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It always seems to me that no matter how long you have been collecting or how many miniatures you have in your collection there is always one which for some reason has managed to illude you. This can be incredibly frustrating especialy if it is one which you have previously owned or is long out of production. The two largest hurdles which come between you and your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow are generaly availability and cost. Others do exist such as condition and compatability with your current collection.
This whole idea came about after I moved house a few weeks back, whilst clearing out my cupboards I came accross my old 3rd edition Empire army, seeing some of the miniatures which first enticed me into the hobby persauded me to revitalise my force. Unfortunately one model was missing. An Empire war wagon. No problem I thought, I'll get one on Ebay. It was then I realised not only do these things go for silly money, but to find one complete and unpainted is as rare as rocking horse poo.
Finaly I managed to get my hands on one and it will take pride of place in my army once put together and painted (this may take some time!)

So people of Dakka what is your "Holy Grail"? It doesn't have to neccesarily be a miniature. It could be a book or game or anything GW related.

Its got to be RTB-01 and minis of a similar ilk.

And SW Wulfen minis - I should have brought them when I had no kids and a higher level of disposable income.

I should however have kept the metal chaos dread, Jugger and 2nd ed chaos marines that I threw away when I thought i would never play silly TTMGs' again!

Oh and I wish I had kept Star Wars supremacy and 40k Final liberation too! and Panzer General for 3do/ps1 cannot find copies at a decent price anywhere.

For ages it was the Empire Bright Wizard with his arms spread and flames licking his shoulders and head. Couldn't find him anywhere and one day I found him on ebay it was fantastic and he only cost me about £5.00

Hmmm. My original 'Holy Grail' of modelling was the old Ork Eldar Tinboy, but I managed to get one a few years ago. Nowadays, it's the old resin Wave Serpent.

Never even seen one for sale :( If anyone has one they don't want any more, pm me!!

My holy grail is my core troops at a better price than £15 for 50points

It wasn't to own a model, but to find out what the model was. It was the Knarloc/Carnosaur combination that was used as the EotG carrier from many years ago. I did find it, right here on Dakka.

Tau Manta...

The Old Emp Champ with the sword in both hands. Had so several chances to buy him but always thought I would get him later, each time someone else bought him right before I did.


For WFB, a full unit of teutogen guard. They are such pretty models.

A Dwarf Doomseeker. There is one of the models that I've always loved and wanted for my force but I can never find it. I've never even seen it on ebay or heck even in real life. Maybe it dosen't really exist

I have all of mine.

Harlequin Jetbikes (30 of 'em!)
The original Harlequins boxed set. (I also have AT LEAST three times as many Harlequin models as can be legally used in a Codex army.)
Thrud (various incarnations of. I only lack 1 version)
Chaos Toilet.
Squat Bikers.

The only thing left I have a slight hankering for is some old Inquisitors in Terminator armour from back in the day, but I've had chances to buy them and not bothered more than once.

For the longest time mine was the Uriel Ventris BL diorama, and the Iwo Jima Skullz diorama. However after this summers mad ebay business I finally managed to pick up both for $70 and $30 respectfully.

Now I'm after the rest of the 40k BL dioramas for hopefully around the same price, and the big resin Forgeworld Ultramarine.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:A Dwarf Doomseeker. There is one of the models that I've always loved and wanted for my force but I can never find it. I've never even seen it on ebay or heck even in real life. Maybe it dosen't really exist

They exist. A friend of mine who is a dwarf nutjob has them and the goblin-hewer. (and a full slayer army)

Mine isn't nearly as exciting as you guys :-( but my personal favorite is the old metal space wolve terminators box, i had it when i first started out along with Bjorn, and even though i wouldn't 'use' them just looking at them would make me smile! ah! the memories!

For me it's rough riders.

Their models are terrible, so I've always known I'm going to have to do serious work with GS to get what I want. I've been threatening to make some for like 4 years now, but have never gotten around to it.

This...several of them.

@ FITZZ, i'm guessing this is doubly collectable as it's a Games Workshop product that actually has the word FREE on it! and that in itself makes it worth so much more! :-)

nerdfest09 wrote:@ FITZZ, i'm guessing this is doubly collectable as it's a Games Workshop product that actually has the word FREE on it! and that in itself makes it worth so much more! :-)

Exactly, I'm certain the "bean counters" at GW would simply explode into a hail of flaming chocolate doughnuts if this sort of thing was attempted in this day and age.

