Chaos Warrior old mini similar to HQ gets Life-giving Elixir

[Cael Darkhollow]

interesting. It appears that Games Workshop released a mini that looks like a 1980's metal classic citadel figure that the Chaos Warrior in HeroQuest was based on or very similar at least.
Slambo with two hand axes vintage metal mini and modern plastic mini pictures.

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[j_dean80]

Still prefer the original.

[Cael Darkhollow]

I might even have the original vintage mini. I would have to go through my chaos army to see. I bought many minis that I thought were similar or had the look of the HQ Chaos Warrior back in the day.
But yep, the original plastic HQ mini is still the best. I like this guy with two weapons though. Could be a leader figure.

[Anderas]

I guess, because I know GW, that this miniature is totally outsized compared to the other minis.

That said, people who are working for GW are not living under stones. I guess. So good that they remember parts of their origins

[Kurgan]

I swear I've seen 3d prints of this all over the place. I figured it was just somebody's lame attempt to make the Chaos warrior seem cooler by giving him an axe in each hand, but I was wrong, it was based on an actual official figure. Wonders never cease!

[Pancho]

Still prefer the original.

Me too.
Although I prefer this to the Hasbro Chaos Warriors. And seeing as it’s probably going to be outsized, like Anderas said, it could make a great replacement figure for the new game.

[j_dean80]

I’ve been building up my collection of classic minis and basing them on HQ bases. When I get them primed, I’ll start posting pictures. Waiting on an order of bases from Zealot right now.

[cornixt]

Here's the original:
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1988/cat1988p019-01.htm

No sign of a name on that catalogue, maybe it is in one of the others if he even had one back then. I think there is a Chaos Dwarf in the same pose, there were many CDs based on Chaos Warriors as a funny squished version.

[j_dean80]

This is the original:

[whitebeard]

I saw this guy hit the GW webstore in 2017 and this incarnation is already OOP (out of print). I recall that it was crazy expensive (like $40 for one tiny model!) and it may have been out of scale with all other chaos warriors. I believe that Chaos Wariors are still 28mm, even in the new sets... which makes them "normal humans" corrupted by chaos and not a corrupted "celestial" or whatever those giant gold armored Sigmar warriors are.

Rather than buy this guy, you can do any number of kit-bashes to arrive at a new incarnation of Slambo. Much cooler that way.