So, for the fun of it, I have assembled and photographed a roughly 3,000 point army for each of the army list entries. In addition I sort of cheated in that, for the human armies, I used some of the currently back in production ex-Citadel miniautres from Wargames Foundry. The miniatures I used are all 1979-92 era Citadel, Marauder,Grenadier, Ral Partha, Alternative Armies, Asgard, Harlequin (now Black Tree) and MB Games/GW Heroquest. However I wanted to take a purest approach, and because of the size of my collection this is an option. This is a purely personal choice, I have no problem with collecters who mix and match old and new miniatures, even for 3rd Edition armies. I have done this to keep the armies as they would have been at the time, and how, as I owned several armies even then, were at the time. As mentioned earlier, I have made a conscious decision to just keep the armies composed of miniatures from the 1979 to 1992 era. Over the last few weeks I resolved to sort out and paint a 3,000 point army for each of the eleven main army list entires in the Warhammer 3rd Edition Warhmammer Armies book (the supplement of army lists for 3rd Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle), plus a Norse army from the extra list which never made it into the book, published in White Dwarf #107. In the case of the Orcs/Goblins and Dwarves, removing any old solid based minatures for a seperate project (my 'Goblin Wars collection, cosisting of pre-slotta miniatures mainly from the Citadel 'Fantasy Tribes ranges'). Recently I re-visisted the armies, tinkering with their compostion, and removing any models which are not what is sometimes termed Oldhammer era (1979-1992) miniatures. I essentially assembled the armies and painted them up just so I had an army completed. However, getting them 'done' was the problem. I did quite well (if I say so myself!) and got eight 3,000 point armies done. Now, a few years ago I started organising a lot of my fantasy miniatures into properly painted armies, based on the army lists from the 3rd Edition Warhammer Armies supplement. This September will the the 30th Anniversary of me starting to collect miniatures and gaming (I started off with Napoleonic ESCI and Airfix plastics the year before in 1985), and this thought has got me looking through all the different odds and ends which I have collected over the years.
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