First miniature you remember buying...

[waghorn41]

If we\'re talking about any minis then for me it would be Airfix ACW, about 1960 I think. Yes, really that long ago!

The first metals were Napoleonics, c1971.
The first of the \'modern\' era metals was a GW Bretonnian Sorceress Dec 1997 when my kids got into the whole wargaming thing. Theyu got the boxed WHFB set for Xmas and the lady was for my 5 year old daughter who didn\'t want to be left out - awwwwwwwwww
That was also the first of the figures to be painted, and we still have it

 

[Necroghast]

The first minis I bought were some necron warriors. I painted 2. The first mini that I bought and I LIKED was an eldar jetbike.

 

[Sauce Devil]

Does anyone remember the 80\'s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series? That was the first time I heard of D&D and I loved the idea, so when I stumbled onto the local games shop in town (I\'d never seen the place before for some reason) in the Summer of \'87 it was quite an eye opener.

I think it must have been around 4:30pm because I was just standing there staring at all the weird and wonderful miniatures until they shut!

I didn\'t have any money at the time but I scraped up about £5 and the next weekend I bought a Minotaur Lord for £2.50 (I can\'t find a picture but it was the one holding a club), a brush and three pots of paint: red, tanned flesh and black.

Needless to say I didn\'t make a very good job of it but it got me hooked.


edit* Found one:

 

[Sand Rat]

It was a mounted figure from a no name company in 1978.


Sweet Monkee of Jebus - that was 30 years ago.

Still have the figure - if he\'s a little worse for wear.

 

[Monkeysplitters]

I love these threads

I bought the Lizardman Skink and Suarus boxes, don\'t remember the edition but it was around 2000.

 

[Arma]

I think mine was the first Space Marine Rogue Trader boxset with all the beakies! Good old RTB01 from GW in Cardiff.

 

[DaN]

Ha - I bought the smaller boxset of tactical RT marines - 20 plastic marines for £5

Nowadays it\'s the other way around

5 plastic marines for £20!!

 

[alextheartist]

Originally posted by DaN
Ha - I bought the smaller boxset of tactical RT marines - 20 plastic marines for £5

Nowadays it\'s the other way around

5 plastic marines for £20!!

Those gw bastards.. lol

First thing i bought were:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat1290128

Took them home, painted them black with the little pots of crap paint you get. Knew nothing about mould relese so the paint didnt stick. Ended up covering em in paint, then partially melting some of them with a hair dryer trying to make them fry quicker (should have used the cool setting).

Will try dig one of them out for a pic. As i remember they were okayly painted.

Alex

 

[Sauce Devil]

Originally posted by supervike

Originally posted by demonherald

First I can remembr buying was a GW Ogre.. one with a horn on his head and club over his shoulder.....

Was it this one?

Coincidentally I have one of those on my desk right now, primed and waiting to be painted. :bouncy:

 

[supervike]

Oh cool!

That guy was my first \'submission\' to CMoN!

I\'d love to see what you do with it!

 

[Mr Scream]

It was battle masters by m.b then I got 2 black orcs which I recently repainted.

 

[Rat Sandwich]

I still use the ogre from battle masters in my Orc and Goblin army. When I get a decent digital camera I\'ll post some pics.

 

[Fizl]

mine was a dwarf holding a spear. It cost me 10p and got painted in enamels. I think it was essex miniatures but cant find a pic of it online to confirm (this was about \'82)

Shaz

 

[Sauce Devil]

Originally posted by supervike
Oh cool!

That guy was my first \'submission\' to CMoN!

I\'d love to see what you do with it!

Sadly I haven\'t even learned how to do checker patterns yet (I mess them up every time) but I\'ll see what I can do with it.

 

[Mr Scream]

Originally posted by Rat Sandwich
I still use the ogre from battle masters in my Orc and Goblin army. When I get a decent digital camera I\'ll post some pics.

same Its the only mini I have left from that game

 

[waghorn41]

Originally posted by waghorn41
If we\'re talking about any minis then for me it would be Airfix ACW, about 1960 I think. Yes, really that long ago!

The first metals were Napoleonics, c1971.
The first of the \'modern\' era metals was a GW Bretonnian Sorceress Dec 1997 when my kids got into the whole wargaming thing. Theyu got the boxed WHFB set for Xmas and the lady was for my 5 year old daughter who didn\'t want to be left out - awwwwwwwwww
That was also the first of the figures to be painted, and we still have it

And now I know how to add an image

 

[Sleipnir]

Even if it`s a long time ago I could remember, that my first 2 minis were the following:
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[Spittle72]

Grenadier Fantasy Lords boxed set, early 80s.

 

[Chrome]

Nice threadomancy... Awesome thread to revive though.

The first kit I remember buying myself was an Italeri aeroplane, A french(I think) jet of some sorts, can't remember it's name but I do remember that it was supposed to be brown with a black area in front of the cockpit. When? well, I think I was 7 or 8 years old so 1992-93 somewhere.

 

[aightmaniscool]

My first mini was a space marine bike. i recently cut up the thing to make it into an ork bike