What do you do with old models?

[Lathe Biosas]

I was digging through some bits today, and I came across a model that has lived in my bits collection since... 1998. Iron Hand Strakken.

 

It's survived endless bits trading and sales and I still don't have a use for it. I tried giving it to a Imperial Guard player, but they turned it down.

 

 

What do you do with your old models that no one wants/uses? Do they just live in a box until the end if time?

[Valkyrion]

You've probably got about £50 in your fingers there on ebay. 

 

I always enjoy ebay when they show something in the original GW packaging;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/407179069809?_skw=colonel+iron+hand+straken&itmmeta=01M1PQPW9PWN0SSTC40ZD7TTHK&hash=item5ecdc38971:g:IqQAAeSwt3xqkx~x&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA4GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBn%2FYRMxC9WSxIoicsLYVQzv%2FESpFFZOrhSjmPmer%2FXAFsF89D3qy4NuTWVHt5SpUBGCGZwNk%2BoxVrfXlWuRv7l1yD34HB1a45N5uXUIG4pB8gI3fWOad4B0JTNnqhFTO66ixI3oWgsw0ZON8ImILbz0Dxvk3iZsIvVb%2Fj0TIXHPryOj6EUmx9tFoemJbywCb4MH0EfwwaXVqnCSFkmVva0hsm%2FgzpjHKl%2FwKm4SYf%2BrQXnGe5qm7%2BDGBQG9C%2BVI8dzOUhs4oAhAJFh5HAusjdZ|tkp%3ABk9SR5jF29eNaA

 

'This guy was £5. He can be yours for the low, low price of £99.50! (plus shipping and taxes)'.

[Mazer Rackham]

You either:

1. Pop him on your shelf and admire him for being the manliest guardsman who ever manlied, or;
2. Paint him up and stick him on the shelf for your own pleasure;
3. Paint him up, play older editions, and cram Xenos scum up a heretic's rubble-chute.

It's what he would want.

TBH, I'm shocked an IG player turned him down. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Mazer Rackham

[kabaakaba]

They can be some new player for example for whome straken ain't ringing at all.

@Lathe Biosas is the guy next to colonel is the commissar? And which exactly?

[Heraclite]

They might not always be usable as is in modern armies, but old models have so much charm. I'm on my way to completing Schaeffer's last chancers, and their place is already found in kill team. The initial plan was to use them as deathkorps veterans, but with the release of spectre squad they are a good fit too. So 2 kill teams for the price of one!

 

I'm also doing a scout kill team with old scouts, mainly using metal models with a sparkling or old plastic scouts too.

 

Old models are a great occasion to try to emulate old school paint schemes as one off projects