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As the title says I was wondering how my often my fellow wargamers find them selves throwing away a model and getting new one. Either because the old is broke or because there's a new and glorious version of it.

Good Lord, no.


Broken models can be fixed, and 'new and glorious' versions can be added to the collection, rather than supplanting the original.

(Stares with increasing concern at a group of 27 old eldar jet bikes with home made shuricannons) I feel the same way but between a certain group of bikes and some secondhand weapons of vaul and war Walkers I am kinda considering it.

Very rarely.

What constitutes as very rarely for you?

Never considered it, though I have only been playing for a few years. If anything, I'd break up the model and use as terrain or a base for another.

I never replace old models. I start new Armies.

paintwhore99 wrote:
As the title says I was wondering how my often my fellow wargamers find them selves throwing away a model and getting new one. Either because the old is broke or because there's a new and glorious version of it.

The question doesn't even make sense. Who throws away a perfectly good model? I have remade models when something new strikes my fancy, like the St. Celestines or the Bike Commanders in my gallery, but then I sell the old ones, I don't just bin them.

I was thinking about that Jim.


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I was thinking about that Jim.

 insaniak wrote:
Good Lord, no.


Broken models can be fixed, and 'new and glorious' versions can be added to the collection, rather than supplanting the original.

Quoted for truth. The collection only grows.

I am easily suseptable to new sculpts, and work towards replacing the metal models in my army with shiny plastics. I have upgraded models, such as Deathwing Terminators and Eldar Wraithguard when I knew they were getting new kits, but not binned them, sold the old ones (ebay, huzzah) to help pay for the new ones.

Will also sometimes buy new instead of stripping / repainting. Throwing things away though, no. Some day I may play a game where I need both the new models and the old (some rather wierd circumstance where I need 40-odd Guardians).

paintwhore99 wrote:
As the title says I was wondering how my often my fellow wargamers find them selves throwing away a model and getting new one. Either because the old is broke or because there's a new and glorious version of it.

Well, that'd lead to make the game even costier, so basically nobody does in my opinion. Thus, an ancient model will always seem badass as hell since it's older and then even if you don't play them anymore, well they make great collection pieces. However people obviously sell their old models to either leave Warhammer 40k or buy a new army. This case is actually quite common then.

I like the old models. They're usually more fun to look at and paint, than the new ones. New Wulfen vs Old Wulfen are a good example, I think.

Never, I not only have the old necron warriors and lords in my army still but the old pariahs (now used as lychguard) and old flayed ones becase im not a fan of the new ones, even though i have them too haha

A buddy of mine has some of the original harlies and harlie bikes in his collection I battle against, theres nothing like the silly old stuff in with all the great new stuff.

To think of it the only model Ive ever thrown out was a lysander model, my cat seemed to really like yellow at the time and he got up on the display shelf, needless to say lysanders armour holes wouldnt have been believable..unless he was just shot by a baneblade point blank

I'm spoiled. I screwed up a model or two back when I started painting (like, beyond the point of stripping it effectively) so I replaced it. Not sure if that counts. But, as far as my Tyranids are concerned, if they ever get a new codex, I'll gladly trade in my metal pyrovore (that I use as Biovores) in favor of actually buying the fonecast Biovores, and changing out my old finecast Venomthropes and Zoanthropes for the new plastic ones. But that's just me.

Throw away? Madness!

Shuffle to the back of the pile? Yup.

My Ultramarines are broken down into two major sections: my full 3rd company, and then the swap shelf of spares and auxiliary units. When I first reached company strength, my tac squads were made up of 2xRT, 2x2nd, and 2x3rd edition models. When I finished painting the 4th ed Battle of Macragge push fits, they took the place of one of the old 2nd ed bolter huggers. More recently I did a WYSWYG warger pass on my sergeants, so they had some combis. The old BP/CCW ones were relegated to the lower shelf.

