The tyranid Trygon 100%, it’s a giant snake centipede of death and it’s perfection. Also the fact it was in the original start collecting helped as it gave me an excuse to instantly get the big lad.
My dude you're a real champ in the online hobby space, you've really inspired me to try and get my minis to the next level in basing, painting and detailing with a new project. Thanks
Im just a beginner. Not even 6 Months in the Hobby. But for me it was "Lady of Corruption" form Creature Caster. Now im a Chaos Cultist with Kit Bashing in mind and i ordered some of the "Veil Touched" Minis form Ravaged Star.
For me it was the Veil Touched. I also ordered the entire army collection and I haven’t yet painted a single model. Will be starting soon, just waiting to finish building my hobby area first.
@@xaviermartineau9416 well “need” is subjective of course. But I bought a condo and doing Reno’s for it (I don’t even have a complete kitchen even though I’ve been in it for 2 months) so having a dedicated area for my hobbies (building Lego, macro photography, and now painting minis) is a good plan. It’s almost done and ready though.
@@CarlConstantine i was joking bro i'm understanding because i'm myself a fan of Lego and fan of miniatures painting. When you will start to paint minis you will love it so much
My ork army started with the weirdboy. From the moment I saw it, I loved everything about it. From the way he’s charging recklessly to the frothing mouth and the grot hanging on as if he’s just shouted; “come, Jeffery! Into battle!” It makes me giggle every time I see it and if that’s not enough of a reason to play an army, I dunno what is.
I’m a new fan still in my first year and I also started with necrons! The Skorpekh Destroyers in the Starter Set (Elite) finally got me to pull the trigger. Since then I’ve added 2 Starter Sets (Recruit), 2 Spyders, Kamoteph the Crooked, and the Worldscour Legion box. Can’t get enough of these bad bots!
If you end up enjoying space marines I'd reccomend blood Angels or dark angels or space wolves or deathwatch or black templars because they get extra cool models Don't let that stop you from picking anyone else though
I’ve been wargaming for about a decade now, though I only got into 40k a couple years ago when 9e was first coming out. I remember going to a warhammer store with my dad sometime before then just to look around (that must have been during 8th), and just being captivated by the Sentinel. The idea of a normal looking soldier dude in an open-canopy walker fighting against all sorts of demons and aliens just spoke to me. A few years, almost 2,000 points of Guard, and 4 Sentinels later, it’s still one of my favorite kits from GW. Coming from Warmachine, I wasn’t used to kits being so free form and posable… and it doesn’t even have arms!
The armies for me was because of Dawn of War. When I was young i loved the Guard from the single player game. So when i played multiplayer i thought the Imperial Fists were the guard. So that is why I started building and paint imperial fists in high school. Fast forward, Cadia Stands was got me back into the hobby after high school. Now i have a Guard army i love to death.
The model for me is the Wraithlord! the Craftworlds are by far my favorite faction due to their sleek design compared to other factions. The idea of Eldar heroes souls being taken and forced to fight again inside of a huge machine is so cool to me.
Wraith Constructs for the Aeldari will forever be what dragged me into the army, even if I don't use them that much. Though if I was starting right now, chances are the new Maugan Ra model would to the same to me
I started this hobby with Ultramarines (box of 3) when I was 13 after playing the game "Space Marine" (I was introduced to the miniatures by a friend that played the game too, and started an Ork army), after a while I dropped it and got back to it with 2 boxes of Tau, then dropped again and now it's a year I'm stuck with 3 boxes of Sisters of Battle, but man I love them so much, I even bought a 3D printer to print unique scenes and details to put on miniatures and bases.
My main model is The Great Unclean One. I didn't even collect Nurgle but when I saw that big, fat, disgusting monster I just had to have him. It became my summer project and I have zero regrets. The Black Orcs from Blood Bowl also made me buy the team even though I've never played it.
