Battle Masters was where it started for me. Me and my brother would play for hours. This game got me hooked. Fairly certain 4th edition box set arrived that Christmas. 1992. What a vintage year.
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I used to paint with aquarelles as a kid, and another of the kids in the class did Warhammer as well. He showed me some figs and I was hooked.
Having no idea what anything was called, I remember telling my mother to get the goblins with hoods. I don’t know how but she managed to get me some goblins from the Skull Pass box and my life has been in this addiction ever since.
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great thread guys!
where it all began for me back in… 2002?
i still have them all at my dad place. the 1st issue were moria goblins!
those are not mine, but close to. i made goblin green base tho ahuahuhuahua
the 1st one was the one with the pike on the right
gotta find them tomorrow xD
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All images here are pulled from the web. I have no time to dig up the relevant miniatures for photography. Too busy at the moment. Of course I have every single miniature I’ve ever cast or collected safely stored, for nothing has ever been lost or sold.
I built model ships and planes and cast and painted Carolean tin soldiers before I got into Warhammer at age 13.
My first Warhammer miniature was Thorgrim Grudgebearer in 2003, shortly after my brother picked up the Fellowship of the Ring starter box and then started collecting High Elves (Archers-Spearmen-Silver Helms in that order, which I helped assemble and paint):
I picked it up at our local video rental store. Given that my weekly money was a flatline low of 20 SEK ($2) because I hardly ever spent any money (while all others of my age received gradually increased weekly money from their parents), each Warhammer purchase was a considerably lavish splashing out of savings.
Luckily I had a lot of saved money to splash out, despite the low weekly addition to the pile.
My second miniature was Thorek Ironbrow:
These were the only Dwarf miniatures at our video rental shop. They led me to believe that Dwarf armies consisted of only a few extremely powerful miniatures, bereft of ranked regiments.
When we a while thereafter went to Västerås, a relatively large town, and entered the toy shop where we bought our Carolean tin soldier moulds, I discovered that there were in fact plastic Dwarf warrior regiments.
I splashed out with an enormous sum for my Dwarfishly slow accumulation of savings (made possible by my Dwarfishly stingy tightwad nature as a miser from early childhood), and bought no less than three Dwarf Warrior regiment kits of x16 miniatures.
And all of these my first miniatures I rapidly assembled and painted with shoddy hobby paints. After this, I soon learnt painting from White Dwarf, and quickly grasped the techniques and improved my paintjobs drastically.
Then followed purchases of Dwarf Miners, Rangers, Bolt Thrower and Lotr Dwarves for Shadow & Flame. By then my stagnant childhood rate of weekly money (veckopeng) had received a sudden increase to monthly money of a much higher sum, which I proceeded to hoard like a dragon and occasionally splash out on Dwarfs and Dwarves.
Most of my experience of the Warhammer miniature hobby through the years has come from helping model, convert, sculpt and paint miniatures for my brother and our friends. That way I didn’t have to buy a single miniature for years on end, and still get to experience almost every single miniature range on offer.
Cheers
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My first box was a metal Sister of battle squad box, this one:
and this guy:
First model I built and painted from that box was the Sister Superior who I cut up and converted with the terminator’s pointing power fist which has a digital weapon ring (if anyone remembers those). I had no rulebook, no idea what the weapons were, and no clue that was not a legal build out. Just thought it looked cool. Still have her, and the paint job still holds up on the table top. Will add a pic if I can dig her out.
So yeah, I chopped up the very first model I finished. Explains a bit I think. Cheers,
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