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The problem is that a lot of the Unseen that show up on eBay are recasts. It's a bit like Sergeant Centurius. There are more Centurius' in the world now than were ever made by GW.

I never bothered going after the Unseen because there's only one Unseen that I really like, the Warhammer, and I have that one (in plastic... or it might actually be vinyl).

My ebay holy grail
If anyone has it, sell it to me :<

That's unfortunate. Maybe someday I'll put in some effort to tracking down authentic ones, but it's not a pressing issue. Thanks for the heads up on the recasts, though, I'll have to keep that in mind when I start looking.

I really only want the Marauder and Warhammer, anyway.


Hm, and the Behemoth/Stone Rhino. Didn't realize it was one of the Unseen.

I guess my Holy Grail would be some of the 2nd Ed Epic stuff. Not particularly hard to get hold of, but some of the ebay prices make my wallet cry tears of rage. I managed to get a pristine unused copy of Titan Legions, complete with Imperator and Gargants still on sprue (and will probably make collectors weep when they find out that I promptly took them off the sprue and assembled them) but I am still looking for some more editions to my Ork and Tyranid forces, particularly the Ork dragstas, speedstas and tanks, of which I only have a couple at the moment.

40K wise, I guess it would be a FW DKOK army. Not particularly exciting are original but probably destined to remain a Holy Grail because of the price.

Somehow getting my female trollslayer sculpt back from where ever in the world she had ended up. (I can't remember.) Why oh why I ever sold that ugly old hag I don't know: she was hideous but she got me a finalist place in a competition and I miss the old witch. Also getting back a Zara the slayer model I painted and sold (similar time as the trollslayer I think... must have been a patch of lunacy on my part). She was at that point what I considered my best painted model ever.

Thus my holy grail(s)... as they may or may not even exsist anymore.

On a not much more realistic sense: I would love to have a full size Alien so I can set it next to my front door for when I open it to cold callers.

Aurelia wrote:Somehow getting my female trollslayer sculpt back from where ever in the world she had ended up. (I can't remember.) Why oh why I ever sold that ugly old hag I don't know: she was hideous but she got me a finalist place in a competition and I miss the old witch. Also getting back a Zara the slayer model I painted and sold (similar time as the trollslayer I think... must have been a patch of lunacy on my part). She was at that point what I considered my best painted model ever.

Thus my holy grail(s)... as they may or may not even exsist anymore.

On a not much more realistic sense: I would love to have a full size Alien so I can set it next to my front door for when I open it to cold callers.

Repaint them :'D its easier option

LunaHound wrote:

Aurelia wrote:Somehow getting my female trollslayer sculpt back from where ever in the world she had ended up. (I can't remember.) Why oh why I ever sold that ugly old hag I don't know: she was hideous but she got me a finalist place in a competition and I miss the old witch. Also getting back a Zara the slayer model I painted and sold (similar time as the trollslayer I think... must have been a patch of lunacy on my part). She was at that point what I considered my best painted model ever.

Thus my holy grail(s)... as they may or may not even exsist anymore.

On a not much more realistic sense: I would love to have a full size Alien so I can set it next to my front door for when I open it to cold callers.

Repaint them :'D its easier option

Except the troll slayer was a unique sculpt and I converted Zara. Takes away from having the original.

Worglock wrote:
I'm generally unimpressed with this thread. Somebody roll out something I haven't seen before.

How about this old spine dragon - don't see many of these around unpainted or this old Ral Partha mini ....

My holy grail for this year was my airbrush and air compressor. Been wanting them for a long time. Now I'm laying down paint onto my armies like a mofo!

Another HG for this year was the AusCon steampunk Dorothy that got put out 2nd quarter this year. Wanted her bad, and I picked her up when they rereleased her in July.


Actually my real holy grail isn't GW. I'm a huge fan of Masamune Shirow and mostly his Appleseed franchise. When Appleseed and Ex Machina came out in 2007 and 2008 the Hot Toys company out of Hong Kong release 1/6 scale figs of both of the main characters. I 'm also a 1/6 scale fan, but didn't know about these until about 2009 or 2010, by that time both figures were unreasonable expensive (like $300 usd apiece expensive). If I ever get that type of money I'm buying these.


