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WHFB 5th edition starter, awful monopose Brets vs Lizzies.

A medieval cannon and crew from Caldur Craft, a long dead miniatures company.

i bought it in 1981, I still have the cannon and its in good condition and as not bad paintjob either, using Humbrol enamel. Crew are long gone.

If we don't count MB Hero Quest, then my first minis were a blister of Eldar Rangers, 2nd edition 40k, when they came 4 in each blisters. I wanted to buy a blister of Swooping Hawks, but the hobby store didn't have any in stock. So I but the Rangers. I just wanted some Eldar

The blister included:
- badass ranger with two laspistols.
- standing ranger with shuriken pistol and "sniper needle rifle*".
- standing ranger aiming (and shooting when I made "pew pew") the needle rifle.
- standing sniper at ease.



* I don't know how it was called in English, this a literal translation of the name in Spanish at the time.

Erasoketa wrote:If we don't count MB Hero Quest, then my first minis were a blister of Eldar Rangers, 2nd edition 40k, when they came 4 in each blisters. I wanted to buy a blister of Swooping Hawks, but the hobby store didn't have any in stock. So I but the Rangers. I just wanted some Eldar

The blister included:
- badass ranger with two laspistols.
- standing ranger with shuriken pistol and "sniper needle rifle*".
- standing ranger aiming (and shooting when I made "pew pew") the needle rifle.
- standing sniper at ease.



* I don't know how it was called in English, this a literal translation of the name in Spanish at the time.

Needle Sniper Rifle.

well It was def the 3rd edition GW paint set that had 5 tactical marines in it, purchased from HobbyTown in Ledgewood NJ(best store ever!no longer around ) those poor models are long gone, ...........thank god,they suffered,the paint job was terrible, they were followed by the cool catachan SGT with bolter and cigar and and two ST SGTS and two ST with hellguns. Still got the catachan SGT, he's about to get a fresh paint job

2nd edition Dark Angels Veteran Sarge with Power Weapon and Bolt Pistol.

A Citadel wizard in polybag with a card topper, think it cost me 25p back in 1980

Mick

As promised!




1st Mini, first bit of painting ever done

Archroy wrote:



And the box contained these -

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

That's the box I started with! Got rid of them years ago, but I just caught a whiff of paint from decades ago when I saw that pic

Thanks loads

Not counting HeroQuest or Space Crusade, it was probably a box of High Elves I got for a birthday back in '90 or '91...

I can't remember exactly which model was first, but it was out of the AOBR set. Either a ork boy or space marine. That was the first kit I ever purchased.

EDIT: You know, I archive my SD cards occasionally, and turns out, going by the dates there, I did indeed purchase AOBR and then assemble and basecoat my orks first - September 2008 - they were not, in fact, the first miniatures I ever completed. They weren't even the second.

The first mini I ever completed, at least going by what I took pictures of (which is probably a reliable method) was a Necron Immortal, January 17 2009. The second mini I ever completed was a Space Marine Jump Chaplain, then a SM Librarian I gave to a friend. The Orks weren't done until March 6 09. Not sure why there was a 7 month space between buying AOBR and actually finishing some minis out of it, but the Necron was definitely first: it's not even based and man did I do a bad job on it.

Ahhh, my first figure is a sad tale of wasted youth, intellectual theft and a voyage through American-Asian pop and comic art from the 80s that spawned entire franchises of modern movies and comics! I can't say how nostalgic this really is for me. Hopefully you will enjoy the tale! Where a single figure ties it all together!

My first figure was a FASA BATTLETECH PHEONIX HAWK! I got it when I chose to go into a mall game store instead of a skate shop (in 6th grade). They were side by side and I found a metal model for a robot I had seen in a cartoon called ROBOTECH. It looked like this (but this is NOT mine):



Ironically these minis (and several others) were actually illegal copies of a Japanese design called a Valkyrie from Shoji Kawamori (a pinacle of comic art rivaling Stan Lee),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Kawamori

and was actually blatantly stolen from the Macross series. Here's some source art:



Amazingly the series ROBOTECH was actually a hack job edit of 3 animated series that a US company called Harmony Gold had welded into a single show after changing the scripts and dubbing 3 different completely unrelated Japanese Cartoons together. Considered by many to have been an egregious violation of artistic integrity.




