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Box of ork Boyz

Oh snap, first minature bought would be.
Box of D&D minis (Why must you still evade me Artemis Entreri)

First Warhammer mini
Assault Terminators

Bought these guys because I had wandered into my flgs on a whim, decided to google the game everyone was playing, and they happened to catch my eye.

...Now I have 3000 points of forgeworld goodness, and my wallet hates me for every purchase.





But in fairness, I love the models, and the domination they ensure in Flyerhammer 40k, 6th edition.

The good old IG Battleforce. The one that came with a Leman Russ (I.E. The good one.)

Then I sold them to buy Necrons.

But then I started guard again, and the guy I sold them to was happy to trade the first one's I'd painted for some of my new guys. I still have the first Guardsman I ever painted.

The 2006 Night goblins, still one of my favorite box.

When I was little I saved up all my penny's to buy an Imperial Guard squad, never painted or played them, but they have been sitting on my desk for years.

I'll never forget. All my friends were starting 40k Marine chapters, and I liked the Space Marines, but didn't want to copy everyone else. So I looked around and said "Oh, well, Chaos Marines are the same thing except with spikes" and off I went. My first models were



and


With Chainfist and Combimelta.

Neither has been painted. They've both looooong since been cannibalized for conversions. I might buy them again though, give them a proper once-over.

My first miniature was an assault on black reach Captain. Before I even picked up the brush I spent hours watching online painting tutorials, personally I think he turned out pretty well.

My first were the Blood Angels and Orks in the 2nd Edition boxed set. I painted the marines with red enamels but then I couldn't figure out why they were marines but had no camoflage. So, I added black spots to "camo" them up.

Then I read the "Codex Imperialis" and the grimdark influence took over....

Heroquest Gargolye.

Whew. That was a ways back.

http://www.webalice.it/alecrespi/gallery/HEROQUEST_miniature/gargoyle_front.jpg

First models I ever bought were 2 Tau Battleforces. I have since sold them off, but kept the first conversion I ever did out of those models.

My First models I bought were only about a year ago. For some reason I looked up some things on 40k and it looked cool. By some miracle I started talking to a friend of mine and he actually had a ton of 40k stuff and said he would sell anything I wanted for half the price of retail (he stopped playing/painting). They were Chaos but first painted would be my Thousand Sons.

Well, it was the battle box with DE and BT, 3rd edition.

Mines of Moria lotr sbg set, I ended up melting Gimli in an effort to strip paint from him, Aragorn, boromer, Gandalf, and the cave troll broke, the hobbits I have somewhere, and the goblins were to survive and go on to become the start of my old goblin army.

The old Necron Battleforce (the super awesome 5 Destroyer one ) and a Necron Lord . And every Battleforce I've bought since as caused me to feel like a kid at X-mas , so many dudes to build and paint . Good times .

My first model was an Inner Sphere light mech from the sadly defunct Classic Battletech by FASA, who partnered with Nintendo is responsible for at least half my childhood. Goddess that was atrocious, I was like... 10 so I had no idea what I was doing (thank the goddess I didn't have to assemble the thing...) and I think I ended up trying to paint it with] house paints XD.

Honestly my experiences with Classic almost got me out of gaming because the adults at the Not-So-Friendly LGS (seriously the guy who owned it was a serious jerk) were really not nice people. I get that I was a kid and probably annoying as hell, but going TFG on a 10 year old cause you want to prove you're tough is /seriously/ pathetic. Thankfully I found my awesome FLGS (where my brother and I have gone for years now) and 40k shortly after that. My first purchased unit was a Cadian Shock Troops squad.

An F-15 which my dad brought me, it never got finished though :(

yup, imperial guard valkyrie when i was 13. painted it with some cheap white acrylic paint and it was a good kit to build, very nice moulding, detailed interior etc......
just a huge shame i couldnt paint for really. £40 down the drain

sierra 1247 wrote:yup, imperial guard valkyrie when i was 13. painted it with some cheap white acrylic paint and it was a good kit to build, very nice moulding, detailed interior etc......
just a huge shame i couldnt paint for really. £40 down the drain

Simple green(to strip the acrylic) my friend, but honestly I would say keep it, a reminder of how far you have progressed.

From GW, I had a friend buy me a set of Uruk-kai. They looked awesome and I painted like 5, which all ended up rather horribly. For 40k though, I bought the Tyranid codex/box'o'gants (the old one with 8 of each. The new one is surprisingly cheaper...) My first model painted was the Ripper base that came with it, and even while I have improved, I refuse to repaint it. It was sprayed white, and then I painted purple on the carapace, and added some black dots for eyes. Awful...

The first model I ever owned/painted was a night goblin from Skull Pass, which i got given and taught to paint at a GW store. The first thing I bought was a box of Orc Boyz. The first blister a pack of squigs and herders, iirc.

adamsouza wrote:1st Miniature ?

Ral Partha Barbarian- white metal, late 80's, for $1.50

1st GW Miniatures ?

Box of 30 RT Era Space Marines for $15, early 90's.

I had the ork version "space orks"
I don't know what the space marine version was like, but i will say , for the time, hands down the best kit GW ever produced. So many options, so much choice and posability and then GW as they always do pushed the bar of quality further and came up with this many years later

Wardragoon wrote:

sierra 1247 wrote:yup, imperial guard valkyrie when i was 13. painted it with some cheap white acrylic paint and it was a good kit to build, very nice moulding, detailed interior etc......
just a huge shame i couldnt paint for really. £40 down the drain

Simple green(to strip the acrylic) my friend, but honestly I would say keep it, a reminder of how far you have progressed.

it ended up cannibalised for my friends battlewagon....

Metal Terminators for the first Space Hulk:




Yep. That's how bad I was at painting.

See kids, you can improve with hard work and practice!


P.S. I used to name all my models after people I knew and painted their names onto the rings of the base.

that could be one of mine!

My first Miniature was one of the slotta base Imperial Dwarf armed with an axe from the late 80s. He had chainmail over a flat top helmet and a robe over that and I thought it was the absolute bollox.

I have never gotten so much from spending 50p (all of my pocket money in 1987!).

My first model was the very first long fangs box. The ones that held heavy weapons one-hand! Omg the box even contained paper banners
This is my 40k first models, but for WHFB I think it was king kazhador of karak azulejo or something like that... Hahahha kinda statue like model :O

LotR Warriors of Middle Earth and Commissar Yarrick. $14.99 and $8.99 in late 2001. I miss those prices. Now the same box of LotR minis is $22 with the number if models cut from 24 to 12 and Finecost/Failcast Yarrick will set you back $19.25.

Da Boss wrote:A snakebite boar boy, I think. One of the 2nd edition things that never made it into 3rd.

Ah yes. I have 8 of these in storage! Shame I can't find a use for them now! It's sad they never made it into 3rd edition.

The first models I bought were a 2nd edition Dark Angels tactical squad, followed by a Deathwing Squad. I still have both!

circa 1993.

Box of old metal ork nobz