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Necron Battleforce. Well-painted, drybrushed chainmail with green shoulderpads.

This boxed set, from a small local toy shop.



After getting this WD.



£1.95 for WD and it was actually worth reading back then (think it was 1992? maybe 93)

Haha!

My first gaming mini was a Leman Russ Mark VII Battletank. My friend had one for his Imperial Guard army and I, being a treadhead, thought it was pretty cool looking and practical looking (compared to most sci-fi tanks).

Once I decided to start my armored company, I painted it entirely burnished gold - it was my command tank after all!

Fortunately I am saner now and it remains with the army, albeit demoted to Tank 121 rather than 100.

Ork Warboss for 3rd edition. Probably also bought a box of boys or the old battleforce at the same time.

The AOBR box, a khorne berzerker box, a chaos battle force, and a chaos renegade strike force, all of it was my very first purchase and my descent into the seedy underworld of plastic crack addiction.

My first models ever was the Schaffer's Last Chancers box set for a birthday present. I got the old(then current) Catachan battleforce(2x Sentinels, 1x Set Jungle Trees 20x Catachan Jungle Fighters 3x Heavy Weapon Teams) soon after.

We were moving in 1992 or 93, and we were staying in a hotel...my mom bought my Brother and I SPACE CRUSADE...which still is possibly the most awesome game ive played from GW...I saw the genestealers in the box, and I was hooked forever. Still have the original box too, and my first painted figs....now I have to go dig them out and look at them

Unit1126PLL wrote:Haha!

My first gaming mini was a Leman Russ Mark VII Battletank. My friend had one for his Imperial Guard army and I, being a treadhead, thought it was pretty cool looking and practical looking (compared to most sci-fi tanks).

Once I decided to start my armored company, I painted it entirely burnished gold - it was my command tank after all!

Fortunately I am saner now and it remains with the army, albeit demoted to Tank 121 rather than 100.

HOLY gak!! I'd totally paint a command tank entirely burnished gold. To this day. I salute you.

For 40k, me too; way back in '87.

It was the Epic 40k box set from GW model though the first I assembled was an Airfix Spitfire like I'm guessing 90% of the British members of this forum!

My first ever gaming specific model was the release of the Space Marine battle company to commemorate the release of apocalypse reloaded in 2008. Along with that, i bought the termie chaplain, 2 temie squads (1 of each type), and 2 LRC kits...some of that stuff still isnt done to this day

I actually started buying up Battlefleet Gothic before I started up with 40K. My first purchases were a squad of hormagaunts and termagaunts and a box of three warriors. This was back in 4th edition, when Tyranids could use Warriors as HQ choices. I was somewhat decent in my first paintjobs, but I would slather on chaos black for the primer instead of spray-painting it.

My first minis were some crappy ral partha D&D character minis. Not that memorable.

Now the first paints I bought with those models THEY were memorable. They were citadel paints in the bottle that everyone refers to as superior, the old school locking flip cap ones. I remember spilling the Brown Ink everywhere trying to get them open and hating that my infantile digits did not possess the strength to manipulate the caps easily.

Nostalgia moment..... though it was only two years ago that I got my first box of boys and these beautiful metal kommandoz for my birthday. Oh, the horrible twenty minute paintjobs I gave them....

But my first mini ever was an ork boy four years ago in the Stockholm GW. I actually painted him quite nicely, better than my birthday ones!

My first purchase was half the Aobr box from a good friend in sweden a few days after my birthday (he was the one who told my parents to buy minis for my birthday!)

My first models would be in the Space Hulk game.

Following that I bought a Citadel paint set which came with a Space Marine and Warhammer Fantasy Warrior of Chaos.

I purchased about 3 sets worth of Orks from the 2nd Edition set. The first individual model that I remember buying was an old Rogue Trader Nob that served as my Warboss. Or it may have been the Griffon IG tank, that I used in the Ork army, since they could actually use Imperial vehicles back in the day.

A imperial guard 4t ed starter set thingy

My first models: A squad of Imperal Blood Berets for Warzone.

Next up was a twin baracuda. Still have those guys.

My first models were those little 8 figures per box Warhammer models used to come in. I bought one box of Warriors and Beastmen of Chaos and two Khorne Champions.

Which I promptly painted with Tester paints *facepalm*

First 40k model was a blister of three "space marines" with the wierd looking bladed rifle things.


Marine firing, marine advancing, marine guard from that set.
They got melted down for my other casting endeavours back in the early 90s because they were poxy sculpts at the best of times.

The 20 Dark Eldar Warriors from the 3rd Ed Starter. Had the whole mob cut, glued, and painted in about 2 hours. Ugh, they were horrible, now I'm lucky to paint a single mini in that time.

An AoBR set. FIrst mini I painted was a Big Mek I converted from one of the Nobz in the set, to whom I gave a SAG.

chromedog wrote:First 40k model was a blister of three "space marines" with the wierd looking bladed rifle things.


Marine firing, marine advancing, marine guard from that set.
They got melted down for my other casting endeavours back in the early 90s because they were poxy sculpts at the best of times.

Mine was exactly the same thing, same time, except I got the one that had the guy looking at a chunky console on his arm...exciting...and the other one was a techmarine holding a spanner and toolbox...yawn...

The two charming fellows from the bottom of this picture. I bought them for 50p from a kid at school in 1987.



And this was my first White Dwarf:

My first were all three of these GorkaMorka Yoofs.
I still see them as some of my favourite minis, even though I lost them many years ago. :(

A box of 6 2nd edition Ork Boyz... still have those little buggers

These guys



I remember the day i bought them.

I went to a local Warhammer focused store with a friend who played. I ended up buying the CSMs, the CSM codex, And the first 2 horus heresy books. My friend got himself the entire ultramarines book series. Directly after leaving the store, we went down to Durban (a popular holiday Coastal city, for those who dont know) and stayed there with my parents. He would be chilling and playing on his DS or my xbox, while i would spend most of the time pouring over my codex and his rulebook, looking at the pictures of models, deciding on the paint scheme, reading the fluff, basically loosing myself in the world of 40k. I even got Red Dead Redemption and ALan Wake while we were there, and barely played them, because i was spending all my time on the 40k stuff i had bought, like looking at my sprues, deciding what i was gonna do, and pouring over the books i got.


TL;DR I have very fond memories of starting 40k.

The Russian Commissar, Cheknov?

Whatever IG Character effects conscripts, I proceeded to butcher the model with my 5th grade painting skills!

3rd edition starter set. I remember painting my marines dark angel colors....or Just green.

This was definitely like my second miniature! I thought those guns on his hand were awesome looking.