Chaos Dwarfs (Big Hatters)

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The aim of this page is provide individual code numbers, names and reference information for the Citadel Chaos Dwarf line of Big Hatter (Big Hats) sculpted by Alan Perry (one half of the Perry twins). Known as Big Hatters, I thought these were rubbish and daft looking when they came out. Looking back now, they are incredibly striking when painted up. There were various articles on them in White Dwarf, which appeared in issues 161, 162, 163, 164, 165 and 170. These were then put together, with a few extras, in the army list that came out in 1994. They appeared in the black 1993 catalogue through to the 1998 catalogue.


For the earlier versions (D3, C16 etc), please see here:

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Chaos_Dwarfs

Chaos Dwarf Axe 1992

A right meaty axe on these guys.


Chaos Dwarf Axe 1995

Citadel also later produced Axe troopers in plastic.

Chaos Dwarf Blunderbuss 1992 & 1993

The Front Row (F/R) came out in 1992 and the Rear Row (R/R) troops came out the year after. That said, one of the R/R actually states 1998 on it, which is clearly an error. I believe that the rules showed, and best game use, was to have these troopers lined up in two rows which was an issue due to the small 20mm base size that they were on and the large Blunderbuss. This meant that the early release of them would not line up well, unless you had them all on the diagonal slot in the base, which looked a bit crap! the R/R changed that as they then fitted together nicely as a unit.


Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs 1992

These came out in 1992. There are only two Bull Centaur bodies, each of two different halves (so four different parts in total). There are 8 different torsos. It may seem that there are only 7 trooper upper torso bodies but this is because only 7 are shown in the Games Workshop catalogues. Bull Centaur Axe 3 actually has two variants, that are incredibly similar. There is the variant shown in the catalogue and another that has a rivet on the front of the helm, at the top of the arrow. Other differences are rivets around the back, where it sits on his head, and most noticeably his arm is holding his axe at a different angle (although that is more difficult to spot). If you are collecting these, then you'll need to look at the earlier catalogues, as Citadel dropped one of the Centaur torsos in the Citadel 1998 catalogue.



Chaos Dwarf Astragoth 1994

A great little miniature of a Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer.