, Cave and Warrior Trolls as a unit. They’ll be used as a Regiment in KoW.

These three together will make up a regiment-sized unit for my eventual Kings of War (Orc and) Goblin Army, made up of (mostly) older Citadel figures. Not to be confused with the Moria Goblins who I’ve been working on a fair bit this year. In the short-to-medium-term, there might be some crossover between the two, but only until I manage to get both playable.

C20 Hill, Cave and Warrior Trolls

C20 Hill, Cave and Warrior Trolls – Painted as their later cousins, “Stone Trolls”.

C20 Hill, Cave and Warrior Trolls

C20 Trolls in a Trio.

As it happens, I’ve just found that these three comprise 3/4 of the entire original C20 Troll range…     queue a week-long delay in publishing this post to do a bit more BTS work…

C20 Trolls, circa 1987. Image taken from The Stuff of Legends.

C20 Marsh Troll

C20 Marsh Troll – doing his best Bigfoot pose.

…and also as it happens, I’ve also got their fourth, here, who just needed a little touching up and a rebasing from his old, 90’s-style green-flocked base.

C20 Marsh Troll

…he’s been fishin’ (on the dock of the bay?)

I’ll share Swamp Troll again sometime soonish with a bit of luck when I sort him out a pair of proper mates.

C20 Marsh Troll, Hill Troll, Cave Troll, Warrior Troll

C20 Marsh Troll, Hill Troll, Cave Troll, Warrior Troll

And the final shot – all four of the C20 Trolls Class of ’87. Finally completed!