I concur FITZZ, I concur! there would be bean counters beans flying everywhere!.....I believe some of them actually have the word 'free' painfully removed from their vocabulary before employment!

Rogue Trader Land Raider, no question.

FITZZ wrote:

nerdfest09 wrote:@ FITZZ, i'm guessing this is doubly collectable as it's a Games Workshop product that actually has the word FREE on it! and that in itself makes it worth so much more! :-)

Exactly, I'm certain the "bean counters" at GW would simply explode into a hail of flaming chocolate doughnuts if this sort of thing was attempted in this day and age.

As a businessman I can assure you that "free" means you are paying for it a different way that Marketing think you won't notice.

VikingScott wrote:

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:A Dwarf Doomseeker. There is one of the models that I've always loved and wanted for my force but I can never find it. I've never even seen it on ebay or heck even in real life. Maybe it dosen't really exist

They exist. A friend of mine who is a dwarf nutjob has them and the goblin-hewer. (and a full slayer army)

I have the goblin-hewer myself, but knowing that they're real just makes it suck more that I've never found one

Also although I wasen't searcing for them when I found them the owner of a store I played at found a box of OLD OLD blister pack minis in the back of the supply room. They wern't even on the GW registry of miniatures anymore so he was selling them for about a dollar each. I bought a Von Carstien model that actually didn't look like crap and a Dwarf Slayer. I've never seen these models before and I haven't seen them again since. So I consider them my found Grails.

Pathfinders, or anything decent looking with good uses in the the Tau metal model selection.

Now the FLGS starts selling them. Guess what? Firewariors -> Patfinder conversions

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440084a&prodId=prod900134a , i probaly wont ever get it but it looks so cool!

Everybody is going to make fun of me for this but....
I started playing mini's with Mage Knight figures and I always wanted Deathspeaker Aradon.

As for 40k model I like to find the model of that Grot that was Ghazghkull's sidekick, I can't remember his named right now, but he had all these metals on him because he was "lucky".

Due to my Hobbies addiction I actually have a few.

World of Warcraft - Collectors Edition - literally just for the pets that come with it, but its like Golddust in new/sealed condition, and painfully the odd time It's come up on ebay its when I haven't had the funds to be able to get one.

Warsong - an old Megadrive game, its one I previuosly owned, would love to have it again, but can't justify paying the often £40+ prices it goes for on ebay.

Dark Future - I played it a few times when I was younger, and I'd love to be able to get a couple of sets at some point, rarely comes up though, I've not been lucky enough to be around when a good condition set has appeared so far anyways.

Blood Bowl - those taking notice may have heard me say this before, but I mad a drastic error when I was younger and traded 17 fully painted teams, and five or so more I was working on for bloody Star Trek CCG boosters.
I was trying to make up the full NAF league at the time. I had loads of the old 2nd edition figures including a load of rare ones as I brought a load (seven or eight teams worth) off a guy in Plymouth in around 92-93. I had the unreleased troll player in there for example, so I have no idea where he got them from. So aye, I had Reikland Reavers, Chaos all Stars, Middenheim Marauders, Darkside Cowboys, Lowdown Rats, Dwarf Giants (inc the proper Star Lineman fig) and Elfheim Eagles to name a few.
So yeah, one of my long term holy Grails is to do it again, get the 2nd edition book and just fully make up the NAF division, but figs are so hard to track down, its like a Mission Impossible for me atm.

Those are my main ones.

FITZZ wrote: This...several of them.

Seconded!

Ailaros wrote:For me it's rough riders.

Their models are terrible, so I've always known I'm going to have to do serious work with GS to get what I want. I've been threatening to make some for like 4 years now, but have never gotten around to it.

Reminds me of my weird idea to combine IG with Tyranid bits and have 'Rough Riders' riding giant hermit-crab-inspired things...

Metal night goblin flipping the bird, and some of the actually good looking demonettes

My Holy Grail isn't anywhere near as old as some of your stuff: It's a copy of Collected Visions, the Horus Heresy art book, which I got signed by 15 authors, artists and designers at Games Day UK this year.

Mine would be the Space Marine Veteran Sergeant wearing Iron Armour, with the little club in his left hand, and the banner made of chainmail

Such a nice model...