The reason they were re-modelled was because GW/Citadel were switching to an entirely slotta based range and to mostly cartoon style figures made not to be as well modelled as possible, but to be easy to paint for 10, 11 and 12 year olds - chunky and without any fine detail. I remember when they re-released the original pre-slotta regiments of renown and me and my brothers bought some by mail order - and were sent some of the slotta Grom junk because they'd sold out of the pre-slotta version. Their faces look like they're melting or cartoons.
I will say the pre-slotta version are immensely better modelled - the second, slotta base version look like they've been modelled by a beginner in a very great hurry. I was tempted to just write "are you blind?", but that'd just be rude. I would imagine this is probably the reason why the guard was remodlled." The only bit i disagree with is where you write on Grom's goblin guard "Curiously, there are also two sets of these available (by this I mean different sculpts) and in my opinion the second is far superior. They were slotta based (which is ok with me) but badly modelled (which isn't) I had some of the Knights of the Cleansing Flame that i bought on ebay as part of a lot - didn't like them and sold them on. He has a lot of old citadel figures - i remember even seeing some of the original Lothern Sea Guard - though his prices are more than i'm willing to pay since my main aim these days is to sell figures i don't want as i have all the ones i do want. You should keep on keeping an eye on ebay (just do pre-slotta or old citadel or 1980s citadel searches as not all sellers know what the figures they're selling are in detail) and also take a look at the Miniature Heroes website.
Seen and/or bought all of the regiments on ebay at some point and bought some of the pre-slotta ones before that when i was at school. Most of the slotta versions were way inferior to the pre-slotta versions. The slotta Golfag's Ogres were unusual in being better than the pre-slotta version.
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