back in the early eighties when the shops were first being opened, each shop was given A citadel Dragon and a version of the Citadel Giant that was only available for display in the store. While I was stock taking old molds I came across the molds for both and cast myself one of each, both are still unmade and stored away as I have no idea how much the are worth
@@DanaHowl If you get them, tease us with making videos on them. Oh, by the way, dont get your hopes up for that paint set. The pots were the worst GW has ever made. My pots, even the unopened, dried up in less than 6 years after I bought the mega set in 1999.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Great GW era. Couldn’t afford anything back then. Keep it sealed, and build the Warhammer Hobby Center in your room. A small gaming store at your home, with old blisters, posters etc. Would love to see that as background for your YT videos. ❤
Build and paint everything, then create a shelf to display it all - cardboard box, kit boxes, paperwork, etc! Totally worth the display space for such an amazing piece of history.
What a mad trip down memory lane. That box of tactical marines was the first kit I bought back in 1998 when I got into the hobby. Second was a kit of Space ork boyz. Back then it was a box of 16 boyz for $30 CAD. Oh how time flies
Keep them sealed...Speaking as an OLD Hammer, you can only imagine the tingly little regrets to selling some very sweet classic figs I've Let Go of. Great score!
I worked at GW trade sales in the UK around this time and these kits were very common we sent out dozens every week. We would price the items, put all the blurb in but also hand written notes and they would get a rep visit within days of receipt. The only thing the sales text would have said that is a tad bit contentious is there was absolutely no sale or return which was rare in the toy trade. We would target these boxes at the more marginal stores ie film prop stores or comic stores that would not bite to take a starter stock of a few thousand £ without proof peeps wanted this stuff. It very rarely failed and indeed the older the target audience of the shop was ie chess sets and board games the better the GW sales as they now knew where to get little Johnnies Warhammers from D
This is such an amazing find! I wonder if you could scan the magazines/retailer documents (letter excepted) and upload it to the Internet Archive, it would fit in perfectly there and it's such a fascinating piece of history (I say this as a historian!)
I'd suggest getting in touch with Warhammer World as while the collections on display are immense they are missing some items,who knows you may have something here they'd love for their collection,of course you'd want to deliver in person (Travel costs covered by GW for the privilage), very cool haul btw.
My god, the space marine paint schemes from the hobby booklet unlocked some DEEP memories for me! I haven't seen those pictures since I was a kid drooling over how cool the boys in the grade above me were for owning anything of that kind. It must have been a few years prior to '99, cause I didn't even understand whst I was looking at or how to find out (asking was out of the question ofc, those kids were waaay to cool for me to dare) - but it blew my damn mind! Thank you for sharing with us, excited to see where you take this treasure. I'd love to see more of the different booklets!
That literal page made me fall in love with a paint scheme, The Scythes of the Emperor, that i still collect and paint to this day. Talk about a self propelled mass reactive bolt shell to the old nostalgia!
As someone who was born post 2000, I've really enjoyed the hunt of old Citadel history and model, my proudest collection is my over 30 metal Eldar Farseers and Warlocks, all versions of them I have.
I hated it when they switched to those paint pots. The amount of times the lids would seal themselves shut and you'd make the biggest mess when you finally got them back off. They also held less than the old pots and dried out quicker. I remember using my paints from 1990 in 1999 without issue, but the 99 paints dried up fast. Damn, I'm old. I had that issue of White Dwarf too along with the scouts and homunculus. Nostalgia just hit me like a brick!
Honestly I'd keep it sealed and as-is. There's a reason you can't find shit like this anymore, and that's because it's continually opened and then (more often than not) incompetently assembled and painted, ruining any value it once had. Not to mention the papers being improperly stored, or just man handled by some Cheetos encrusted ham beast, also destroying any collectable those had.
that was a blast from the past. Takes me back to the miniature train store in my hometown (which did have the Games Workshop Hobby Centre, which attracted my brother and me like catnip)
I never would have thought the words Games Workshop and Free would be interesting same sentence. This was great , thank you . I love the paperwork I got a bunch of star wars instructions in a box with a tie fighter and a stack of bar codes and a mail in form for Boba fett never completed. I miss promotions like that. Great post , thank you.
That's so cool!!!!! I played 2nd Edition, and then had kids, and raised my family, and when Covid hit, I came back to 40k for 9th Edition! I love how the new models look, but something about the old school Marines, especially the Beakies just make me smile!