Can't see the pic from work. Here's the Url incase I f'd up.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z4-I2c8peEQ/RxjB_eEH8PI/AAAAAAAANVQ/audr7MrbPmM/s1600-h/Briareos_Deunan_02.jpg

MightyGodzilla wrote:My holy grail for this year was my airbrush and air compressor. Been wanting them for a long time. Now I'm laying down paint onto my armies like a mofo!

Another HG for this year was the AusCon steampunk Dorothy that got put out 2nd quarter this year. Wanted her bad, and I picked her up when they rereleased her in July.


Actually my real holy grail isn't GW. I'm a huge fan of Masamune Shirow and mostly his Appleseed franchise. When Appleseed and Ex Machina came out in 2007 and 2008 the Hot Toys company out of Hong Kong release 1/6 scale figs of both of the main characters. I 'm also a 1/6 scale fan, but didn't know about these until about 2009 or 2010, by that time both figures were unreasonable expensive (like $300 usd apiece expensive). If I ever get that type of money I'm buying these.


Can't see the pic from work. Here's the Url incase I f'd up.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z4-I2c8peEQ/RxjB_eEH8PI/AAAAAAAANVQ/audr7MrbPmM/s1600-h/Briareos_Deunan_02.jpg

It's nice to see more people in the hobby getting airbrushes. Mine was an HG for a good while.

+1 for the 6th edition Empire figures. Get some of the militia before they are gone too.

Makes me wonder: You always hear about how these molds for plastic are so expensive; yet there was a perfectly good one discontinued in favor of new sculpts?
Why not just keep making both?

My "Holy Grail" would be the miniatures missing from the Tyranid line. Actual GW ones.

Worglock wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:I so wish I kept them but then GW came up with the insane idea that you could only play with the 'newest releases' of figgies in the store

This absolutely never happened in the real world.

Parden ME!, it most deffiently did happen 1998 or so. Metrotown Gamesworkshop store. The employee's name was Michael ( a really nice guy who still runs the Park Royal store in West Vancouver British Columbia) who had to tell me the sad state of affars. The stores manager was I believe Darren from stratigies hobbys and games. If you look in the local yellow pages online you can call the stores themselves and ask them.

I came back I believe after 3rd edition came out and wanted to relearn the game, but I couldn't use my old GW figgies if I wanted to play in the store. This didn't apply to Epic which had changed to Epic 40k I believe. I remember because I had my guys on the old square bases and not the 'new' rectangles. As it stated in the beginning of the book that it didn't matter what you used I guess the GW 'upper managment' didn't have a leg to stand on.

Was this a company wide policy at the time? I don't know. Was this just a over zelous manager or area manger trying to put 'his' stamp on the job? I don't know. Was this just a insane idea that 'some one' in a GW tee shirt just thought up and tried to impliment? I don't know. The end result was alot of people who used to play down in the 'Gastown' store where rather pissed that all of a sudded all the money they had spent with GW was no longer 'good enough' and had to spend more to play in the stores. At this time there where no clubs around and very few stores offered 'gaming space'. I wasn't yet online and couldn't and didn't have easy access to the internet to find other players so it was still word of mouth.

I guess your holy grail is Gamesworkshop world domination....and when I was hired that was GW's stated aim also... go figure eh? Please stop trolling threads with absolutely no evidience and single line statments. I will start to report you and your posts if you don't. I am not the biggest GW supporter in the world, hell I almost hate them for how they have treated there employee's and customers over the years. But basically what you posted is " GWZ iz the rokorzzzz!!21!!11 otherz gamez are tha sukorzz" kind of post and that doesn't do anyone anygood. I may not be there biggest biggest supporter but atleast I post why, not just one line sound bites to win internet fourm board posts and up my post count.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

Worglock wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:I so wish I kept them but then GW came up with the insane idea that you could only play with the 'newest releases' of figgies in the store

This absolutely never happened in the real world.

Parden ME!, it most deffiently did happen 1998 or so. Metrotown Gamesworkshop store. The employee's name was Michael ( a really nice guy who still runs the Park Royal store in West Vancouver British Columbia) who had to tell me the sad state of affars. The stores manager was I believe Darren from stratigies hobbys and games. If you look in the local yellow pages online you can call the stores themselves and ask them.

