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**H.B.M.C.**

I can, at the very least, spot the Imperial Firebase, a bridge from Necromunda, and the Eldar... thing... that came in the cardboard section of White Dwarf.

**Nevelon**

Spend enough time eating warpstone, next thing you know you don’t fit on your tiny little base anymore. Just ask Nagash.

As for the names/classes of my ships, I’d have to dig out the rulebook and look. I know the big guy is a battleship with the mark of nurgle, done with some greenstuff and a few spare nurglings.

**filbert**

It is the Terminus Est - I have the same model myself.

Here is one of my BFG shelves - you can see the Terminus Est hiding at the back in the middle:

**bbb**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen that Marine before...

I stumped H.B.M.C.! Go me!

**General Kroll**

Here's one of my two ancient beaky Space Marines. Love the detail on these old models, obviously a completely different style to the latest stuff, but great none the less.

**Nevelon**

OK, looking at the pics, It’s not the Terminus Est, but just a Despoiler class battleship with the mark of nurgle. I didn’t realize they made a custom nurgle ship; I just marked up a basic one. Close ups show a lack of the sculpted mark on the prow, or the spine along the top.

I could see how they could be confused from the blurry long shots.

And while I’m here, the imperial side:

Also, very impressive fleets there Filbert!

**Ratius**

I can, at the very least, spot the Imperial Firebase, a bridge from Necromunda, and the Eldar... thing... that came in the cardboard section of White Dwarf.

hehe, very good!

**Tannhauser42**

I miss BFG. I already had Imperial, Space Marine, and Necron fleets (and my Ramilies). And then I went a little crazy during the great Specialist Games Sell Off and bought Eldar, Chaos, and AdMech fleets. I could probably sell it all on Ebay and get back about 3 times what I paid for it.

**Osbad**

My Chaos fleet in action against a mate's eldar.

And some random old Citadel lead I have about the place.

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**boyd**

KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Anyone remember when GW had low prices?

The correct answer is never.

**Jehan-reznor**

boyd wrote:
KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Anyone remember when GW had low prices?

The correct answer is never.

The correct answers is yes, i bought the box with 3 rhinos and a box with 2 landraiders very cheaply i remember buying and eldar complete squad of 12 metal miniatures for 18 Dutch guilders or around 9 euro's now. The most boxed sets were 54 guilders the for 36 plastic orks or 8 metal terminators

**Nevelon**

TGIF everyone.

BFG was not the only miniatures game to bring war to the inky depths of space. Silent Death, from I.C.E. was another quite good one. While it is more geared for fighter combat, it handled large fights well, and did include rules for capital ships. Here are some of them:

I’d drag out the swarms of fighters for a photoshoot, but they are packed away better then the big guys. Maybe next week.

**Nevelon**

Some of the new sculpted banners look awesome. No need for pesky freehand work. But GW used to offer another option: Sticker banners. Some were free with box sets, others were purchased separately (the chaos ones below were IIRC) While most of my Ultramarine ones are in use, here are some extras I have cluttering up the place:

Have a banner weekend all!

**Ratius**

TGIF!
Found these guys lying about in a friends house. Old metal Gargoyles and plastic Termagants.

**Ratius**

Gaz, his old buddy and Gaz

**Nevelon**

He’s come a long way! All the fighting has been good for his health.

**Ratius**

Hes been eating his Greens.....

**Inspector #264**

I love the older stuff, always so much fun to paint!

Here is my Chaos Dreadnought, I posted it in my intro thread but thought it fit in well here:

As well as an old Space Hulk Terminator:

**Ratius**

Good stuff!

**chromedog**

Eldar support platforms. They’ve come a long way.

and either a lascannon or a distort cannon,

It's a D-cannon or "Distort cannon" (it had both names). The lascannon was different and used the same mount as the missile and scatter laser. the D-cannon and mount were different again.

**Ratius**

Thought I'd root out some old 2nd ed Nids for this week since I missed last week

Plastic warrior, Carnifex
Lictor, Hive Tyrant, Zoanthrope
Termagant, 2nd ed Space Hulk Stealer, Biovore.

Happy Friday all!

**zedmeister**

Excellent stuff. Remember my own army of those models. Flogged them off probably about ten years ago...

... idiot.

In fact, I've sold off a lot of painted models over the years that I've later regretted. Though I wouldn't know where to start if I wanted to track them down.

**Ratius**

Never sell the classics, they need more love than most :(

**zedmeister**

Ratius wrote:
Never sell the classics, they need more love than most :(

I was a lot younger then and thought "Time to get rid of these foolish man-dolls. I won't pull any women with these lingering around"

Thinking I may go through some of my early eBay feedback and grovel to any buyers still registered "Err, you don't know me, but about 15 years ago I sold you some painted models..." I think some may have even been sold some off on Bartertown, pre-forum days. Chances are the models have been binned, stripped or stored, long forgotten.

**Nevelon**

This guy has been quietly waiting a couple of decades for paint. He gets it next month.

**Ratius**

A couple of decades, poor fella

**Nevelon**

Ratius wrote:
A couple of decades, poor fella

And he’s not the oldest thing I have waiting for paint. Or even primed and waiting. Some people have a pile of shame: grey plastic, still on the sprue. I’ve got a shoebox full of lead. Mostly real lead too, none of these fancy “safe” alloys.

(I’ve also got a pile of grey sprues, to be fair)

**zedmeister**

Nevelon wrote:
Ratius wrote:
A couple of decades, poor fella

And he’s not the oldest thing I have waiting for paint. Or even primed and waiting. Some people have a pile of shame: grey plastic, still on the sprue. I’ve got a shoebox full of lead. Mostly real lead too, none of these fancy “safe” alloys.

(I’ve also got a pile of grey sprues, to be fair)

Haha, the lead pile of shame. We've all got one of those to some extent:

That was taken a few years ago. It's grown, but only 3 things in that pile have been painted and that's just the Imperial Guard...

**SlaveToDorkness**

Dear God, Zed! Everything in that box is older than most Dakkites!

**Nevelon**

That is a whole lot of retro-awesomeness.