A Brief History of Citadel Miniatures

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Citadel Miniatures was founded(?) in 1978 by Bryan Ansell with funding from Games Workshop. Games Workshop at that time had only the store at Dalling Road, Hammersmith.

White Dwarf 11 from early 1979 carried this brief announcement in the news section:

"Games Workshop and Bryan Ansell have got together to form Citadel Miniatures, a new miniatures company that will be manufacturing several ranges of figures. Ral Partha are already in production, but Citadel will also be producing own ranges, including the Fiend Factory figures, Fantasy Adventurers and Fantasy Specials. Citadel will not be limiting production to SF/F figures, but also new ranges of historical wargaming figures"

The first Citadel ad appeared in the GW house magazine, White Dwarf, issue no 12. The first FA, FF and FS releases were announced together with the Ral Partha licensed lines. Some of the first releases as shown in the Molten Magic section are  here

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