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Post by Tim C on Jun 16, 2006 15:55:53 GMT
I know that this has been done before on other forums but it is always good for a conversation, what got you into the miniature painting/gaming hobby,
For me it was my 12th birthday, my Grandparents gave me a copy of the Lord of the Rings which I read from cover to cover in a week on and off. I was already into painting Airfix models and some military miniatures by Airfix but when I got into the fantasy thing I was hungry for something of that Nature. Fortunately for me a fledgling company called Citadel Miniatures were starting to make a name for themselves and I bought with my meagre pocket money a bliste or two of the minis at the time.
Then I started to by White Dwarf, which again was in its ifnfancy and to this day I have been hooked.
Of course now the internet has made the whole hobby much more appealing with all the various manufacturers and forums that are available to browse and be members of. So hopefully I have a good few years of mini painting and collecting ahead of me.
Now what about you?
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Post by ritual on Jun 16, 2006 16:02:29 GMT
For me it was somewhat similar. I got Tolkien's Bilbo on my seventh birthday and I read the Lord of the Rings a year or two later. Then I started playing RPGs and with that came the minis. I had already built airplane and tank models and painted those, so I was already prepared to start painting miniatures. This was when I was 10 years old or so. I think my first minis were Citadel too, but I also bought some other minis, more suited for typical fantasy RPGs but I don't remember the manufacturers and I don't have the minis anymore.
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Post by sonny on Jun 16, 2006 16:36:05 GMT
I painted my first mini when i was 8.. i remember it was a space marine.. with some kind of rocket launcher. i didnt know what it was.. dudrin that time i painted some airplane models. with humbrol  . when i was 11 my friends friend bruoght some of his warhammer minis. i gow hooked. got a box of whfb orcs. painted it in 4 hours  no primer no highlights. after a couple of years of pot painting i found cmon.i bought a can of gw primer and some new minis. and started painting for real. and here i am now  |
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Post by curunir on Jun 16, 2006 20:13:50 GMT
I was given a box set for Lord of the Rings, Strategy Battle Game (The Return of the King set) a few years ago. My friend new that I was a Tolkein fan. I was a little diappointed when I opened the box. I couldn't understand why the minis weren't painted. :lol: So my friend explained to me that that was the whole idea. It's taken some time, but now I am hooked on painting. I have yet to try and paint anything besides LOTR, mostly because I really like the models and I just happen to have a ton of them. Who knows, I may actually give something else a try (I was just given a few WH minis...)
Cheers
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Post by menace on Jun 16, 2006 21:25:25 GMT
A strange affair i've had, many moons ago i was a RPG nut, mostly runequest, but there was no real need for many minis and those i had were painted with airfix enamels and a yard brush.... ...i then discovered wine, women and song and so for 23 years minis were unthought of until 6 months ago.. i was sick of Xbox and looking for a new hobby.. walked past Gamesworkshop and saw they had LotR figs.. thought i could paint them better than in the window and since then i've become obsessed.. Long may it last |
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Post by jimmygee on Jun 17, 2006 1:52:39 GMT
I can remember way back that I have always had an affinity for scale miniatures. I think my dad had an Apollo spaceship model when I was probably 5, but it was the Astronauts that came with the set that I couldn't stop looking at...
When I got to junior high or so, I found a cool hobby shop that sold Tamiya 1/35 scale WW2 Figures, and I painted and assembled many of those...
Much later, my first year in college or so, I discovered 'metal minatures'...My first was a set of Runequest minis (weird stuff)....then I found a Citadel Ogre and discovered the magic of a company called Games Workshop... I got a subscription to the White Dwarf when it was still shipped from England....I sort of lost interest, but rediscovered the minis around 1998, starting with a Wood Elf army. By this time the Internet made it relatively easy to find them. I've been heavily hooked ever since....and have spend tons of money on the hobby...but it helps keep me sane, sober, and happy...
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Post by Tim C on Jun 17, 2006 8:25:11 GMT
Ahhh Runequest I remember that with fondness, I think still have some of the minis that Citadel made for it, and for those that are interested it is going to reappear, though under a different manufacturer. Anyways thanks for the input lets keep it going.
So what still drives you in this hobby, what do you find realy cool?
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Post by ogrebane on Jun 18, 2006 3:30:09 GMT
I started when we played D&D. As I was the only one with any artistic talent (I draw cartoons) The guys wanted me to paint up thier minis. I collected quite a few minis for D&D and it just went on from there.
Thats also how I got my knick. My first character for D&D was Ikon bendabar and he killed an ogre so he was called Ogrebane. Ive used it ever since for online stuff.
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Post by tomaz on Jun 18, 2006 13:26:06 GMT
I started when I went to uni. A guy I in my art-history class had the same interest into fantasy and sci-fi as me. He took me to a local GW store, and showed me his high elf army. It was around the time that the beastman plastics were released. At the end of the day, I walked out of the store with a beastman box, paints, brushes, books, etc etc. That's how I started |
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Post by drevilmonki on Jun 19, 2006 9:05:06 GMT
RUNEQUEST! The second RPG I got into and still my favourite (I see they are rereleasing it). I didn't know they made figures for it (I was role playing well before I got into figures).
But yeah role playing was how I got introduced to miniature games (GW). Zoats and Fimir were my favourites and Colin Dixon was my favourite painter.
