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2020/07/11 06:54:49
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
We all buy miniatures to paint them, but I've been known to purchase the occasional out-of-print box simply to display as a collectable.
Surfing eBay, its not hard to find some truly delicious pieces of NIBOOP miniatures. I'm curious to see what some of you have collected exclusively to display on shelves
If you have any old booster packs, boxed sets or special in-store-only releases that you've never opened up, please take a picture and share with us.
These wouldn't count as a credit towards anyones "pile of shame" because you're not intending to paint them in the first place... at least not any time soon!
I'll start the thread with a factory sealed Jungle Fighers of Catachan, released around 1994.
This was the first 40K product I bought just to keep on display. Its not exactly 100% mint considering there is a finger-sized indentation on the top of the box, but that doesn't bother me.
Even if you intend on painting it down the road - as long as its a collectable still in the original packaging.. please share it!
2020/07/11 08:20:45
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Gitdakka wrote: Omg I can't understand how you dont open and paint what's in that box! I would go insane if I tried to do the same
I feel a lot of joy knowing that its still in the same condition as the day it was released many years ago.
On a more grim note, I recognize I won't be around forever, but that when I die there will still be a mint-condition copy of whatever I have maintained in a collection.
It will (hopefully) live on beyond me for others to enjoy. This is why we have museums and such - to enjoy a look at the real McCoy from years past.
Its fair to recognize that collectors are little more than keepers of objects that belong to a bygone era.
Collecting is fun and its a contribution to the people of the future, beyond your timeline.
2020/07/11 08:45:47
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Gitdakka wrote: Although I intend to paint it one day, this old school piece is still in it's packaging.
What year is that from?
Looks like a real oldie.
I plan on opening this one someday and painting it.
Its the original Ambull from 1987. Bit different looking from its recent Blackstone Fortress remake.
2020/07/11 09:10:50
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Gitdakka wrote: Although I intend to paint it one day, this old school piece is still in it's packaging.
What year is that from?
Looks like a real oldie.
~98-'00. I bought one on release to cut up to make a Mousilon Blood Dragon.
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2020/07/11 09:53:19
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Not new in box, as it was ordered direct somewhere around 1994 :
The other corvus pod is around somewhere in the attic along with all 30 terminator bases required to field it, but everyone including myself was moving away from epic to 40k and necromunda exclusively at the time so this little collection was boxed up along with the rest.
I find it already tough to defend the Hobby against my wife, I guess it was even harder if I had miniatures in their packages that I'm not even intending to paint some day
So, I do collect of course, I have Plague Marines from 2nd and 3rd edition, all metal Mordor orcs from 2003(GWs best Minis from all times and ranges imo), some Rogue Trader Plaguebearers (or marauders as they seem to have been called back then). All of these I got when they were OOP and it was fascinating to paint these Minis after they were obviousely stuck for years in someones basement... I wouldn't leave them in the box. After all gaming is still the main appeal of the Hobby. I'd probably buy some Minis just for painting, but just to leave them in their Box? Nah...
Btw. this is by no means meant as an offense to the OP, the topic simply made me think about that approach and I thought I'd raise the discussion
2020/07/11 14:27:16
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Sgt. Cortez wrote: I find it already tough to defend the Hobby against my wife, I guess it was even harder if I had miniatures in their packages that I'm not even intending to paint some day
So, I do collect of course, I have Plague Marines from 2nd and 3rd edition, all metal Mordor orcs from 2003(GWs best Minis from all times and ranges imo), some Rogue Trader Plaguebearers (or marauders as they seem to have been called back then). All of these I got when they were OOP and it was fascinating to paint these Minis after they were obviousely stuck for years in someones basement... I wouldn't leave them in the box. After all gaming is still the main appeal of the Hobby. I'd probably buy some Minis just for painting, but just to leave them in their Box? Nah...
Btw. this is by no means meant as an offense to the OP, the topic simply made me think about that approach and I thought I'd raise the discussion
Minis want to see the table. I’m not fond of the idea of them locked away in a box, never to see the glories of battle.
Most of my NIB stuff is either projects that never got off the ground, or petered out. The box of random stuff is from when a FLGS went out of business. They just gave me the stuff they could not liquidate before they had to close their doors.
Minis want to see the table. I’m not fond of the idea of them locked away in a box, never to see the glories of battle.
Hey now, you don't know that about all minis!
Maybe some enjoy that snug and familiar place of safety, tucked away in their factory issued box.
On a real note, I actually enjoy the idea that I'm preserving some of these for a person way ahead of my time who will get a rush out of opening a 40K box thats like 50+ years old.
Its like watching that one guy on YouTube eat military rations that haven't been opened since the Vietnam war.
Gotta love it.
