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Made in ie
Norn Queen






Dublin, Ireland

Who/what were they?
Got a pic, post it up.

Mine were these Blood Claws bought around 1993 from a Virgin Megastore shop in Dublin. I think they cost about 18 punts at the time. Still got the (rough) original paint scheme on them.



A bit of an unlucky unit being honest, never seem to get the luck of the dice!


Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be

By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.

"Feelin' goods, good enough". 
   
Made in ca
Longtime Dakkanaut






2nd edition metal Chaos Terminators were my first unit. They were awesome. I don’t have the models anymore.

Square Bases for Life!
AoS is pure garbage
Kill Primaris, Kill the Primarchs. They don't belong in 40K
40K is fantasy in space, not sci-fi 
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





40K was the metal LoC. Scripmed and saved a long time for that bugger.

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Made in de
Longtime Dakkanaut





Blood Angels Captain from 2nd with Bolter clad in master-crafted power armour.
   
Made in us
Powerful Phoenix Lord





I think the first actual 40K models I owned were...the five-man plastic Space Marine box (it mirrored the plastic push-fit marines from the 2nd edition starter box). I can't find a picture of the box online.

While we're on the subject - is there a collected website anywhere which hosts pictures of the GW boxed products over the years?
   
Made in gb
Regular Dakkanaut




What the youngsters today would call a wraithlord, But was back then the Banshee class Eldar dreadnought (still one of my all time favourites). Unfortunately it was lost in The Great House Robbery of 2001 (along with over 8000pts of lizardmen...grrrr).


   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





I take it back. It was the cardboard Ork dreadnought.
   
Made in pl
Wicked Warp Spider





A squad of 2nd ed Striking Scorpions with Exarch - two metal blister packs bought at the very begining of 1995. I still have them, though stripped from original paintjob.
   
Made in fi
Locked in the Tower of Amareo





3rd ed starter box so 10 tac marines, 20 dark eldar warriors(whatever I did with those anyway...) and land speeder whose assembly I screwed up big time. That 3rd ed version was nightmare to assemble and for first vehicle...Urgh

2024 painted/bought: 109/109 
   
Made in us
Clousseau





East Bay, Ca, US

I keep pictures of my first completed mini in my gallery. It was a dreadnought. Still my favorite all-time model, sad they aren't viable.

My first set of minis though was the Ork half of battle for Vedros back when it released.

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 Galas wrote:
I remember when Marmatag was a nooby, all shiney and full of joy. How playing the unbalanced mess of Warhammer40k in a ultra-competitive meta has changed you

Bharring wrote:
He'll actually *change his mind* in the presence of sufficient/sufficiently defended information. Heretic.
 
   
Made in gb
Regular Dakkanaut




An old Warhammer Orc traded with my friend for some Micro Machines.
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought





Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes

Though I wasn't aware what they were at the time, my first 40k Miniatures were pewter Space Marine Scout Snipers I was given by my dad's friend years and years ago.
   
Made in ca
Longtime Dakkanaut





I got a box of Termagants, a box of Genestealers, and a Hive Tyrant all at the same time for my first purchase. First ones I painted were the Genestealers. No pics, because the only electronic records I could've kept at the time were on floppy disks

 Galef wrote:
If you refuse to use rock, you will never beat scissors.
 
   
Made in us
Tail-spinning Tomb Blade Pilot





Michigan

my first models were Dark Eldar warriors when they were first released I was probably 10-12 just built a few but never painted. about a year later I got a necron battleforce and built and painted probably 10? I got back into it when I was in college at 22 and havent looked back since.

Necrons - 6000+
Eldar/DE/Harlequins- 6000+
Genestealer Cult - 2000
Currently enthralled by Blanchitsu and INQ28. 
   
Made in gb
Slaanesh Chosen Marine Riding a Fiend





Metal Commissar on a jetbike, remember those oldies? Painted with Humbrol oil paints. Came out quite well actually, although if I saw it today I would shudder.

Please note, for those of you who play Chaos Daemons as a faction the term "Daemon" is potentially offensive. Instead, please play codex "Chaos: Mortally Challenged". Thank you. 
   
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Fixture of Dakka






Plastic Trygon when it 1st came out, i was a WHFB player from 5th till Tyranids got updated in 2010, i wasnt sold on them till that Plastic Trygon came out (didnt know how FW).

