First miniature you remember buying...

[QuietiManes]

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.

 

[tidoco2222]

My first minis were from Grenadier at the time I lived in Hull and the only place wgere you could by any sort of Fantasy minis be it citadel or anything else was Kingston Galleries they had one of those racks that you can turn 360 degrees to look at all the blisters on there, they had quite a few Citadel blisters as well as Grenadier but somehow the Grenadier ones just seemed to attract me more so I bought the mounted paladin and then after that I bought one or two more Grenadier packs before finally taking the plunge and buying a few of the Old citadel C series minis.

 

[Primeval]

I\'m not sure which one of these I actually had first, but the first three I recall having were Ral Partha\'s \"Superhero\" (which was Frazetta\'s Death Dealer), a knight with a bull on his shield from Superior, and a mounted knight with a flail that I don\'t recall who made. The store I went to then had all the miniatures unpackaged and on a shelf so you could see them better, but you didn\'t always know what company they were from.

 

[Ritual]

My first blister of minis where these:
http://www.solegends.com/citadd1/add04thiefswd/index.htm

I remember painting them very badly with Humbrol Enamels, and then later, when I got my first acrylic paints (also Humbrol, I think they were called Humbrol Fantasy or something like that) I repainted them. I don\'t have them anymore.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Probably a boxed set of Airfix HO/OO scale Napoleonics Circa 1970.

No I don\'t stil have them.

 

[painterboyroy]

I keep seeing this tread appear, and have now worked out what I first bought.

In a GW sale a metal human bloodbowl team in 1993

but then i did the kid thing and built and painted airfix planes vehicles and troops in the 70\'s

 

[RuneBrush]

First ever models I had was a set of wolf guard terminators, when they first came out

Pete

 

[freakinacage]

mine were old d+d elves that were bought for me . i didnt like them so i took em back and got teclis and tyrion (the proper old lead ones!)

 

[jahminis]

my first proper minis were the original chaos dwarves...my first blister had the guy with a tentacle and his face in his chest, another i can\'t remember, and a wild one-legged berzerker...
those guys were the start of a horrible addiction lol...

cheers
jah

 

[DaN]

Not counting kit models - in which case it was probably 1:72 WWII Focke Wulf, my first mini\'s were Old RT-era Flash Git orks - which I still have

 

[supervike]

I bought a bunch of 1/35 Tamiya World war two soldiers when I was in about 6th grade.

The first metal miniatures were a boxed set by Ral Partha called Runequest: The Creatures of Golgotha. Had a very cool two headed vicious snail, and a walktapus....

 

[Gilvan Blight]

Originally posted by lizcam
Back in the late \'70\'s a Ral Partha \"wanged\" bolrog. Yes, I do mean \"wanged\". It was also the first mini I ever painted and it sold as soon as the paint dried.

It was VERY well endowed.:twisted:

RE: Huma and the Dragon - Huma is the name of the night riding the Dragon. The Dragon\'s name I don\'t remember.

I still have this mini. Haven\'t painted him yet. You are right, the sculpter must have had some extra GS around that day.

I just had a flashback too. I remember the first minis I bought. It was the Heroes for Dungeonquest boxed set for the old GW boardgame Dungeonquest. It came with metal minis for all the characters. I painted them with paint markers (oh boy are they horrible).

Here\'s a pic from boardgamegeek (not mine)

 

[evil tendencies]

My first was a box of Shadowrun character minis from Partha, and I still have the wage mage I first painted with Testor\'s enamels.

 

[demonherald]

A Goblin that was free on the cver of computer and video games mag.....but technically that was a freebie..

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

 

[mikesilk]

first mini

my first mini...painted circa 82\'...an ogre. if anyone recognizes who produced this mini i\'d love to know...the initials MP are on the base./Users/mikesilk/Desktop/100_1879.JPG:beer:

 

[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?

 

[demonherald]

That be the fella.. 50p in a bargain box if I remember rightly....

 

[Cleezy]

The first mini i remember buying was a bretonnion mounted squire for £3. After undercoating i painted it all red and picked out the details lol

 

[Aliengod3]

Originally posted by mattsterbenz
It was either the 8 pack of plastic Bretonnian archers, or an Ork bike. Can\'t remember which, but both were purchased and painted right around the same time. Late in 2001 I believe.

Shortly after that I bought a blister of two metal Necron warriors (I thought they were cool because they looked like the Terminator) lol. Then I got the 3rd edition 40k starter, and things just spiraled out of control shortly after that! lol

Here\'s photos for your enjoyment! I think I posted these before in the first-mini thread:

-Matt

I did the same thing with the first minis I painted. Meaning I left some parts unpainted so the plastic was showing.

 

[cucaiothegreat]

The first miniature (a box full of them) I bought is a boxed set of official Dungeons & Dragons \"Dungeon Monsters\" from Citadel Miniatures.

Here\'s link\'s to some pics on the web:
BOX
MINIATURES

I painted them quite awful a lot of years ago and recently stripped them blank.

I have two of this boxes, bought in the same shop, but it\'s a shame I never have found the BDD1 D&D Adventurers Starter Pack!

Oddly enough, I remeber to have bought these boxes not in my small city, but in the city where my grandparents lived, in a shop now (sadly) closed.