Welcome to Flashback Fridays, where I dig deep for something cool that I have from back in the day.
Which according to the comic Dane Cook was a Wednesday, lol.
You always hear the question: “How did you get into the hobby?”, and for me it was getting bored with assembling fighter jet models.
I could never afford the good jet kits either, lol. Plus those things had a ton of components, we’re spoiled by Games Workshop when it comes to piece count, believe me.
Back on track. No these terminators are not from the movie Fifth Element, although they look quite similar to the Guardians of the Elements.
These guys date back to the dawning of the Imperium: Rogue Trader era circa 1988-89.
They were one of my first purchases back in the day as a wee lad.
I never really played the game till the mid-nineties (mostly cause I was bad at maths till then- and Nintendo was fun), but I still loved to paint and model for some reason.
Eventually I managed to paint these guys, and hey looks like I wasn’t too bad for a youngblood either!
I was shocked to find them again recently, and while I remembered them as being GW, couldn’t for the life of me remember seeing anything like them in say like the past 20 years.
So I went searching for pics to verify my claim, and sure enough the Stuff of Legends site had pictures of them from a very old catalog. Check out some of the other “similar” models on the page.
Oh boy how the hobby has come a long way…
Checkout the Three Sixty below, and have a great weekend! -MBG
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits In 2009
Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X
Bio: Virginia restless, miniature painter & cat dad. He blames LEGOs for all this, as there was something about those little-colored blocks that started it all. Spikey Bits started with Rob trying to stay motivated to hobby on his backlog of projects and share his knowledge with others during the early blogging era.
Scale model hobbyist in the 80s, miniature wargamer, and trading card player ever since. He’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy since 5th Edition, but Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and minatures made of both pewter and resin.
