A friend who's brother bought some eldar and tau showed us the shop 10-11 years ago. And from then on I have collected. The collection today is huge and expensive as hell.
From a family member or friend
From a WD magazine
From a GW store (bricks and mortar)
From a 3rd party store (bricks and mortar)
From a PC game/PC game magazine
From a film/film magazine
From the internet (forums, store’s YouTube etc.)
From Other
A friend who's brother bought some eldar and tau showed us the shop 10-11 years ago. And from then on I have collected. The collection today is huge and expensive as hell.
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One of my cousins had (what turned out to be*) high elves, some harlequins and a squat trike on his shelf in Im guessing 1989,besides it being called warhammer thats all I knew about it (I was 7, more into GI Joe and TMNT) what I remember liking most about them was the flocked bases!
Fast forward and a friend got Heroquest and I loved it, all I had was the witch king pack but my brother painted the minis for me which was awesome.
I got the Space Crusade main game, and forgot all about heroquest.
I know knew the logo, but I still didnt really have a clue about Games Workshop.
The proper discovery was going to see my at the time etranged brother (who then lived in another state) and spending a week reading through the big stack of White Dwarf magazines that was at his place and being completely engrossed reading the story of the Primarchs, The Horus Heresy and the Siege of Terra.
When I got back to Sydney I got my first WD (the one with the free marine,2nd box art cover) and then by total accident I discovered the GW store in Pitt St one day-walked out with my first blister pack (Leman Russ with Freki and Geri) and my details on the GW mailing list and the soon to be released 40K box (2nd) on preorder.
"Dude, such awesome memories!"
*he gave me the harlequins and the remains of the trike years later
Playing the first Dawn of War games was my first exposure to it.
Although I did play Hero Quest and Battle Masters when I was younger. I didn't know those were related until two years ago.
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Chuck Palahniuk
Heroquest for me too. Specifically the TV ad. Cue hours of begging for it for Christmas.
I was introduced to GW via Space Crusade and hero quest which my aunt and uncle used to play with when I was about 8. Then when I was about 10 my cousin introduced me to 2nd edition 40k & I found myself dragging my mam into GW soon after.
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Originally Posted by Various people much wiser than I
Was introduced to GW through Heroquest, back in the day. Man I feel old now.
How do you start a fight
Stick two Orks in a room
Space Crusade for me. Loved that game (and HeroQuest), especially the Genestealers, which seemed much creepier and more alien than all the other goofy space ork / robot enemies. Like others, though, I didn't know the game was connected to this much bigger 40K thing until a guy at school heard I liked SC and brought in a White Dwarf with extra missions and such. That issue also happened to contain Tyranid fluff. Extremely violent and terrifying Tyranid fluff, as I recall, replete with men soiling themselves at the bloody approach of their butchers (I've never forgotten that line) Featuring Genestealers. And Screamer-Killers and Hunter-Slayers and Zoats and, er, Squig Swarms... most of which had vanished by then since I was actually reading an old back issue, but never mind, the 'Nid brain leeches had latched onto me good and proper.
Next stop was the local FLGS (there was no GW store in town back then), where I was amazed at the things on the display shelf. Space Marines could have Dreadnoughts too?! And motorbikes?
The weird thing is that it took me a long while after that to actually get into the 40K game - partly due to the expense, but also because I kept thinking of it as a sort of infinite expansion pack for Space Crusade. I was mostly obsessed with the idea of making 3D terrain for SC, getting a few extra Marines and painting all the figures (horribly, of course).
Ahh, yes, the painting... I remember marching up to the counter, with brother and dad in tow, and demanding "black, blue, red, green..." At which point the saleswoman said "whoa, slow down, we've got five kinds of blue, nineteen flavours of red, do you want Goblin, Snot, Whimsical or Grinch Green?" and so on. It was like that bit in Flight of the Navigator when the kid wakes up eight years in the future and innocently requests a Coke only to be bombarded with a gazillion Starbucks-esque options by Sarah Jessica Parker.
Then we lost most of the paint in the paint pots (the old rubber lids) because us wee kiddies couldn't get them open the first time without teeth-gritted effort until they went 'blap' and sprayed their contents over self and garage. Good times.
Looking back, I kinda wish that kid had brought crack to school instead. Would've been cheaper in the long run.
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Some friends in high school saw the RT book in a comic book store. Gave it a try. Talked me into it. We'd been playing battletech, this wasn't that much different. I got chaos becouse everyone else had chosen one of the existing factions. I collected and played my army by the rules that came out in white dwarf, at least until they actually came out with the Realm of Chaos books. Sigh. The good old days...
I was 5 and my cousin set up a piece of cardboard scenery and a 5 man space marine squad and some orks facing them. He gave me control of the space marines and proceeded to tell me how to play. Hence my love of fantasy/sci-fi was born and my world of hobbying(?) began. I'm now almost 27 (June 4th) and still love everything to do with fantasy and sci-fi no matter what it is.
A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn - Andrew Taylor
Long before RT came out, GW started their shops off by buying out other game stores and retaining the staff to run them. I'd been a regular at the store since it opened in York, suddenly it had a new sign and a bit more stock (mind you, back then they carried stock from all the other game companies as well)!
Nothing says "I love you" like orbital artillery...
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I started with the old lord of the rings miniatures magazines ,then i got into 40k after realising there was a whole shop dedicated to these awesome plastic figures.
I used to collect baseball card (I was 8-9 years old) and would frequent the baseball card shop in the downtown section of the small city I grew up in. In the back was a miniature gaming section (they shared the rent). I would come in and day after day would see the pretty boxes and huge stocks of blisters. I eventually started asking questions about how they paint the beautiful miniatures they painted. Then I saw my first unit fully painted of the original goblins with flocked bases and a movement tray. I asked "What games is that!" and they said "It's war Warhammer and it's very expensive". I decided to buy my first ever model, the first edition of the Dwarf Gyrocopter. Now this was back in the late 80's. I also was invited to the local D&D game on Sundays. I was hooked. The feel that GW and Citadel gave me and the worlds they created kept me out of trouble my whole life and gave me life long friendships I still have to this day.
I first found Games Workshop when I walked by the store in the mall. I was quite surprised to see anything like that in this city. A very nice surprise!
I was a long time military modeller, mostly WWII German stuff. Went into a great model shop in Dorking who stocked kits from unusual manufacturers. Happened to be with my little brother who picked up a box of the old plastic mono-pose chaos warriors and I ended up with a shrieker jet bike on impulse. We went home and had great fun painting them with humbrol enamels (eek!) and I got to use all the colours that I wouldn't normally. His warriors ended up looking like power rangers, in bright blues/purples etc!
Later he bought a copy of WD (180) and that introduced me to the company that made the models and games. Dread to think what I've spent over the years, all from that initial impulse buy.
At my brothers friends house a saw an old box of heroquest & blood bowl, I asked about them, a few days later played them, a few days later started an Orc & Goblin army for WFB
Pretty much from WD 217 and the free Necron. Saw it in a shop, wondered what it was and flicked through the mag; after that it was talking to a family friend who already had some Marines and it took off from there really.
I sort of knew GW existed, but never did anything with that knowledge till I got a Warhammer online beta invite.. Playing that game, made me want to play Warhammer fantasy.
I discovered GW from a 3rd party store!
I can't remember which one it was as it was so long ago (nearing 30 years) although it was in Croydon, Surrey. I bought a couple of men at arms on horse back and a Gnome. Yes, that's right, a Gnome.
I still have them safely put away.
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