But the swap shelf is always there to take any rejects from active duty. Never know when they could be useful.

I did take a knife to my assault squads at one point, due to edition rules changes. But that was just a weapon swap. In the process of stripping some old BA to repaint as well.

I will admit to not expanding some old squads due to model mis-match. My terminators are old metal ones on small bases. I don’t really want to replace them all, but they have changed a lot over the years. So I just make due with what I have.

I did replace my 2nd edition Marines, Orks, Necrons, and Tyranid forces with later versions of the models.

Since stripping models is exceptionally easy...no, I've never considered binning models. I threw out five Old West figures because the sculpts I had from a certain company were so poor it wasn't worth me selling them on eBay. Those may be the only miniatures I've ever binned.

Now if you have some space marines sitting around from when you were 12 and you glued plastic arms on backwards or something - maybe? But in general, no.

Looks at 3rd ed chaplain Lemartes. Rather, whats left of him.

Crudely hacked to pieces to form a chaos lord. Greenstuffed to feth to make a loyalist captain. Hacked to pieces again to make a servitor kind a thing. Now considering a position for him in a Raven Guard (y) type force...if I kind find his legs.

Really, I repurpose lots of minis and try to resurrect old sculpts as much as I can. Throwing a model away is really anathema to me.

*Looks at his lead skeletons*
throw away - are you mad?!

Not yet. Old models are prime candidates for rehab projects and conversions.

When the new terminators came out, I bought new terminators. The old ones have since been rebased and repainted and occasionally still see the table.

Metal chaos termies became obliterator mutants until I bought GK termies for rubric termie/sorcerlators conversions.

But the metals are still there somewhere.

It depends. If it's something I have painted, no, I tend to never discard stuff I've painted even half decently.

Some of my Space Wolf stuff was painted like crap though and I didn't particularly like the models anyway (3rd edition) so I replaced it when newer stuff came out.

If it's stuff I haven't painted yet, yeah I'll replace it with new models if the new models are better. I don't like wasting my time on kits if a better version exists.

There are a couple of times I've had something painted and the newer version is just so much better that I bought it anyway, but I don't throw out the old stuff, it just gets shelved or drawered.

Replace? Nah. No model could ever live up to the glory of the originals. That time when a guardsman stood alone against 20 space marines? He'd be insulted if I didn't put him back on the table.

Though I have no actual experience with this issue as I've only been into the hobby (mainly) and game for a little over a year now, looking at the old metal space marine/chaos space marine bikers and the newer plastic ones... I might have swapped those out as the old ones are very small and have a very strange base for the type of model it is... where the new ones are bigger and have a good base for the model.

Just my $0.02

SG

Not really, I think in 25 years or so of collecting Eldar they only think I've replaced are metal bikes and metal wraithguard, and only because the plastic ones don't fall over if you look at them funny, and its not like I've chucked the old ones, they got a sideways promotion to Guardians of The Shelf, and made some new Banshee chums along the way

Are you kidding? I still have some Pewter HORMAGAUNTS!

HoundsofDemos wrote:
Very rarely.

I agree with this.

I replaced my old Exorcists with the metal/plastic hybrids when I got a good deal on 3.

I sold off all my 2nd edition rhinos/razors/immolators/etc when I finally traded for enough to replace them.

So, I don't do it actively, but when the opportunity presents itself, I get rid of some of the old stuff.

Get rid of, are you kidding!?! I still use my Advanced Space Crusade era Tyranid Warriors and scouts and a Genestealer (Space Hulk add-on) era Broodlord. Heck, I'm still trying to find rules to use my 1E robots (the ones that look like preying mantises) in my games.

Just because GW's design aesthetics have moved on doesn't mean the old models have lost any usefulness, regardless what they'd LIKE you to think.

I like some of the more recent metal minis. The stuff from 3rd still has some cool minis for us Chaos Marine players. And I'd never just throw something away. There's a market for the old medal minis.