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Excellent way to keep geeks on topic. Use a Monty Python quote.

Honestly, malfred, have you never roleplayed?

H.B.M.C. wrote:

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?

Just to put this to bed- Yes, Citadel has made quite a few unreleased figures over the years. They escape to the public occasionally as store opening minis, tournament only minis, and the most common Games day only minis.
Others were given to studio employees and outriders to test paint and provide feedback to GW for future possible release. Still others were given out with large mail orders around Christmastime by the trolls as free gifts. Read about them on the citadel unreleased wiki.

Since we are talking about non GW grail items as well-
I have been after the Tamiya 1/25 scale Tiger Tank with interior for a long time. But I found one by Acedemy in 1/35 with interior that will be a fine substitute.

I've owned many of the holy grails others have listed here over the years - had them for a while, they brought me joy, but the joy ended so I passed them onto someone else who wanted them.

My one gaming holy grail that is left, is undoing the idea that there is a 'GW hobby'.

After all, you don't see model railroaders telling people that because their trains are Tri-Ang, that they aren't real "train people" because they aren't Hornby trains* - they both recognise the greater hobby they are both part of, and that they are BOTH train anoraks.


*Although, like many things, there are douches in the collecting scene for everything.

There is a tabletop miniature wargaming hobby.
GW is a company. Their hobby is violating your wallet.

true dat chromedog!

chromedog wrote:I've owned many of the holy grails others have listed here over the years - had them for a while, they brought me joy, but the joy ended so I passed them onto someone else who wanted them.

My one gaming holy grail that is left, is undoing the idea that there is a 'GW hobby'.

After all, you don't see model railroaders telling people that because their trains are Tri-Ang, that they aren't real "train people" because they aren't Hornby trains* - they both recognise the greater hobby they are both part of, and that they are BOTH train anoraks.


*Although, like many things, there are douches in the collecting scene for everything.

There is a tabletop miniature wargaming hobby.
GW is a company. Their hobby is violating your wallet.

Awsome, I +1 your post there Chromedog. I agree with you 100%. The Hobby is table top war gamming, "The Hobby,tm,c, GWPLC,TM,C' is a marketing term used by GW so they can as they discribe themselves " A niche with a niche market". Make of that what you will. But some people like to call 'collecting and playing GW games and figgies 'The Hobby' so lets not rain on their parade, if they want to call it 'The Hobby' all the power to them, but it's not like it's some supersecret code that only other 'Hobbiest' will understand.

My current quest is to get my hands on either a nicely assembled + painted, or NIB Boris Ursus, The Red Tsar (Preferably for under $100)

Hmm...Holy Grails?

Perhaps a complete good condition set of Gorka Morka.

And a complete set of almost new condition bulkheads for Necromunda, which someone else already mentioned.

Chromedog=exalted +1

Chromedog for President

Holy Grail you say? D'uh.






Oh, you guys meant GAMING Holy Grail.

My holy grail at the moment is this resin angron figure.



Wish me luck

Chaplain 1.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat94/cat1994112-03.htm

You, sir, have impeccable taste.

I have that Chaplain.

First Chaplain model I ever bought actually.

Castiel wrote:You, sir, have impeccable taste.

Assuming this is pointed at me:

H.B.M.C. wrote:I have that Chaplain.

First Chaplain model I ever bought actually.

Well, colour me jealous.

It was indeed!

soncka wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:I have that Chaplain.

First Chaplain model I ever bought actually.

Well, colour me jealous.

That's weird because I have that chaplain too, and I never really liked him. I can't remember why I got him. I think I actually wanted #4 but I grabbed the wrong blister by mistake.

I guess my Holy grail would probably be this guy. Even though I don't collect Ultramarines, I just think he's cool.

Eilif wrote:Metal Magic Spacelords: Sardaykin Legionaires.
Specifically the officer figures and figures with needlers and autoguns. I've got most of the range, but I'd really like to have them all.
Officers

Spoiler:

Autoguns

The problem isn't price, as Metal Magic Spacelords figs don't seem to have a great resale value, it's availability. I just can't seem to find any.
If anyone knows where I can find them...

I just secured part of my Holy Grail!
I have a batch of the Spacelords Sardaykin with Needlers (the guys below) on the way to me now!

These guys are rediculously hard to find so I'm pretty stoked about these!
Now I just have to find the officers and Autoguns (in the spoiler above).
Wish me continued luck!

Eilif wrote:
I just secured part of my Holy Grail!
I have a batch of the Spacelords Sardaykin with Needlers (the guys below) on the way to me now!

Oddly, my dad has almost the whole range...

Holy Grail. Probably a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought. Going to make it a Counts-as DC Dread.

DakkaDakka wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:As many boxes of The Last Chancers as I can get my hands on...

Lol, why? They are all very individual looking character figures.

DakkaDakka wrote:

I always wanted the last chancers, just one of those things I never got around to. Still seem widely available though.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

George Spiggott wrote:I've got that book. I'm not selling though.

I wish I'd picked up the yellow compilation book when I had chance.

I've got that and the red one too.

I'm not going to bother with what I call the v1.5 books (the revised vehicle and assault rules) so once I get CA I'll have a pretty complete run of the RT books. I even have a decent number of WDs from the time including the one with the original Ultramarine background (they live on Dune, they replaced the original UMs who fell to Chaos, the librarian is half eldar). Good, good stuff when you still felt like anything could happen.

Where did that fluff go? It would make me love Ultramarines even more!

Back on topic, mine is probably a Rogue Trader rulebook and then a complete 2nd ed. book set or the old Compilations or Chapter Approved.
Why doesn't GW do stuff like that any more? I'd buy it.

DoctorZombie wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

George Spiggott wrote:I've got that book. I'm not selling though.

I wish I'd picked up the yellow compilation book when I had chance.

I've got that and the red one too.

I'm not going to bother with what I call the v1.5 books (the revised vehicle and assault rules) so once I get CA I'll have a pretty complete run of the RT books. I even have a decent number of WDs from the time including the one with the original Ultramarine background (they live on Dune, they replaced the original UMs who fell to Chaos, the librarian is half eldar). Good, good stuff when you still felt like anything could happen.

Where did that fluff go? It would make me love Ultramarines even more!

Back on topic, mine is probably a Rogue Trader rulebook and then a complete 2nd ed. book set or the old Compilations or Chapter Approved.
Why doesn't GW do stuff like that any more? I'd buy it.

White dwarf #97 first details the ultramarines as being a chapter of the 3rd founding to replace the 13th legion that were banished. Later on the Ultramarines were stated to be the 13th legion of the first founding. I'm not sure if it was ever stated outright, but it could be concluded that the second lot of ultramarines replaced the originals.

Eilif wrote:I just secured part of my Holy Grail!
I have a batch of the Spacelords Sardaykin with Needlers (the guys below) on the way to me now!
[...]
Now I just have to find the officers and Autoguns (in the spoiler above).
Wish me continued luck!

Congratulations and good luck with getting the rest!

Smacks wrote:That's weird because I have that chaplain too, and I never really liked him.

Same here. I guess because he was the one painted up Ultramarine in Codex: Ultramarines (the other three were 3rd Company Ultras, Imperial Fists and White Scars IIRC), so I just went with him.

Smacks wrote:I guess my Holy grail would probably be this guy. Even though I don't collect Ultramarines, I just think he's cool.

That model is generic enough to not be an Ultramarine. He doesn't have any Ultramarine iconography on him.

A friend of mine gave me that model when he bought the Army Box...

Holy Grail?

10,000 points of Death Korps, FW only.

Beast mode for painting, so I can finish my fifty orks to above tabletop standard.