First miniature you remember buying...

[fanai]

my first was a minifigs strip of 15mm nap french - tried painting in oils and failed then more 15mm stuff - first GW Hooded dwarf on Pony first 15mm some asguard stuff in the early 80's - Only have the dwarf on pony - repainted about 5 times

 

[jbfasta]

First ever wargames/rpg miniature i ever bought was the 11-435 Rust Monster from the old Ral Partha D&D line. Its still unpainted and in regular use during our weekly game sessions though usually as a standin for other creatures.

First model ever built and painted was a 1968 BMW R60 motorcycle kit that was given to my mum by the dealer when she bought her R60. Was some kind of promotion at the store.

 

[nels0nmac]

First ever mini's that I bought were 4 blister packs of 40k orks, back in 1988 I think. I remember that they cost £2.50 for a set of 4 .... boy them were the days. I still have them in the loft somewhere. As you would expect they were also the first figures that I painted and this is the first one that I ever painted. Pictured with a modern day ork for scale.
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[Lyuun]

I Believe my first miniature, not counting various failed attempts at models like aeroplanes and the such, was probably a box of chaos warriors round about 2003-4, i think... i had some left over paint from a model airplane. however, they were oil-based paints, and the result was... well... lumpy, at best (besides only white or silver, which were the only two colours i had at the moment). later i found that there was another kid at my school that did warhammer, and actually had a rather biggish army of bretonnians, and that really got me pumped to start for myself, so when next i had the opportunity, i bought a box of dark elf warriors and paints: chaos black, liche purple (i still haven't needed to replace that one), elf flesh and snakebite leather. the models obviously had a foul enough paint-job, but i kept on putting warhammer on my wishlists and soon found myself painting... uhm... whats-his-name... malekith! haha (x i absolutely defiled that model. i later converted it to a wood elf dragon, of which now only the legs remain, for some reason...

 

[Necroghast]

Twas a set of Necron warriors.

 

[Arne]

My memories of the 80's are dimming, but I believe it was Fantasy Armies by Prince August. I sucked at casting them. The molds are kind of dry now. I'm not sure if they can be softened up. Maybe they're not salvageable. Too bad, I kind of like 25mm (e.g. StarGuard).

Hmm. The Fantasy Armies Orcs have faces similar to those drawn for 40K by Paul Bonner (done later?).

Edit: I 'casted' a skeleton in greenstuff. It's not 25mm. Closer to 30mm actually.

 

[JesterzUSMC]

Mine was a painted RT Plastic Space marine.
It was painted as a "Space Shark" chapter, complete with flocked base.
Caught my eye in the display, and I bought it...and it started my adventure into this hobby!

I believe it was 1986-87

 

[No Such Agency]

These are some of the earliest, if not the earliest that I bought myself. I thought they were sooooo cool, rushed home and painted them with shiny Testors enamels :

(yes, they're Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with sci-fi weapons!)

molds

Hey... I remember the shop class in junior high school having a bunch of rubber molds for figures; fairly standard fantasy fare of warriors, orcs etc. Alas, without spin casting the minis turn out blobby and low in detail. I guess we're just lucky none of us got burned with hot lead :O

 

[QuietiManes]

Oh, those TMNT's are great!

The first thing I bought, getting back into things about 6 or 8 years ago, was a Tyranid Army box, the big $360 (?) one, not the battleforce. This was 3rd ed 40k, right after the Tau army was released the first time.

But, the real first was as I posted in the thread before it was necro'd. To quote myself is weird, isn't it?

Well, the first "mini" (not typical car, tank, helicopter or battle barge type of war model) was a Dragonlance box set with Huma the silver dragon and the guy who loved/rode (no pun here!) her with the lance. This was in 1993 give or take a year or two.

I think that was the dragons name? I still have the thing in its box somewhere, just can't find it ATM. I never read the books, something about a dragon who fell in love in human form but had to go back to being a dragon to kick some butt or something.

 

[SkelettetS]

My memories of the 80's are dimming, but I believe it was Fantasy Armies by Prince August. I sucked at casting them. The molds are kind of dry now. I'm not sure if they can be softened up. Maybe they're not salvageable. Too bad, I kind of like 25mm (e.g. StarGuard).

Hmm. The Fantasy Armies Orcs have faces similar to those drawn for 40K by Paul Bonner (done later?).

thats pretty much the same first contact i had with miniatures. yay nostalgia. still have the moulds here in the cabinet, togeter with the not so awesome karoliner moulds.

the first "real" premade miniatures i bought was some grenadier undeads, still got them. good shit!

 

[hajmoid]

mine was the undead wight with the winged helmet and the axe in one hand, quite a static pose but i loved it so much. lol back in '99

 

[painterboyroy]

metal human bloodbowl team was first purchase after a friend introduced me to the game and local shop was having a sale and so bought my own team to play game with.

 

[heniosha]

Mine was the original snotling pump wagon...loved that thing. I also remember splitting a Skeleton Horde box set with my cousin...happy days...

 

[IdofEntity]

mine was the undead wight with the winged helmet and the axe in one hand, quite a static pose but i loved it so much. lol back in '99

Dude, I have that thing in my lead pile! Just stripped it last week.

GW was so over the top with winged helmets back then.

 

[uberdark]

Got it in 89' i think...but had no clue what it was for. and no i didnt paint this one....lol...but it was pretty close to that...gotta love testors.

 

[Aidan K]

Borrowed a White Dwarf, which coincided with a birthday and the release of...

Picked it up the next week and loved it to bits. Still have some of the snap together gangers somewhere, as well as my epically experienced and kitted out Van Saar's. Good times!

 

[Mr.S.Marbo]

First proper miniatures I had were Games Workshop Adeptus Arbites. Took me ages to find enough of the ones with shotguns (072400/1) to make a whole squad with shotguns. I bought all this after seeing the champion with shotgun and thinking it was a pretty cool model. Before that all I did was make airfix kits so this was a step in a different direction. I am trying to think when this might have been but I can't remember exactly, I think it must have been 1993 or 1994.

 

[Wicksy]

For me it was a box of skeleton warriors in '93 from GW. Cost £5 for 12 guys. Multi posable aswell, which was a big thing back then. I tried to paint them to look like the box art but couldnt figure out how they got the dark tones in the recesses. I set about trying to paint the recesses chaos black over a thick bleached bone layer. They looked dire and all my plastics got binned after i discovered drybrushing. I did have a fully painted 3000pt undead army though when i was 14.

 

[Talion]

Mine were the RT marines too

Painted a Space wolves marine - Painted grey then heavily drybrushed with white.

Didn't have the ability to paint any other part of it, so my uncle painted the eyes, and put the tranfer on.

Those were the days when anything was still possible.

 

[Arne]

I remember the skeletons fondly. They were the first WHFB figs that I bought. I've had a skeleton fetish ever since... Jason and the Argonauts I guess. Or was it Army of Darkness? Maybe both. However, since I actually collected 40k I eventually traded the skellies for Eldar Guardians. Now my Sisters of Battle troops have made camp in the boxes.

I've considered getting a new box of skeletons. Is the sculpt the same? The new ones look a bit chunkier, but I might very well be mistaken.

While I never owned any RTB-01 Beakies myself, I remember seeing them and wanting them because they were kind of charming, though awkward (taking a dump). I'd like to get ahold of one some day, just for nostalgia and reference. Paint it Crimson Fist. While old, I'm guessing that the plastic ones are not too rare. Most of them were probably never painted.