2nd Edition 40k Army’s

MusingWarboss said:
In the 90s my friends and I solved that issue by not being able to afford the models to do it. 🤣
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I think that was probably our solution too😂, there was only me in full time employment and I just wanted to collect the entire ultramarine 4th company at first
 
Musing Warboss - Yep these are the guys that came in the Warzone 2nd Edition starter set, they used to be very common but are starting to get harder to find. These were kindly donated to me by a pal, which then of course led to buying a load of stuff to turn it into a 2,000 point army, funny how that happens!

I’ve used a blue sheet and an blue screen app for back drops before but this was a crude cut and paste in the pages app, but it does add a little something to the army photos for sure.

Phirst - I am fortunate to play in a small group that has a common mind set towards games, that wants a fun story with our toys, rather than a blood thirsty tournament game. There is a TON of wonky stuff in 2nd Ed so some self policing is essential. Like you say, back in the day it was too expensive / difficult to build the horrific armies with your pocket money but it’s certainly achievable these days. Our armies tend to look like the old white dwarf bat rep armies with a little bit of everything, rather than spamming the best stuff. Generally if something crazy happens we just laugh it off as part of the whacky nature of the game, and live secure in the knowledge that it will be your opponent’s Psyker who gets dragged in to the warp turn one next time!
We also like making rules for the newer models and vehicles for our games as well, we quite often have big games where we can safely try out some crazy stuff like Knights. We had a big game not too long ago where my entire Ork army (ended up being about 7.5 k points) rushed a dug in imperial army. It was utter carnage.

Mega battle

Mega battle


I’ve played a game of 10th recently and it is just a hollow experience compared to the mayhem of 2nd. There’s nothing quite like it.

Lunacy

Lunacy

 
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Aren’t those that weird plastic that you can’t use plastic cement on? I was gifted a box by the FLGS waaaay back, and not being able to glue them together really turned me off to them. They went on eBay a few years later (because I got tired of moving them whenever I moved house).
 
That terrain is great, could have been in white dwarf 👍

Yeah I bought Leviathan, played 1 game of combat patrol with it, was ok 🧐 I think I only had a dozen or so games of 3rd edition before I had my 20year hiatus. 10th is a very different game from 2nd.
 
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I played third a couple times. I bought the book for fourth, but never got to play it. I haven’t played 40k since.
 
Punktaku said:
Aren’t those that weird plastic that you can’t use plastic cement on? I was gifted a box by the FLGS waaaay back, and not being able to glue them together really turned me off to them. They went on eBay a few years later (because I got tired of moving them whenever I moved house).
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I have heard this, I am a gorilla glue kind of guy so didn’t have any trouble though. God only knows what sort of weird seldomobtainium they are made out of!

Phirst said:
That terrain is great, could have been in white dwarf 👍
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Many thanks for the high praise! I have been trying to make terrain to match this aesthetic, I also goblin greened my Ultramarines army (remade to my childhood specs) for the same reason. I’ve been working on the ork adobe buildings recently.
Ork village

Ork village

 
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This isn't all 2nd ed, but it started in 2nd ed and ran all the way to early 4th, hence the mishmash of plastic and metal of various generations. Please excuse the old picture:

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There is more somewhere but it's been missing for a long time. And as you can see, it was never really finished.
 
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Stoof said:
This isn't all 2nd ed, but it started in 2nd ed and ran all the way to early 4th, hence the mishmash of plastic and metal of various generations. Please excuse the old picture:

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There is more somewhere but it's been missing for a long time. And as you can see, it was never really finished.
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Nice, like mine they are in the "someday, I'll finish" category

Is that an early attempt at kit-bashing a basilisk next to the Hellhound? I like the Mine clearing rhino :giggle:
 
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Yes, the basilisk is a broken JCB excavator toy with a dowel stick as a barrel. Loads of extra gubbins glued on and some armour plate made from floppy disc shells. My local hobby shop didn't have much available in the 90s and even if they did, I couldn't afford to buy most of it - so necessity being the mother of invention there's a basilisk made from a JCB, a Chimera kitbashed out of a Panzer II (the grey with black splodges) and a Leman Russ stand in from T62 toy.

Not having much available is also why I have Mordian, Cadian, Valhallan and Tallarn in the same army.
 
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I have some imperial guard (same reason I have Tyranids, see above 😁) They are all a mishmash of troops.The lad I bought them off just bought 1 troop box as they were released in White Dwarf, we just didn't know any better.
 
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Punktaku said:
Aren’t those that weird plastic that you can’t use plastic cement on? I was gifted a box by the FLGS waaaay back, and not being able to glue them together really turned me off to them. They went on eBay a few years later (because I got tired of moving them whenever I moved house).
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Luke82 said:
God only knows what sort of weird seldomobtainium they are made out of!
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I have a feeling it’s a kind of ABS plastic, as it’s quite hard. Heroquest had those super hard minis.

Most model kits use polystyrene, hence why polystyrene cement will glue them!!
 
MusingWarboss said:
I have a feeling it’s a kind of ABS plastic, as it’s quite hard. Heroquest had those super hard minis.

Most model kits use polystyrene, hence why polystyrene cement will glue them!!
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Tamiya Extra thin cement is your boy. Learned this the hard way with Rubicon Models WW2 kits falling apart on me with my usual plastic glue (Revell). Damn you super hard ABS!
 
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40k 2E was where I cut my teeth in the game. I started with Fantasy Battle because I was a AD&D 2E nerd before hitting tabletop war games but quickly found I liked 40k better.

I was old school Cadian, hundreds of tiny metal dudes. I actually got good at playing them. Lasguns may not be the best gun individually, but were strangely effective when there were several dozen all firing at the same target.

"I think what you heard was hand me some dice, I said hand me ALL your dice" :LOL:

Plus Leman Russes. Had to love 'em. Basalisks were fun when we played length wise on the 8' table.

Still have all my Cadians and tanks, but I'd have to dig them out and line them up to take a picture. I should do that.

I also have a small Chaos Black Legion army, because those Chaos termies and Abaddon were such cool models. I actually have that unit out on the shelf right now so I could look at 'em. I magnetized the bases so they'd stick to a piece of sheet metal. I'll have to dust them off and take a photo. There's some other 2E Chaos stuff, enough to field an army, but I think some of it has been lost or traded off. I know I have a couple chaos space marine units somewhere.
 
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Eight!! Death Jesters!! o_O

I do like the old harlequins did they ever come out with plastic's?

So that's an Harlequins, Knight Templar, Sister of Battle & Space Wolves army's I thought I had a lot going on 😁
 
That’s the stuff I didn’t sell off on eBay. i have a box of Tau that I had misplaced, and World Eaters for “badder guys” too.
 
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