Citadel Miniatures
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Status | In Business |
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Active | 1978 to present |
Website | www.games-workshop.com |
Address | Nottingham, England, UK |
Citadel Miniatures was setup in 1978 by Bryan Ansell and Games Workshop (Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson) to manufacture miniatures. They officially began trading in 1979. Until 1984, they produced Ral Partha figures licensed for sale in the UK, as well as their own unique ranges. Citadel Miniatures has dominated the fantasy and sci-fi wargaming market since the mid-1980s.
Product Lists: Range List, Boxed Sets, Board Games
Citadel Miniatures
- About the Company
- Company History
- Citadel Miniatures U.S.
- Addresses
- Branding
- Product Lines
- Web Presence
- Disposal of Assets
- References
- Miscellaneous
- Bases
- Board Games
- Boxed Sets
- Catalogs
- Citadel Finecast
- Citadel Scenario Packs
- Limited Editions
- Range List
- Reference Publications
- Scenery
- Shields
- Transfers
- White Dwarf
- Ranges By Year
- Citadel Ranges (1979-1983)
- Citadel Ranges ('C' Series)
- Citadel Ranges (1984-1988)
- Citadel Ranges (1986-1988)
- Citadel Ranges (1988-1989)
- Citadel Ranges (1990-1991)
- GW Game Systems
- Age of Sigmar
- Battle of Five Armies
- Battlefleet Gothic
- Blood Bowl
- Inquisitor
- Man O'War
- Middle Earth SBG
- Mordheim
- Necromunda
- Rogue Trader (early 40k)
- Warhammer Fantasy Battle
- Warhammer 40,000
- Warhammer 40k Epic
- Warmaster
Company History
- 1978: Setup by Bryan Ansell, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (registered office at Games Workshop).
- 1978: Incorporated 28th December 1978.
- 1979: (Feb) Citadel Miniatures announced in White Dwarf 11 with the first miniatures advertised in Issue 12.
- 1981: Citadel Miniatures U.S. is set up and owned by Delgado North American Holding Co. and GW
- 1984: (Jan) Citadel Miniatures U.S. turns into Ral Partha Imports.
- 1984: (Jul) Citadel Miniatures moves to “new modern factory” at Chewton Street, Hilltop, Easton. [13]
- 1986: (Dec) Citadel Miniatures employ 7 full-time miniature designers and over 80 other staff. [7]
Citadel Miniatures U.S.
Setup in 1981, this was the USA arm of the company. It was jointly owned by Delgado North American Holding Co. and Games Workshop (50% each) and was created to produce, pack and ship Citadel figures within the USA. Marketing, admin and various other services were provided by Ral Partha. The US company was run by Bryan Sowder and Brian Hitsman. This arrangement allowed Citadel to add American sculptors Tom Meier and C. Bradford Gorby to their roster. As a point of reference, John Rankin quotes [1] the USA company as employing 6 and selling 500,000 figures in 1981 contrasting with the UK company which employed 30 and sold over 2,000,000 figures for the same year. In January of 1984 adverts for Ral Partha Imports, Formerly Citadel U.S. appeared. [6] The Lost Minis Wiki does not differentiate between Citadel and Citadel (US).
Addresses
- Citadel Miniatures, Willow Rd. Lenton, Nottingham. NG7 2WS, UNITED KINGDOM
- Citadel Miniatures U.S., P.O. Box 12352, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45212
- Citadel Miniatures, 10 Victoria Street, Newark, Notts, United Kingdom [12] (early 80s)
- Citadel Miniatures, Newark Folk Museum, Millgate, Newark, Notts, United Kingdom [14] (1978)
Branding
Product Lines
Citadel has a vast back catalogue of ranges. The earliest and more notable are listed here and their date ranges are derived from catalogue appearances which are not super-accurate. They have also produced many ranges under license but after 1990 they focused solely on their own products until the second outing for The Lord of the Rings in 2001.
Original Ranges
- 1980 - 1982 Fantasy Adventurers
- 1980 - 1982 Fantasy Specials
- 1980 - 1982 Fiend Factory
- 1980 - 1983 Spacefarers
- 1981 - 1982 Fantasy Tribes
- 1981 - 1982 Superheroes
- 1982 - 1982 Weird Fantasy
Licensed Ranges
- 1980 - 1981 Gangster!
- 1980 - 1986 Star Trek (2 ranges)
- 1982 - 1982 Champions
- 1982 - 1984 RuneQuest
- 1982 - 1984 Traveller
- 1984 - 1986 Chronicle (old & new ranges)
- 1985 - 1989 Doctor Who
- 1985 - 1987 AD&D and D&D (2 ranges)
- 1985 - 1986 Fighting Fantasy
- 1985 - 1986 Judge Dredd
- 1985 - 1986 Lone Wolf
- 1985 - 1987 Lord of the Rings (v1)
- 1986 - 1988 Eternal Champion
- 1986 - 1987 Paranoia
Web Presence
- Domain: they started well before the internet existed and have never had a website of their own but since they are part of GW all of their online content can be found at www.games-workshop.com.
- Registered: n/a
Disposal of Assets
A large number of mainly historical Citadel ranges were sold off or simply transferred to Wargames Foundry when Bryan Ansell left to form the new company.
References
- [1], The Space Gamer 58, December 1982, page 34-35, "Citadel Miniatures U.S."
- [2], Wikipedia, ""Citadel Miniatures"
- [3], Collecting Citadel Miniatures (CCM)
- [4], The Stuff of Legends (SoL), "A Brief History of Citadel Miniatures"
- [5], Yahoo Groups, "Collecting Citadel Miniatures"
- [6], The Space Gamer 67, Jan/Feb 1984, page 16, "Ral Partha Imports Formerly Citadel U.S. (advert)"
- [7], Figures Front - Citadel Miniatures, "Adventurer Magazine 5" (December 1986), page 20
- [8], (YT) Original Oldhammer Artwork, "Games Workshop featured on TV in 1984 oldhammer" (2021-05-02)
- [9], (YT) Vince Venturella, "Tabletop History 01 - Games Workshop - The Early Years" (2016-07-28)
- [10], (YT) KoPro, "Good Morning Britain - 1983 - Rick and Tim Olsen talk abut D&D" (2016-01-02)
- [11], Adventurer #05, December 1986, pages: 21-22, "Figures Front - Citadel Miniatures"
- [12], "What is Dungeons & Dragons?", John Butterfield, Philip Parker, David Honigmann (1982), page 169
- [13], SoL, "The Second Citadel Compendium", page 3
- [14], Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop (2022), "9 Citadel Miniatures", page 113-134