That's an amazing find! Those Saurus models make up the bulk of my Lizardmen army, those Chaos Warriors were the peak of the range IMO, and that retailer material might not be archived anywhere else! I say use the models, but keep the boxes and retail materials in the box it came in, so it's still a time capsule of sorts but the minis won't stay trapped under shrinkwrap forever.
Whenever I see warhammer from around the 90,s it takes me back to 92 when I started. Seeing you flick through the old catalogs & minis makes me really miss fantasy battle. Look forward to new old world whenever that drops hopefully soon 🤞🏻
Wow. Just wow. I have goosebumps watching this. My older brother introduced me to warhammer in the very early 90s. This video brings back so many great memories. I'm actually close to tears lol. Thank you for that. Have a sub and a like. Greetings from Reykjavík.
Personally, I couldn't open the sealed stuff. While tempting, it would destroy the value. You can find these models on Ebay, but once you open a sealed box, it's gone forever...
This is really cool. You asked weather you should paint it up or keep it sealed as a time capsule of sorts. I think there is an excellent middle ground. You should take all the models and make a large diorama! This way you get to paint them up but you'll also be keeping them together as an homage to the period. Personally I think it would be doing the miniatures more justice than being sealed away in a weird warped box.
I bet that Trade Secrets says sometime along the lines of, 'The key too long term profits, is too constantly Increase our prices for Australian stores by by 5% each year for the next 30 years, regardless of if inflation actually went up or not, everywhere else 2% will do'
This box litterally came out 2 months after I was born and WOW does it look cool! The artworks, the retro boxes and models, it's just awesome to see that almost fresh out of the box. And I mean, I started painting and playing 40k with the Orks from Assault on Black Reach a friend gave me so even though I was "little" I still remember the aesthetic of that time being fairly comparable to what we have nowadays but this? This looks so different, so bright and kinda cartoony compared to what came after.
5:28 I remember when this came out, the level of customization and ease of assembly over the pewter/plastic combo marines was mind-blowing. It was also $28 Canadian.
They're still sending out boxes in this style. I used to work at my local bookstore and they sent us a sample box with a Recruit Starter Set for 40K, a Redemptor Dreadnought, and that AoS beginner's box with some paints, brushes, and 2 Stormcast. As the only Warhammer fan it was all mine!!
Hah, that was so great Dana! I love the 90' Warhammer stuff, I'd like to see much more of it on your channel, and a lot of you painting such things! :)
ahhh the joy of these little colourful 90s style time capsules, little bit envious about the models, but i need to see them opened and painted by you! Toys need to be opened if they spark joy and i need to see the goofy ass old awkward sculps in your glowing paint schemes
That lizardmen paint set was the first warhammer product I ever owned. Was bought as a present for my 9th or 10th birthday. I still have those lizardmen, still with the paint job done by those paints, 20+ years ago
Excited to see the future videos with this stuff! Just a word of warning, the paint may be unusable--those pots dried up so quickly, but fortunately GW changed the pots and made it a little less frustrating. Hopefully they are still good for you!
9:38 "What can my mom/girlfriend/sister do while i'm at Games Day?" - Wow! This puts this so hard in the "only teenage boys allowed"-corner, you'd think it comes straight from the 90s - oh, wait...
I started work at the GW US HQ in October of 1999. These was a real walk down memory lane. I loved the Baymeadow Drive offices and thr people there were amazing.
Its weird that I occasionally forget I was the GW rep for a local game store way back for like two years, but you should be fine sharing the forms, I was a rep/events manager at the end of 5th ed into 6th and It was odd to me that late into the 00s that retailers had basically two ordering options, which was by mail using the forms, or via phone and your account rep, no web based vendor portal. The latter is why you're probably good to share since you need an account number to do anything with them since they are not specific to each account ect. Still defo cool to see a trade demo kit in basically like new condition, they stopped doing those ages ago but they kinda sorta live on in the prize support packs which have a similar composition or did when I was still in the industry anyways.
I still have my 3rd edition box from when I was a kid, with rulebook, terrain and badly painted minis. It's so cool seeing all of that artwork and promotional material in pretty much pristine condition!
I had one of these boxes from pre 1995 and it came with a vhs explaining the business model of how to sell games workshop products. That box was the start of my hobby life. it came with fantasy and 40k minis
I remember for a while back in the 90s I had the large paperback order catalogues. Oddly, when mail ordering via this system for several years after print; they honoured the prices I quoted to them on the "fill this out yourself" form rather than what happened to be the latest price at the back of the White Dwarf or in store blisters.
