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The NIGHTBRINGER

First mini: Ral partha gladiator.

First GW mini: an old Grey knight... I wish I could find that one.

First army: Tyranids

First boxed set: Dark Millenium.

Mine was a set of adventurer (a sorcerer and a bard) from Ral Partha ; it was in...1995, I think.

Dante that I painted in my lgs the day I got him, only just sold him, had him since 2000.

I started gaming with the Star Wars RPG back in 1987, back then Games Workshop was the local store for buying RPGs. My first miniatures though would have been around 1989 with the purchase of Space Hulk.

I suppose the hero quest models were my actualy first models.

Actual games workshop modes I beleive was the old box of skeletons that had cavalry, warriors and chariots i think. They were like the detachment boxes you get now.

Tyranid termagaunt, from the last edition Ended up making a tyranid army then sold them when i was younger

A box of D&D adventurers. Made by GW!
It was around '83, so they were still making Citadel minis for non-GW games.

Back around '85, my oldest brother gave me his dismounted "Death Dealer" miniature from Ral Partha - thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

Maugan Ra & the Warp Spider Exarch. I still have the exarch.

Once upon a time £5 got you a standard brush, 1 pot of chaos black, 1 pot of skull white, 1 pot of blood red and 1 pot of goblin green, 1 saurus warrior (5th edition) and an old monopose Chaos Warrior.

I'll try and get a photo later of the Saurus. The Chaos Warrior is long gone.

First ever? I found a mangled plastic army man while digging a hole in the backyard.

First legit mini for painting/wargaming? Can't say which, as my first wargaming purchase was AoBR. Don't even remember if I assembled a boy or tac marine first. First paintjobs were a trio of big shoota boys, though, so they're the closest to a definitive "first" I have.

Early eighties, given to me as a gift from my brother: the Grenadier 'Horrors of the Marsh' set.

You can waste some time by studying it here: http://gholascale.blogspot.com/2011/03/horrors-of-marsh.html

and here: http://gholascale.blogspot.com/2011/03/let-me-see-you-stripped-down-to-bone.html

Got this set for my 9th birthday:



Followed shortly with these guys for christmas that year:





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From memory, the monsters (left to right, then top to bottom) are:

Gargoyle, Air Elemental, Yeti, Werewolf,
Balrog (Type IV Demon), Nana, Mummy, Wererat,
Orc, Vampire,
Ghost, Orc, Zombie, ??, Skeleton,
Goblin, Ocher Jelly, Ghoul, Medusa, Goblin

I think I've still got most of them in my basement somewhere...

Kampfgruppe Cottrell wrote:It was the classic box set of Imperial Space Marines for me.

Brian

Ah yes! 30 plastic marines for a tenner - I remember them well - still had some up until not long ago when I flogged them on e-bay. Happy days.

Ah, unfortunately, my first ever miniature was one of the Tac Marines in AOBR !!

Got it last year too! As a Christmas present

Warhammer Fantasy Battle 5th Edition Box Set the one with Brettonians and Lizardmen.

Eldar Jetbike. As a kid I did some plastic models and then painted some ceramic pieces (where I first learned of drybrushing and washing!) I bought the jetbike on a whim, not knowing anything about Warhammer or Eldar or anything. I ended up spending the next year or so buying lots of cheap Ral Partha miniatures. I finally took the plunge into Warhammer 2nd edition about two years later, not really knowing the difference between any of the armies or even that Space Marines and Eldar were two different forces, and not understanding why Imperial Guard had a bunch of units from World War 2 but assuming there must be a rogue time machine involved.

I love those classics, Redbeard!

Aged 5 or 6 I had a sprue with two RT plastic marines on. I painted them gold and silver. They are long gone.

I think it was a box of LOTR Moria Goblins, when I was young, and foolish.

First Mini: A half-Orc Barbarian for D&D ~2002. I don't have a picture of him.

First GW Miniature: Black Templar Emperor's Champion 2008

5 Striking Scorps and 5 Swooping Hawks from when the first Eldar codex came out...so many memories, such bad painting.

I got a box of generic adventurer type figures in '85 for my 15th birthday, back in pre-Slotta base days when a single figure blister would set you back the vast sum of 60p! I believe the box cover was this -



And the box contained these -

http://www.solegends.com/citboxes/c2advset.htm

Had loads of other minis that I can't remember (apart from some Undead Samurai which were the coolest thing. Ever.) 1st 40k minis were the Ork and Marine box sets released with RT and which I got cheap thanks to being runner up in a WD competition I then left my entire collection at the house of a friend of a friend, forgot them and never saw them again... :(

4th ed necron lord w/o staff of light. Has about 4 layers of paint on him lolol.

a blister of three space ork painboyz. From encounter games in cardiff - I remember going back there a while later when GW cardiff opened round the corner. Encounter games was selling buy one get two free on any blister! GW drove them out of business soon after

Space Crusade and then a 2nd Edition Predator

My first was a dwarf archer, I believe Ral Partha, from a small shop in Colchester, around '79. I think the elf below was second, and the weirdo next to him was probably my first SF mini, came on a weird little space scooter thingy.

Archroy wrote:I got a box of generic adventurer type figures in '85 for my 15th birthday, back in pre-Slotta base days when a single figure blister would set you back the vast sum of 60p! I believe the box cover was this -



And the box contained these -

http://www.solegends.com/citboxes/c2advset.htm

Had loads of other minis that I can't remember (apart from some Undead Samurai which were the coolest thing. Ever.) 1st 40k minis were the Ork and Marine box sets released with RT and which I got cheap thanks to being runner up in a WD competition I then left my entire collection at the house of a friend of a friend, forgot them and never saw them again... :(

Harry!

The Heroquest minis, but my first metals were a skeleton command group.