I've always loved the Chaos Space Marines, but the one that got me was the Exalted Champion. His pose is so instantly recognizable, with the incredibly cool axe and the gun chained to his backpack. He just spoke to me in a way a lot of regular space marines didn't, so he acted as the impetus for me to start a chaos army.
I think what really convinced me was just the humble ork boy. he's not glamourous, he's your front line troop that dies on mass, but I cant help but love the green lunatics!
Im a Chaos Space Marine player (mainly painter, really), and I just loved how needlessly edgy they were when I first saw them. Ive loved horror movies my whole life, and the idea of fielding demons alongside spikey super soldiers sounded dope, and then i started reading the books and got 100 percent hooked.
Yeah I 100% agree. I'm currently painting Black Legion as my first army and Abbadon the Despoiler was the model that made me start. Absolutely love the edgy skulls look that goes so well with the grim-dark universe!
The "new" Dark Eldar Reaver jetbikes is what got me to collect a Dark Eldar army. There's nothing cooler than a sleek jetbike piloted by some crazy gladiator that's hopped up on drugs flying through the battlefield at insane speeds eviscerating the enemy combatants with the blades on the fins of their bike.
My first 40k purchase was start collecting Tyranids, because I LOVED how Trygon looked and I got it for his price as individual model. Funnily enough I still haven't assembled it because it was bought for a diorama and never meant to be played. Then I saw Void dragon and new Necron warriors and was shocked, up to this point I thought that GW maked ugly minis and got only big models right since my only experience with them were cheap, old space marines and genestealers from my box. I've planned to get just these as a diorama but then I've learned about Idomitus box, saw actual 9th edition sculpts, fell in love with primaris and well now I own ~2,5k points of Necrons, about 3k of Space marines, 2k of Orks, proxy Tyranid army from Xenomorph models, an Imperial knight, (plastic) Warlord titan and a couple of kill teams. It's kinda funny that it started with me randomly seeing 1 model I've liked and it transitioning to owning multiple armies, despite never building an actual Tyranid.
I saw Thunderwolf Cavalry in an old Codex, and thought it was absolutely awesome. So I started Space Wolves, and didn't get Thunderwolves for six months after that.
Wraiths sold me too...on the 3rd edition Necrons - woo metal spines in two pieces! The original Necron metal warrior is what got me started, it just got better over time as far as I'm concerned. Also rumour has it that new sentinel models are coming, so that might be your chance to make it more than 3 sentinels Jay.
Honestly most of the death guard models I just love. Even the normal plague marine is perfect with its gaping maw on his belly and tentacles everywhere. Let alone all the vehicles that are a weird mix of living things and mechanisms. Very cool
The Hexfire Crowe was what drove me to starting a Grey Knights army I already liked the idea of Grey Knights before, but seeing the awesome sculpt on him and The Black Blade was what convinced me to start collecting the faction, and 40k in general Now I need to actually paint them all...
I am definitely familiar with this feeling of being inspired to start whole armies based on just singular models. The first army I ever played was Death Guard and what originally drew me in among them was something as ultimately basic as the Plague Marines. The whole aesthetic of the Death Guard and Nurgle in general really resonates specifically with a younger version of me. A teenaged me that loved horror movies, gore and everything macabre. Seeing the twisted flesh, rotting bloat and putrid bile of the Plague Marines really tapped into that younghood appreciation and made them stand out among all of the different Marine chapters. It would however not be the army I would go on to collect. I only dabbled with them virtually through Tabletop Simulator back during 8th edition, when I was still contemplating making the big financial plunge. No, the army I started to collect when it was time to dive in head first was Necrons. The decision to make that switch came for many reasons. They shared the appeal of Death Guard being incredibly durable and hard to fully table, they looked easier to paint by and large for a beginner, they were already an army I was looking at from the start, the reasons are plentiful. The thing that tipped them over however was one single model - The Canoptek Doomstalker. War of the Worlds was one of those formative reading experiences I had from my adolesence, so the image of the Tripod war machines has been permanently burned into my subconsciousness as an iconic, badass design. Seeing that thing loom over the game store shelf instantly drew me in and made me want to put my money down right then and there. I didn't end up buying the Stalker though until just recently, as I started my collection with the Combat Patrol set, a box of Warriors and a Ghost Ark and that was quite enough money spent for a bit. Now though, the Doomstalker is my prized, biased favorite of the army. In fact, I might even get two of them, I love it so much. Aside from the ones I have this first hand experience with, I have quite a few models that are making me want to put more money down for new armies. Astra Militarum's Manticore tank, T'au with their Crisis Suits, Chaos' veritable collection of Daemons alongside my still-beating appreciation for Death Guard, there are quite a few ways my paths with Warhammer could diverge if at any point I find myself feeling finished with Necrons.