I wonder. Concerning the "its al free" signs, was there a time in the 90's that people got sent random packages with goods in them, and if they accepted the package, they would have to pay for the goods in them ? a scam essentially. I feel like I vaquely remember older people than me talk about such things, but I'm not sure. Those free signs might prevent people from sending it back in fear of a scam. I wonder if other people could confirm or deny that this was a thing back then, pre internet and all.
THAT was a find. That was what we got back in the day when GW actually gave a DAMN to use local game shops to sell their figures and games in. 3rd edition, and give or take some change.
I'm curious where this package shipped from. My friend who owned a game store that has since closed has been ebaying his old products. He had tons of things from this era when they closed. Wonder if this was one of his items?
Man, the nostalgia hit from this video was intense. Literally the first model I ever painted was from that Chaos Warriors Halberdier regiment. Hope to see you paint them up one day Dana, I'm sure you'll do them more justice than 13-year-old me managed!
I kinda had a hard time enjoying painting Warhammer, so I started painting them in retro colors, and I'm enjoying it more now. Nostalgiahammer is definitely a vibe.
I think keeping them and painting them up would add to the story of that box. It's part of your collection and life now. You could keep the boxes together as a time capsule.
I have a *palpable* memory of flipping through that exact 1999 catalogue when I was in middle school! I had no idea what any of this stuff was ("I guess Skaven are, like... rat... disease... dudes? COOL!"), but I knew I wanted it. I also DEFINITELY had that two-pack of metal Space Marine scouts! I wasn't ready for this degree of nostalgia today!
Thanks for that. I got someone's collection in lead some years back. They ended up sending tons more than in the photos. I still got the metal chaos dreadnought out of it. Thanx for the memberberries Dana
Fantastic find! This is from back when I had just started the hobby. I still have almost everything from back then, the paints are all gone or unusable now though. The paintset is definitely nice to have if you can revive the paints. No boltgun metal but the chainmail and goblin green are true classics. Great video!
This was a year after I got into the hobby. I started out with that lizardman paint set. So much nostalgia! Seeing the flat base coated example model on the box got me thinking. Obviously they wanted to show an attainable example of what a beginner could achieve using the paints in the set, and there were no shades included. However, I'd like to see a video where you try to paint the model the best you can using only the paints in the set. I reckon you could give it a good shot with a bit of mixing and layering! Maybe even thinning down the black to do a bit of old school blacklining 😝
5:14 I hope it's like a SteveMRE video but that you don't get carted away with botulism at the end. You got to listen for the hiss when you open those paints.
I wandered into one of my regular charity shops the other day, and they showed me a HUGE pile of very old Citadel Miniatures branded Rogue Trader and very early Warhammer fantasy/40k minis, still in their boxes/plastic & card covers, and STILL in the original shrink wrap, too. They were donated by someone who found them in the attic of their new home, all saved by someone who obviously collected them for many years, but left them behind, unnoticed, after they died. I bought the entire collection, then gave them to my girlfriend and her daughter (They're BOTH Warhammer and WH30k fans, to say the least, so getting a massive amount of old pre-40k minis was a dream come true for them). I didn't know women could squeal with delight in vocal ranges only audible to bats or dolphins until that moment :-) Happy times all round, especially for me, as seeing the old RTB01 sprues in mint condition was just one major trip down Memory Lane, and they actually let me keep the skeleton box sets for my own Undead armies :-D
👍👍 what an awesome find! I had some of this stuff myself back then, I would study them for hours, they were my sacred texts 😁 My two cents, as long as you keep some record of the original state of this stuff, do whatever you want with it 🤷🏼♀️ Great to see this stuff getting some love, I'm actually painting a load of 3rd edition stuff myself right now 😁!
Oh boy, this is a nostalgia trip! I got into the hobby in December of that year, and I had those Chaos halbadiers! I also think my flgs had the GW hobby station, I recognise a lot of the products (rip Empire, Kings Lynn) I just missed out on BFG, which is sad.
That's a pretty rare piece of GW history, the minis are nothing to write about, but all the other stuff it's a good example of a company with a different spirit.
What a great haul!!!! Congrats :) Side note: I was at the Golden Demon 99 so a brief look at that old advert was killer. :) Thanx Great box set of really cool stuff..
