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The lovely weetyskemian44 suggested that someone starts up a thread for everyone to show of their first paint job (or oldest paint job).

So I'll kick off with a zombie I painted about 20 years ago.



Peter

Haha, glad you decided to do this, unfortunately i dont have my first one any more, will see if i can dig up an equally as old one.....

He, is oldish looking

Cool idea for a thread, but if we're going to be including unbased minis, then it doesn't belong in Showcase.

my first model... its actually how i fell in love with the hobby...






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and yes he has a gold "grill" the rest of the boys and nobs have metal teeth i thought it appropriate for the boss to have a better dental job

I see your Ork has a thing for tomato soup

bathed in blood sir

Ragnar Blackmane at his finest! Painted some 15+ years ago...


Yellow and red were a blast on my first mini!

I already posted him on my blog a few weeks ago, but here he goes again, my first finished tabletop miniature from '97/'98:

There's some more of those old school guys here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/630/345040.page

Here we go my first evah!

Nice

Think it was this squad.


Or this squad I forget.

I bring you....

Man, my first paint job is long, long gone. But I suspect it'd be a High Elf from the early 90s Warhammer Fantasy box set. I had some pretty ugly Wood Elves in my main army over the early years, though.

well here are my very first minis... not all painted with GW brand paints as sure one sees... all painted around 12 to 10 years ago... of course no primer was involved... just big lumps of paint slapped on the mini...mind you...one coat of white^^

the minis in the first pic are from a german based roleplay called the black eye...and the tabletop variant of this rpg called armalion...

the second pic shows some old GW minis...and too an armalion lizard man...kind of...

My first and favourite model.

Ha ha this is turning out to be a fun thread.

1979: An 8 year old monkeytroll discovers you can buy models of fantasy creatures.




The elf was actually my second I believe, the first being a dwarf fro the same range, painted almost exactly the same. He may have got brown pants rather than gold lame though

Hard to recall for sure, but I reckon the other fellow was my first SF figure, had a little scooter/gun thing, which I think I may still have somewhere.

eight in the year of `79... i thougt you were ancient monkey... now i see you are just three years older´n me...makes me quite thoughtful...

Old farts!

welcome to the club...^^

I thought being 30 made me old round these parts.... well it just proves this can be a hobby for life....or until ones hands get shakey with age.

Monkeytroll - the elf has gold pants....how disco.

I really do wish i had my first fig, but dumbly enough i painted over him...

I'm still thinking about stripping and repainting that zombie......hmmm decisions decisions.

It was 1979 - disco ruled

My first models I painted when I was about seven years old... I never took any pictures of them. I am sorta glad since they were literally just drenched in regal blue paint and had their shoulderpads painted gold. The boltguns were caked in red. When I found some of the minis 'n' stripped them, it was like they had the touch of Nurgle... Nobody ever took the time to teach me to paint, see... and I just totally lost interest in the hobby :(

I came back to the hobby three years ago, though, and this was my standard then, a fair improvement, but still terrible since thinning paints meant nothing to me:

Benamint wrote:Here we go my first evah!

Kampfer Stealth Suit - Awesome

The first figure I ever assembled and painted.

Wow my first mini is some ork I painted a very long time ago in middle school. Wish I had a pic.

These pics are epic though. lol

Just started painting this week. Here is one of my first and favorite minis