   
Made in fi
Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant




[Expunged from Imperial records] =][=

20 plastic Cadian* shocktroopers. They came in one (1) single box. And I swear it was cheaper than 10 such minis now days.

... And some metal officers and/or special weapons? Can't remember if I bought them at the same time or later.

Of course, these were not my first miniatures. Not even close.

*Not actually from Cadia.

"Be like General Tarsus of yore, bulletproof and free of fear!" 
   
Made in us
Stubborn Prosecutor





A Leman Russ. I built it out of the Start Collecting box figuring it would be the easiest. It was hell putting the sponsons together, but worth it.

Bender wrote:* Realise that despite the way people talk, this is not a professional sport played by demi gods, but rather a game of toy soldiers played by tired, inebriated human beings.


https://www.victorwardbooks.com/ Home of Dark Days series 
   
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Yellin' Yoof




Texas

A box of boyz my dad bought for me when I was 12. Back when they had 15 or 16 in a box and no nob.
   
Made in gb
Aspirant Tech-Adept




UK

2nd Edition box set with all the push fit models and cardboard ork dreadnaught.

Imperial Soup
2200pts/1750 painted
2800pts/1200 painted
2200pts/650 painted
217pts/151 painted 
   
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Inspiring SDF-1 Bridge Officer





Mississippi

Mine was a group purchase we doled out, RT-01 plastic marines.

The first figure I bought for myself I think was a metal “techmarine” - it was a regular-looking beaky marine with an oil can/torch welder in one hand.

It never ends well 
   
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought




San Jose, CA

my first 40k model was a Squat bike, I wish I had taken more pictures back in the day.
   
Made in gb
Stalwart Dark Angels Space Marine





East Midlands UK

In summer 87 I got a handful of pre-release stuff to paint for the Broadmarsh GW shop and took some of my payment in scrap lead which contained some odds and ends of the first orks, a kind of space marine and some more recognisable beakies. Really wish I hadn't given them to younger family members now, I bet they ended up in the bin.
   
Made in at
Regular Dakkanaut




Austria

Battle for Macragge starter set. So a Tactical Squad, some (16? seems a bit high, but w/e) Termagaunts and 8 (again, ?) Genestealers. Oh, and a couple of spore mines.
But, if I remeber correctly, I rather quickly traded the Nids for a... I believe it was a assault squad. So one could argue that these are my first models, too.

~5000 pts
~5000 pts 
   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Probably one of these guys:


Defiantly one of the RTB01 marines in BA colors.

   
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Fixture of Dakka





West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA

Don't have a pic, but it was the second edition metal Terminator Librarian.

Here's an example.




"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."  
   
Made in gb
Leader of the Sept







Space Crusade. They should start doing cheap but charming live action adverts again

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

Terranwing - w3;d1;l1
51st Dunedinw2;d0;l0
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
   
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel





Why Aye Ya Canny Dakkanaughts!

The first Warhammer models I bought from a carboot sale: it was a Rose's tin filled with two squads of Fantasy orks, an Epic Imperator titan, an Epic Mega Gargant and an Eldar Falcon. However the first 40k models I got that I've actually played with were 3 metal Rubric marines.

Ghorros wrote:
The moral of the story: Don't park your Imperial Knight in a field of Gretchin carrying power tools.
 Marmatag wrote:
All the while, my opponent is furious, throwing his codex on the floor, trying to slash his wrists with safety scissors.
 
   
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar





Mine was a Space Marine Commander, from the multipart plastic kit. Stormbolter and chainsword, although I later replaced the chainsword with a power sword. Soon bolstered by the Assault on Black Reach kit and single Bike.

I don't believe I repainted him when I went through my Ultramarines and repainted the whole lot. He's one of the few left of my original "paintings" - the other most notable is a lone plasma cannon devastator I gave my girlfriend when she started playing - she keeps it in it's original poorly painted state, because she can't bear to strip it.


They/them

 
   
Made in ca
Heroic Senior Officer





Krieg! What a hole...

Death Korps Grenadiers

This is what they look like, except I painted a ''93'' on their right shoulder pads and the primed guy in front is also painted.


Member of 40k Montreal There is only war in Montreal
Primarchs are a mistake
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Savageconvoy wrote:
Snookie gives birth to Heavy Gun drone squad. Someone says they are overpowered. World ends.

 
   
 
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