I came back I believe after 3rd edition came out and wanted to relearn the game, but I couldn't use my old GW figgies if I wanted to play in the store. This didn't apply to Epic which had changed to Epic 40k I believe. I remember because I had my guys on the old square bases and not the 'new' rectangles. As it stated in the beginning of the book that it didn't matter what you used I guess the GW 'upper managment' didn't have a leg to stand on.

Was this a company wide policy at the time? I don't know. Was this just a over zelous manager or area manger trying to put 'his' stamp on the job? I don't know. Was this just a insane idea that 'some one' in a GW tee shirt just thought up and tried to impliment? I don't know. The end result was alot of people who used to play down in the 'Gastown' store where rather pissed that all of a sudded all the money they had spent with GW was no longer 'good enough' and had to spend more to play in the stores. At this time there where no clubs around and very few stores offered 'gaming space'. I wasn't yet online and couldn't and didn't have easy access to the internet to find other players so it was still word of mouth.

I guess your holy grail is Gamesworkshop world domination....and when I was hired that was GW's stated aim also... go figure eh? Please stop trolling threads with absolutely no evidience and single line statments. I will start to report you and your posts if you don't. I am not the biggest GW supporter in the world, hell I almost hate them for how they have treated there employee's and customers over the years. But basically what you posted is " GWZ iz the rokorzzzz!!21!!11 otherz gamez are tha sukorzz" kind of post and that doesn't do anyone anygood. I may not be there biggest biggest supporter but atleast I post why, not just one line sound bites to win internet fourm board posts and up my post count.

"Trolling" is not, has not, and never will be "posts you disagree with" sorry. But it's just not. My post has *exactly* the the same amount of "evidience" (spelling in context) as yours.

Also. The whole bit about the alleged incident is off topic to the thread.

on topic: my "holy grail" is people being involved in the hobby because they have fun with it. Not because they hang around hating GW for everything that may or may not be wrong with their world.

Worglock wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

Worglock wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:I so wish I kept them but then GW came up with the insane idea that you could only play with the 'newest releases' of figgies in the store

This absolutely never happened in the real world.

Parden ME!, it most deffiently did happen 1998 or so. Metrotown Gamesworkshop store. The employee's name was Michael ( a really nice guy who still runs the Park Royal store in West Vancouver British Columbia) who had to tell me the sad state of affars. The stores manager was I believe Darren from stratigies hobbys and games. If you look in the local yellow pages online you can call the stores themselves and ask them.

I came back I believe after 3rd edition came out and wanted to relearn the game, but I couldn't use my old GW figgies if I wanted to play in the store. This didn't apply to Epic which had changed to Epic 40k I believe. I remember because I had my guys on the old square bases and not the 'new' rectangles. As it stated in the beginning of the book that it didn't matter what you used I guess the GW 'upper managment' didn't have a leg to stand on.

Was this a company wide policy at the time? I don't know. Was this just a over zelous manager or area manger trying to put 'his' stamp on the job? I don't know. Was this just a insane idea that 'some one' in a GW tee shirt just thought up and tried to impliment? I don't know. The end result was alot of people who used to play down in the 'Gastown' store where rather pissed that all of a sudded all the money they had spent with GW was no longer 'good enough' and had to spend more to play in the stores. At this time there where no clubs around and very few stores offered 'gaming space'. I wasn't yet online and couldn't and didn't have easy access to the internet to find other players so it was still word of mouth.

I guess your holy grail is Gamesworkshop world domination....and when I was hired that was GW's stated aim also... go figure eh? Please stop trolling threads with absolutely no evidience and single line statments. I will start to report you and your posts if you don't. I am not the biggest GW supporter in the world, hell I almost hate them for how they have treated there employee's and customers over the years. But basically what you posted is " GWZ iz the rokorzzzz!!21!!11 otherz gamez are tha sukorzz" kind of post and that doesn't do anyone anygood. I may not be there biggest biggest supporter but atleast I post why, not just one line sound bites to win internet fourm board posts and up my post count.

"Trolling" is not, has not, and never will be "posts you disagree with" sorry. But it's just not. My post has *exactly* the the same amount of "evidience" (spelling in context) as yours.

Also. The whole bit about the alleged incident is off topic to the thread.

on topic: my "holy grail" is people being involved in the hobby because they have fun with it. Not because they hang around hating GW for everything that may or may not be wrong with their world.

