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**Rysaer**

When I was roughly 10-11, my brother got the 3rd ed starter set for christmas. Space Marines vs Dark Eldar.

My brother had always played with my cousin and I was always regarded as being 'too young' to understand it by my family, but my brother decided to give me the dark eldar and let me play.

Those 2 warrior squads and a raider, stayed with me until a few years ago, I still have my first Dark Eldar warrior that I painted (first model I painted.)

I'll stick up a picture later, he still means a lot to me

**Crazy_Carnifex**

A dozen of the classic Genestealers, a dozen of the old termagants, two gargoyles, an old Ork Trukk, and half a Dark Eldar warrior were my first 40k models. Got them second hand as "cool D&D monsters" and didn't pick up any other 'Nids until several years latter.

**BrotherVord**

My first models were back when Tau first released. I owned what I believe was the tau mega force. It came with kroot, fire warriors, drones, and battle suits. Oh and some trees.

I never finished painting them all and wound up giving them away. I didn't get back into the hobby for three years when I bought a tactical squad and a predator. My next choice was some terminators, then I went full black Templars and got Grimaldus....been going hard ever since.

**Deadshot**

Grey Templar wrote:
Battle for Macragge. Still remember painting the sergeant in the store as an Ultramarine, getting home and deciding I can't paint blue, and making my own chapter.

I'm the same. Except I painted the whole squad in patchy Enchanted Blue and Sunburst Yellow and changed to Blood Ravens. And did it at home.

So really the only similarity is that we went Ultramarines ad changed to something between.

**phatonic**

My very first models... the old night golbin arhcer/spear set 14 years ago

Ahh the golden days... stupid like i was back then... i didnt even primm my models.. or glue em correctly.

**yukondal**

Second Edition (or third?) Space Marine and Dark Eldar Starter set. Came with ruins, trees, and a rule book that contains the basic information for all the races.

My brother and I played with out neighbors on a ping pong table in their basement on sunday afternoons.
We didn't know (or understand) the complete rules and would move and shoot each model individually.
It usually ended with us not being halfway through and fighting about the rules. ah nostalgia....

**conker249**

Tyranid trygon.

**tvih**

My first purchase was just last year. AoBR, SM Battleforce, 2x BT Upgrade Kits, Assault Terminators.

**Thatguyhsagun**

Battle for macragge in 2007. I thought the nids looked cool, turned them into a 2500 point army too.

**Tyranid Horde**

I got the 4th edition Tyranid battleforce, my first model was a termagant that I named Bob. I can still pick him out among the horde because I built him wrong! He looks a bit special. The carnifex was named Bill.

**AegisGrimm**

My first minis were technically Space Marine 2nd Ed Orks, but really it was the contents of the Tyranid Attack boxed game.

I'll second that! Sadly, I actually can't remember if my first models were the Tyranid attack game models or the Fantasy ones from Battle Masters, but the first individual model that I can remember picking out and painting was the 2nd edition metal Terminator Librarian. I was 13, and I still have it, though obviously it looks ungodly bad. Someday I may have to strip it and repaint it, to display as the start of my addiction.

This is the one:

**Ironwill13791**

The oop metal Dark Eldar incubi and archon. Still have them with my 1100 pt. army after gutting it out for DA (before the new codex).

**MarsNZ**

Apart from Space Crusade and Hero Quest when I was a kid my first real purchase for tabletop gaming was the WHFB 5th Ed. box split with a friend, he took Lizardmen I took Bretonnia.

**theman99808**

Battle for macrag was my first 40k buy followed by a box of terminators and the black templar dex.

**captain bloody fists**

Mine was a marine at a painting day at a gw shop last year. I still use him as a sternguard occasionally

**generalchaos34**

I got the 2nd edition starter with the SM vs DE when i was a kid. My brother took the marines and I, like a dope, took the DE. It actually worked out in the long run because all my friends had started on the starter box too, and they had all gone with SM, so it meant that they basically gave the DE away, which is why i have 150 old school dark eldar warriors. Lets just say no matter how prepared you are you are rarely prepared for 150 kabalites with blasters charging at you suicidally

**ace101**

I played dawn of war back when t came out, just got into the hobby last year. First set was a tac marine box and Force Commander. I still have my tacs, but the CV CM looks so much better than my Force Commander; maybe the Gabriel Angelos conversion will spice him up a bit.

**Brock79**

My first ever models were the small second edition box of Eldar Guardians that had 5 (or was it 6?) models in it back in 1997. That was back when me and three friends go into the game, one played Space Marines and the other Orks (courtesy of the boxed set) while I chose Eldar and another chose Chaos.

**Sir Samuel Buca**

Mine was the 3rd ed starter set, after that I got the old Razorback with the awesome turret. Those were the good ole days.

**Diakon**

HeroQuest first. Later this guy who used to babysit for me gave me a box full of Rogue Trader era metal space marines, eldar and eldar space ships (battlefleet gothic?). Don'tknow what happened to them but remember doing some terrible paintjobs on them. First thing I ever bought (with my pocket money lol) was a blister pack with 2 chaos hounds (1 with 2 heads, 1 with a scorpion tail) and a chaos warrior beastmaster dude with a whip. About £4 I think. Good times.

**Zinderneuf**

The original space ork raiders. Boy, that was long ago.

**Turock**

A box of Ork Boyz. No idea why I bought them but I did.

**Happygrunt**

The 4th ed starter set. Painted the marines brown. Never looked back.

**vodo40k**

The old SM starter set, towards the end of 3rd Ed.

**Hive Fleet Lazarus**

8 genestealers, a metal broodlord, a metal zoanthrope and a metal venomthrope, all off of ebay

**Nevelon**

For 40k, RTB01 box of beekie marines.

Minis in general, an old box of grenadier D&D minis, not sure which one

**oadie**

I started with an AoBR set off of Ebay - came with everything but the box. All subsequent firsts (model assembled, models painted, unit completed) were Black Reach Ork Boys.

**JbR of the Endless Spire**

Mine would be a box of Space Marines... the old school ones... all they were was a body with legs, arms, pads, back pack, knife and bolter. Got 6 of em in a box for a fiver.

**SkaerKrow**

My first 40k models were the Space Marines from the Warhammer 40,000 Second Edition boxed game. The first actual hobby gaming models that I purchased were a pack of metal Wraiths and a Skeleton Command Section for Warhammer Fantasy, circa 1995.

**jeratoll**

It as a unit of SM sniper scouts my Grandma bought me. Man did I screw those up.

Priming them with enamel paint on the sprue and then attempting assemble them using to use way to much plastic glue. Not realizing that I bought both enamel and acrylic paint and mixing them together. Not realizing that the "neck" part of the heads were actually part of the model and cutting them off.

I wish I could say I was young and didn't know any better, but I was 22 at the time.