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I'll start. Space Marine Tactical Squad.

RTB01 Box of 30 marines. Shortly followed by some renegade models. And then more and more and more until after almost 30 years, I could retire on the money I have spent. lol

A Kroot

Lucarikx

Played fire warrior the game and was Inspired and went out and brought some firewarriors when tau first come out haha

AOBR was my first box. The first 40k kits I built (ie non-snap-fit) were a SM Commander and Command squad.

My first ever model that I painted was a LOTR uruk-hai beserker.

I am not sure, but I think it was either a box of Guardsmen or a set of some PA goodness

Started with daemons (fantasy player) and went from there. If you want my first true 40k stuff, it would be the Eldar I traded an Orc army for. Fantasy orcs, hence the 'c'.

Dark Vengeance limited edition, nice starter pack

The Chaos Space Marines models from Dark Vengeance set, my friend took the Dark Angels.

A box of Hormagaunts, I still have those 12 (badly) painted models.

A couple of the earliest MkVII metal Marines back in like 1992.

First set was some old RT minis someone dumped on me.

The first I bought, though, was an eldar vyper.

A box of RTB01 SM.The painjob was not great,but I loved building them.

Yarrick

Original Predator tank plus a copy of 2nd edition

2nd ed boxed set, with cardboard walls and a cardboard ork dreadnought!

Battle for Mcragge set,
The first individual model was a metal Chaos Sorcerer

First models I bought was a box of five Lizardman Saurus, so I could practice painting. That was back when they sold half-squads for next to nothing.

First 40k model was an Ork Warbike the next week.

Battle for Macragge Set. I still wish I had it... oh well, I was a stupid kid back then.

Well, I started with box set of DE and BT. The first blister was an Haemonculus and the first army was DE.

My first was two RT2 -Space Orks boxes in 1987. Loved their style/character and have been collecting orks ever since. Just started playing the game recently.

Chaos Space Marine squad and Terminator Lord. The first model I painted was the Icon Bearer with the Icon of Tzeentch.

The very first first... 3rd edition starter set with Space Marines and Dark Eldar. I have a couple of those models still on my "shelf of shame" where I put some of the most horrible models I ever hacked together back when I was first starting the hobby (as well as one potentially ok conversion for the Void Dragon C`Tan that never ended up going anywhere).

First thing I actually cared about, box of Kroot. I now know that Kroot are some of the most annoying troop models to assemble in the game. As a grade school kid...let's just say they didn't end well.

A box of guardsmen when I was a kid. Back in 4e, I think. Could not paint faces back then, so they looked sort of mutated.

But the first one that I really cared about, and that I bought with my own money, was some SoB. Actually made the faces look presentable this time around.

Dark Eldar Archon.

Pre-overhaul paint set with a combat squad of snap-fit Ultramarines. I was hyped on 40k before I got it, so it was also the most excitement I had over openning a kit. I still remember that I tried to basecoat my first mini in badab black...

My first introduction to 40K was Rouge Trader. So for me it would be the photo copy of the paper tiles we were suppose to use back then.

Nobody played, so I never gotten into it. So my first minis would be the 3rd edition Starter set.

First was a Night Lords Marine given to me by a friend

Either a bunch of dwarf slayers or a box of warriors. Can't exactly remember which it's been so long.

It was either a heavy weapons platoon or the old guard battleforce that came with the leman russ and buildings.