Man I have been getting into retro stuff. I got a retro 2cnd edition tac squad (almost fully painted...) And a 4th edition Battle for Macragge box set (in the process of getting paint). I am having a blast moving into the past before I springboard to the future!
Wow, so cool. I'm sure you had a lot of fun opening this in real time, like an episode of Storage Wars, but with Warhammer! I really enjoyed this, thanks Dana. Oh, and that Lizardman paint set was the first GW product I ever bought.
Open everything up very very slowly, and then go to town, building, testing and painting all of that plastic goodness! A separate video for each of the Saurus warriors, a video for the Marines, one for the Chaos dudes and a separate video for each other model. Please make sure that there is plenty of exaggerated inhalations and smelling going on as you open each box.
Paint them all! I would love to see you adapt your style to those second/early third edition marines. Happy note: I went to eBay right after this was over and found a sealed paint set that was the 40k counterpart to the one you received for a very reasonable price.
Good Lord, what a find... That is from around the same time I was introduced to the hobby, when a friend of mine got into Mordheim. I have a Citadel Annual from 2002 and some old contemporary White Dwarfs. I just love the colours on the printed photos and the parchment-aesthetic of that era. :)
My rarest piece of GW came from Ebay, too. I found an authentic Centurius model online. Paid about what you did for this box for it and I don't regret a penny.
Personally, I would build the minis and paint them, then reapply shrinkwrap to the boxes, and mount them to something so that they can be on display. Maybe a sheet of plexiglass.
40k 2nd ed was my era, I also went in pretty hard on eBay, collecting all of the period correct Eldar minis I couldn't afford as a teenager. But since it was a 2nd ed army, I only needed 1000pts for a full size game, so it didn't actually cost me all that much.
Please don't unbox any of it. Keep it all together sealed. This is a part of GW history that should be preserved. I wouldn't be surprised if this retail sample box is unique in the fact it's the only one still complete with box.
It almost seems a shame to open any of these but as Tiny Spock tells Sheldon in BBT - It is not logical toys are meant to be opened and played with. A nice retro display board would be a good idea. I do remember seeing some of the brochures in store and included in boxes. I also remember picking up some of the paint sets from a UK discount retailer (may have been the Works or something similar) for about 50p a box - although I can't remember whether they were these paints or the the ones that P3 now produce. Great find and worth every penny (or Loony as I think they say in Canada).
I used to trail around 2nd hand shops looking for RPG and gamebooks. I once found a pristine boxed copy of Warhammer 2nd Edition for £1! Wish I'd kept it, but I was skint at the time so it went on ebay and I made about £40.
I was working in a hobby shop when all this was released. Thanks for taking me back to the good old days Dana.
back in the early eighties when the shops were first being opened, each shop was given A citadel Dragon and a version of the Citadel Giant that was only available for display in the store. While I was stock taking old molds I came across the molds for both and cast myself one of each, both are still unmade and stored away as I have no idea how much the are worth
If you’re ever looking for a buyer hit me up, that sounds like an incredible video idea
@@DanaHowl
If you get them, tease us with making videos on them.
Oh, by the way, dont get your hopes up for that paint set.
The pots were the worst GW has ever made.
My pots, even the unopened, dried up in less than 6 years after I bought the mega set in 1999.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Great GW era. Couldn’t afford anything back then.
Keep it sealed, and build the Warhammer Hobby Center in your room. A small gaming store at your home, with old blisters, posters etc. Would love to see that as background for your YT videos. ❤
This is when I started playing 40K back in high school. Such nostalgia. Many old man stories. Wow.
Snipe and Wib are likely feeling psychic reverberations through The Warp...
Build and paint everything, then create a shelf to display it all - cardboard box, kit boxes, paperwork, etc! Totally worth the display space for such an amazing piece of history.
What a mad trip down memory lane. That box of tactical marines was the first kit I bought back in 1998 when I got into the hobby. Second was a kit of Space ork boyz. Back then it was a box of 16 boyz for $30 CAD. Oh how time flies
Keep them sealed...Speaking as an OLD Hammer, you can only imagine the tingly little regrets to selling some very sweet classic figs I've Let Go of. Great score!
I worked at GW trade sales in the UK around this time and these kits were very common we sent out dozens every week. We would price the items, put all the blurb in but also hand written notes and they would get a rep visit within days of receipt. The only thing the sales text would have said that is a tad bit contentious is there was absolutely no sale or return which was rare in the toy trade. We would target these boxes at the more marginal stores ie film prop stores or comic stores that would not bite to take a starter stock of a few thousand £ without proof peeps wanted this stuff. It very rarely failed and indeed the older the target audience of the shop was ie chess sets and board games the better the GW sales as they now knew where to get little Johnnies Warhammers from D
This is such an amazing find! I wonder if you could scan the magazines/retailer documents (letter excepted) and upload it to the Internet Archive, it would fit in perfectly there and it's such a fascinating piece of history (I say this as a historian!)
Sae that would be great!
I'd suggest getting in touch with Warhammer World as while the collections on display are immense they are missing some items,who knows you may have something here they'd love for their collection,of course you'd want to deliver in person (Travel costs covered by GW for the privilage), very cool haul btw.
My god, the space marine paint schemes from the hobby booklet unlocked some DEEP memories for me! I haven't seen those pictures since I was a kid drooling over how cool the boys in the grade above me were for owning anything of that kind. It must have been a few years prior to '99, cause I didn't even understand whst I was looking at or how to find out (asking was out of the question ofc, those kids were waaay to cool for me to dare) - but it blew my damn mind!
Thank you for sharing with us, excited to see where you take this treasure. I'd love to see more of the different booklets!
That literal page made me fall in love with a paint scheme, The Scythes of the Emperor, that i still collect and paint to this day.
Talk about a self propelled mass reactive bolt shell to the old nostalgia!
As someone who was born post 2000, I've really enjoyed the hunt of old Citadel history and model, my proudest collection is my over 30 metal Eldar Farseers and Warlocks, all versions of them I have.
"It belongs in a museum!"
I hated it when they switched to those paint pots. The amount of times the lids would seal themselves shut and you'd make the biggest mess when you finally got them back off. They also held less than the old pots and dried out quicker. I remember using my paints from 1990 in 1999 without issue, but the 99 paints dried up fast. Damn, I'm old. I had that issue of White Dwarf too along with the scouts and homunculus. Nostalgia just hit me like a brick!
Honestly I'd keep it sealed and as-is. There's a reason you can't find shit like this anymore, and that's because it's continually opened and then (more often than not) incompetently assembled and painted, ruining any value it once had. Not to mention the papers being improperly stored, or just man handled by some Cheetos encrusted ham beast, also destroying any collectable those had.
The box of chaos warriors is 'a bit warped', ha ha how appropriate!
that was a blast from the past. Takes me back to the miniature train store in my hometown (which did have the Games Workshop Hobby Centre, which attracted my brother and me like catnip)
PLEASE!!! Keep the whole thing intact! It’s a piece of history! Maybe put the whole thing in a shadowbox?
I never would have thought the words Games Workshop and Free would be interesting same sentence. This was great , thank you . I love the paperwork
I got a bunch of star wars instructions in a box with a tie fighter and a stack of bar codes and a mail in form for Boba fett never completed. I miss promotions like that. Great post , thank you.
This brings me back. '99 was the year I started and I can fondly remember flipping the pages of that catalogue until it was completely worn out!
I would leave it all sealed and together. I would even keep the damaged box it came in. Display it somewhere.
That's so cool!!!!! I played 2nd Edition, and then had kids, and raised my family, and when Covid hit, I came back to 40k for 9th Edition! I love how the new models look, but something about the old school Marines, especially the Beakies just make me smile!
Wow! That takes me back. I was a Rouge Trader kid, and I remember all this when they all came out. Happy Memories.
Keep it sealed. Put it in the attic. If we all survive it might be worth something one day
Wow a trip down memory lane. I started the hobby around '97 and seeing the old paint pots and models is a great trip for me...thanks for sharing this.
That's an amazing find! Those Saurus models make up the bulk of my Lizardmen army, those Chaos Warriors were the peak of the range IMO, and that retailer material might not be archived anywhere else! I say use the models, but keep the boxes and retail materials in the box it came in, so it's still a time capsule of sorts but the minis won't stay trapped under shrinkwrap forever.
^This. The printed material should be preserved of course. But models are meant to be painted. Would you deny them their purpose?
Oh, the GLORIOUS sensation of Black Templars listed as a Codex Chapter.
Whenever I see warhammer from around the 90,s it takes me back to 92 when I started. Seeing you flick through the old catalogs & minis makes me really miss fantasy battle. Look forward to new old world whenever that drops hopefully soon 🤞🏻
I got into 40k in the summer of 1999 and Dark Eldar were my first army. Good memories.