The models that got me started in this hobby (and my 1st army) was the Howling Banshees... the old metal ones (been at this a while). For my Orks, it was the models in the old Gorkamorka game; loved customizing them so much that they grew into an army that's still being added to.
I just started a gloomspite gitz army all thanks to the humble 20 grot box. I have mad nostalgia for the battle for skull pass starter box and night goblins were my Jam!
Gooood, a fellow Sentinel enjoyer. Very strange that certain leaks are saying GW is making a new Sentinel model. Weird, since the current one is so damn good. I hope GW don't mess it up.
I started Space Marines in 3rd edition thanks to the old Tigurius model, I loved that model so much... I later started Dark Eldar thanks to Asdrubael Vect model. I really hope to see him coming back in new updated models, love the character. Coming back to the hobby after years, I saw the Skorpekh Lord and fell in love with the necrons, the Indomitus Box was pure gold for me, I loved all the models and was the push I needed to coming back to the hobby.
Back when I originally started 40K, in 2nd edition, it was the Space Marine Dreadnought (I was an Ultramarine player). I then picked up Ulthwe in 3rd, and it was the Vyper Jetbike. I returned in 9th to play Drukhari and Black Templars. The minis which inspired me to collect those are the Voidraven and Helbrecht.
I've eyed 40k for years before this past Christmas a pal gave me a box of start collecting Tau, a broadside and pathfinders along with a painting starter box. The unit in it I've been most excited for is the broadside. Its just the right size of mecha for me, I love the giant rail cannon, the huge missile pods, just so cool. I also have been eyeing tyranids, specially the Carnifex. I love the idea of feilding like, 9 of them and force my opponents into an impromptu game of Monster Hunter.
Yeah Thats True I'm Collecting and playing Nurgel deamons only because of the Great Unclean one but my Favoriyte and also the army that I'm playing the most are the Tyranids they were my first army and I think I really like every modlle of then excluding one or two.
I remember being 13 and seeing the 40k wall at my not-so-friendly LGS and I always loved the Furioso Dreadnought. Fast forward 20 years I finally got one! And then built it into a Librarian Dreadnought... BUT STILL, I love that, too. As for my Snakebites the thing that grabbed me was... Mozrog Skragbad and all those new squig riders. I just LOVE squigs, so now my Snakebites are as squig themed as I can get, as well as converted with some AoS Ork bits to make them look a bit more feral. My choppa boyz are coming, and they're butts are bare! Beware Gork's Intergluteal Crease!
just bought the Elite starter set. it was on sale for an amazing price so i couldnt pass it up, and my older brother (who I've slowly been exposing to 40k) said that none of the factions really spoke to him untill I showed him the Necrons, particularly the Skorpekh destroyers. I love Space marines so the kit is perfect for both of us and to get him started with the necrons. now I just have to show him jow to paint!
I was in a military leadership program in undergrad and bought a basilisk to paint in my unit's colors...and now I have at least 3000 points of IG I am also glad to see another sentinel appreciator, though my love is torn between them and devil dogs. Their name combined with that melta cannon really get my engine rumbling.
