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Bolt of the blue, I was wrong earlier, I remembered what my first figures where. As it was the fact these existed that led me into wargamming, and I only got this thanks to the corrosponding book I read the previous summer.

A catachan heavy weapons platform, funnily enough I never got a single other catachan. Cadia all the way!

A box of necron warriors. I still have the first, and can identify him because I didn't shake the paint, so it's all crusty.

Space Marine Force Commander. In my ignorant youth I chopped the power weapon arm at the elbow and replaced it with a power fist.

http://i.imgur.com/VJWQ5.jpg

Since I don't play SM anymore I've used him as a statue for a WIP square.
http://i.imgur.com/4V4qN.jpg

Battle For Macragge Marine. I painted him with ancient, gloppy Testors paints. it was awful. but you gotta start somewhere!

Back in the dim and distant late 80s, my first minis purchase was Warhammer Fantasy Lords of Battle - 4 metal figs for £2.50 !! Painted them (badly) with Humbrol Enamels, yuk...

http://www.solegends.com/citcat89suml/c89suml-074095-1-01.htm
(top 4 figures)

Got another couple of packs a week or so later, then some of the rogues & rangers packs. Moved on to Orcs and Goblins shortly after, the rest as they say is history...

Not sure if I still have them now, had a phase of selling old figs last year on eBay

3ed Box set, the marines are still in use today

Ah, my Necron Destroyer... I called him Buddy. He's rattling around somewhere, but I tend not to use him because his paint scheme is completely different to the rest of the army.

First EVER mini was A Ral Partha battlemech.

Archer.

The old Robotech/Macross design one.

First 40k minis were the RTB001 set. Second minis were a blister of"SPACE ELVES COMMAND" 4301 blister.

IIRC, my first 40k minaiture was a blister pack of two marines in 1994. One with a meltagun and one with plastic arms and a bolter.

A year before I had painted a friend's 40k RT era marine. Neither of us knew what it was, but it looked cool and I was the one with model paints.

It was the classic box set of Imperial Space Marines for me.

Brian

First crappy minis i ever got were Hero Clix (I still reguard those purchases with shame)

First proper minis I ever bought was the necron battleforce oh so very long ago.

In 1988 I was looking for some infantry for my 1/300 scale Micro Armour moderns (M113 APC)... I found Epic Eldar

Inside the box was a leaflet advertising the "World of Warhammer 40K"... I never played Micro Armour again

Mik

A BA marine LT, painted in blood angel ORANGE, with a jumppack and assualt cannon. I'll have to get a picture up.

Mr.Church13 wrote:First crappy minis i ever got were Hero Clix (I still reguard those purchases with shame)

Why? Heroclix is a fun game.

timetowaste85 wrote:

feeder wrote:My first was a Harlequin Death Jester that I traded a pack of M&Ms for from a classmate named Galen.

Something tells me you got the better end of that deal

Well, I still have that Death Jester somewhere, and AFAIK, Galen no longer owns that particular package of M&Ms.

first minis, i guess, were the ones that came with the dragonstrike game i got for christmas back when i was a wee lad
first mini i bought and then painted was something from reaper

First mini was a Lego man.

First wargaming mini was a Rifleman ripoff action figure.

First actual gaming mini (used for gaming, that is) was an AoBR nob some friend gifted me with, that I promptly Konverted into a KFF mek. I calls 'im Whizzitz, and he still leads my army.

Second mini was the Deffdredd I made out of a cardboard tube and a doorknob.

I am not 100% if these were my actual first ones, but this box was definitely among the first bunch of figures I ever got.

I knew I wanted them and I wanted them bad. I had a thing for skeletons and I guess I still have.

For some obscure reason, I sold them away. (I hardly ever sell anything for money. I prefer solid possessions over currency.) Would love to get these guys back again.

high elf archer back in 2000 then i started collecting the lord of the rings magazine, with free minis

i remember starting because of ushabti. my local gw had 3 in the window and they were my fave model.

my first metal mini was eltharion the blind. when there were rules for him

RTB01, bought with a hard copy of Rogue Trader. Had to order it through my local hobby store.

Just because I could, I'm using Insaniak's paintjob for my first model:

I don't have my first mini, which was a wizard that came with the introduction paint set. I still have the dragon on a pedestal that I got right after that. I use it as my chooser of the slain.

My first miniatures were some dungeon and dragon ones from early 80s. They were my cousins and I sort of had them handed down to me. I used to play with them alot. I didn't know anything about dungeons and dragons but it was fun to fool around with the miniatures. My favorite was a ninja with a spear. They were metal and some were painted. I wish I held on to them. I sold them for money so I could buy Magic cards when I got older. FAIL

Some lord of the ring's starter set. Only played it once

First figure? Some Prince August swedish Caroleans.
First GW was some imperial guard on jetbike*. Never got it together properly since it required some serious pinning, but it was damn cool!

* http://wpggamegeeks.blogspot.com/2011/02/ride-above-it-all.html

Mine was the riders of rohan, but then I went into orks!

Colonel Schaffer's Last Chancers!
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1490651&prodId=prod1150013

Ah, Schaeffer, Grease Monkey, Shiv, Scope, Warrior Woman, Hero, Animal, Brains, Fingers, Rocket Girl, Ox and Demolition Man. You each had your own individual glorious weapons and rules back in 3rd edition.

Fun times.

Flamer Marine from 2nd Ed. Plastic, clip-together that came with a WD when the 2nd Ed was released and had the Blood Angels vs Orks.

Famous ICs were created that day:

Tycho

Gazghul Thrakka

I'm not really sure... It may have been skeletons (back in the days when there were just the "Undead" army, not TK and VC). In those days, the plastic minis was beige, so I didn't think I needed to paint them.
May also have been that bretonnian knight on foot with a hammer, but that one I painted better than the skellies: