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None of my 2nd Ed books have fallen apart, and I used 'em a lot!

My 2nd Ed books have held up well. Can't say the same for RT/3rd Ed WHFB/Warhammer Armies. 3rd Ed 40K also needed to have the cover reattached more than once. Realms of Chaos books were treated with love, so they endure, despite being of the same "spit n' prayers" pedigree as the first books.

Oh yeah, my 3rd ed BRB is almost in as bad of shape as my hardback Rogue Trader. The 2nd ed books are all in pretty good shape.

 Insectum7 wrote:
Oh yeah, my 3rd ed BRB is almost in as bad of shape as my hardback Rogue Trader. The 2nd ed books are all in pretty good shape.

Oh my 3rd ed BRB is destroyed. It's a collection of almost loose leaf pages, held together by a few remaing threads + 2 rubber bands with no covers.

My original 3rd ed rulebook popped its binding within a week of buying it. Given how widespread the complaints were at the time, rather than wasting time getting it replaced I just pulled it apart and put it in a ring binder.

Picked up another from eBay a couple of years ago to have one on the shelf with the rest of the collection, and it was in surprisingly good condition.

I recently got a 3e rulebook from a second hand bookseller, very reasonably priced and in really good condition.

I'd love to be able to get all the old books for reasonable prices, even as good quality PDFs. I know there are scans out there, but I'd be really happy to pay GW for high quality scans of old editions like WOTC does for D&D stuff.

 Da Boss wrote:
I'd love to be able to get all the old books for reasonable prices, even as good quality PDFs. I know there are scans out there, but I'd be really happy to pay GW for high quality scans of old editions like WOTC does for D&D stuff.

They do seem capable of converting them as they released clean PDFs of the witch hunters and daemonhunters books back during 5th edition, albeit edited to remove some of the content. It would suggest that the 4th and 5th books at least are not in some obscure unsupported format.

Since I'm the one who sent this thread off the rails, I'll make a valiant effort to hoist the train out of the off-topic canyon by saying that the 4th (or 5th) ed WFB High Elf army book should be everyone's White Whale if they don't already have it. The background/history section in the front is just that good.

Zenithfleet wrote:
Since I'm the one who sent this thread off the rails, I'll make a valiant effort to hoist the train out of the off-topic canyon by saying that the 4th (or 5th) ed WFB High Elf army book should be everyone's White Whale if they don't already have it. The background/history section in the front is just that good.

I played a lot of WHFB in 5th edition (the one with the lizard/bret starter, pretty sure that’s 5th) and agree that the army books were great. Same design ethos as the 2nd edition codexes. Packed to the gills with art, lore, stories and pictures. I’ve got a number of them on the shelf. Worth having if you like the faction. Or even if you don’t for the read.

Mine are old Warzone models. The first is the Armorcast Bauhaus Grizzly. I never even knew it existed until well after the game died. One never turns up when I have the cash to spend on it though.

The other two are the scenario boxes they put out. The Venusian bridge and the Bauhaus bunker, with the cardboard terrain and models. I managed to find the brotherhood cathedral a while back for dirt cheap.

Zenithfleet wrote:
Since I'm the one who sent this thread off the rails, I'll make a valiant effort to hoist the train out of the off-topic canyon by saying that the 4th (or 5th) ed WFB High Elf army book should be everyone's White Whale if they don't already have it. The background/history section in the front is just that good.

Eltharion's story in that book is my favorite bit of GW fiction

Veldrain wrote:
Mine are old Warzone models. The first is the Armorcast Bauhaus Grizzly. I never even knew it existed until well after the game died. One never turns up when I have the cash to spend on it though.

The other two are the scenario boxes they put out. The Venusian bridge and the Bauhaus bunker, with the cardboard terrain and models. I managed to find the brotherhood cathedral a while back for dirt cheap.

The rumor is the Grizzly's mold was dropped early on and only a few were made. Prodos (I think) did a new version of it a few years back if that interests you.

And of course there's the Japanese plastic model of Miyazaki's Bad Guy No. 1 which (ahem) 'inspired' it. They're not exact copies, BG1 is much longer, but have almost identical weapons and design.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Veldrain wrote:
Mine are old Warzone models. The first is the Armorcast Bauhaus Grizzly. I never even knew it existed until well after the game died. One never turns up when I have the cash to spend on it though.

The other two are the scenario boxes they put out. The Venusian bridge and the Bauhaus bunker, with the cardboard terrain and models. I managed to find the brotherhood cathedral a while back for dirt cheap.

The rumor is the Grizzly's mold was dropped early on and only a few were made. Prodos (I think) did a new version of it a few years back if that interests you.

And of course there's the Japanese plastic model of Miyazaki's Bad Guy No. 1 which (ahem) 'inspired' it. They're not exact copies, BG1 is much longer, but have almost identical weapons and design.

Sadly the prodos version is a 'normal' size tank. Next to the Armorcast it looks like a baby version.

I have a couple.

I spent years looking for the metal spaced armour kit for the original Rhino, then won to sets in one week. Both cheap as they were stuck on two badly painted tanks.

A warmaster Titan for epic, the old fanatic alt emperor kit. Last one I saw sold for £500!