2020/07/12 18:19:26
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
This thread is bringing back some serious nostalgia from when I bought that stuff the first time around. I remember the excitement of finding a shop that carried GW models before they opened up the first store here. Metal was still lead and you built an army based on what you could find not necessarily what made the most tactical sense. I’d love to see more of these!
2020/07/13 20:33:23
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
I've also some of the old chaplains (which looked like they were dancing) ( this model, not my own but the same one ) and just finished stripping a sizable amount of metal figures from the early '00s.
got a 2nd edition hive tyrant somewhere too, but not in its box.
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Heres a booster pack of some Frateris boys (1997).
I don't think I've ever seen them used in a GW game before. I believe they serve as a sort of retinue for Inquisitors.
A mint-condition factory-sealed release of the SoB Seraphims (also 1997).
They really did a beautiful job on the sculpting considering some of the other stuff coming out around that same era.
2020/07/14 02:19:13
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
IIRC the Frateris Militia was loyalist rabble in the SoB codex, not inquisitor retinue. Kinda like chaos cultists, but without the whole Chaos thing...
Nevelon wrote: IIRC the Frateris Militia was loyalist rabble in the SoB codex, not inquisitor retinue. Kinda like chaos cultists, but without the whole Chaos thing...
Funny coincidence that I would showcase that blister pack in the same post as the SoB Seraphims.
I never knew much about the Frateris models. I knew they were radicals devoted to the Emperor, not much else.
2020/07/14 10:42:52
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
I'm guessing I bowed out of the hobby in 1997 because I remember the Seraphim there but never seen the Frateris before. Anyone know when 2nd ed Codex Tyranids came out? That was brand new when I went into my first GW store in London on a weekend away with my mam. Bought 2nd ed in Argos that trip (neither chain existed in Ireland at the time).
2020/07/14 11:00:04
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Horla wrote: I'm guessing I bowed out of the hobby in 1997 because I remember the Seraphim there but never seen the Frateris before. Anyone know when 2nd ed Codex Tyranids came out? That was brand new when I went into my first GW store in London on a weekend away with my mam. Bought 2nd ed in Argos that trip (neither chain existed in Ireland at the time).
The 2nd ed ‘Nid codex on my shelf is copyright ’95.
The militia were a niche unit, from memory. Not something everyone would care about, as they were not the core of the list. And one of those units you needed a large number of, and would have to buy and paint for minimal rewards.
I salute you for the restraint of keeping those models in the original packaging.
But why!?! It's not something I could do myself. I gotta get them out and put them in my hands - and eventually get them to my paint station (if not the game board...).
It never ends well
2020/07/14 11:43:12
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Frag The Commissar wrote: Heres a booster pack of some Frateris boys (1997).
I don't think I've ever seen them used in a GW game before. I believe they serve as a sort of retinue for Inquisitors.
Snap.
They were a very short lived lot, killed off when GW push most of the ecclesiarchal elements out of the sisters faction when they were moved to support the inquisition line. Though the chapter approved zealot horde rules were actually pretty good (4-5 hidden multi-attack eviscerators in a 20 strong mob of ablative wounds)
Those are the only frateris models they ever made, no special weapon or banner models were released. On the tabletop they were patheric with a worse statline that a gretchin, but you could mob them up with melee weapons and frenzy and you'd outnumber guardsmen 2:1 and marines 6:1. You could even put them on horseback.
I have lurked on this forum for years and years but decided to make an account to post in this thread. I started the game in 3rd edition and I have a huge soft spot for all the 2nd and 3rd edition aesthetic and sculpts. I have a ton of old stuff honestly but here is some of it.
Some blisters that are still sealed. Sorry for the bad pics. From left to right: Alpha Legion shoulder pads, Cato Sicarius, Deathwing Terminator with Cyclone missile launcher.
I just opened this up last week. The box was not sealed but the pewter blister inside was. It has a sticker for 32.99 on the side. I believe the Chimera without the Hellhound upgrade was 25 dollars at the time.
These are some boxes I opened a few months ago and my current project, refurbishing and repainting(and adding to) my Ork army that I started the game with in 3rd edition. Honestly it hurt to open some of this stuff but at the same time it felt really good and I have big plans and projects involving all of this stuff.
Here are some more Ork bikes that are sealed. I plan to keep at least one of the older ones sealed forever.
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2020/07/16 01:13:17
Subject: The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
Amping up for some Catachan miniature posting.
The Lieutenant is from 1997, while the Demolition Charge team is stamped 2000.
Nothing too special about them. I've seen plenty of them for sale on eBay over the years.
Listed above are some Catachan Officers, which seem to be an offshoot of the Catachan Lieutenant.
One of the foreign language listings for them are "Catachanische Leutnants".
These two are a lot harder to find, especially in a booster pack.
I snagged them when I first came across them because I recognized they were not a common for-sale posting.
Stamped at 2002.
2020/07/16 07:01:32
Subject: Re:The Display Case: Post your mint-condition 40K collectables!
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