For me it was the Warp Spiders. Just something about the idea of these guys Nightcrawler BAMPF BAMPF BAMPF-ing around is just so cool. They may still have the exact same sculpt 30 years later, but I still think that exarch looks super intimidating. Excited for their new kit that probably should have been released instead of the new dark reapers
For my space marines, it was the Land Raider. I bought the kit in 3rd edition when it was featured in two editions of White Dwarf (back to back) and even came with the poster. Sadly both have been lost to the sands of time. For my Imperial Guard army, it was all the tanks. I love me some tanks and the Guard doesn’t disappoint. For my Necrons, it was Señor Skorpekh. For the Death Guard, the individualism of the Plague Marines. I have some Eldar I’ve inherited from a friend and I love all the warlocks and farseers, especially on jet bike.
While it wasn't my first army, Daughters of Khaine has for a long time been my favorite army. First got pulled into them by the Blood Sisters models - glaive-wielding naga/dusas wearing terrifying masks of living metal? Sign me up! Through their strongest and weakest, I've always run at least one squad in my armies
I totally recommend not holding off on buying and painting the models you like most. I held off on buying some of my favourite models as wanted to practice on troops but then found it took me years to finally paint a lot of my favourites. Painting has definitely been more enjoyable once I focused more on painting my favourite models plus trying the techniques or colours I always wanted to try. I always wanted to paint nurgle daemons, specifically plague drones, with contrast and I’m finally doing it! Next up is a void dragon to finally give my necrons my new favourite necron model. My necron favourite used to be wraiths to and now I have 12 of them lol.
I started collecting Necrons because i got the starter set with a friend and he really loved space marines, and while i thought that necrons were kinda interesting it was when i first saw the Ghost Ark that i was completely sold on them
I ordered some knights to kitbash my own freeblade for adeptus ridiculous reasons, they haven't gotten here yet. But they made me look into armigers and now I kinda wanna have my own household...
The classic trollblood mauler was the warbeast model that got me into playing trolls for Warmachine and hordes, and I still love it to this day I even have a list running 3 classic maulers and an extreame one as well and it is one of the most fun lists I've ever run in any game.
Skorpekh destroyers and skorpekh lord. The perfectly nihilistic lore around destroyer cults paired with the tripod legs and huge laser swords just spoke to me in a different way
I started my chaos daemons because of the bright eye catching colours specifically pink horrors. But I always wanted to paint nurgle daemons because they looked so fun to paint.
Saint Celestine made me build Sisters of Battle. Currently have 1000 pts of metal and converted sisters with Saint Celestine as the warlord. When I started though, the Crisis and Riptide Battlesuits made me buy a tau army. While I never got much in the way of battlesuits, I did build a wide range of them before selling off the army (except my kroot) At that time, I quickly discovered the Dark Vengeance box and was hooked on the cool factor of the Dark Angels, with the Dark Angels Master and Librarian models drawing me in most. A friend and I split the box and he gave me a ton of his space marine stuff so he could have more room for chaos units in his boxes. After a while of me customizing and kitbashing models, I bought a Bloodletter box to give one of the swords to an HQ of mine. That kind of snowballed into building an entire army of Alpha Legion. After a while I ended up experimenting with an inquisition army due to needing smaller troops after someone bought me an Imperial Knight, and after a while, I discovered Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex and fell in love immediately. Bought him, bought some Grey knights and minor kits to kitbash a bunch of acolytes and a vanguard detachment of Telepathica, and it became my favorite lore army.
The death guard blight haulers were defiantly the reason I now have 5000 points of death guard. They’re just so fun and cool that I got them right off the bat along with the dark imperium box.
I've wanted to play sisters of battle for ages, and the exorcist has always been my favourite vehicle in 40k. When they came plastic I waited a year before collecting then really slowly because I'm a student but two days ago my partner got me the new plastic exorcist as a birthday present!
I had some friends who want me to start a warhammer army, yet I was unsure which army to play until I saw the older start collecting chaos space marines and I simply fell in love with the helbrute.