Armoured High elf archers, not the plastic ones from the 4th edition started the metal ones. They come up on eBay a lot, but for £25+ for a blister of two, making a regiment out of my league for now.

It was the Brettonian 5th edition metal range in particular the foot squires and men-at-arms fortunately I got them before they started going for silly money..

This was a really good idea for a thread topic, and I've been mulling it over since the beginning as nothing leapt immediately to mind.

Then tonight is struck me, I've actually spent most of the Covid period whale hunting.

Guild Ball is probably amongst my all time favourite mini games, so news of Steamforged's termination of support was a real blow.

Those of us who decided we wanted to continue locally realised that it would probably be best to have plenty of options to spare to allow others to hopefully join in.

I took this, let's say, quite seriously...

So now I own nearly every faction, including any alternate sculpts I prefer, and I'm well on the way to having it all painted, as well as all the game aids necessary to lend them out completely without the other player needing anything other than some measuring widgets. If I was really pushed, I'd maybe prefer the resin Butchers Guild models instead of the metals I have, but that's just a nice to have.

So for now I guess the fleet is docked until the next hunting season.

The Forgeworld Mega Meganob

http://www.coolminiornot.com/328211

Oooh, non wargaming, but at the local hobby store when I remembered a probably almost 10-year-old hobby idea I had for a Gundam kitbash.
A reasonably sized Bv141. Scale not super important, so long as somehow I can stick it on a Zaku sucessor (geara zulu or a geara doga, either is fine) without it looking *too* wacky.

Thought of something else. Forgeworld Magma Dragon. Would struggle to find a use for it and I never liked the way it is holding a tree, but otherwise it is one of my favourite models GW or forgeworld has produced. OOP nowadays.

Not quite a whale, but i've wanted another GW cardboard Ork dreadnaught standee to replace the one i had for ages but has since vanished

and i've just managed to get one in a pile of 40k/whfb oldhammer cardboard destined for the bin

couldn't let that happen as i'm sure somebody on the loot group will want them to complete box sets they have with the odd bit missing

(edit: sadly for H.B.M.C. there were none of the old cardboard buildings or terrain)

Ilyad Vorag barbarians and Rackham metals are the whales I let slip between my fingers.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Ilyad Vorag barbarians and Rackham metals are the whales I let slip between my fingers.

Which Rackham metals? I haven't gotten to sorting/listing them yet, but I do have a good chunk of metal Rackham figs from Confrontation.

About 20 years ago or so, some enterprising fella sculpted and sold Necron scorpion models that fit in with the design vision of the original metal necrons from 2nd/early 3rd edition. It was not an official model but it was cool to have back when necrons only had lord, immortal, destroyer and scarabs.

I had one once and ditched it in one of my frequent clear outs. I'd like to find one again and not pay insane amounts for it.

Eldar battle fleet gothic, entire fleet

I would love to get my hands on a NIB first production run of the Sector Imperialis Realm of Battle Gameboard.

The first production run came in a nice black canvas carry bag and the tiles where level (sat flat) with crisp detail. Sadly, subsequent production runs came in a lame carboard box, muddled details and the tiles all warped (took on a bowl shape); a clear sign that the molds were shot and way overused. I bought one and it was defective, all six tiles horribly warped and unusable, GW replaced it and again, all six tiles horribly warped and unusable. I had to get my money back because they were unable to provide one that wasn't horribly defective. Not surprisingly, the product was removed from the GW webstore just a few weeks after this ordeal.

So I may have jumped to a conclusion; the Pacific Rim Heroclix figures I ordered showed up, although missing two figures (the Cherno Alpha and the Striker Eureka) and having two doubles instead (the Gipsy Danger and the Coyote Tango). I noted this to the seller and they've sent out what I hope are the proper figures. In the meantime, my oldest noted that there was no Otachi included in the set. I check online and apparently no Otachi was ever made. They have a Scunner and a Raiju, and a Coyote Tango(!) but no Otachi? Also, Slattern is tiny, but still, NO OTACHI?

Another one would be the 6'x4' metal table frame that GW stores used for their game tables circa 2010.

I saw some pictures of an LGS's play area just last week, on Reddit IIRC, who was able to acquire some of them so I know GW sold them off.

Should I ever come across one I'll be sure to make the owner a very hard to refuse offer.

If it was anything like past store closures they probably gave them away for free or threw them away.

 Nurglitch wrote:
So I may have jumped to a conclusion; the Pacific Rim Heroclix figures I ordered showed up, although missing two figures (the Cherno Alpha and the Striker Eureka) and having two doubles instead (the Gipsy Danger and the Coyote Tango). I noted this to the seller and they've sent out what I hope are the proper figures. In the meantime, my oldest noted that there was no Otachi included in the set. I check online and apparently no Otachi was ever made. They have a Scunner and a Raiju, and a Coyote Tango(!) but no Otachi? Also, Slattern is tiny, but still, NO OTACHI?

The two I wanted most were Mutavore and Otachi. But at least we got Coyote Tango….

Mutavore would make more sense than Coyote Tango. I guess they had to have matching sides or something? I think I would have gone with the jagers, and then swap out Raiju and Scunner for Mutavore and Otachi. And made Slattern much bigger, like at least Leatherback's size.