Wow. Just wow. I have goosebumps watching this. My older brother introduced me to warhammer in the very early 90s. This video brings back so many great memories. I'm actually close to tears lol. Thank you for that. Have a sub and a like. Greetings from Reykjavík.
I worked for GWUS at the time. We called them "trade packs." Each salesman were supposed to send out at least 10 a week to potential new accounts.
Personally, I couldn't open the sealed stuff. While tempting, it would destroy the value. You can find these models on Ebay, but once you open a sealed box, it's gone forever...
When I see a new Howl upload, my day instantly improves
I think it's a given that the paint is dried out and unusable at this point. I'd say don't open the paint and keep it sealed. Display or sell it?
This is really cool. You asked weather you should paint it up or keep it sealed as a time capsule of sorts. I think there is an excellent middle ground.
You should take all the models and make a large diorama! This way you get to paint them up but you'll also be keeping them together as an homage to the period. Personally I think it would be doing the miniatures more justice than being sealed away in a weird warped box.
I've lost all interest in GW stuff... but as someone who was into warhammer fantasy and 40k in the early-mid 2000's this was super nostalgic for me.
I bet that Trade Secrets says sometime along the lines of, 'The key too long term profits, is too constantly Increase our prices for Australian stores by by 5% each year for the next 30 years, regardless of if inflation actually went up or not, everywhere else 2% will do'
This box litterally came out 2 months after I was born and WOW does it look cool!
The artworks, the retro boxes and models, it's just awesome to see that almost fresh out of the box. And I mean, I started painting and playing 40k with the Orks from Assault on Black Reach a friend gave me so even though I was "little" I still remember the aesthetic of that time being fairly comparable to what we have nowadays but this? This looks so different, so bright and kinda cartoony compared to what came after.
5:28 I remember when this came out, the level of customization and ease of assembly over the pewter/plastic combo marines was mind-blowing.
It was also $28 Canadian.
This is such an amazing find!! Thanks for sharing it with us and transporting me back to some of my favorite memories of my late teens!
They're still sending out boxes in this style. I used to work at my local bookstore and they sent us a sample box with a Recruit Starter Set for 40K, a Redemptor Dreadnought, and that AoS beginner's box with some paints, brushes, and 2 Stormcast. As the only Warhammer fan it was all mine!!
Hah, that was so great Dana! I love the 90' Warhammer stuff, I'd like to see much more of it on your channel, and a lot of you painting such things! :)
ahhh the joy of these little colourful 90s style time capsules, little bit envious about the models, but i need to see them opened and painted by you! Toys need to be opened if they spark joy and i need to see the goofy ass old awkward sculps in your glowing paint schemes
Everything was so bright. I love it.
That lizardmen paint set was the first warhammer product I ever owned. Was bought as a present for my 9th or 10th birthday.
I still have those lizardmen, still with the paint job done by those paints, 20+ years ago
Excited to see the future videos with this stuff! Just a word of warning, the paint may be unusable--those pots dried up so quickly, but fortunately GW changed the pots and made it a little less frustrating. Hopefully they are still good for you!
9:38 "What can my mom/girlfriend/sister do while i'm at Games Day?" - Wow! This puts this so hard in the "only teenage boys allowed"-corner, you'd think it comes straight from the 90s - oh, wait...
I started work at the GW US HQ in October of 1999. These was a real walk down memory lane. I loved the Baymeadow Drive offices and thr people there were amazing.
Its weird that I occasionally forget I was the GW rep for a local game store way back for like two years, but you should be fine sharing the forms, I was a rep/events manager at the end of 5th ed into 6th and It was odd to me that late into the 00s that retailers had basically two ordering options, which was by mail using the forms, or via phone and your account rep, no web based vendor portal. The latter is why you're probably good to share since you need an account number to do anything with them since they are not specific to each account ect.
Still defo cool to see a trade demo kit in basically like new condition, they stopped doing those ages ago but they kinda sorta live on in the prize support packs which have a similar composition or did when I was still in the industry anyways.
I still have my 3rd edition box from when I was a kid, with rulebook, terrain and badly painted minis. It's so cool seeing all of that artwork and promotional material in pretty much pristine condition!