The arch revenant from the sylvaneth might just be my favorite model gw makes, and I finally pulled the trigger on a sylvaneth army so I can’t wait to get one
For me it was Men-at-arms for Bretonnia, I worked up to them first by buying a large unit of peasant bowmen but now I have an unhealthy number of the little peasants. I also very much like Guardsmen, Skeleton warriors, Tau Fire Warriors, Grots and Trolls (Troggoths), some of which I don't yet own so I'll need to fix that!
Battle for Macragge bruv, Tyranid Chittering Critters v Big Blue Brothers. 💪. After that I wanted a landspeeder storm with all the scouts hanging out like it was a Vietnam movie
Not a genestealer cult fan, but your paint job on them was amazing!!! Blood Angels where the ones that got me started. Sanguinius withhis angelic wings and almost being vampires drew me in. The lore around the Horus heresy always fascinated me when the books came out I couldn't read them fast enough and now the box sets coming out!!!
Everything tyranid and marine got me hooked love that last stand kind of monster apocalypse feel and the tyranids are so badass always loved the warriors as they embody the intelligent and monstrous that is tyranids to me like you could see them calling shots on the field and also knawing down on their victims
If I remember correctly those warbikers are actually on the correct base nowadays, they’re phasing out the pill bases and modern casts of the kit include the oval bases, judged off the size compared to the models they’re the correct diameter too
The exorcist made me start my first army with sisters and i love the asthetic of the space nuns in general, but that exorcist model was something i saw and knew immediatley that was the army i wanted. Thousand sons also had a few models like magnus and the vortex beast as well as just being egyptian space wizards. Which is awesome in itself to me
The mini's that got me to walk into a Games Workshop store and discover Warhammer was the Stormcast Eternals. Then I fell to Chaos. You see, I bought the 2 player starter set and the other half was Khorne. And I immediately wanted the Slaughterpriest with the Sword and Flail! The Exalted Deathbringer with Spear that looked like a Viking! It was all so heavy metal.
I am just starting an admech army. I knew I wanted an admech army when I saw artwork of them and learned their lore. The models that solidified it were the kastelan robots, and all the tech priests. I got some kastelans and I did some conversions to make them taller. I'm gonna make a video about it!
always been a Tyranids player as i just love the Xenomorph theme :D BUT i have recently started collecting Necrons and i just fell in love with the models, and just got my Silent king home :D also planning an Iron Hands army that i'm slowly getting models for, as when i started to collect Necrons i bought the Elite and Recruit box sets. so i thought why not also a SM Chapter and Iron Hands have always been on my mind. So now i have gotten hold on some Catafractii Terminators and got a Contemptor Dreadnought and a Deredeo Dreadnought incomming :D just need Iron Father Fairros, a box of Intercessors and a Leviathan Dreadnought and i got my start army :D
I think for me collecting skaven was literally the rat ogres because of the total war games. I just loved seeing rat ogres running into hordes of infantry and just wrecking stuff in tabletop too seeing rat ogres just wreck stuff is so good, also clanrats and stormvermin along with the HPA or Doomwheel
Back in the late 90's I saw a page in a white dwarf with a horde of 2nd Ed hormagaunts running through a snowy field with some screamer killers, I've always wanted to replicate that. Over all just the 2nd Ed Tyranid range did it for me.
Chaos knight Rampager was the model that inspired me to start an army. Big burly melee murder bot, what's not to love. It has spikes, skulls, a massive reaper chainsword, and I modified mine to look like it has laser's in its eyes (LED light).
i had grabbed a marine tactical squad way back in 2006, around 4th edition, tried and failed painting some practice orks. but I read the manual and the history and got enthralled with it so much. It was more so the lore that brought me in. Tried again a few years after buying a dreadnaught, and some pretty standard space marine poses. withing the last year after watching your videos and having friends now that have started this hobby in albeit it, small volumes, its been so much fun to try painting the orks(still working on them, and still got my OG ones) some imperial guard, gene stealers and recently tau. just need some necrons and I'll be ready for rogue trader or star grave. I am less interested in building any large army, rather I prefer to have a little of this and that for cool models for other games.
