The Fluffenhammer
  • HOME
  • PODCAST
  • The Old World Order
  • Facebook

Visionaries - Bryan Ansell

8/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture

Bryan Ansell is a British role-playing and war game designer. In 1985, he became Managing Director of Games Workshop, and bought Games Workshop from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
​
Picture
This Picture Will Never Not Be a Thing of Beauty
 Bryan Ansell began his career by founding, and  designing for Asgard Miniatures (originally Bryan Ansell Miniatures Limited), as well as running the fanzine "Trollcrusher".
​
Games Workshop formed a partnership with Ansell in 1979 to found a new company called Citadel Miniatures to produce and manufacture 25mm scale historical and fantasy miniatures and games to be sold by Games Workshop., which led to  Ansell designing the now legendary first edition of  Warhammer Fantasy Battle in 1983, alongside Rick Priestley and Richard Halliwell. In 1985, Ansell was appointed the Managing Director of Games Workshop. Along with Rick Priestley, Alan and Michael Perry, Richard Halliwell, John Blanche, Jervis Johnson, and Alan Merrett, Ansell was responsible for the Warhammer (later Warhammer Fantasy Battle) boom of the mid-to-late 1980s.   By 1982-83 Games Workshop was depending on sales of Citadel miniatures and games to survive. Around this time Bryan bought out all of Steve Jackson's and Ian Livingstone's shares in Games Workshop and absorbed Games Workshop into Citadel. All the Games Workshop operations (including White Dwarf) were moved from London to the Newark / Nottingham area to become part of Citadel with very few of the original Games Workshop staff staying on. Steve and Ian went off to live in Spain for a while. The company expanded rapidly and in 1991 Bryan Ansell sold his shares to Tom Kirby to concentrate on building houses and having children, but retained the entire Games Workshop collection of painted miniatures and artwork as well as rights and moulds for many of the ranges of miniatures which he now sells through his company Wargames Foundry.

Read More
0 Comments

    Who Are We?

    The Fluffenhammer is a archive of joy for the worlds of Games Workshop (and beyond)

    Archives

    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017

    Categories

    All
    30k
    40K
    Age Of Sigmar
    Ages Of Chaos
    Articles
    Blog
    Blood Bowl
    Catalogues
    Chaos
    CRAFTY TABLETOP
    Crawlhammer Xquest
    Download
    Eavy Metal
    Fantasy
    Fluff
    FLUFFENMASS
    FLUFFENWORDS
    Forbidden Power
    George
    Heroquest
    Horus Heresy
    Housekeeping
    Imperium
    Index Chaotica
    Inspecting The Troops
    Instagram
    It Came From Woolworths
    Lets Fluff
    Malign Portents
    Mantic
    Mapping The Mortal Realms
    Middlehammer
    Minis
    Monolouges
    Necromunda
    Nonegw
    None GW
    Nostalgia
    OLDHAMMER
    Orks
    Podcast
    Primarchs
    Ral Partha
    Review
    Scenery
    Short Stories
    Skaven
    Space Hulk
    Space Marine
    Space Wolf
    Spue To Use
    Suffer Not The Alien To Live
    Tales Of Vigilus
    Talisman
    Tau
    Updates
    Videogames
    VIDEOS
    Visionaires
    Visions Of War
    Voidsign
    Warcraft
    Warhammer
    Whte Dwarf

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • HOME
  • PODCAST
  • The Old World Order
  • Facebook