What's the very first model produced for Warhammer 40k?

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**Hollismason**

I was just kind of wondering this, I did a search but I actually can't seem to find time wise, what the very first model was to roll out of the assembly line for 40k. We know that GW made models before that under Citadel, but the very first 40k model every made, what was it?

**don_mondo**

Oh man, let's see, probably these:

http://solegends.com/citrt/1st40kreleases.htm

**Hollismason**

Cool thanks, yeah I didn't know about taht website. That does seem as close as you can get March 1987

**don_mondo**

And I still have over half of those. And use them in my current IG army!!

**Hollismason**

You should post some pics of that if you haven't already.

**milkboy**

All I can say is......60p each!!!

**Ailaros**

... back when the average UK salary was £13,597.

Citadel minis aren't that much more expensive, relatively than they were back then, and for a pretty big quality increase to boot.

**welshhoppo**

Using an inflation calculator, the price of 10 of those models in 1987 would have been six pounds. In today's money they would be 14 pounds. Considering nothing really rises at the same rate of inflation and often goes higher, it isn't actually too bad.

**jhe90**

Earliest I own is original terminaitors + a grey knight and early metal marines.

**Sir Arun**

welshhoppo wrote:
Using an inflation calculator, the price of 10 of those models in 1987 would have been six pounds. In today's money they would be 14 pounds. Considering nothing really rises at the same rate of inflation and often goes higher, it isn't actually too bad.

umm where do you get 10 pewter models for 14 pounds today? you get more like 1.5

**ashcroft**

don_mondo wrote:
http://solegends.com/citrt/1st40kreleases.htm

Nice find. I may have missed a couple of issues of WD in the run up to the release of 40K and I definitely don't recall seeing those. I guess it would be either them or the prototype space marines by Bob Naismith - which had the beaky helms but very different guns and boots. They definitely preceded the actual game by some time.

Spoiler:

The launch models were RTB01 (the original plastic beakies) and the Space Ork Raiders.

**Kilkrazy**

There were Space Marine figures produced before the first 40K or Rogue Trader releases.

**obithius**

Yeah, works out to about £1.40 each in today's money.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/inflation/calculator/index1.aspx

**Smacks**

welshhoppo wrote:
Using an inflation calculator, the price of 10 of those models in 1987 would have been six pounds. In today's money they would be 14 pounds. Considering nothing really rises at the same rate of inflation and often goes higher, it isn't actually too bad.

Yeah but they were metal. Compare that to a squad of 10 SoB which now cost £50.

back when the average UK salary was £13,597.

The things is, most people I know today don't make very much more than that, and someone who was making what is allegedly the "average" wage, I would consider to be moderately successful. The problem is the mean is dragged up by a small number of very high earners. If you look at median and mode incomes you would find they are considerably lower than the mean, and that gap between rich and poor has become more and more slanted since the 80s.

**Hollismason**

Kilkrazy wrote:
There were Space Marine figures produced before the first 40K or Rogue Trader releases.

Cool, yeah I kind of wanted to pick one or two of the "original" up.

**chromedog**

I believe Renedra made the first plastics FOR GW, too.
(since they used to do the mouldings for the internals of matchbox cars - and GW mentioned using that same company in their initial write-up on going plastic).