I guess my 'holy grail' is people who figure out that 'not liking GW's business practices =/= hating 40k' See I can do it too. =oÞ~~~~ (And I even use cute orky-motions )

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:


I guess my 'holy grail' is people who figure out that 'not liking GW's business practices =/= hating 40k' See I can do it too. =oÞ~~~~ (And I even use cute orky-motions )

There's a *slight* difference between "not like GW's business practices" and "making stuff up as we go along".

News Flash: I don't agree with all of GW's business decisions. But I still get value out of this hobby. The second I don't, I'll find something else to do with my time that doesn't involve hanging out on forums spewing hate, venom and vitriol about a company that really doesn't notice that any of us individually exist.

Worglock wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:


I guess my 'holy grail' is people who figure out that 'not liking GW's business practices =/= hating 40k' See I can do it too. =oÞ~~~~ (And I even use cute orky-motions )

There's a *slight* difference between "not like GW's business practices" and "making stuff up as we go along".

News Flash: I don't agree with all of GW's business decisions. But I still get value out of this hobby. The second I don't, I'll find something else to do with my time that doesn't involve hanging out on forums spewing hate, venom and vitriol about a company that really doesn't notice that any of us individually exist.

"do i try to change the world, or change myself"

while philosophical, try to not limit others rights, what you do with yourself is your own business, so dont interfere too much.

See, there arn't too many people that complains, e.g you can put me on ignore if you dont like see me criticizing GW.
Or are you compelled to "correct" my POV? If so, you are no different than the ones that you cant tolerate.

Worglock wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:


I guess my 'holy grail' is people who figure out that 'not liking GW's business practices =/= hating 40k' See I can do it too. =oÞ~~~~ (And I even use cute orky-motions )

There's a *slight* difference between "not like GW's business practices" and "making stuff up as we go along".

News Flash: I don't agree with all of GW's business decisions. But I still get value out of this hobby. The second I don't, I'll find something else to do with my time that doesn't involve hanging out on forums spewing hate, venom and vitriol about a company that really doesn't notice that any of us individually exist.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

stop being wrong and we'll get along better.

let's leave this particular tangent alone and move back to the original topic please. Ta.

insaniak wrote:

Doctadeth wrote:My holy grail is to own the rogue trader miniture produced by GW during second edition I believe.

There was no Rogue Trader model released in 2nd edition. Rogue Traders haven't been a part of the game as anything other than background since Rogue Trader.

Actually, GW Perth in the old days released the rogue trader as a LE store model.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

I don't know how many times this has been me. Especially when people talk about the laws of recasting and some fool always spouts how it's legal for personal use when it very much isn't.

Doctadeth wrote:Actually, GW Perth in the old days released the rogue trader as a LE store model.

Umm... how long ago was that? And why would GW Perth, of all places, be the one store to have a Rogue Trader miniature? Was it Marco Columbo you're thinking about?

Nope, not Marco Colombo....Although I did see that mini recently, (not for sale sadly). It may have been an independant casting though, but the store manager at the time was saying it was a GW mini.

Anyhow, NEW holy grail (something that I cannot get at all). probably would be either a mint edition Man-o-war, and the cardstock Bugmans Brewery bash game.

Doctadeth wrote:and the cardstock Bugmans Brewery bash game.

Wasn't that in White Dwarf? You can download it as pdfs of the GW site too.

Edited - oops I'm thinking of something else.

Please stay on topic.

What? Is your quest?

malfred wrote:Please stay on topic.

What? Is your quest?

To find the Holy Grail.

What, is your favorite color?

Blue! No, Yellooooooooow!

Aerethan wrote:

malfred wrote:Please stay on topic.

What? Is your quest?

To find the Holy Grail.

What, is your favorite color?

Blue! No, Yellooooooooow!

What is the wing speed velocity of a swallow carrying a coconut? Love that film

is it an African or European sparrow?

another grail of mine is a decent chaos Dread. Someday...

Castiel wrote:is it an African or European sparrow?

another grail of mine is a decent chaos Dread. Someday...

You could always kitbash a pretty decent Chaos Dreadnought from any of the Loyalist Dreadnoughts. I know I've seen some really good ones here on Dakka Dakka.

Now an official Tervigon or Tyrannofex model...