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Mine were Bretonnian knights of the realm, using a red and white color scheme.

A box of grey hunters and Ragnar. 15 years later my mom mailed them to me and they were so bad I stripped and repainted them. Eventually the whole army went on ebay when I got tired of SW.

The Viper and Raider tokens from the Fantasy Flight Battlestar Galactica board game.

Orks and gretchin from Space Crusade circa 1989. I don’t think I used primer so the paint job was pretty manky.

Old Ral Partha and Grenadier stuff from back in the 80’s

Definitely some Battletech models from '90? It was a box set Lance of Heavy Mechs. I want to say a Marauder, Warhammer, Rifleman and Archer?

I mean, before that there were numerous model plane kits too, but those were my first gaming models.

Legend of Zagor boardgame pieces. Most were painted with either enamel paints or "painted" with Graffic Traffic pens.

Painted a few things before that like some plaster of paris figures and Matchbox cars with the aforementioned Graffic Traffic pens, but the Legend of Zagor ones were my first gaming ones.

This guy

is (one of) my first GW ones. Who has all the hallmarks of a 40k starter paint set model, complete with Dark Angels green base, as that was the only green you got in it.

Grenadier Adventuring Thief sculpted by Julie Guthrie. I still have him tucked away and will repaint him one day.

That would be this guy



Check out that finely detailed, millimetre thick enamel

Mishima Hatamoto and Samurai for Warzone 1st edition

Great eagle and high elf chariot

No idea what they were. It was about 1986-87, I was living in Sweden at the time and some friends had these models that they cast themselves. I remember seeing them in the shops and thought they looked cool - you bought 2 part molds, blocks of lead and a little frying pan to melt it in. No idea what company it was or what the models were for, but I painted a wizard and a wolf - very badly!

Crispy78 wrote:
No idea what they were. It was about 1986-87, I was living in Sweden at the time and some friends had these models that they cast themselves. I remember seeing them in the shops and thought they looked cool - you bought 2 part molds, blocks of lead and a little frying pan to melt it in. No idea what company it was or what the models were for, but I painted a wizard and a wolf - very badly!

The company is called Prince August. They're still going strong! They also sell the Mithril line of LotR figures.

My first minis were some Citadel elves. About 1983 I think - definitely before slottabases. Still have them. Heck, some of the dwarfs from that era are still in my dwarf army!

These guys

Probably my old Man O' War Bretonnian fleet. I didn't get around to gluing all of the sails on, IIRC. The first ones I really properly painted were probably my Marienburg warband for Mordheim.

Denizens of the Swamp from Grenadier. They were models. I put paint on them. Not well.

A box of High Elves, 4 Spearmen and 4 Archers.

Then for Christmas of 2000 I had the Eldar Battle Force Box Set and Codex under the tree.

Some random GW metal models from the 90s, all in blisters. I remember a SM captain, 2-3 grety hunters, 2-3 hormagaunts, 4 catachans, 4 valhallans. Those for sure. Then I started orks.

The 90's plastic Bretonnian Archer models (the type that came in the 5th edition boxed set, but I bought a box of them separately).

They're still one of my favourite models.

The 2nd lot of models was a set of Saurus and Skinks from the same 5th edition boxed set, and they became my first proper army in the mid to late 90's.... hence my forum name.

Some "unseen" Battletech mech figures that I no longer have.

The ones not based on the macross property but that got churned up by that HG lawsuit BS.

I'm pretty sure mine was one of the old metal Bloodletters.

In fact I think it was this exact sculpt:


I remember getting two of them in the old blister pack. I painted it up and my mum gave me a tupperware tub with toilet roll in it so I could take it to school to show my mates. What a time!

 Tek wrote:

I remember getting two of them in the old blister pack. I painted it up and my mum gave me a tupperware tub with toilet roll in it so I could take it to school to show my mates. What a time!

Wonder how many people got exposed in such random ways? I "officially" was introduced to Warhammer when a lady at Woolworths told us to take a look in a shop called Games Workshop when me and my brother went looking for figures for a prepainted game called Havok, but before then I have vague memories of someone bringing in a RT Marine into school and it was attached to a 2p coin as a base (or it had it under the base as a weight) and me telling them to go pay for something with it at the local corner shop and scare them with it.

Putting coins under bases to give them a little more heft and lower the center of gravity was a thing. I’ve still got a lot of pennies under mine.

First models I every painted were some Ral Partha adventurers and monsters. Oil based paints and it did not go well.

Cheers,

CB

 Momotaro wrote:

Crispy78 wrote:
No idea what they were. It was about 1986-87, I was living in Sweden at the time and some friends had these models that they cast themselves. I remember seeing them in the shops and thought they looked cool - you bought 2 part molds, blocks of lead and a little frying pan to melt it in. No idea what company it was or what the models were for, but I painted a wizard and a wolf - very badly!

The company is called Prince August. They're still going strong! They also sell the Mithril line of LotR figures.

My first minis were some Citadel elves. About 1983 I think - definitely before slottabases. Still have them. Heck, some of the dwarfs from that era are still in my dwarf army!

Oh, wow. That's a blast from the past. They still sell the same damn models even.

In that case, my first minis were this wolf:
https://shop.princeaugust.ie/pa668-25mm-scale-mounted-goblins-wolf-horse-classic-moulds/
Painted in a god-awful almost fluorescent yellow with red eye-splodges.

And I think the left-hand wizard from this set:
https://shop.princeaugust.ie/pa657-25mm-scale-3x-wizards-classic-moulds/
With, if I remember correctly, a rather fetching lurid magenta robe.

No idea what happened to them...

warhammer fantasy high elf.
2 core units, spraypainted them white and filled in the rest with blue, plus the normal skin colours and hair. threw them in the garbage 13 years ago during a massive house cleaning.

Warriors of the imperium and the paint set for me.

Classic Eldar harlequins with a citadel starter box set. Come to think of it I might have painted the space marine and the chaos warrior from the paint set first.

Mine were Bretonnia also. I got the battalion and in my excitement I tried to get the knights up and running first of course.(I was 12).

Needless to say knights are pretty daunting for beginner especially if you want lots of heraldry and colors, which I did, that's why I wanted Bretonnia. But I kind of gave up after my first knight and got the peasants done up, so those were my first full units.

It was an Ultramarine from that late 90s 40K starter paint set with the screw on hex pots.