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Mekboy on Kustom Deth Kopta






I'll post pics of mine when I get the chance but I'm pretty sure it was a squad of striking scorpions and Karandras. The paint job is... interesting. Meme worthy I dare say. In my defence this was before things like YouTube or even the Internet could teach you any advanced technique in 5 minutes.
   
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard






Newcastle, OZ

RTB001 plastic space marines were my first 40k models, followed by a couple of metals - I no longer have the ACTUAL first 40k models I bought, but these ARE the same vintage.

This is two of the RTB001s and one of the old metal marines.

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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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Screamin' Stormboy




Australia

2nd edition ork boyz. Still have em' and still use em' for games now and then.

Never challenge an Armenian to a game of chess. 
   
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Tail-spinning Tomb Blade Pilot





Michigan

 Bobthehero wrote:
Death Korps Grenadiers

This is what they look like, except I painted a ''93'' on their right shoulder pads and the primed guy in front is also painted.



That is an expensive starter mini!

Necrons - 6000+
Eldar/DE/Harlequins- 6000+
Genestealer Cult - 2000
Currently enthralled by Blanchitsu and INQ28. 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut




UK

RTB 01 beakies for me. Painted in a fetching grey. With tan beak, hands and feet. Space Wombles by name, Space Wombles by nature. . .

No pictures, unfortunately, though they still fill in parts of my marine Battle Company. IIRC they were in competition with the Mickey Mouse eared RTB 01 force of my mukka. His first conversion consisted of hole-punched circles of plastic card added to the beaky heads, with black/white pain scheme.

Oh! My Word!

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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot




Australia

I am the same, a box of Imperial Space Marines, Beakies...god I loved them so much...I stupidly sold everything when I finished high school and then came back to 40k ten years later and started again...Sniff, will never be the same...now my current space marines are becoming dinosaurs by all of the new giganto space marines....

4th company
The Screaming Beagles of Helicia V
Hive Fleet Jumanji

I'll die before I surrender Tim! 
   
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Trazyn's Museum Curator





on the forum. Obviously

The very, very first models? That quartet of marines from the ~2005 painting starter.

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What I have
~4100
~1660

Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!

A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble

 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut




Catachan infantry when Catachan first came out circa 2nd or 3rd edition, don't remember offhand which. I just remember the initial release of them and getting them.
   
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot






Schrott

This the first one.



A little tank, I had scrapped a bunch of other model's I've had for years like a F-14 and other things (they had never been built, so I had a small supply of bitz to start essentially). the painting was horrible and construction crude lol. But He is my first tank, I still have him.

Regiment: 91st Schrott Experimental Regiment
Regiment Planet: Schrott
Specialization: Salvaged, Heavily Modified, and/or Experimental Mechanized Units.
"SIR! Are you sure this will work!?"
"I HAVE NO IDEA, PULL THE TRIGGER!!!" 91st comms chatter.  
   
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Mutilatin' Mad Dok





Georgia

Push together Imperial Fist. Choosing a yellow model as my first every experience painting in general was probably a bad idea.

"The undead ogre believes the sack of pies is your parrot, and proceeds to eat them. The pies explode, and so does his head. The way is clear." - Me, DMing what was supposed to be a serious Pathfinder campaign.

6000 - Death Skulls, Painted
2000 - Admech/Skitarii, Painted 
   
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Inquisitorial Keeper of the Xenobanks






your mind

I bought a used bare metal eldar army from a guy at the local comics/game shop. Lots of aspect units, a full set of harlequins. An eldrad... For maybe 30bux, but I don't remember anymore. That was '93 (I think ?)...

   
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Krazed Killa Kan






My initial purchase of 40k models was a Ork Battleforce, 2 boxes of Killa Kans, 2 Boxes of Nobz, and another box of Boyz. That being said I don't actually remember the actual 1st model I painted out of that group.


This guy was definitely one of the earliest models i painted and could possibly be the first one.

"Hold my shoota, I'm goin in"
Armies (7th edition points)
7000+ Points Death Skullz
4000 Points
+ + 3000 Points "The Fiery Heart of the Emperor"
3500 Points "Void Kraken" Space Marines
3000 Points "Bard's Booze Cruise" 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






It was a 5 man grey knit unit back in very early 2000. all metal so came in a clamshell.
still think their mono pose beats the crap out of the current plastic GK.

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Collects: Wild West Exodus, SW Armada/Legion. Adeptus Titanicus, Dust1947. 
   
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

I don't have a pic of them handy, but my very first 40k models were 5 Dark Angels Tactical Marines from the old paint set (came with 8 paints, a brush, and the 5 models). They are painted (poorly) and have recently been upgraded to 32mm bases from their stock 25mm slotta bases.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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One Canoptek Scarab in a Swarm





Mine was the 3rd edition box set, Dark Eldar vs. Space Marines.

My friend and I went to our FLGS looking for something new to play. We saw people playing 40k in the back of the store, went back to watch them and decided the game looked like fun (aside from the part where the middle-aged man was lying to the pre-teens he was playing about his dice rolls). After some deliberation we spent the $80 (? can't remember exactly), went home, opened it up and got pissed off. 'We have to put all these models together, this sucks!" We grudgingly put them together and played our first game either that night or the next day. I remember us thinking Lascannons were OP.

