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Nabbed another of my White Whales today. The limited edition DA company master from the '07 army box.

Been after this bugger for the better part of a decade. Just never wanted to pay the obscene $150+AUD prices they go for. Snagged one off face book for $30AUD including shipping that has all his bitz and is completely unmodified. Pretty bloody chuffed I have to say.

I think mine is that pewter Bret General that came in the tail end 5th Ed. boxed sets. I'm not even WANTING to know how stupid the prices are on ebay...

A mint(ish) copy of Titan Legions.

It’s the last major set of rules I need to complete my 2nd Ed Epic collection. But my word….that’s a job for a boot fair or, perhaps a dusty, forgotten FLGS caught in an time warp. Like one from Brigadoon.

One of the Skulz techpriests came on sale on Ebay and I managed to win the auction, at a closing bid still lower than the plastic equivalent Granted, the mini is painted and doesn't come with his backpack, but I can improvise. I'll never own the complete set, so this will be a fine compromise.

My white whale is the female commissar. I had it at one point but just can't find it after moving around multiple times in college, first couple of jobs, etc.

I collect the various Titan crew models released by GW. The ones I'm missing now are those from the Warbringer. I've only even seen them in person once, and that was thanks to the kind chap at Warhammer World that brought out the display model for me to have a peek:







...and the sitting Princeps from the head:


The latter seems a bit more likely to eventually find its way into my hands, but given that I'd need to buy a Warbringer to get the two deck-crew pictured, I suspect they'll always be my white whales.

 Apologist wrote:
I collect the various Titan crew models released by GW. The ones I'm missing now are those from the Warbringer. I've only even seen them in person once, and that was thanks to the kind chap at Warhammer World that brought out the display model for me to have a peek:







...and the sitting Princeps from the head:


The latter seems a bit more likely to eventually find its way into my hands, but given that I'd need to buy a Warbringer to get the two deck-crew pictured, I suspect they'll always be my white whales.

I think that is the FW Warbringer Beta head princeps. Its might not be the same as the Alpha head for the warbringer as mine has a medal under his Adeptus Titanticus 'harness' while the pic below looks like it has some cabling or something. You might have some luck 'in other places' as its long out of production from FW. I believe it was a exclusive like the Warlord Beta head was (which I think looks way better then the alpha head).

For me it's mostly Eldar, and I've picked up most of them at some point when I got lucky on ebay - the full collection of metal farseers and warlocks that they ever released for example, the limited 2006 army box autarch, the direct only kneeling ranger. I managed to find all of them.

Now it's something somewhat bigger - I'd absolutely love to get my hands on a 40k scale Eldar Vampire (preferably the Hunter, but the Raider would be nice too - or both!), but they're pretty rare these days. I saw a thread a few years back where people mentioned that Forgeworld were reworking the kit, but that must have fallen by the wayside, probably when they moved the focus away from 40k towards Heresy and specialist games. Most frustratingly though, now that they've released them for Aeronautica it becomes harder to search for the 40k scale ones without the Aeronautica popping up instead. Even the stls that I've seen are designed for epic scale and wouldn't really scale up to full size, otherwise I'd happily print one.

Even some of the more recently discontinued stuff like the Phoenix Bomber - I was always quite fond of it, but never got around to buying one before it was culled from Forgeworld with very little warning. That and the fact that the FW Avatar with sword disappeared not long after I bought mine has left me with a little bit of an attitude that any FW kit can be culled at any time so if I want something I'd better make sure I buy it, that was one of the reasons I bought a couple of Eldar titans last year!

Not necessarily hard to get stuff, but:

- Dreamforge Games Isenkern stuff, I only ever got one of the cool sci-fi Hanomag half-tracks and I missed out on the cool accessory kits for it. The infantry was great too.

- Pretty much any FW Imperial fighter craft.

Great thread!

My white whale has to be a Tau Orca Dropship. I've got an eBay search saved for it but every time one pops up it has sold by the time I click on the link in my email! They go for lots of cash, but it's something that I've always wanted.

I really want a Manta, too, but I'm not ready to spend $1875 on a single model, but I'm closer to that than I've ever been I think...

 godswildcard wrote:
I really want a Manta, too, but I'm not ready to spend $1875 on a single model, but I'm closer to that than I've ever been I think...

One of the local guys bought a manta for christmas last year. He's scared to put it together it's that damn big.

 Snrub wrote:

 godswildcard wrote:
I really want a Manta, too, but I'm not ready to spend $1875 on a single model, but I'm closer to that than I've ever been I think...

One of the local guys bought a manta for christmas last year. He's scared to put it together it's that damn big.

The hardest part about the Manta kit is getting the straps right. They've got to be tight enough to hold steady when you use it as a hang glider.

 Frankenberry wrote:
Not necessarily hard to get stuff, but:

- Dreamforge Games Isenkern stuff, I only ever got one of the cool sci-fi Hanomag half-tracks and I missed out on the cool accessory kits for it. The infantry was great too.

- Pretty much any FW Imperial fighter craft.

