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As for me, i was a Big comic buff, (conan the barbarian, clive barker's work, jake thrash,..etc...etc...)

My eyes took to a mag. with the Words White Dwarf,... That was it man, i saw the Orcs, Harboth's Orc Archers. #90 The one with the 10 year stamp on it..back when they had THRUDD the Barbarian. i went to a hobby shop in the vally called The Last Grenadier. talk to Chris the manger, and he showed me around. i.e. what to get/need. and i had my 1st copy of Ravening Hords to go along with my 1st. Warhammer rull book, (and you think you have alot of rules now...) and a box set of Minis (the one with Gobbos, orcs, skaven, elves, Dark Elves.

and from then on i was hooked,.... friends at school were tripping at my new hobby, they wanted to spend the $ on more pot, beers, Records.(oh yes we had a flat disk that a needle went on to play music) but i stuck to it.

But years, (and many more years) here i sit, Paints and MUCH better paint jobs later,... and now wondering if the story of a new 40k is on its way....

Damn im old

Records?
Yeah you are old...

Damn I always remember 'that' day. I came back from a school trip and my parents gave me this magazine, said it had cool stuff that I like. Looked upon it it was the white dwarf with a helmetless black legion marine witha plasma pistol. It had skaven and empire and so they were the first ever army I collected.

My friends know my weaknesses all too well. One was playing 40k for about a year and while I knew about it, I had no interest. He then "innocently" lent me the spiffy new catalog of models to look over and that was it. I saw the Eldar models and my magpie instincts took over and I needed all those shiny little models.

it was the white dwarf with a helmetless black legion marine witha plasma pistol.

Ha ha ha,... i still have that one.

I saw the Eldar models and my magpie instincts took over and I needed all those shiny little models.

Humm,..... i may have that too.

We got Space Hulk for the Playstation, and we were playing it. I thought the voice overs and the whole setting was really cool. I'd seen some of the warhammer fantasy models in the toy shop, but been to intimidated by them to try it. I was a big fan of 2000AD growing up.

A friend of my brother's heard him talking about Space Hulk in school, and thought he played the tabletop game. He loaned us the 3 2nd edition main books (Rulebook, Codex Imperialis and Wargear). I was totally and utterly hooked. Got the starter for christmas that year.

oddly enough it was the sister of a girl I grew up with, who introducted me to the glorious world of Warhammer. Althou when LOTR came along that became my main attention, but over the last 11 years I have had all but a few of the 40k armies.

The ad at the back of this dragged me in.

Well.
I loved star wars in HS, So i collected the minies. I remember when the giant ones came out. 21 bucks. I bought some. But what upset me was this, in the large ones i got minies i already had. Ticked me off. So i stopped.
Then i remember an old friend talking about 40k, so the FLGS showed me the AOBR(then 60 bucks) set and i bought. Been addicted ever sense.

Back in 88 I went to England on a trip. Saw a game store and went and poked around. I was drawn to the RTB01 box. I didnt buy it though... The next year after i went off to collage i saw them agin. We were big into Battle tech at the time. So I got the mini's then the rules then lots and lots more stuff as the years went on.

drunkorc wrote: I went to a hobby shop in the vally called The Last Grenadier.

I used to hang out there in the mid 90's....

i think it was from initially reading Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's "Forest of Doom", choose your own adventure style book. I kinda then moved into advanced fighting fantasy, into dungeons and dragons and i eventually needed some figs for the game to move around on the large white board. From that i eventually started to get bitten by the collecting, painting mini bug!!! from there it was citadel minatures and onwards!!!!

When I saw the groupies hanging out with the 40k tournament players, I knew I had found a good hobby.

The comic book store where I was getting my D&D stuff always had a tiny section for Rogue Trader and some of the funky old WFB minis, but I never paid much attention until one day they put up a huge standee full of the second edition 40K box. It was the picture on the front that got me the instant I saw it.

drunkorc wrote:

it was the white dwarf with a helmetless black legion marine witha plasma pistol.

Ha ha ha,... i still have that one.

I saw the Eldar models and my magpie instincts took over and I needed all those shiny little models.

Humm,..... i may have that too.

Haha sweet, sadly I sold mine, should have kept that one for nostalgia

When I was young, I made the unfortunate mistake of getting caught up in juvenile crime - stealing, looting, drink driving, etc etc. One night, me and my mates broke into a small shopping unit in East London. One of the shops was a model railway shop that also sold GW stuff.. I must admit I got distracted by the artwork of the books and the smart models in display cabinets - especially the skeletons, which was the first models I ever got.
So yeah, a strange way to get into the hobby.

I'd been reading SF since the age of about 8.
By High School (early 80s), I had already read Asimov and Heinlein and Herbert and Judge Dredd and more. In 1987, the RT rulebook combined elements of all of these into a game you could play - with little plastic spacemen.

It's been a downward spiral since then.

I saw a GW when I was younger. Years later, I remembered that and decided to start.

kronk wrote:When I saw the groupies hanging out with the 40k tournament players, I knew I had found a good hobby.

Then you realised they where overweight men?

