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So, I sold my house... tonight is trash night, so I'm over there emptying out my garage and throwing stuff away. I find a box at the bottom of a big stack of junk boxes and when I get to it I see it's filled to the top with really old (1994-96) CCG starters and booster packs from my old mail order biz and a lot of old RPG books from the same time and best of all, ALL of my old missing 2nd edition 40k books!

Here's all the GW stuff I found

2nd edition rulebook, wargear and codex imperialis
2nd edition Codex Chaos (144 pages!)
2nd edition Codex Ultramarines
1996 Epic citadel minis catalog (cool old pics)
Necromunda rulebook & Outlanders rulebook
White dwarf issues 192, 195, 196, 198 and 203
Warhammer fantasy roleplay book Shadows over bogenhafen, dunno where that came from... prolly gonna ebay it

I also found a box of real old citadel color metalic paints the real old original flip tops before the kind with the hex shaped bottles.. you could see all the metal settled on the bottom

I'm keeping the GW stuff, the rest will end up on ebay I guess...

That is why you ought to sort out your garage atleast once a decade.

Were the paints still good after vigorous shaking?

It wouldnt surprise me with the old flip tops.

What sort of ccg are you talking about? Because I may be interseted in it

Deadshane1 wrote:Were the paints still good after vigorous shaking?

It wouldnt surprise me with the old flip tops.

Yeah, those lasted for ages. And a little water reinvigorated them pretty nicely if they were thick.

Death By Monkeys wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote:Were the paints still good after vigorous shaking?

It wouldnt surprise me with the old flip tops.

Yeah, those lasted for ages. And a little water reinvigorated them pretty nicely if they were thick.

Amazing, back from the days that citadel paints were quality products....ahhh, memories.

I'll go through the CCGs and organize it all and post here before I ebay it all

no magic but there there was stuff like doom trooper, vampire, rage, star wars, star trek, wyvern, illuminati, something from marvel comics.. and a few others.

for the RPG books I have there's,,,

Rune Quest (I think, there's RQ in the top corner) Into the Troll Realms and The Haunted Ruins
Mutant chronicles RPG Imperial sourcebook.
1st edition Warzone rulebook (from Heartbreaker)
Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook, v2.01
Shadowrun Cybertechnology
Assamite & Malkavian clanbook from Vampire the masquerade

And I think that's it...

Those colored metallic paints are rare, that's for sure. And those hex-shaped pots were golden - I still have the original starter paint set paints like Blood Red and Chaos Black and Goblin Green that are still as good as when they were first on the shelf.

I still use a pot of Shining Gold. I'll be upset when I finally run out. I use it everytime that I paint something a "brassy" color.

...I'm not sure if the exact same shade/color is sold in Vallejo. Citadel doesnt have it.

Yup. Those old pots were outstanding. I still have some good ones too.

You can also drop a small piece of metal from a sprue into the paint, and use it as an agitator for when you shake the pot.

Ooh, INWO cards? Those are nifty.

If those paints can be salvaged, then good - because half of my paints are the old old old style paints, mostly from the ancient Ork & Eldar paint set.

BYE

OK now you got me interested in getting the old paints

conclusion: your all too old for your own good

sounds like a gold mine, but i really... well, dont recognise any of it sadly (apart from when i found a woodlouse in my hexagonal blood red! scared the hell out of me!) :(

Mannahnin wrote:Yup. Those old pots were outstanding. I still have some good ones too.

You can also drop a small piece of metal from a sprue into the paint, and use it as an agitator for when you shake the pot.

Yep, a slotta tab broken in half can mix you up a pot of paint right quick.

And remember folks, Coat 'd Arms still produces all of the old and OOP Citadel paints. They used to be the maker back in the "good old days when paints were, well, good" They also make the inks that GW has discontinued.

Aquila

Yep I think there's a double-deck of INWO starters, and a few regular boosters and a few from some kinda expansion.. I dumped em all in a trash bag since the box was all busted up.. I'll go sort em out

I've never thrown away the old flip-top pots. They are golden.

OK here's all the CCG stuff I have...

Battlelords - 1 starter
Dixie - 1 starter
Doom Trooper - 1 starter. 2 Inquisition boosters, 4 warzone boosters
Galactic empires - 5 starters
Highlander - 2 starters
Illuminati New Word Order - 2 starters, 5 boosters, 6 Assassins boosters
Magic the Gathering - 1 Ice Age booster
Quest for the Grail - 1 starter
Rage - 9 Boosters, 1 Booster for The Wyrm, 1 for The Umbra
Sim City - 2 starters
Shadowfist - 2 starters
Star Trek - 1 starter, 1 booster
Star Quest - 1 starter, 6 boosters
Star Wars - 1 starter
Tempest of the Gods - 2 starters, 4 boosters
Ultimate Combat - 3 starters
Vampire the Masquerade - 1 booster
Wyvern - 3 Starters

I also have stuff from Legend of the 5 rings and marvel overpower but someone already asked me about them

If anyone wants any of that PM me with a fair offer, I dunno what any of it is worth. I can do paypal or whatever. I'll wait a few days before I dump it all on ebay

Heh - I'll pass, as you may do better on eBay than I'm willing to pay. (I picked up the "One with Everything" box set back in the late 90's, and one of every card makes for enough of an interesting collection.)

I've got a pot each of the old metallic Blue, Green and Purple.

Lovely colours, quality paints, but useless for painting models. Might use them to paint me nails instead.

No Playboy?

GrimTeef wrote:Those colored metallic paints are rare, that's for sure. And those hex-shaped pots were golden - I still have the original starter paint set paints like Blood Red and Chaos Black and Goblin Green that are still as good as when they were first on the shelf.

You don't paint much red, green or black do you mate? Either that or you horded alot of paint..

malfred your sick in the head.

Aquila wrote:They also make the inks that GW has discontinued. Aquila

good to here, i love them.

Playboys wouldn't end up forgotten and buried in a garage full of junk

I still use a half dozen bottles of Citadel paint of the white-lidded Coat d'Arms shaped bottles. I've had them for over 20 years and they're still good. Beat the snot out of those crappy screw top bottles they had a while back and even the new black fliptops.

It was the fact that most of my paints were salvageable back in 2001 that got me back into the hobby. Had I not stumbled across them in the loft, flipped the lid on one back then (2001) and seen they were still viable from c.15 years earlier, and then popped out and painted up an old Orc on a whim, I likely never would have got back into gaming, as the "hump" of buying a load of new paints would have been enough to put me off the prospect.

malfred wrote:No Playboy?

Is there much of a market for second hand pornography ?

Bramble Mags man....Bramble Mags.

Free scud for all Teenage boys!

If the Legends of the Five rings guy falls through I will take them

Aquila wrote:And remember folks, Coat 'd Arms still produces all of the old and OOP Citadel paints. They used to be the maker back in the "good old days when paints were, well, good" They also make the inks that GW has discontinued.

Aquila

Technically it was HMG Paints that manufactured them. Coat d'arms is just a brand name. And yes, they're still available in both the United Kingdom and the United States.