I had one of these boxes from pre 1995 and it came with a vhs explaining the business model of how to sell games workshop products. That box was the start of my hobby life. it came with fantasy and 40k minis
I remember for a while back in the 90s I had the large paperback order catalogues. Oddly, when mail ordering via this system for several years after print; they honoured the prices I quoted to them on the "fill this out yourself" form rather than what happened to be the latest price at the back of the White Dwarf or in store blisters.
I wonder. Concerning the "its al free" signs, was there a time in the 90's that people got sent random packages with goods in them, and if they accepted the package, they would have to pay for the goods in them ? a scam essentially. I feel like I vaquely remember older people than me talk about such things, but I'm not sure. Those free signs might prevent people from sending it back in fear of a scam. I wonder if other people could confirm or deny that this was a thing back then, pre internet and all.
Thanks for this time travel.
Great find, looking forward to whatever future content you make about it.
THAT was a find. That was what we got back in the day when GW actually gave a DAMN to use local game shops to sell their figures and games in. 3rd edition, and give or take some change.
I'm curious where this package shipped from. My friend who owned a game store that has since closed has been ebaying his old products. He had tons of things from this era when they closed. Wonder if this was one of his items?
This was from an estate sale, so probably a different one!
Man, the nostalgia hit from this video was intense. Literally the first model I ever painted was from that Chaos Warriors Halberdier regiment. Hope to see you paint them up one day Dana, I'm sure you'll do them more justice than 13-year-old me managed!
I kinda had a hard time enjoying painting Warhammer, so I started painting them in retro colors, and I'm enjoying it more now. Nostalgiahammer is definitely a vibe.
I think keeping them and painting them up would add to the story of that box. It's part of your collection and life now. You could keep the boxes together as a time capsule.
I have a *palpable* memory of flipping through that exact 1999 catalogue when I was in middle school! I had no idea what any of this stuff was ("I guess Skaven are, like... rat... disease... dudes? COOL!"), but I knew I wanted it. I also DEFINITELY had that two-pack of metal Space Marine scouts! I wasn't ready for this degree of nostalgia today!
Thanks for that. I got someone's collection in lead some years back. They ended up sending tons more than in the photos. I still got the metal chaos dreadnought out of it. Thanx for the memberberries Dana
You got the lizardmen paint set in time to paint the new Seraphon
Fantastic find! This is from back when I had just started the hobby. I still have almost everything from back then, the paints are all gone or unusable now though. The paintset is definitely nice to have if you can revive the paints. No boltgun metal but the chainmail and goblin green are true classics. Great video!
This was a year after I got into the hobby. I started out with that lizardman paint set. So much nostalgia!
Seeing the flat base coated example model on the box got me thinking. Obviously they wanted to show an attainable example of what a beginner could achieve using the paints in the set, and there were no shades included.
However, I'd like to see a video where you try to paint the model the best you can using only the paints in the set. I reckon you could give it a good shot with a bit of mixing and layering! Maybe even thinning down the black to do a bit of old school blacklining 😝
5:14 I hope it's like a SteveMRE video but that you don't get carted away with botulism at the end. You got to listen for the hiss when you open those paints.
I wandered into one of my regular charity shops the other day, and they showed me a HUGE pile of very old Citadel Miniatures branded Rogue Trader and very early Warhammer fantasy/40k minis, still in their boxes/plastic & card covers, and STILL in the original shrink wrap, too. They were donated by someone who found them in the attic of their new home, all saved by someone who obviously collected them for many years, but left them behind, unnoticed, after they died. I bought the entire collection, then gave them to my girlfriend and her daughter (They're BOTH Warhammer and WH30k fans, to say the least, so getting a massive amount of old pre-40k minis was a dream come true for them). I didn't know women could squeal with delight in vocal ranges only audible to bats or dolphins until that moment :-) Happy times all round, especially for me, as seeing the old RTB01 sprues in mint condition was just one major trip down Memory Lane, and they actually let me keep the skeleton box sets for my own Undead armies :-D
👍👍 what an awesome find! I had some of this stuff myself back then, I would study them for hours, they were my sacred texts 😁 My two cents, as long as you keep some record of the original state of this stuff, do whatever you want with it 🤷🏼♀️ Great to see this stuff getting some love, I'm actually painting a load of 3rd edition stuff myself right now 😁!
Oh boy, this is a nostalgia trip! I got into the hobby in December of that year, and I had those Chaos halbadiers! I also think my flgs had the GW hobby station, I recognise a lot of the products (rip Empire, Kings Lynn) I just missed out on BFG, which is sad.
