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I'm stripping and repainting mine, showing just how out of practice I am. Just wish I could find my old Predator, unfinished Leman Russ, first-run Empire Helblaster...

Inspired by this thread, I spent two hours of my last day off culling my collection. I went through all the boxes of bitz still on sprue and threw out a whole pile of single arms or Tau legs or spikey bitz that I would never, ever use. I decided that I have no desire to every paint the ugly Dixon samurai I've been hauled over from the US, and sent them to recycling. I plan to dig a little deeper this weekend and do the same again. Thanks to the OP for helping me organize my closet!

Stripped and repainted.

The old monopose plastics I generally sell on ebay for a what ever I can get for them.
I keep virtually everything else for reuse or conversions. I am currenting in the middle of repainting my old 2nd ed Catachan IG army (2000+points of metal infantry) and I recently completed my Deathguard which is made almost entirely from old 'classic' models, I think the newest thing in it is the Deamon Prince (which is the old metal one).

In general I prefer old metals to new plastics/'fine'cast.

I do occationally find old metal models that I no long have a need for (I recently found a dozen or so RT Eldar) and I generally Ebay them.

 Ascalam wrote:
My old DE on the other hand pretty much got donated. That line was but ugly and i happily switched over to the new models...

Same here buddy. Arguably one of the best revamps GW has ever done with an army. The new DE models look deliciously evil. I just hope GW doesn't mess them up on the next update...

As for old models, I recently bought one of the old Techmarine models off eBay and tweaked it a bit.

Edit: Techmarine still needs some paint on him..

I went through a massive phase of stripping all my old models that were sat in a box and collecting dust, now I have a few boxes (separate from my bits box) of mixed guardsmen, old metal daemons, beastmen, space marines and lots of random minis. From this I was able to make a Warriors of Chaos army from the old school models that never ranked up and chariots when the new WoC book came out. My spends have gone down since I've started recycling old models. On my desk at the moment is a half completed rogue trader warband for Inquisimunda made from recycled miniatures and bits from my bits box. Never throw anything away, just pop your old stuff into your paint stripper of choice!

 Palindrome wrote:
I am currenting in the middle of repainting my old 2nd ed Catachan IG army (2000+points of metal infantry) and I recently completed my Deathguard which is made almost entirely from old 'classic' models, I think the newest thing in it is the Deamon Prince (which is the old metal one).

Oh, man, those old metal Catachans were the best! I LOVE those models. So much character and so much attitude, and none of the rubbery awkwardness of the plastic ones.

Well, second-best, behind those old metal Praetorian IG I'm slowly painting.

There's always the Nurgle option. ANY figure can be made part of any Nurgle Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Necromunda or Mordheim army/warband.

Consider it a challenge to adapt the figure into its new army...

One thing older (specifically GW) models have over new ones are those nice flat areas which aren't dominated by flourishes. Sure at points the details may be a little softer, but if you're careful with the layering you can turn out some really nice blending. Even some of their earliest work like the D&D adventurers still holds up pretty well compared to most of the modern-day D&D-quality minis.

Personally I love older miniatures and find them almost therapeutic compared to the garbled mess of extras you find on current character/kits.

I sold my 2nd Edition stuff. The only thing I lament is that a lot of the personality has left the Cadians and Catachans. Really wish they'd bring that back somehow.

I've kept the first model I've ever painted, a AoBR Captain, just for reflection on what my first bits of work looked like and the work I'm putting out now.

I sold my first ever Army (aside from the Captain) to fund my Space Wolves when I started collecting them and never really looked back. I've got a small amount of unpainted ones left from my Ultramarines just for testing schemes and trying out new effects.

Da Butcha wrote:

Oh, man, those old metal Catachans were the best! I LOVE those models. So much character and so much attitude, and none of the rubbery awkwardness of the plastic ones.

Well, second-best, behind those old metal Praetorian IG I'm slowly painting.

I really like them and I have done since the first time I saw them in White Dwarf a very long time ago

Repainting them now though there are some sculpting flaws which I didn't notice before, specifically with the musculature, and having squads made up of a small number of variant poses isn't ideal (even the second wave sculpts are just modified first wave sculpts) but they are still really nice models.

I used to have a moderately large Praetorian army (2 of the Special edition boxes, a lot of extra heavy weapons teams and a couple of extra squads) but I have no idea what became of them; I suspect that my mother threw them out when she moved house a few years ago. All I have left are 3 casualty models, 1 infantryman and a lascannon team.

I'm currently stripping and re-painting my 1990's Eldar army. Most of the models are pretty much the same having been re-issued in finecast. I'm enjoyiing it but struggling to decide on a final paint scheme for my generic models. I'm also buying the odd cheap model on eBay to make them into a playable army (having never really played 40k before).

I'm using the old models I no longer want to fund my hobby now and if anything and am in profit from what I've sold. I'm selling my Space Wolf SCs next. Even have Leman Russ with his wolves (although need to find a missing tail).