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Fourteen years ago. It was one squad of Chaos Space Marines, and a Chaos Dreadnaught. I think there were other pieces, too, as I remember walking out of Games Workshop after dropping £50.00, which to a thirteen-year-old was a lot. I played one game.

Hard to think that I was heretical back then. [shudders]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

The 2nd edition box set

Old metal Space Wolves Terminators and Dark Angel Veterans!

First set I purchased was the 3rd ed boxed set with the horrible Dark Eldar Sculpts, still have a few of those marines and the terrain bits kicking around in the bits box. Might be time to give them a proper Crimson Fists paint job

 Instinctual wrote:
First set I purchased was the 3rd ed boxed set with the horrible Dark Eldar Sculpts, still have a few of those marines and the terrain bits kicking around in the bits box. Might be time to give them a proper Crimson Fists paint job

Same. First models assembled were those chunky Space Marines and static Dark Eldar. Still have all the terrain sitting around too. Totally worth it. Still have my first White Dwarf magazine too!

 MWHistorian wrote:
These bad boys along with some random metal RT space marines.

Wow! That brings back some fond memories. That makes me want to start fielding some Crimson Fists of my own. In the MkVI
Corvus power armor. Good times man.

I still remember it. It took me 3 months to save up enough for it, and even then, I had to get my parents to pay the taxes (I'm still not very good at figuring out purchase totals, especially when adding taxes in, but fortunately these days I use my debit card for pretty much all my purchases, and I have maintained a balance sufficient to cover anything I would ordinarily purchase. And since I stopped needing more WH40k stuff to flesh out my main armies for the most part, I've had a steadily growing balance).

It was a box of Dire Avengers back in 3rd edition. The ones with the metal heads and metal Exarch arms. I selected them based purely on their looks. At the time, I was fresh out of MageKnight, figured WH40k worked the same way (I'm lucky I didn't pick up a box of Fantasy stuff by mistake!), so I figured that the rules would be included with the models and that they'd come pre-assembled and pre-painted (Not everyone reads boxes thoroughly, and admittedly I was 13 years old). When I got home, I discovered that all I'd gotten was the models on sprues and instructions on assembly. Fortunately, in previous years I'd enjoyed building and painting model airplanes - I even did a very nice paintjob on a WW2 bomber once - so I did have some experience with building plastic models, and had an assortment of paints and some model glue.

However, I neglected the need for superglue when gluing metal pieces onto models, but with enough plastic glue, I managed to get them to stay - probably through enough plastic glue from repeated gluing attempts to fill in the gaps between metal and plastic. I remember painting them with Regal Blue, Skull White, Ice Blue, and Fiery Orange, but I have a very vague memory of first painting them with the Testors paints I had at home at the time. My paint job was sloppy, typical of a rather unskilled kid with poor vision, using only sunlight and a single size and shape paintbrush. But I enjoyed seeing them painted and enjoyed fielding them on the table.

I was lucky. The friends of a friend who got me into the game (entirely through a chance meeting at the local gaming room, where I was spoiling for a MageKnight game and discovered my friend playing WH40k with his friends) were willing to let me join in with them in multiplayer games, and they were sporting enough to save their main bulk of firepower for the people with more than a single squad of models, who knew the rules, who had their own Codex and had read the main rulebook. They saved me for last, which I appreciated and had great fun just playing, even though I never won - and to this day, have never won a WH40k game against someone who wasn't either my younger brother or my mom, including a game during a tournament against a Tyranids player, even younger than I, who'd shown up with about 600 points of models less than what was needed for the tournament, and against whom I saw the opportunity for an easy victory, and thus said no when he asked nicely if I wouldn't mind dropping some of my stuff to make it a fair fight. (in short, I got my butt handed to me on a platter).

Ahh, the days of blissful ignorance, when I thought my Marines' flamers worked like Burnaz after playing against an Ork player who used Burnaz.

The 2nd Edition boxed set although the models I used in actual games were several blisters of metal Marines bought during the great lead sale.

A bunch of Warlock blisters together with a bunch of Farseer blisters and a box of Guardians. Was dead set on Ulthwé back then. Since that time one of the Farseers still hasn't been stripped of his horrible, horrible, paint job (YELLOW belt pouch!?) another Farseer has had his spear-arm broken. The model for Eldrad was one of them, don't think he was separate from the others back then.

I bought the second edition box with a buddy one summer prior to third's release. We were a bit underwhelmed.

Four ork boys.FIRST models were the moria goblin paint set.

Wow.... uh.... man, this is having to go back a ways...

.... probably some Ork Boyz. Goffs, I think? Maybe not. Maybe just regular Orks. Or maybe it was some Space Marines? This would have been in 1991-ish... maybe '89 or '90.

Non-Starterset would be either a box of Eldar Guardians or a Space Marine Tacti Squad. Has been about 2 years ago and I already forgot.

A tau devilfish.

A buddy of mine sold me an old one, I used it for a cool looking vehicle in my science fiction RPG gaming.

Of course, he then said "hey, you want to read the rules on this thing?"

I said "nah, I have no interest in 40k, and have not played fantasy in over 20 years".

He said "well, you might like their fluff, so you can you know, describe the race that makes them, etc.".

Oh man, first hit is free...the rest as we say, is history.

 EVIL INC wrote:
RTB01 Box of 30 marines.

This. A mate bought orks.

Followed by several blisters of eldar ("Space elves") including musicians and standard bearers.

 EVIL INC wrote:
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

Copycat! same as me, but i also bought the space orks boxed set and too many other GW stuff!

The 20 Pack of Cadian Imperial Guardsmen.

A single little Leman Russ Tank.



I haven't changed him since I built him, except his name of course. he is now the Longsword.

Five man Space Marine Assault Squad turned to Blood Angels.

I'll never forget the day I entered the money-consuming spiral that is 40k lol


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 Thokt wrote:
I bought the second edition box with a buddy one summer prior to third's release. We were a bit underwhelmed.

If only they released something similar to this, except with updated armies and terrain. And I mean not just the starter set, but Battleforces too.

Necron's Battleforce, so that means 5 immortals, Ghost ark, 20 warriors and 5 scarabs. Yes, I'm a recent player

I think it was the second ed starter set - came with marines and nids in it.

A blister pack of Squat Adventurers like this guy

2x space marine tactical squads and one scout squad for my first ever BT crusader squad... Relatively new to the hobby as i can see squats etc...

I had a WHFB Chaos Warrior and a Space Marine from the paint starter set they did around 1997. I seem to remember having a box of six IG Storm Troopers in the very early days too, might have bought those on that day too.

As a complete novice of the hobby, naturally I wanted to paint the Marine is a member of the Legion of the Damned.

SM tactical squad.

Completely fethed up the paintjob, and gave them all terribad options.

However, I consider my true start to 40k to be when I converted to chaos, and that was with a Daemon Prince (multi part plastic version).

10 GKTs...and they're still kicking @ss.

My first WH 40k model was the Emperor's Champion model for my Black Templars in 2008.

Sameal in finecast.

i bought dark vengeance and a paint kit that came with some dark angels at the same time (half off!)
the first model i assembled and painted was joe, a dark angel from the paint kit.
he is now the champion of my CSM squad and has turned all his fellow marines to nurgle warship.
(he was my first assembly, painted model and conversion)
he is much prettier now. nicer paint, cleaned him up really nicely