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Starter paint set of marines.

First miniatures bought had to be D&D miniatures (lead no less) back in the early eighties.

First GW miniature was a white metal SM sgt., this guy I think:

Mine was a Old sentinel set an a Old box of guard when they came x20

First thing that I bought was the old Imperial Guard battleforce. Great deal, 20 dudes, Leman Russ, and 3 heavy weapons teams for $90 if I recall correctly. I can't remember the first "individual" model I bought however, although I believe it was an Avatar of Khaine.


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soitra wrote:Oh and im sure they used to be alot cheaper in the stores than they are now,

MUCH MUCH cheaper than a small box of cadian shock troops!
but i've bough my first miniatures in October 2006. dunno when was the last time GW do this '20-men boxset'?

Llamahead wrote:It was the Epic 40k box set from GW model though the first I assembled was an Airfix Spitfire like I'm guessing 90% of the British members of this forum!

yeah ok not including the spitfire lol
actually have a spitfire sat on my desk waiting to be built gotta say the qaulity is appaling

The first wargame miniatures I picked up were the big black box, the old metal command squad, a paint starter set, and a tactical squad. Oddly enough between when I bought them and when I went to assemble them the tac squad vanished but left their box behind...

oh and here is one of those models from the space hulk set i was so proud of my painting at the time (think i was suffering from temporary insanity)

Grenadier and Ral Partha RPG monsters, and some heroes, back in the late 70s early 80's...

No longer have them, and remember using them so much that the detail from the metal got rubbed off ...

soitra wrote:oh and here is one of those models from the space hulk set i was so proud of my painting at the time (think i was suffering from temporary insanity)

Those are from the 2nd edition starter box. I still got a heap of them laying around somewhere =o]

My first model was probably some kind of tank or airplane, possibly airfix . My first mini's where some Ral Partha lead AD&D models. My first citadel models where the Space Marine Librarians with force sword and book, FS and scroll and the two handed FS. I thought armour,books and swords how can I go wrong. I quickly picked up some Techmarines after this, then the RTB01 box, then the compendium so I actually knew what I was doing.... by then GW had me hooked hardcore. Then I discovered epic and all was right in the world. =o]

For me it was a second ed box of the Mordian Iron Guard Squad.

Still have the army too

My first model purchase was a box of Necron warriors. They're long gone now though.

My first model I bought was a model car, so yea. Wargaming wise, the first thing i got was the tau battleforce.

The first GW model I ever bought was the Deathwing Terminator set. I can only guess where. The second was the Blood Angels Devastator box from NCC-1701 in Orlando FL in 1994. I found out there was a game attached to these models in 1996.

my first miniature ever bought and painted was the old citadel pack donkey

Needed it for a AD&D Game back in the 90s.

First GW Miniature was either 4th Edition WHFB Prince Imrik or Eltharion on Griffon.
Don't know really, but still have both but they need paint stripping badly

Not counting Space Crusade and old Airfix models, the first GW things I bought were in March 1992. I remember getting White Dwarf 147 and it having 25% discount vouchers in it. So off I toddle to my nearest GW and I picked up Space Hulk 1st Edition for £21.99. Next week, my first real model purchases were, in order:

- An Epic Shadowsword
- An Epic Warlord (The store had a returned defective box of the ancient plastic battle titans box - they were flogging off the good bits and I snaffled a warlord with a weapon sprue for £1.50)!

And there started my long obsession with Epic! They have all been lost to the ages in one form or other however :/

18 Pack of Harlequins for Eldar.
I thought the Death Jester looked really awesome. I had no idea what the army did. The person who taught me to play cheated their head off. I never realized how nasty Eldar were until I went to a Games Workshop on South Street in Philadelphia to learn how to play. My parents would only take me once in a while because they could not stomach how they used to play heavy metal music and thought it would be a bad influence.

Maybe it was.. 20 years later i'm still pushing around plastic and metal minatures and I love heavy metal music

A Marine tactical Squad. I have stripped them of paint so many times that I mostly see them as black (primed ) But now on the Red Scorpions colours they seem nice

First GW minis were a box of beakies.

First overall were the classic Grenadier AD&D "Explorers" box set. Still have it.

Mine was a Ral Partha model from their Shadowrun range. It was in late 92 or early 93.
I was only painting (and I was miserable at it) and GW minis were too already too expensive

Gor n Ungor herd

Space Marine Battle force

2-pack of old fantasy savage orks.

And then that boar-riding fantasy black orc fellow with the two axes.

My paint jobs were horrible and I still have those models on my shelf.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

soitra wrote:oh and here is one of those models from the space hulk set i was so proud of my painting at the time (think i was suffering from temporary insanity)

Those are from the 2nd edition starter box. I still got a heap of them laying around somewhere =o]

Thanks guess they must have been mixed in, i wish i still had some of the tyranids from that boxset but only the emporer knows what happened to them

For 40k, it was either a blister pack with a standard and melta marine or the 2nd edition box set.

For miniatures in general, it was definitely a box of 1/72 scale plastic British commando's by ESCI.

For non-40k, my memory is foggier, but I think my first gaming miniatures would be Battletech's Heavy Lance. Whichever one had a Crusader and a Thunderbolt.

The first model I got was one of these with my own pocket money Used to love the old box art



Then a few months later I got Space Marine for Christmas



Although I was only 7 at the time so had to rely on my big brother to help out with the rules.

A blister of genestealer hybrids... Have never had any use for them, either. I was in such awe at the wall of minis that I grabbed something random.

a blister of two metal eldar snipers. I still have them among my bitz boxes.

Mine was Leman Russ, in a small blister plus his wolves Geri and loki
epic mini, still got him today.