What was your first model?

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**Murdock129**

What model did you start wargaming with in whichever game?

My first ever model was a single Ork I was given while I was at school (aged 8 I might add), before buying a set of Space Marines shortly after, though it was seeing a Stegadon in the catalogue which created my love for Warhammer and subsequently the wargaming hobby

**Horst**

My first model was an imperial guardsman, about 5 years ago.

<3 the guard!

**Vendetta 476**

Mine?

A Chaos Space Marine Battleforce about a year ago and I think the first model I assembled was a Khorne Berserker.

Happy memories...

**adameast**

There was a wizard on the first ever White Dwarf I bought (some 15/16 years ago).

First model I went out and bought was a Rhino, first thing I painted to a semi decent standard was the 2 blister pack of Dark Angels in the robes.

**Mad4Minis**

It was an old Ral Partha (I think) AD&D box of minis. When I was around 12 my aunt got me the AD&D red box and a set of minis. That got me started in roleplaying.

My first actual gaming minis would have been from Battletech. I think it was the old (blue) plastic Clan Assualt Mechs box set. Had a Diashi, Man O War, Gladiator, & Masakari IIRC.

**ChiliPowderKeg**

Outside of the Battle for Macragge, the Broadside Battlesuit.

**Great White**

A snap fit space marine

**-Loki-**

The mechanicus side of this.

**Mattlov**

Battletech 3rd Edition box set.

Unless HeroQuest, Battlemasters, and other boardgames with minis counts.

Then it would probably be HeroQuest.

**J-Roc77**

My first war game type model painted was some skeletons from the old board game Warhammer Quest. It may have been skellies from the expansion Catacombs of terror, the game and expansion belong to a friend of mine. I was sick of the minis not being painted. After I did those models he bought me a dwarven troll slayer as a thanks. It was quiet a few years after those models I started war gaming though, my re intro to the hobby was orks!

**Brian P**

Battletech Locust. I was terrified to paint it. I was afraid I would ruin it. At the time I thought I did a good job but in reality I globbed so much Testor's model paint (petro-based!) onto that poor thing that I obscured all of its details.

**chromedog**

The very first model I gamed with was a HO scale M1A1 Abrams tank by Roco back in the late 80s. Eventually, I had 15 of them, alongside a dozen or so M2 Bradleys and infantry. They all got used in one mammoth weekend of gaming when we refought the Operation: Desert Storm battles based off the CNN AARs. It was a gaming model though, not a "serious scale model". Gaming in 15/20mm WW2/moderns was all the rage in the mid 80s.

I no longer have it and images of them (let alone stock) are harder to find than common sense in a gaming forum.

**Coolyo294**

The SM Sergeant from AoBR. I don't think that poor fellow could breath under all the paint I slapped over him.

**sparkywtf**

3rd edition starter box for 40k, Marine side.

Lose guys are long gone. Although they have been replaced with nice shiny (not really) new marines!

**Lolcanoe**

Chaplain Asmodai back in 1995 or 1996. I miss that model

**Erasoketa**

Aside from Heroquest near 1992, an old school Eldar Ranger blister in 1995-96.

**lord_blackfang**

WHFB 5th edition starter (Bretonnia vs Lizardmen)

**farmersboy**

As it was back in '81 or '82 I can't remember exactly, but it would have been some Citadel figures for D&D when they were 3 for a pound.

**porkuslime**

Probably my first model... Farrah Fawcett! (had her pin up on my bedroom wall in the 70's..)

First Gaming Fig?

probably these..
http://www.dndlead.com/grenadier/2000s.htm#thumb

or this..

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oTNB_SHyT08/TS5gQlrPZ3I/AAAAAAAAAFE/DTLXSPL5hk4/s1600/2013a.jpg

**BrookM**

A lone battle sister with meltagun.

**Pundabaya**

RTB beaky space marines!

**nerdfest09**

Good 'ol space marine waaay back in '94'

**NineInchFail**

My first model was a Tau Fire Warrior. Man, that thing was hideous when I finished painting it, lol.

**Castiel**

An XV8 Crisis Battlesuit. It was surprisingly easy to assemble!

**kitch102**

Space marine 10 man tactical squad, 10 years ago, for a tenner, painted them up as bt which was one of the colour schemes on the side of the box

**hawkeye**

My first model was the Chaos Space Marine Sorcerer with force sword. That was in third edition and that model is still available for purchase to lead your armies today. I might have to buy it again just for nostalgia purposes.

**Howard A Treesong**

Couple of the RT plastic marines. They came two to a sprue and a local hobby shop used to sell the sprues £1 each back in the day.

**Norsehawk**

I have no idea which was my first wargaming model purchase. I had been buying Ral Partha stuff for D&D back in the day, but more for RP purposes than wargaming.

Back in the day, I played a lot of Battletech, and my first Army was the Eldar from White Dwarf 127.

**Sir Samuel Buca**

About 10 years ago I got the 3rd edition starter set with the Dark Eldar and Space Marines in it, I can't even remember what was in the set, but my dad helped e build all those. The first model I bought and built myself was the old Razorback with heavy bolters, still one of my favourite models to ever exist, if Forge World carry on with this trend of re doing the old SM vehicles, I shall be getting my mitts on the Razorback model.

**timetowaste85**

A swordsman from Empire. He was multipart plastic from 5th edition and I built/painted him for a friend, fell in love with that part of the hobby and asked to keep the model and replace it with a new one, which I did. It wasn't even a bad first paint job, but lord it wasn't good. Lol