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Either the Two Towers starter box (I can't remember if I actually paid for that one or not... but I seem to think I didn't), a Space Marine combat squad that I split with my brother, or my Wolf Lord (which my username is culled after), a Space Wolf Terminator Sergeant. Out of those 3 options I believe it was the Wolf Lord though.

1 little Leman Russ tank.

I still have him and use him in games.

My first models bought for 40k was the Assault on Black Reich Starter Set, some of the Orks I painted from that are funnily bad.

My first miniatures bought were actually a platoon of Italian Bersaglieri for Flames of War from a hobby shop in Gettysburg, which I ended up using in my Italian army when starting FoW (luckily, I hadn't painted these! ) .

Excluding AOBR
Chaplain on a bike.
I love tht model. I put so much work into the base it looks amazing.

Nov 1993 Virgin Megastore, Dublin, Irl.

Cant remember the price, around 12 punt maybe?

My first was those DeAgostini Battle Games In Middle Earth supplements back when I was about 11 (for shame).

First 40k was the old Space Marine Batallion box, the £70 you got a tonne of stuff in, and an Emperors Champion.

My first model(s) were 20 aobr ork boys off ebay.

soitra wrote:Hey guys was thinking earlier about what got me into painting GW miniatures in the first place, looking back its amazing how cheaply i got my first models.

I cant remember how much i paid exactly but i know i got my first models from a table-top sale that we did when i was in scouts, it was a ready painted space hulk set and i managed to really mess it up painting them, with thick enamel paints i recently found the space marines and was amazed at how poorly they had been painted.

So my question is this what first got you into painting???

Grenader D and D minis.

I saw the old RT stuff when it first came out and thought they was some sort of model armymen set. At first, I thought that stuff was crap.

Later picked up a box of the old squats, some bikes, a thudd gun and a bunch of assorted stiff, then dove into my first boxed set of 2d edition 40K.

By then the corruption was complete.

McVey was inspiration, but I'd already been painting for 10 years or so.

The dog eared copies of the WD from the early 100's got me into scenery, and vehicles.

First model I had was the old Blood Angel tactical squad box. Metal marines with plastic arms and a sculpted BA sgt. Waaaay back '92 I think.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

soitra wrote:

EzeKK wrote:My first model decision came down to between a box of Night Lords CSM and Iron Warriors CSM. I saw the metal warsmith model and coming from a family of engineers fell in love with dat servo arm. Bought the box and the warsmith. I wish I knew where those guy were... probably lost in the warp somewhere building a gigantic fortress of doom.

I know right what happens to our fondest models from the past??? I had a LOTR cave troll that was my first "decent" paintjob, copied the 'Eavy metal guide in white dwarf.
not seen him since before i moved out of my parents.

Was that the old metal cave troll with hammer and chain from when it was first released? I was so proud of my painting on him then. Compared to what I can do now he looks pretty rubbish but for the time he was great...

Yeah it was i loved that model lol

I wonder what my first ever model was, I'm thinking it might have been a tank of some sort, probably a 1/32 Sherman which was motorised. The first thing I ever entered in a competition was a 1/72 Matchbox Hurricane. A good kit, I've built several since.

For me it was a Space Marine battleforce towards the start of 4th, under the impression that they were robots...

My first model kit was a Monogram M-16 Halftrack, 1/32 scale, from Kresge's dept. Store for 99 cents.
It was 1968.
My first true gaming figures were the Bashki LOTR Ringwraths and Fellowship. Soon followed by a lot of old Heritage Dungeon Dwellers box sets. Still have most of them.
My first Citadel figure was the Githyanki- like vampire from the old FA series.
First Citadel box set : Dwarf Lords of Legend.

Moria Goblins or The Last Alliance box. Or both

if I recall it was a blister pack of Chaos "thugs" way back when.

The first model I bought was the AOBR set, which I actually pre-ordered. I had been really into the Dawn of War games and this seemed like a good place to start. It was $60 + $9 shipped, 8/29/08.

However, I didn't get them painted for a while. I was pretty intimidated just assembling them.

The first model I actually got painted up was a single Necron Immortal, which was actually my second 40K related purchase ever. The image metadata says 1/17/09, but I suspect I actually finished him in December 08 sometime.



Clearly a Golden Daemon winner from the beginning.

Dark eldar from the third ed starter.

These bad boys



Plenty of Airfix enamel slapped on them, only got round to stripping them last year

An Epic reaver titan for my brand new copy of adeptus titanicus.

Marines of course...but THESE marines.

I think my first (2003/4 I think) Fantasy model box was some men at arms. First 40k was a blister of Fire Dragons, but I soon realised that chaos temps all, and soon got a Chaos plasma gunner blister (the one with antlers).

mine is the first run of BT or Battletech / Battledroid
http://brianscache.com/battledroids/battlemaster.jpg

in 1984

After seeing an advert in Kerrang! circa 1990, the original Space Hulk box, shortly after which (occasioned by crushing disappointment with the plastic miniatures), the boxed set of these chaps.

The first model I bought was an actual scale model, a German Type VII U Boat, sometime around 1990 IIRC.

The first miniatures I bought (around 1993) were Battletech mechs, as BT was my introduction to gaming.

I recall seeing GW stuff back then, but didnt really know what it was. My store of choice was War & Pieces in West Hartford CT. I was primarily a scale modeler, so I didnt pay much attention to the cartoonish GW stuff. Years later BT lead me to other tabletop games and I learned all about 40k and others.

EDIT: The first miniatures I ever had were Ral Partha D&D minis, a birthday present along with the old red box D&D RPG set.

I got Assault on Black Reach as a wedding present. Sigh.... I never should've let my wife pick her army first. To this day I still lie awake at night wondering about the Orks that got away.

grayshadow87 wrote:I got Assault on Black Reach as a wedding present. Sigh.... I never should've let my wife pick her army first. To this day I still lie awake at night wondering about the Orks that got away.

Here you have it folks. Nothing says "I love you" like letting your missus have the bloodthirsty green horde.

This one, I vaguely remember. It was a looooong time ago.

chromedog wrote:First 40k model was a blister of three "space marines" with the wierd looking bladed rifle things.


Marine firing, marine advancing, marine guard from that set.
They got melted down for my other casting endeavours back in the early 90s because they were poxy sculpts at the best of times.

Melted down? That's a bit harsh. I recently stripped and repainted mine for a Sternguard unit. After all, they are my oldest marines so probably qualify as veterans.

Space Marine Combat squad 3rd edition. Ultramarines looked bad a** back in the day

It was Kaya the Wildborne - Hordes was the first game I really got into. I still love dragging out my Circle army.

I bought a 2-pack of metal Empire Knights in 1987 to share with a friend. The idea was to use them for RPGs, we were playing a lot of WHFRP and GURPS at the time.

We had no idea what to do with them and ended up painting them with Humbrol enamels (leftovers from my friend's model plane past) without undercoating. The results could have been better.

I thankfully have no pictures of them.