At least the infantry are back in production, at a slightly different size.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The hardest part about the Manta kit is getting the straps right. They've got to be tight enough to hold steady when you use it as a hang glider.

I had NO idea where you were going with that.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Frankenberry wrote:
Not necessarily hard to get stuff, but:

- Dreamforge Games Isenkern stuff, I only ever got one of the cool sci-fi Hanomag half-tracks and I missed out on the cool accessory kits for it. The infantry was great too.

- Pretty much any FW Imperial fighter craft.

At least the infantry are back in production, at a slightly different size.

I was so happy to see that! In bigger squad boxes too!

Interested to know what the size difference is on the new Eisenkern.

But to stay on topic, my White Whales are odd. They have nostalgia value for me, but I've pretty firmly moved from fantasy into Sci-Fi at this point, and one of the models isn't even a particularly great sculpt, in my opinion. So whatever they go for, I probably wouldn't bother to pursue them. I guess they're "unlikely bargain" White Whales?

One is the original snotling pump wagon, which I owned as a kid.

The other is the mounted and standing versions of Kaleb Daark, which I also owned as a kid. I wouldn't say these sculpts really did justice to the character, and they're not really standouts among Oldhammer sculpts in general. But I kind of miss mine and would enjoy painting it. Kaleb Daark also ties into the whole 'old guys pining for "Malal" who they'll never get again because rights issues' thing.

Still think having a Chaos God whose entire raison d'etre was to attack other Chaos Gods and their creations was a terrible concept to abandon (even with the Four remaining thwarting each other constantly, I liked having one who'd never join Chaos undivided. Shouldn't Chaos always be divided?) Somehow Kaleb himself was pure 90s cheese and excess even when he first debuted in 1985, but I enjoyed him nonetheless. He was another Elric inspired doomed sort with a punk attitude, armed with a biomorphic, fanged version of Stormbringer called Dreadaxe. "Come, Chaos! Dreadaxe thirsts for you!" Did Shakespeare himself ever craft finer lines?

Of the two Malal champions GW made miniatures for back in the day, Skrag the Slaughterer is the better model, but I never got a copy of the comic featuring Skrag and never formed an attachment to that character.

My white whale would be the Dropzone Commander game. I would need several items to warrant an online order but a lot of these items are never in stock. It is really annoying as those things are pretty basic such as starter boxes for the factions, rulebook, faction dice and the ruined city models.

But the good thing is that apparently GW wants to introduce Epic 30K next year. So my wallet is happy as it will only be bothered by HH 2.0 in 2022.

Have you tried one of the Dropzone commander groups on Facebook? I was able to get a couple starter sets that way, including the cardboard terrain (not the ruined city, though), for pretty good prices.

 Insectum7 wrote:

This guy: http://www.solegends.com/citle/citle1990/numbered/le10powermarine/index.htm

I want that model so bad.

I friggin got it, and it's everything I hoped it would be and more! Some of the detail and undercutting on this model is insane. I'm sort of imagining that one of the reasons this model was a limited run is because the molding process was really tricky and maybe made for really fragile molds? I'd love to get the opinion of someone with more expertise. Anyways, Power Armor LE 10 is beautiful, and I'm super stoked to get it painted up.

I always really wanted to get into DUST but never did. That’s not so much white whale as lost cause at this point though

My white whale is probably either a Tau orca transporter or a am centaur artillery tractor

I never ended up getting that Techpriest. It disappeared in the post and the seller reimbursed me. I hope the package eventually found its way back to him.

I've changed my mind: my current white whale is the 6th Ed. WFB Dark Elves Cold One Chariot crewmember who is holding his spear above his head. I could get one with a BIN and shipping/export cost landing him near $40 US or more, so that model in a more reasonable price range.

I've paid a bit too much for them (but my Xmas bonus this year was good, and the quarterly bonus is on the way...) and I have WW reprints of Rogue Trader and both Chaos books locked in and on the way across the pond. I also snagged a great quality copy of the Battle Manual. So, given that I'm fine pulling from scanned PDFs for the Compilation and Compendium (and screw the Vehicle Manual), I think I'm good for 40K 1-2e rules. (The only 2e thing I'm missing is the SoB Codex and...meh.)


Meanwhile on the fantasy side, the last WHFB 4-5e army book I'm missing is Chaos Dwarfs. I find myself wishing I'd been less stubborn about buying one 10 years ago, when they were "only" $50 on eBay...

I'm missing the Rogue Trader Plague Marines, especially the funky guy with the skull head.

On the lotr side GW was kind enough to release every OOP model I had missed as MTO during the last couple of years.

 Insectum7 wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:

This guy: http://www.solegends.com/citle/citle1990/numbered/le10powermarine/index.htm

I want that model so bad.

I friggin got it, and it's everything I hoped it would be and more! Some of the detail and undercutting on this model is insane. I'm sort of imagining that one of the reasons this model was a limited run is because the molding process was really tricky and maybe made for really fragile molds? I'd love to get the opinion of someone with more expertise. Anyways, Power Armor LE 10 is beautiful, and I'm super stoked to get it painted up.

That dude very clearly inspired the HH Mechanicum Thallax units!