That's a pretty rare piece of GW history, the minis are nothing to write about, but all the other stuff it's a good example of a company with a different spirit.
OMG ! Nostalgia is kicking me back to that wonderfull era. Thank you for that :)
Keep it sealed and buy the models off ebay cheap. That way you can have a painted set and a sealed set.
What a great haul!!!! Congrats :) Side note: I was at the Golden Demon 99 so a brief look at that old advert was killer. :) Thanx Great box set of really cool stuff..
Man I have been getting into retro stuff. I got a retro 2cnd edition tac squad (almost fully painted...) And a 4th edition Battle for Macragge box set (in the process of getting paint). I am having a blast moving into the past before I springboard to the future!
Wow, so cool. I'm sure you had a lot of fun opening this in real time, like an episode of Storage Wars, but with Warhammer! I really enjoyed this, thanks Dana. Oh, and that Lizardman paint set was the first GW product I ever bought.
FANTASTIC VID. Thanks Dana!
Open everything up very very slowly, and then go to town, building, testing and painting all of that plastic goodness! A separate video for each of the Saurus warriors, a video for the Marines, one for the Chaos dudes and a separate video for each other model. Please make sure that there is plenty of exaggerated inhalations and smelling going on as you open each box.
Omg…so much nostalgia in the box.
What a great video! Please keep up the OOP goodness, Dana.
Paint them all! I would love to see you adapt your style to those second/early third edition marines.
Happy note: I went to eBay right after this was over and found a sealed paint set that was the 40k counterpart to the one you received for a very reasonable price.
A view into another world long passed.
Edited: What should you do?
Build them and paint them. They are meant to be played with.
OMG that is AMAZING!!
Good Lord, what a find... That is from around the same time I was introduced to the hobby, when a friend of mine got into Mordheim. I have a Citadel Annual from 2002 and some old contemporary White Dwarfs. I just love the colours on the printed photos and the parchment-aesthetic of that era. :)
Absolutely from the good days of GW history. I remember all those bits and pieces.
Those paints will be dried up. Or they will dry up a week after you open them. Those pots are terrible.
Not gonna lie, the eyebrow batting at the end has me wooed. I hope my love letter reaches you well Dana
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. great find.
So cool, I have lots of models from the 1990's as I was really into 40K then, it is so good to see a time capsule like this.
Wow, that is very neat Dana! We had the Tactical Squad box and of course, the paint set!
My rarest piece of GW came from Ebay, too. I found an authentic Centurius model online. Paid about what you did for this box for it and I don't regret a penny.
Keep it. I imagine it will be worth a fortune in the future and a nostalgia trip when you reach 90.
Be VERY prepared for the paints to smell like a hole in the earth. Whatever room they’re opened in will be haunted by the smell for hours
Personally, I would build the minis and paint them, then reapply shrinkwrap to the boxes, and mount them to something so that they can be on display. Maybe a sheet of plexiglass.
40k 2nd ed was my era, I also went in pretty hard on eBay, collecting all of the period correct Eldar minis I couldn't afford as a teenager.
But since it was a 2nd ed army, I only needed 1000pts for a full size game, so it didn't actually cost me all that much.
Please don't unbox any of it. Keep it all together sealed. This is a part of GW history that should be preserved. I wouldn't be surprised if this retail sample box is unique in the fact it's the only one still complete with box.
I agree I think this could be a one of a kind piece, I’m really quite hesitant to unbox any of it!
@@DanaHowl This is akin to finding a sealed limited edition #001 metal thunderhawk gunship 😲
It almost seems a shame to open any of these but as Tiny Spock tells Sheldon in BBT - It is not logical toys are meant to be opened and played with. A nice retro display board would be a good idea. I do remember seeing some of the brochures in store and included in boxes. I also remember picking up some of the paint sets from a UK discount retailer (may have been the Works or something similar) for about 50p a box - although I can't remember whether they were these paints or the the ones that P3 now produce. Great find and worth every penny (or Loony as I think they say in Canada).
I used to trail around 2nd hand shops looking for RPG and gamebooks. I once found a pristine boxed copy of Warhammer 2nd Edition for £1! Wish I'd kept it, but I was skint at the time so it went on ebay and I made about £40.
That BFG issue of White Dwarf was the 4th issue I bought. I rebought it recently on ebay as my copy went missing.
Thank you for such a nostalgic ride to the past