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This was my first model set. Has to be like ... 16 or 17 years ago . I paid 50 DM which is around 20-25 Euro today .

Prior to that i did some revell stuff ... was expecting a lot of work and was a little disappointed when the tank was built after ~1h

Two boxes of guardsmen, a company command, and three chimeras.

 Mywik wrote:

Spoiler:

This was my first model set. Has to be like ... 16 or 17 years ago . I paid 50 DM which is around 20-25 Euro today .

Prior to that i did some revell stuff ... was expecting a lot of work and was a little disappointed when the tank was built after ~1h

Wow, so the Leman Russ has never changed, then?

I guess another way to look at it is, years ago, when Games Workshop were making 'statue' metal Space Marines, and brightly coloured jester Orcs they were making a decent looking Main Battle Tank.

 Tower75 wrote:

 Mywik wrote:

Spoiler:

This was my first model set. Has to be like ... 16 or 17 years ago . I paid 50 DM which is around 20-25 Euro today .

Prior to that i did some revell stuff ... was expecting a lot of work and was a little disappointed when the tank was built after ~1h

Wow, so the Leman Russ has never changed, then?

I guess another way to look at it is, years ago, when Games Workshop were making 'statue' metal Space Marines, and brightly coloured jester Orcs they were making a decent looking Main Battle Tank.

Dayum.

I've currently got a bit of a mental (not literal) hard-on for IG tanks, and I'm saving up for a bunch of them, and this has slapped me with a double whammy of nostalgia and that "Ooohh pretty!" feeling

The six pound pack with 3 space marines.

 wolfmaster1234 wrote:
The six pound pack with 3 space marines.

How on earth do 3 space marines weigh six pounds!? Is this what the earlier edition space marines usually weighed (well... that is if they were earlier edition)

well their pixies in Armour, a standard pix marine weighs 1.5 pounds but the third was a bit chubby.
Seriously though I meant £6 but pressing shift requires determination.

 wolfmaster1234 wrote:
well their pixies in Armour, a standard pix marine weighs 1.5 pounds but the third was a bit chubby.
Seriously though I meant £6 but pressing shift requires determination.

Ohhhhh...English money...would have never made that connection.

 wolfmaster1234 wrote:
well their pixies in Armour, a standard pix marine weighs 1.5 pounds but the third was a bit chubby.
Seriously though I meant £6 but pressing shift requires determination.

Aaaaaaaand I'm an idiot again.
I really have to try to notice these things better. Sorry.

Showing my age here, but my first was Thrugg Bullneck's Space Ork Raiders (the original metal ork box set). I remember pre-ordering it from an old comic shop in town and waiting impatiently for it to arrive.

Man most of those old ork sculpts were bad LOL

Im a young'n to 40k so my first was a Tyranid Tervigon when it first came out, first painted too lol. Before I knew what shades and Inks were.

Fire warriors.

I believe my first set of models was a Hellhound flame tank and some Catachan Snipers. This was after White Dwarf ran a big issue on Catachans back in 1998 or so, and a friend dragged the magazine to school and showed me all the jungle eye candy.

First models I ever got was the 3.5 ed (I think) Black Templar vs Dark Eldar kit. So presumably the first model I ever made was a basic tactical marine.

First model I painted was also probably one of those terribly built marines. I believe my original scheme was Black Templar but with gold instead of white... gak it was badly painted haha. I still have that original landspeeder preserved to remind me of my shame.

I think my first actually purchased kit was a set of tactical marines or a squad of assault marines. I can't remember.

- VardenV2

My first 40k minis were the little 5 man plastic marine starter set, couple plastic bikes, and a few Dark Angel vets. Circa 1999. Haven't seen them since then just about, but I believe they're piled in with my Lizardmen army, and Skaven Mordheim war band from the same era. Wish I could find them.

space marine bike I still own it nine years on

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

I remember getting that Box set when it first came out. You got alot for the money. I got it to continue my burgeoning SM army and provide an opposing force for my SM.

Metal Farseer w spear
His bad paint job was a reminder to slow down, in future and since then I learnt my lesson

AoBR, followed almost immediately by more of the troops from the same set parted out by Ebay resellers. I knew I wanted models, liked both armies, and the price point was low enough that I could afford to jump in with both feet.

A box of eldar guardians when they came in 20's without a support battery.

Another old git here with the RTB01. I might have picked up some lead blister packs first, but that was so long ago, the details have been lost in time.

I've got RT, 2nd, 3rd, and Battle of Macragge marines in my tac squads still on active duty. I never picked up AoBR or the DV box, so am missing those eras of marines. While I do have some of the new trace bases, they might never see use as a full 10 man tac squad.