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Shadow Guard's recent post about competitions and the ensuing discussion about painted minitaures made me think back to when I first started 40k. I decided to reach into the deepest, darkest recesses of my collection and bring out some of my first DA miniatures.

 

I've learnt a lot since I painted them and I've placed more recent miniatures next to them for comparison, to show how far I've come (and how far I still have to go!!).

 

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/Gillyfish2010/DSCF2071.jpg

 

This is one of the original plastic beakies, back in the days when second edition was young. These were the ultimate in GW poseable models at the time! At this point I thought drybrushing was the height of sophisticated painting and that undercoating was for wimps!

 

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/Gillyfish2010/DSCF2072.jpg

 

This one is my terminator captain. Back in those days you could give him a sword, powerfist, storm bolter, grenade launcher and displacer field. Drybrushing again I'm afraid and I ven tried a shading wash of bleached bone...

 

Okay, those are mine. Anyone fancy sharing theirs?

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I can´t find pics from my first DAs, I must have them "lost" within a CD warp storm... in some uncharted cuadrant of my room...

 

My very first 40k model was a SM bike, as I like black bikes, it ended as a RW bike, and that was what brought me in into 40k, a RW bike.

 

So far I found only one pic of some of my first scouts painted... they must be from the first half of the 00´ :

 

http://bloodnskulls.homestead.com/files/models/DA_camo_scouts-01.jpg

 

 

The guy with the bolter shoot down a Viper in one of my first battles... his promotion is still pending tough.

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The Dark Angel that started me down the SM path was a Grand Master of the Death wing with a Sword of Silence and a stormbolter. It was painted very very well. I saw it on ebay bought it, and it just inspired me.
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A couple of DA from the 2nd edition starter set.

 

Though I didn't paint them untill many years later.

 

Thankully I've had two armies before the DA to get some experience with painting, so the differance is almost non-existant.

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Nice comparison images Gilly. I have no pics of any of my old stuff, but I do have a couple of old metal termies somewhere – might see if I can dig them out.

 

It's amazing but true but like so many things in life – practice really does make perfect :)

 

Cheers

I

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Libby on left is first. He was painted around '95 or so.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/generations001.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/librarian002.jpg

 

brrrr... old:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/509thCadian002.jpg

 

new from October '07:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/2ndofthe1st028.jpg

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Nice miniatures there Brother Dean!

 

Bloodwave, I really like your Scouts too!

 

Thank you to veryone who has posted so far, please keep them coming. You never know, I may dig out my very old dreadnought!

 

The really worrying thing is that my first DA minitaures were miles better than my Space Crusade miniatures... :D

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Bloodwave, I really like your Scouts too!

 

Hey! Thanks! ;) Your termie in the second pic looks awesome, I´m still struggling with my own DW termies after all this years...

 

For the "camo scouts" I got inspired by the Mark Bedfords camo scouts in the old WD that got the introduction of the 3rd ed DA dex, only that rather than the kaki+green he used I went for something close to the "European One" camo from the USAF, only replacing one green shade by black.

 

 

PS : Still looking for more old pics of my DAs... no luck so far....

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http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b369/Damosmy/Sarge4.jpg

My First DW Termie

 

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b369/Damosmy/DSCN1320.jpghttp://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b369/Damosmy/DSCN1319.jpg

First AoV Sergeant

 

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b369/Damosmy/Comp%20Entries/Chappy1.jpg

Most Recent pic of my painting.

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My first models were the plastic marines from the 2nd edition boxed set, the Captain with the winged helm, the Terminator Librarian with the force axe and the 2nd edition Ravenwing Speeder (still one of my favourite models, I kind of wish they still looked like that myself). After that I also got the old metal DA Dreadnought for Christmas. Ah, so many good memories. When they brought out the homage to the old DA Captain I was ecstatic.
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My first DA miniature was in about 1987 or 88 when I was in high school. It was an old librarian model, with no helmet, his sword pointed down, and a book in the other hand, and it won me an award at Gencon. Then I quit the hobby.

 

My next models of any kind were a DA combat squad in 2003 or 04.

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An excellent toic Gillyfsh. I wil post my fist modes as soon as I return home. This is a grea opportuit for all those fledeling DA hobbyists luring in h shadowsto raise that every one of us startedoff with somepretty bad models .... and someof us have't moved too fa ahea either... :P , me included.....

It might ne nice for people to post thir first model.... or the earliest model they have an age of and their vry latesr creation as well....

My first was th fiv man tactical combat squad...ths was way back in 97 when I first discovered 40K, Dark Angels and acrylic paints all abt the same time! :)

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Thanks Bloodwave, I'll send you the recipe if you like!

 

Gregor 69, those are very nice miniatures, including the older ones.

 

Ronin_ex I think I have some of those models too. I'll see if I can dig them out and put them in this thread.

 

Brother Dean, some of those miniatures are certainly much better than my early efforts!

 

Brother Lysander, I have a bunch of those miniatures too. Some I have painted more recently and others I still have in their orginal paint, replete with mold lines!

 

Lion in the Stars, I think I may have some of those, I'll try to dig those out too.

 

SG and ODM, thank you for your comments. I'll post up one of my very first miniatures from Space Crusade if you really want. I'll apologise in advance if it cracks any monitors... :tu:

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My first Dark Angel, painted by me age 12, as you can see the use of Enamel paints have made them resilient to the wear of time and a school bag.

gallery_25668_1009_5373.jpg

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HJL, that marine still looks better than my first efforts!

 

Izrail, old or new, those are very impressive minis!

 

I haven't had chance to dig out the miniatures I wnated to. I'll try to do so soon. In the meantime, please keep posting!

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  • 3 weeks later...

my very first model...before I realized they could only have certain equipment sets :P

 

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c285/skipprjoe/P1000167-1.jpg

 

my very first idea for a 40k army was a bunch of dark angels that were melee oriented (thus the blood angels red shoulderpad). I forget what the black shoulderpad meant heh.

 

here's some dark angels getting slammed thru the painting process 20 at a time - not quality by any means, but still way higher quality than when I first began :P

 

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c285/skipprjoe/DAbatch2b.jpg

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Well after much rummaging I found some more old minis to blighten your view!

 

Enjoy (if that's the right word).

 

Thanks for sharing Artificer Knoll - they look cool.

 

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/Gillyfish2010/DSCF2153.jpg

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