About 4 years ago, I was at Orlando Int. airport waiting for my wife's (now ex-wife) plane to crash..errr I mean land, and I picked up a white dwarf mag at one of the duty free stores and started to thumb through it. I was really impressed with the level of paint job on the minis and the level of detail that the models had, I bought the magazine and read it from cover to cover later that night. That was it, I decided right then and there that I was destined to build and paint the most awesome army ever conceived by the emperor himself. So I started buying orks by the handfull and soon amassed about 2500 points of green goodness, I then decided that I wanted to learn how to actually play this "game", so I started collecting Blood Angels, Loved the fluff, Loved the models, and Loved the fact that they were actually a "competitive" army in the current edition. I'm about half-way done with the BA's and hope that 6th Ed. makes them even better.

Coincidentally, I was asked this question by an employee of my local GW during a recent gaming night. I answered him by telling him the following story:

My dad was employed in the military. So as a result of this he was usally away from home. Sadly, we never spent that much "father-son" time together, as a result of of his work and deployments. But then he got his hands on one of those limited editon "Praetorian XXIV" sets, which came out some time during '98-'99 cycle. During the time that he was home from his work we would both paint together on occasions: I painted the command squad and the heavy weapons (both of which ended up looking like tri-coloured blobs of colour) while he painted the squads and casualties. Truly it is some of these occasions which have provided some of the fondest memories of my father.

Sadly after all was painted, I quickly lost interest in the hobby. It was only 6 years later that a buddy of mine bought a White Dwarf and started an army, did the 40k interest suddenly come back. I dusted off my old Praetorians, the ones painted by me and my dad, and began a new army. Sadly, the majority of those Praetorians that had been painted by my father and me had all but simply fallen apart over the years. As a result, I started by Black Templars/Generic Space Marine army which I have had for about 7-8 years this June. I should also note that since 2006, I've begun multiple miniature projects, not just GamesWorkshop, and as a result met many great people, made a few good friends and influenced a good many people, including my girlfriend, into starting the hobby.

All of this because of a simple "father-son" activity; I have been painting, modelling and playing since.

I was in between Yu-Gi-Oh! formats and wanted a new competitive game. The comic shop I worked at was just about to start carrying GW stuff and the sales reps at the closest GW store explained what a great game 40k was because of the tournaments. I immediately started CSM. The dream died painfully a few years after then I got over it later and play for fun now.

The Dawn of War Video games. Only started the tabletop for about 10 months tho.

Muricles,.. Sorry to hear about your mini's that you and your pa painted. very well written(Typed).

Glad to have you with us mate.

hotsauceman1
Then you realised they where overweight men?

....I almost fell off my chair.....my stomach still hurtsa bit.

It was the first Dawn of War videogame for me. A few friends and me played it during some oldschool LAN parties (before the age of the laptop!). While they quickly moved to other games, I was kinda hooked with the aesthetic of the factions and races and started to browse lexicanum.com and other sites for more background information.

Then I found coolminiornot.com and saw the awesomeness that can be crafted out of some plastic, some paints and maybe some greenstuff. I spent weeks just staring at those superb paintjobs...around that time, I had surgery and couldn't do sports for quite a while. It was that time that I decided to get just a little box of Marines and some colors, just to see how it goes...

...yeah, the AoBR box soon followed. I still mostly paint and get frustrated with it, though I got one friend to occasionally play games with me. He's collecting Imperial Guard, though, and trouncing my SM, Orks or whatever almost every game...

Started into table top gaming with Pokemon TCG many many moons ago.

Started to get into magic.

Before I even knew there was such a thing as miniatures games (shops in my how town only sold pokemon, yugioh and magic) my friend and I made our own minis game using our old micromachines and a 12" ruler.

New gameshop opened up in town, walked in and saw Hero Clix and Mech Warrior being played and crapped my pant in excitement.


Found the world of miniature wargaming.

I became involved with 40k more or less due to the fact that I was "there".
Back when 3rd Ed. was realesed, my (then) girlfriend's younger brother bought two copies of the boxed game and gave me all of the Dark Eldar minis that were included so he'd have someone to play ( prior to this I'd never played any sort of wargame).
I then bought a few more models to " fill out" the DE army I'd been handed, but quickly realized I wasn't a big fan of their delicate nature and , after reading up on them, moved to playing Orks.
Have played on and off ever since.

Some kid in my sixth grade science class had a copy of White Dwarf, and I was all like, "Whoaaaa, that is sooo cool!" and then 5 years later something brought back the memory and I bought a box of dark angels and some modeling stuff, and the rulebook. I read the rulebook, made some awesome models, and then put it all away. A year later I bought AoBR, kitbashed the hell out of it, and haven't touched it since. That was two years ago, I think? I've never played a game before. I was always more attracted to the modeling aspect of the game.

It started with KotOR then getting sucked into Morrowind, then after beating that game, getting sucked in WoW and then looking up WoW's spiritual predecessor, Warhammer, playing Dawn of War, getting into SoB, and finally purchasing a SoB army.

Got LOTR figures because I loved LOTR. My Step-dad took over a internet cafe/FLGS, and there was a 40k club there, and one of them had LOTR, so we played a few games, but everyone else played 40k. So i started playing 40k as well.

I have several hundred of the green and tan army men, tanks, sandbag walls, all sorts of little decorations. My friends played 40k a lot and I liked to watch because to me it was the same concept with more rules and better pieces. For a long time I had no money, but one day I just bought stuff and started playing. It was just the next evolution of something I already did. It helps that I really like taking a pile of stuff and making it into a thing. All the things that aren't made deserve to be completed.