What was your first mini?

[getagrip]

I'm not counting mainstream plastics (Airfix et. al.) for my answer.

So mine was FA10.  http://www.solegends.com/citf/citfa/citfa82cat.htm
The first mini for my first AD&D 2e character.

I painted him gold with a burgundy cloak.  Badly.  

The orc I showed was painted in blobby enamels; hadn't even discovered dry brushing.

Cool mini though

There's a picture of me at around the age of 6 with the Airfix High Chapparal set, so this would have been late 1960s. My first proper miniature that I bought was probably a Dwarf of some long forgotten manufacturer. Sadly I sold it several years ago as I no longer played with it. In hindsight I'd wished I'd kept it.

I am on a mission to recover my first orc; I'm not paying £15 though!

[Fenton]

If were not talking Airfix and Timpo and there like

Then probably some H&R Char B's

[jambo1]

If not Airfix then it would be a 15mm starter set from Tabletop Games complete with rules, "Retinue" you got about 60 15mm figures and the skirmish rules, still have them somewhere.

[getagrip]

If were not talking Airfix and Timpo and there like

Then probably some H&R Char B's

Picture???

If not Airfix then it would be a 15mm starter set from Tabletop Games complete with rules, "Retinue" you got about 60 15mm figures and the skirmish rules, still have them somewhere.

Tabletop games Nottingham?

Used to visit their shop as a kid; dingy, mouldy store filled with the most awesome stuff.

Bought Laserburn and a handful of minis when I was about 14; loved it

[Fenton]

Long gone Gareth now sadly

[getagrip]

Long gone Gareth now sadly

Google?

[Fenton]

Here you go

[getagrip]

Sweet

Pretty cool first buy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Apart from Airfix, second left, second row!
http://www.solegends.com/citc/c09darkelves.htm

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:C09-13.jpg

It must have been a real mold ripper!

[getagrip]

Apart from Airfix, second left, second row!
http://www.solegends.com/citc/c09darkelves.htm

I had a unit (10) of them.

The reason I went for Dark Elves; it was the only army I could afford a battalion of (Forces of Fantasy) because the cold one riders were 125 points

For the time, they were awesome miniatures.

[Subedai]

Christmas present 1962 in Sek Kong Village, Hong Kong, 2 boxes each of Airfix 8th Army and Afrika Corps to use on a papier mache board that my father had made.

First lead figures, 12 MiniFigs 25mm British Napoleonic Marines in 1971 because that was all the shop had at the time. Got a few more now though. 

[getagrip]

2 boxes each of Airfix 8th Army and Afrika Corps to use on a papier mache board that my father had made.

The Airfix Afrika Crops were so cool compared to the 8th Army figures which were, quite frankly: crap!

[Subedai]

Agree now, but when you are six the crapness doesn't really matter.

[petercooman]

First miniatures:

Esci russian grenadiers and revell french grenadiers. The russians are still in their original paint from 1995, the french are repainted last year as a tryout




First ever wargame miniatures:

epic 40k space marines and tanks, ork battle wagons and ork warband

some of the tanks in the original crappy paint



And the tanks and infantry  how i repainted some of them in 2013