The model that got me into 40k and directly into the necrons was the c'tan nightbringer. I always saw it on my dad's shelf but I was never allowed to play with it I mean I was 6 back then. About 12 years later I own 8000 points of necrons (3 different Dynasties) and 2 c'tan nightbringers. Take that dad!
Started about 4 years ago with Warhammer Conquest, so I Build up a decent DeathGuard army and an Ultramarines army, from there I expanded it the latter with even more primaris, done a full company and now I’m working on the rest of the chapter, slowly building up to an entire chapter of Primaris Ultramarines
Ahriman probably was the model that pushed me into Thousand Sons. Succubus has me playing Drukhari. And the Keeper of Secrets has me realllllly looking into starting a Slaanesh army and learning Age of Sigmar. Honestly, about 90% of the time, looking at models gets me into a game. I've actually given the advice multiple times to people to pick the army that looks the coolest to them cause they are going to look at it more painting than their opponent will.
The voice and character of the Chaos sorcerer in Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising got me to start a 1ksons force before they had their own dex or new models. The project didn't really go anywhere, but now the Abominant and War Dogs have me starting Chaos Knights in earnest. For marines it was Dreadnoughts and Terminators, and the sisters their new look and line of plastic models had me sold on them.
I bought Indomitus as my start in 40k. I picked space marines of the two because of the bladeguard veterans and chaplain model in the box. I too picked Black Templars because I loved the lore when starting to read up while I waited for my box to arrive. My second army was Thousand Sons, the other Egyptian army. For me it was a mix of Stargate nostalgia and the models i loved are the Scarab Terminators and the exalted sorcerers. Honestly, I think the only thing that would get my attention now would be Knights to ally with both sides. I think the new war dogs with the skulls would look great next to the Sons, or kitbash an Anubis head on a larger knight.
Scions, I love making individual troopers with different gear, all armed to the teeth with pistols and knives and grenades from half a dozen different kits.
For necrons i think the triarch stalker or the void dragon , for space marines dreadnoughts , for orks everything , and for nids the broodlord or the hive tyrant
My first miniature in 1997 was a Forest Dragon, Snotling Siege team, and a starter box. I realized I needed paint and brushes, dumped almost $500 into my start into Warhammer. Then I got into painting miniatures to fund my new addiction. Then around 1999 I had to stop. I am planning to restart painting miniatures again. I just need to rebuild my painting kit before I buy my first armies. I don't play, I just love painting the miniatures.
For my space marines: Bladeguard Vets, Terminators, Eradicators, and pretty much every dreadnought. For my tyranids: hormagaunts, carnifex, and swarmlord
The model that got me into necrons are the skorpekh destroyers, I just love their giant xenos blades that slice through anything and all they can think about is their next victim.
The old failcast typhus drew me to death guard when I was 12, but not really being able to afford 40k and death guard not really being a proper army at the time (it was still 6e) I elected to pursue a small force of tau due to many battle suits being on sale at my local hobby store. Fast forward a few years and 8th dropped and I was in LOVE with the new plague marines and daemon engines in the death guard release. And now we come to today. Over 4000 points of death guard, 2 chaos titans, and no intent on slowing down
Basic infantry was always the defining trait of an army for me. Necron warriors were the thing that got me into the hobby, and then cadian shock troopers along with chaos cultists convinced me to start a renegades and heretics army.
About 2 years ago I didn’t even know what 40k was. I was in my FLGS for dnd one week and saw a sleek and angular space craft on the cover of a box and it read “Hemlock Wraithfighter.” And of course it was red. Fast forward to today and I’m over 2000 points in on craftworld eldar and can’t stop now
My love for years has beem for Craftworlds, only army I collected because I love their aesthetic. My new love is Seraphon, it wasn't even an official model that won me over, but a kitbash of 2 units by MS Paints, now I'm building a list using models from OPR.
