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Whats the rarest 40k model or item you own? Pics?

 Sitpaintandplay wrote:
Whats the rarest 40k model or item you own? Pics?

If the Archon on the Current Deldar Codex counts.

Rare? Hard to say. I don’t think I have any limited edition guys. I do, however, have a reasonable collection of older then dirt stuff. Playing since the RT days does have some perks.

Rarest model I know of, one of the guys at my local store has, won it in a painting contest that the organizer of was giving away as a prize.

It's a rogue demon model, which normally is only awarded to contest winners of GW painting contests, goes for $200+ on eBay.

What is the model on your third picture, Nevelon ?

2nd ed plastic Stormtrooper with metal sergeant

I'm pretty new so none of my stuff is that rare. In fact, the only thing I could even begin to call rare is my squad of AoBR deffkoptas. I mean, they're pretty common and not hard to find, but they're the only models I have that are OoP so... I guess that counts?

I also think my warboss' model is OoP since I can't find the "warboss with attack squig" on the GW site anymore. Granted, I've kitbashed the hell out of him (dropping the attack squig, slapping on a PK, cutting a wreckin' ball in half and mounting it on his shoulders like pauldrons, strapping an engine on his back for no reason, y'know- orky stuff,) so I guess I've violated his rare-ness.

 godardc wrote:
What is the model on your third picture, Nevelon ?

Ork tinboy. RT robot. They made them in the likeness of different races. That's the eldar one, I also have a space marine one.

I never saw one before, thanks.

I would say Sergeant Centurius ... but he's nowhere near as rare as he should be these days, thanks to recasters. Someone from the studio made a comment years back that there had been more Centurius' sold on ebay than had ever actually been made...


I own two ... one was bought second-hand, and is probably not genuine. The other was NiB, so I'm fairly confident that one is legit


I did have a few of the staff-only models that I had collected off eBay back when I actually had cash for that sort of thing... but they got pawned off some time ago now to make way for more important things.



Edit - and, of course, I was forgetting about my drop pod...



200 of these were made by Matt Weaver for GW Oz (back before he moved over to the UK and Forgeworld) for a roadshow, and they were only available at the event. This was before Drop Pods had actual models, and the Drop Pod Assault rule just allowed Marines to Deep Strike.

 insaniak wrote:
I would say Sergeant Centurius ... but he's nowhere near as rare as he should be these days, thanks to recasters. Someone from the studio made a comment years back that there had been more Centurius' sold on ebay than had ever actually been made...


I own two ... one was bought second-hand, and is probably not genuine. The other was NiB, so I'm fairly confident that one is legit


I did have a few of the staff-only models that I had collected off eBay back when I actually had cash for that sort of thing... but they got pawned off some time ago now to make way for more important things.



Edit - and, of course, I was forgetting about my drop pod...



200 of these were made by Matt Weaver for GW Oz (back before he moved over to the UK and Forgeworld) for a roadshow, and they were only available at the event. This was before Drop Pods had actual models, and the Drop Pod Assault rule just allowed Marines to Deep Strike.

Im currently trying to hunt down one of him, i run a legion of the damned army, well salamanders but painted LotD, and i want him as a center piece, for what i can tell he goes for around 70 bucks.


Any ways to give some visual to my earlier post, these are the two rarest models i know of are probably Harry the hammer (25th anniversary for WHFB)



and the rogue demon which iirc can only be obtained from GW painting events given to the winner. Image of him, he goes for 200+ on ebay

Probably the Games Day 1993 captain

and then the redo of him they did when they opened up their new webstore:


Neither picture is mine, as I am yet to find the reason to paint the guy.

I've got a lot of RT era stuff. I don't think much was rare at the time (like limited editions) but have just become rare with age.

I think all this stuff is from 1987 to 1992.

Probably this fellow (not my model/paint job here)

I have two or three of the old Ork Goff rockers. Those are the oldest figures I have. 1994 I think.

I have 22 4e metal Harlequin Troupe Players w/ Troupe Masters, 6 old metal Death Jesters, 1 old metal Shadowseer, 1 old metal Great Harlequin and 1 old metal Solitaire. That would probably be my rare component to my collection.

I have a gamesday 2002 chaos lord choking some guy still in blister no idea if it's worth anything

my 2006 battlebox captain est value of 140 CDN after taxes

A couple old metal harlequins. A death jester and solitaire sitting on the shelf next to my bitz box still in their respective blisters. I've got the Masters of the Chapter box, but being that I've seen it since converted to finecast, I'd presume it's not that rare. The only other OOP models I have are Moriar the Chosen and Captain Cortez from playing 3rd ed SM/BA.

I started playing in 3rd edition, so I don't have anything quite as rare as RT stuff, but I do own two of the older Inquisitor models they seem to have stopped producing. One of the female ones with the inferno pistol, and the male Inquisitor with the grimoire and bolter. I also have the old school metal Culexus Assassin. Oh, and old school Lelith alongside some of the old DE slave girls.

I miss metal minis...

 Jayden63 wrote:
I have two or three of the old Ork Goff rockers. Those are the oldest figures I have. 1994 I think.

You can still get these from GW. At least you could last year when I bought some. Still metal too!

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Probably this fellow (not my model/paint job here)

Is that a vindicare?

Does this count



Though not really rare as they were common back in the very early 90s. The rarest pieces I've got are actually for Epic. I've got one of the rare warlord Mk II volcano cannons as well as the two games day release metal ork stompas from about 89/90.

Probably a metal broodlord

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:

Spoiler:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Probably this fellow (not my model/paint job here)

Is that a vindicare?

Nope, simply "Imperial Assassin." He predates the whole concept of temples etc, which were introduced towards the latter part of 2nd.

 Azreal13 wrote:

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:

Spoiler:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Probably this fellow (not my model/paint job here)

Is that a vindicare?

Nope, simply "Imperial Assassin." He predates the whole concept of temples etc, which were introduced towards the latter part of 2nd.

Ah, thanks. I actually have that model, along with several others shown in this thread (got them from someone who was getting out of 40k) and hadn't been able to figure out what it was

Emperor's Champion with the two handed sword, or the BT marshal with a melta and power axe.

I've owned Harry the Hammer and the recently OOP Archaon (I want another, and kick myself for getting rid of it). Even had a Chaplain Xavier, bought it online and sold it for a profit.

Probably this:

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:
Ah, thanks. I actually have that model, along with several others shown in this thread (got them from someone who was getting out of 40k) and hadn't been able to figure out what it was

He's a little more common than a lot of other RT-era minis, as he was one of the redeemable prizes in GW's Skullz program in the early 2000s. Still a very cool model for its age, though.

 insaniak wrote:

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:
Ah, thanks. I actually have that model, along with several others shown in this thread (got them from someone who was getting out of 40k) and hadn't been able to figure out what it was

He's a little more common than a lot of other RT-era minis, as he was one of the redeemable prizes in GW's Skullz program in the early 2000s. Still a very cool model for its age, though.

I still have a Skullz flyer full of skulls that I somehow forgot to redeem. That must be pretty rare!