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Necron Lord

25 Cadians, 3 HWTs, 3 Psykers, an odd Ogryn and a hellhound for $60 from a friend who wanted to get rid of them... after I got into the hobby, I realized the deal I had made

First models were Battle for Maccragge models.

Started painting the Sergeant as an ultramarine, realized blue was lame, and made up my own chapter. I still have the sergeant. Just a little bit of blue showing up in the cracks and crevasses.

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

Freki, not Loki.

They're named after Odin's wolves.

Space Marine Bike and the small 3 man Space Marine kit at the same time.

Old Dwarf Warriors, when they came in boxes of 8 without all these "options" you have nowadays. Think it was 1997 or thereabouts.

Still got them today, painted terribly

My first mini's were a blister of crossbowmen. There were 4-5 of them, they looked a littlebit renaisance (however it's spelt) and had plastic crossbows that you had to glue in place, thinking about it they may have been empire , but probably more likely dungeons and dragonsy.
I also bought 3 paints with them, a metallic based brown, gold and bronze, they looked like a pile of fresh dog gak and a pile of 3 day old dog gak all rolled together...sadly my painting hasn't improved

old nurgle / khrone booster CSM pack.

For me it was Ragnar Blackmane, waaay back in '93 or '94ish can't remember exactly. He still leads my Wolves, though with a new paintjob of course.

First model I ever bought were the ogre top right and the flinching weretiger, from Games Workshop Manchester when it was (I think) the 5th of five stores worldwide. Great place to discover age 12 or 13 in the grim wildlands of 'Ooop North' in the Thatcher years. Amazing to think that the Perry twins are still the backbone of the company after all those years.

It is great to see that people have been collecting these miniatures for so long whether it be people who have been collecting since 2nd edition, or people who have only recently started.
Really never expected this kinda response when i started this thread.

Epic Ork Bonebreaka' tanks, along with a handful of paints back in 1995. I still remember my first attempt at 'priming' them - a rough drybrush with skull white that ruined the brush before I'd started painting them.
A few weeks later I followed up with the 'cool robot' - more commonly known as an Imperator Titan - and painted that terribly too.

Blister pack of 3 SMs.

Eldar Avatar when it still came in a box, with a square base way back in 2nd Edition. This was before I knew much about the game. I just liked the look of the model. Still have it, even though I sold the rest of my Eldar off.

Battle for skull pass, ran out of black so primed the dwarfs regal blue lol.

First model bought for me was a swooping hawk way back in like '99.

Gave up the hobby in favour of video games and running around after girls for a while

First models bought by me were Tau stealthsuits. They came out after I left the hobby and I was all giddy over these cool new mecha dudes

An eversor assassin.

First one I bought was a Vulture(Mad Dog) mech for battletech.

10 CSM.

Even though I;ve been into 40k lore for 3+ years I only started with the models/table in September. So it wasn't all that long ago...

Moria Goblins, I was 10 at the time. I didn't really care about it back then. I left them in the dust and they are still my dust collectors.

Box set of Necron raiders (thats what were called) and a greater unclean one. The greater unclean one was easy to pait and he is one of my favorite models.
I have him in a display case next to my forgeworld greater unclean one.

Earliest I can remember was a 2nd ed tactical squad.

In 2006 I bought a Necron Immortal.

To this day, it sits in my army bag in a special slot of it's own. It has no arms, no base, and it was half painted with a marker pen. It's my good Luck charm. It doesn't let me down.

My brother and I received Warhammer Quest for Christmas.
Today, I'm still thanking my parents for that one.
Or should I blame them for my addiction ? =P

My first model decision came down to between a box of Night Lords CSM and Iron Warriors CSM. I saw the metal warsmith model and coming from a family of engineers fell in love with dat servo arm. Bought the box and the warsmith. I wish I knew where those guy were... probably lost in the warp somewhere building a gigantic fortress of doom.

Dwarf Runesmith

Painted in primary colors of course

The first GW model that was bought for me was a box set of WHFB something or other, I forget, for my 11th birthday. The first GW thing I bought was probably the Space Marine/ Titan Legions box or Blood Bowl.

EzeKK wrote:My first model decision came down to between a box of Night Lords CSM and Iron Warriors CSM. I saw the metal warsmith model and coming from a family of engineers fell in love with dat servo arm. Bought the box and the warsmith. I wish I knew where those guy were... probably lost in the warp somewhere building a gigantic fortress of doom.

I know right what happens to our fondest models from the past??? I had a LOTR cave troll that was my first "decent" paintjob, copied the 'Eavy metal guide in white dwarf.
not seen him since before i moved out of my parents.

DOOM rider and a box of space marines when 3rd started

soitra wrote:

EzeKK wrote:My first model decision came down to between a box of Night Lords CSM and Iron Warriors CSM. I saw the metal warsmith model and coming from a family of engineers fell in love with dat servo arm. Bought the box and the warsmith. I wish I knew where those guy were... probably lost in the warp somewhere building a gigantic fortress of doom.

I know right what happens to our fondest models from the past??? I had a LOTR cave troll that was my first "decent" paintjob, copied the 'Eavy metal guide in white dwarf.
not seen him since before i moved out of my parents.

Was that the old metal cave troll with hammer and chain from when it was first released? I was so proud of my painting on him then. Compared to what I can do now he looks pretty rubbish but for the time he was great...