One nice thing about the rulebook is that it had indexes or something similar for a lot of the armies, so we experimented a lot with different armies, using green plastic army men or whatever else we could find for most of our battles. My favorite model was the spice jar Wraithlord. Eventually I became more of a hobbyist than a gamer, and am only just now, 17 years later, getting back into playing the game.


 
   
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Death-Dealing Devastator




Chicago, IL

I got in the hobby right at the start of 5th edition, so my first models were the marines from the Assault on Blackreach set.



I took this image about 3 to 4 years ago when I was updating and repainting my army.

To those that say there is no stupid questions I say, "Is this a stupid question?" 
   
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Waaagh! Ork Warboss




Italy

Ork boyz when they came in the old 16 man box.

 
   
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Sneaky Lictor






Mine was Canis Wolfborn, like 14 years ago.

A Song of Ice and Fire - House Greyjoy.
AoS - Maggotkin of Nurgle, Ossiarch Bonereapers & Seraphon.
Bloodbowl - Lizardmen.
Horus Heresy - World Eaters.
Marvel Crisis Protocol - Avengers, Brotherhood of Mutants & Cabal. 
Middle Earth Strategy Battle game - Rivendell & The Easterlings. 
The Ninth Age - Beast Herds & Highborn Elves. 
Warhammer 40k  - Tyranids. 
 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut




A blister with two Tyranid hormagaunts.
   
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Fixture of Dakka






The Space Wolves Captain from 1991 (that's the photo from the last time it appeared on GW's website, not my one); that or the RTB01 plastic beakies, I'm pretty sure.

 Elbows wrote:
While we're on the subject - is there a collected website anywhere which hosts pictures of the GW boxed products over the years?


Stuff of Legends or the Collecting Citadel Miniatures wiki, I would think.
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Jes Goodwin

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Deathwing Terminator with Assault Cannon






Started with Dark Angels in 1995:


   
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Regular Dakkanaut






I got into Space Hulk well before I realized what 40k was. Even though I had played SH 1st edition, my first purchase was 2nd edition, so technically, my first 40k models were the BA Space Marines and Genestealers that came with the boxed game.

If you just include non-boxed game models, my 2nd edition was missing a terminator, so I bought a metal rogue trader era terminator with a chainfist as a replacement. He's the left model in this picture, and I still have him in my 2nd edition SH set:




And the first full set I bought (still ignorant of most 40k lore at the time) just for painting practice was the Blood Angels Death Company set that was out at the time. I also still have those. This picture shows 3 of them at the bottem of the picture (although I still have all 5, the other 2 must have been killed when I took this picture):

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Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant





USA

Baneblade was my first ever model. My brother bought it for me as a birthday gift to draw me into the game. It worked.

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Insect-Infested Nurgle Chaos Lord






 AaronWilson wrote:
Mine was Canis Wolfborn, like 14 years ago.


Literally impossible. Canis Wolfborn was released with the 5th ed. Space Wolf codex in October 2009. Just over 8 years ago.


Games Workshop Delenda Est.

Users on ignore- 53.

If you break apart my or anyone else's posts line by line I will not read them. 
   
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Norn Queen






Dublin, Ireland

Some wacky stuff in here, liking it.

Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be

By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.

"Feelin' goods, good enough". 
   
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Fixture of Dakka





Painted this guy up as my character for the DW RPG. One of the first non-boardgame models I ever painted. It amuses me to see him next to the Assault Marine I use for my Avatar these days:

   
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Plummeting Black Templar Thunderhawk Pilot





Equestria/USA

Mine was a Tervigon. I wanted to make my own hive fleet, and got lost along the way in colors. Hive Fleet Eyesore
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Black Templars 4000 Deathwatch 6000
 
   
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Elite Tyranid Warrior




My first model was one of the genestealers from the alien attack box (4 stealers and 4 termagants, from back when stealers straight up ignored armor saves!).

Still have it, and I will proudly field it as is when I dust off my nids again! I can't find it atm, but I should be able to describe the paintjob in words.

Regal (dark) blue carapace, liche (dark) purple fleshy bits, tentacle pink tongue, bleached bone claws, teeth and nails and blood red eyes. I wanted to add some detail and painted snakebite leather (light brown) on the claws where they sprout from the limbs. Oh, and a goblin green base, as was tradition.

Paints completely unthinned of course, also according to tradition.
   
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot






Maryland, USA

Black Templars from the 3e starter box. No pics; don't think I even had a digital camera back then, and these figs are long gone.

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Codex: Soyuzki - A fluffy guidebook to my Astra Militarum subfaction. Now version 0.6!
Another way would be to simply slide the landraider sideways like a big slowed hovercraft full of eels. -pismakron
Sometimes a little murder is necessary in this hobby. -necrontyrOG

Out-of-the-loop from November 2010 - November 2017 so please excuse my ignorance!
 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut




I remember going to the GW at Merry Hill and getting Imperial Space Marines, a Land Raider and some Devastators... good times.
   
 
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