Eventually they would sue for the rights and take all the Macross designs from the FASA Battletech property.

Today these minis are around but very rare and hard to find.

Additionally the series 'Macross', featuring the first transforming planes and the designs of Shoji Kawamori are the original concept that gave rise to the series Transformers! Though few people seem to remember or know.

Here is what the latest version of the Valkyries (a VF-25) essentially looks like today:





Ironically no one can make or sell miniatures, figures, models, comics or animation of these awesome designs in the US because Harmony Gold to this day defends a broad interpretation of the Macross copyright and keeps all the cool Asian stuff out of the US market unless they pay royalties. They even went as far as to claim their welded together titles are the TRUE story despite having done almost nothing with the property for the last 20 years while simultaneous Japanese story arcs have taken the story through at least 3 more variations of shows....







Ah well, that was my first model ever, so humble looking now. I have ALWAYS wished someone would make anime style mecha miniatures, but inexplicably, no one ever has...

Space marine assault squad bout 18 months ago, painted BA colours

I've never painted I'll post a picture on this thread (with the poster's permission) of my first mini when I get it

It was a box set for Black Reach for 40K, thats how I got my Ork and Marine armies started.

Can't remember exactly, but i think it was either a box of the old metal ork nobs, or the fantasy starter set with empire and orcs in.

Ah well, that was my first model ever, so humble looking now. I have ALWAYS wished someone would make anime style mecha miniatures, but inexplicably, no one ever has...

lord_blackfang wrote:WHFB 5th edition starter, awful monopose Brets vs Lizzies.

I remember when those were new. Everyone got excited because, although monopose, the infantry had two designs (and you could glue the Saurus arms at different angles) and we now had plastic cavalry! So this was something of a revolution at the time. Plus, Lizardmen were a new army (not counting the old Slann) and Bretonnians had vanished for a while prior to 5th edition.

My first were the monopose plastic Chaos Warriors, some time in 1994. It was a toss up between those and the Tyranid Warriors at the time, but I only had £5, so Chaos Warriors it was. The kind shown in this picture (although this is not my model): http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/203834-Talisman%203rd%20Ed%20Chaos%20Warrior.html

I started with Black Reach!

Not counting Hero Quest, the Adeptus Mechanicus forces from Titan Legions. That Imperator Titan was so awesome.

Started with the Old Grey hunters box and a rune priest.

I suppose green army men don't count so it would have to be my Box of RTBO1's ordered that and the rogue trade rule book from CRAZY IGOR'S discount games warehouse, 30 marines, the rulebook and the space marine paint set(9 paints, painting tray and painting guide) for a grand total of............$40 with shipping.

By the way those were three of my most favorite marines when they came out, I still use them today, nice pick. Although who really needed multi meltas in first ed!

Mine was one of the 'Learn to paint' Brettonian Archers which I believe were with the WHFB 5th or 6th ed paint sets. Still have it knocking around somewhere: i believe he stands in for my High elf archer champion.

I bought a pair of stealth suits when I was young. They were awesome but the tau codex let me down. I also thought they were robots, unfortunately they were little blue men.

The first Eldar Fire Dragons.

My first mini is on the right

My first miniature was a LRBT which I bought off my friend for $20. He was quitting guard and I wanted to play them so I bought it. I also later bought his battleforce for another $20.
He now wants to play DKOK and regrets giving me his russ.

When I was a kid I made my parents buy me the Hero Quest and Battle masters game, I think I might even still have the Battle Masters box somewhere.

Yea I liked battlemasters, that was a great set! I had it too, early on, but I had already done loads of GW by then though. Cool!

DA company master.