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I started with 40k a year ago. Im sooo jealous of yall that got huge bit boxes. If I want bits I have to buy online :(

I could spend ages going through my stockpile of bits - but then I'd never get anything done!!

However the best find is my unmade marine diorma from the Skullz promotion - that's still waiting for the day when I feel good enough to paint it in the manner it deserves

xedric wrote:I started with 40k a year ago. Im sooo jealous of yall that got huge bit boxes. If I want bits I have to buy online :(

Some wargame stores that deal in a lot of second hand models will sell bags of bits.

I got a whole load of CSM bits for £3 that was enough to build and finish off around 100 CSM's (most of them were lacking weapons/backpacks etc). Also got a huge bag of Wood Elf bits for a simmilar price that might come in handy at some point.

Yesterday, I found in my bits box a way old Great Unclean One, Keeper of Secrets, and Bloodthirster. You know, thae ancient ones the size of a troll.

Cool!

Huh. I just found a team and a half worth of the original Blood Bowl halflings. That's more than a little odd.

Also, about 200 25mm round slottabases and 50 of the 60mm extremely flat round bases.

I found enough supplies for the upper half of a badass inquisitor. but no legs. I don't get it, some how i have more than enough torsos for my marines, but exactly the amount of legs needed for my squad of said marines. of course, a wheelchair bound inquisitor would be an interesting sight.

A Bloodletter of Khorne Circa '86.

Heaps of "Heroquest" figs.

Some Genestealer Skulls. WTF? I never ever collected Genies....???

xedric wrote:I started with 40k a year ago. Im sooo jealous of yall that got huge bit boxes. If I want bits I have to buy online :(

Oh, it will come in time. Especially with the newer boxes that include more parts than you can possibly use. Just make sure you keep EVERYTHING you don't use. Even if it's not useful, you might be able to trade it to someone for some interesting bits.

I found a dead bug

then it bit me as I was trying to trophy-fy it onto my warboss

The other day I was sorting out my tools that I put in a box with some projects and I found 50 1/16X1/32 disk magnets. I thought they were in their baggie, but they had gone AWOL. I found the baggie after I put them with another batch of magnets.

I bought some used miniatures from a couple different guys who used to live together, so I ended up with a few bitz boxes full of neat stuff. I found a scythe from a peasant army from WHF I plan on modding to use with a Dark Angel Sgt or Chapter Master as a power weapon. Found a whole squad of the 2nd Ed Legion of the Damned, an RT Techmarine with the claw symbol and a wrench, but he's pewter, but mostly bits that I had already bought at thewarstore.com or my friends already had a bucketful of...

You tell your friends that you want to buy XXX at thewarstore.com for some sort of project and they say,"Ok." Then it arrives and you tell them it came in and then they say,"Aw man, I've got tons of those, why didn't you ask? I would have given them to you."...But, but..yargh.

A week after I bought some Ravenwing flagpoles from bitzbarn, I stumbled upon 5 Ravenwing sprues being sold on commission at my FLGS, luckily, there was so many other bits on there it justified my duplication..

Friends been borrowing my 'Nids for a good half a year or more but I've been feeling the urge to play em again so I asked for em back. I don't think I'll be laming stuff out for that long again. Digging thru a big pile of on the sprue bitz looking for replacement parts I found, all on the sprue and unassembled, eight Gaunts, eight Hormagants, a dozen Genestealers and ten Warriors. I knew I had four Genestealers I never got around to finishing, but therest of that? Man do I really have a problem with not finishing what I started.

About £20 and a nightbringer.

Today I went looking through my bitz chest and found 14 Maruader Miniature WFB Empire Halflings from 3rd edition! I also found 2 lighters, a 500 yen coin and a pack of Rizlas.

I needed to find bits for five marines so I could make a small squad of Alpha Legionnaires for my Renegade Guard. Ended up finding all of these in my bitz-pit.

infilTRAITOR wrote:I needed to find bits for five marines so I could make a small squad of Alpha Legionnaires for my Renegade Guard. Ended up finding all of these in my bitz-pit.

If you find a couple of tanks in there, you've got an army going.

Quite a few random things

ranging from old gundam wing kits (all broken of course)
to a huge bag filled with iron hands parts (missing thunder hammers though :()

also plenty of the old quest orks and other ancient parts (including 3 hybrid arms)

4 pairs of Bloodthirster wings for conversion work (4yrs old)

Old style lascannon devastator (shoulder mounted). multiple dreadnought bits and pieces.

Titan techpriest

Ltd ed skulz standard bearer + DA Ltd Ed Chapter Master

Blood angel characters