Got into role playing through my Mother buying my brother a copy of Stormbringer RPG based on Elric. We had never heard of such a thing it was pretty cool. Mum recently admited that she had no idea what it was and wouldn't have got it for us if she had. ;D
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Post by Tim C on Jun 19, 2006 9:08:02 GMT
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Post by endrem on Jun 19, 2006 9:17:37 GMT
I started with RPG (AD&D at that time) when I left the elementary school (I was around 14). Very quickly I got deeply into roleplaying, I tried lots of different systems. Once in a club some guy came and sat down in a corner with his painting set and started to paint a gobbo... This was the point when the mini painting mania sucked me in too I started with 40k Orks at that time (with minis like the Shokk Attak Gun  , then I started a Dwarf fantasy army and a 40k Chaos Army. The Orks I don't have anymore, I had to sell them due to some personal financial problems, but the rest I still have. I also tried Tau, but it wasn't exactly my thing. |
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Post by ritual on Jun 19, 2006 14:27:44 GMT
I just found on the Stuff of Legends the first fantasy miniatures I got and painted! I have long lost the miniatures in question... too bad because I would have loved to give these guys a decent paintjob! www.solegends.com/citadd1/add04thiefswd/index.htm |
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Post by Tim C on Jun 19, 2006 21:21:15 GMT
I remember those man they were cool, plus the old hexagonal bases too. You are showing your age Anders.
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Post by ritual on Jun 20, 2006 7:54:26 GMT
I remember those man they were cool, plus the old hexagonal bases too. You are showing your age Anders. Hehe... I'm only 30, you know (31 in a couple of weeks). I found these as well, that I remember painting... www.solegends.com/citadd1/add51kobs/index.htm |
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Post by Tim C on Jun 20, 2006 7:58:28 GMT
You know I wish I still had some of those they were great little minis and boy they were little. I think the older Citadel had so much more character than the stuff that gets churned out today.
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Post by lotrcrown on Jun 20, 2006 11:57:09 GMT
for me it had to be when Heroquest came out about 17ish years ago then Space Crusade then it was just a hop skip and jump into WH and WH40k . .
God has it really been that long ??
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Post by Tim C on Jun 20, 2006 12:00:27 GMT
Yup it has, I still have Heroquest and occaisionally it does the rounds for a night or two, Space crusade I did enjoy but my copy has long since lost most of the bits,
My favourite was Talisman I still have the first and complete second editions which we play alot in our house.
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Post by talonicus on Jun 20, 2006 12:42:30 GMT
I think it was space crusade for me. My nephews had a copy and I looked at the minis and thought they would be fun to paint........... the rest is ancient history.
I still have most of the space crusade I bought. I also managed to buy 3 copies brand new copies of space hulk for £5 each from the "works" bookshop about 10yrs ago. Bargain.
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Post by dansemacabre on Jun 21, 2006 10:28:32 GMT
I've Started when i was 8 old, well not exactly seriously, but i remember i had some 00 atlantic native americans and u.s. western soldiers, i used aquarels...disgusting ;D, then my mom one day worried about the damages on tents, pavements and tables destroyed all I stayed inactive until 16 when a friend of mine carried me to see a whfb match..it was skaven vs undeads and the minis were painted wonderfully for the epoque.that was my ruin |
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Post by airhead on Jun 26, 2006 18:11:54 GMT
D&D - my first year of college. Got sucked into a gaming group and had a blast. When I got back home that summer, I converted all my friends to the game. Since I was the only one that knew anything about the game, I became the DM. They all bought a character mini or two, while I was buying out sections to have enough monsters. Paints were oil-based enamels: Pactra flat military; Testers model paints; Humbrol pots and a few other brands. No brush licking then and it was very hard to do a wash as the paint thinner ate the previous layer.
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Post by pinkbunny on Jun 26, 2006 19:34:17 GMT
some guy ran a demo game of LOTR at school
cheated like heck though
but i liked it enough to get into it
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Post by ell on Jun 28, 2006 3:22:59 GMT
One day when I was at my friend’s house I saw on his desk a Dark Angels army, completely painted, in all its glory. I was stunned. “Little soldiers that you can pose and paint however you would like?” well at the age of nine this blew my mined, and we are not even getting to the tanks yet, Well he also had some Eldar minis he was starting to put together and so he let me help him. After that I forced my parents to take me down to the Hobby store. Now regrettably my friend did not inform me that this game that he played was called Warhammer, no the only name I knew them by was Blood Angels, well we where in that hobby store for over 2 hours with teenage employees searching around for something called Blood Angels, finally we found it and realized the game was called Warhammer, well I got my parents to buy me the starter paint set that, at that time, came with some Lizardmen. So I guess that was my first step into the mini painting world.
Well my first time really collecting an army and getting more than a couple of soldiers was when I got the starter set for Warhammer 40k with Dark Eldar and Black Templar in it, Because my friend had the Blood Angels I thought the Space Marines where the coolest, and I now have a 4,000pts Black Templar army. Well that turned out longer than I had planed but ya, that is it.
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Post by Tim C on Jun 28, 2006 3:36:07 GMT
There is nothing more inspiring than seeing a fully painted space marine army in the flesh, I remember when the Warhammer World museum had the complete Ultramarines chapter painted and on display, now I was never realy into space marines but after seeing those complete with tanks and thunderhawks as well my opinions quickly changed. I still don't paint too many SM's these days but I do paint a few and it is thanks to seeing that wonderful display.
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Post by ell on Jun 28, 2006 3:57:04 GMT
This is a little of topic but it partains to your post Tim. Is there still a Warhammer World Museum? and if so where is it?
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