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These are my pride and joy from 2001-ish:


Note the classic 3rd edition bases!


This is my oldest image, though. I was selling this to pay rent (sad!) back in 2000 or so. It was taken with a digital camera that wrote images to a floppy disk (that's like a magnetic clay tablet).

Old Skool Stormies. Nice.

Grab the first model you ever painted.
Snap him.
Post him up.
Have a Happy Friday.

I think this was mine. The guy on the left "Scar".



No wait it had to be one of these



Well outside of old airfix models I lost long long ago :(

I'm pretty sure I've posted them before. But my earliest works are in here.

I will quietly sob as I've either stripped or sold off my early collection. To my external regret. From my first painted squadron of Bombards, my lead Shadowsword, my Wolf Guard terminators to my Siege Warlord Titan. All gone... Pillock that I am...

 zedmeister wrote:
I will quietly sob as I've either stripped or sold off my early collection. To my external regret. From my first painted squadron of Bombards, my lead Shadowsword, my Wolf Guard terminators to my Siege Warlord Titan. All gone... Pillock that I am...

The space wolf army I used from 1991 to 2010 is the same one I gave packed away. Its retired now, but may see the dice again one day.

The undead army I bought in 1990 is seeing the table in anger this Christmas in a modified pike and shotte ruleset.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:

The space wolf army I used from 1991 to 2010 is the same one I gave packed away. Its retired now, but may see the dice again one day.

The undead army I bought in 1990 is seeing the table in anger this Christmas in a modified pike and shotte ruleset.

Nice! Get some photos up.

I've compensated over my loss a bit over the last 5 years with an extended splurge on Oldhammer and Rogue Trader period models (a scant few of which are in me gallery).

Little bid of an oddity this week:



When I was home over thanksgiving visiting my folks, I was talking to my dad about miniatures (mostly in regards to photography). He mentioned that a friend he met while over in Germany doing some family history research had given him some painted tin soldiers. They might be actual antiques, or just vintage reproductions. But they looked to be pressed/embossed 2d minis.

But before we had fancy things like plastic, this was the shape of miniature wargames.

Enjoy your weekends all.

Not the first miniatures I painted (that would be a bunch of Grenadier fantasy metals), but the first 40K ones at least. Classic RTB01's, custom chapter - the "Grim Reapers", painted some time around Christmas 1990.

EDIT: Holy crap, that's 26 years ago! Makes me feel really old...

Nice Flesh Tearers you got there

Wow those old plastic kits sure had some super thin spindly legs though.

How about a nice board game style flashback?



I need to learn how to play a couple of these still.

 Oguhmek wrote:
Not the first miniatures I painted (that would be a bunch of Grenadier fantasy metals), but the first 40K ones at least. Classic RTB01's, custom chapter - the "Grim Reapers", painted some time around Christmas 1990.

EDIT: Holy crap, that's 26 years ago! Makes me feel really old...

Those look great!

I've got a box of 10 of those guys, still on the sprue...

A chunk of my RTB01s are slowly clawing their way out of the Simple Green. It would be quicker, but there is a limit to how many I can scrub in one sitting.

They are on track to join the 30k side of my shelf as a legion tactical squad and a heavy support squad with the MLs.

Sigh, once I read that old bit of fluff about marines having a waste disposal function in their armour I could never look at the rtb01 kit the same.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
The decal sheet for the Rhino came with everything, how many can you name?

I believe that the bear/dog/whatever head was supposed to be the symbol for the Tiger Claws chapter...

but don't quote me on that.

-Vilegrimm

Can you necro a thread about flashbacking to old stuff? It’s not been dormant for that long anyway.

So I was cleaning up my office earlier this week, and pulled a drawer out of my desk to see is anything had fallen behind it. There had, and I instantly thought of this thread.


And old blister pack backer for greenstuff, and a low impact plastic, color-it-yourself d4 from one of the original D&D boxsets.

GW sells the same amount of green stuff (two strips) for $11.50 these days. I just started into the second of my two strips about a year ago. Don’t do a whole lot of sculpting here, just patching gaps in old models mostly. Probably picked that up in the mid/late 90’s.

Ah, the old crappy dice. Had to color the numbers yourself with a crayon. And they did not wear well. This is not high-impact plastic. Roll them enough and the edges would start to go away. A friend of mine has a d20 that’s almost spherical. Still, this was an era where you couldn’t just hit the internet and order whatever you want and have it shipped to your door. Polyhedral dice were rare and precious things.

Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend.

Going back a few years, two old C31 Monster range Balrogs from Citadel. Found them after my move back to civilisation last month.

 Nevelon wrote:
A chunk of my RTB01s are slowly clawing their way out of the Simple Green. It would be quicker, but there is a limit to how many I can scrub in one sitting.

They are on track to join the 30k side of my shelf as a legion tactical squad and a heavy support squad with the MLs.

Nice, I would kill to have all my RTB01's back..... I had A LOT of RTB01's. Along with a lot of lead mini's, sighs. I guess the army I regret selling the most is my old Epic army. I had about 100,000 point between my Space Marines ( I made the whole Ultra-Marine 3rd founding chapter) my Imperial guard ( mostly tanks) and my Titans. I so cant wait for Adeptus Titanticus to come out again.

You're looking good Dutch.
It's been a long time General.
Cmon inside.....

Gork n Mork circa 2011



Happy Friday peeps.

In another episode of retro-nostalgic current events, some beakies are working their way across my bench.



These guys were stripped and rebuilt. Just starting on the basecoats on the bodies now, will do the MLs next. Then the bolter boys to flesh out the squad. But a RT dev squad to join the tacticals on the shelf.

Are they tricky to assemble?

 Ratius wrote:
Are they tricky to assemble?

Not at all, but the ML arms go across the chest, so I paint them separately.

Same with the bolter arms. Just how I work.

They must look TINY next to the most recent marines - Deathwatch?

I've got a box of ten of the RBT01's, still on sprue...

 Alpharius wrote:
They must look TINY next to the most recent marines - Deathwatch?

I've got a box of ten of the RBT01's, still on sprue...

Scale creep? No such thing, it’s all in the crouched, combat ready stance of the old guys.



OK, there might have been a -slight- amount of scale creep over the years. Both guys are on the same sized base, just as an FYI.

Jealous of on-sprue beakies.

Looks like Take your Son to Work Day.

Im outta material this week due to my stupid iphone.
Keep the home fires burning peeps.

Here’s a finished pic of those retro Devs I posted a WIP of upthread:



Can’t wait to get a pic of a beakie standing next to a Primarus. A fun project for someone with more skill then me would be to make a diorama of two RTBs, one standing on the other’s shoulders, in oversized scraps of primaris armor, trying to blend in.

Sort of like grots infiltrating.

Very nice!

And I can't wait for you to post them up next to a Primaris Marine!

Grabbed some old '94 Kommandos off eBay recently and was surprised to have a few these guys tossed in.



Had forgotten all about Marauder.

Five of the best for today



Happy Friday.