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I think mine's a tie.

The first one was when I went into my FLGS to pick up some paint...and noticed they had a RW battleforce. I still haven't put it all together (just haven't had time/money to finish my DA, takes up less space in the box).

The 2nd is my first FW purchase, I had just graduated college and decided that I wanted to get something for myself, $300 bucks of DKoK later and I'm nowhere near a legal army.

Three Stompas

I have played exactly ONE Apoc game since it was launched...

Probably my LotR Uruk-Hai - a couple hundred bucks and I never even played the game, probably ought to unload it...


To I recently bought the LE Dreamer & Chompy for Malifaux, so there's that...

A few different occasions over the years:

Necron big boxset when it was first released. Painted about half the army and sold it.

FW Avatar at the Glen Burnie Battle Bunker. I was so estatic to visit such a place and that I could get my GW addiction in resin. Still in the plastic baggy.

FW DA Ven Dreadnought via Forgeworld site: The model is ace, but I still cringe at that codex. Since that purchase, I've bought the Ravenwing big boxset and 2 DA Vet boxsets. Add in 10 Terminators from AoBR, and I nearly have a DA army.....all in bits and sprues.

Glad my wife doesn't visit this site.

Forge World Brass Scorpion. Ended up selling it for less than half the purchase price.

Kanluwen wrote:Did you know that the Tarantula "hub" also fits nicely into those turret housings?

Not surprising. A lot of those things have been standardised. The Reaper Autocannon from the Defiler fits into a Razorback mount. Hell, you can even put the Icarus Lascannon and the Quad-Autocannon from the Planetstrike turrets onto a Land Raider where the Heavy Bolter normally goes. Looks great.

Imperial Sector. I thought it was a great idea, then I brought it home and realized I have absolutely nowhere to put the terrain if I were to build it!

I also bought a complete 1500 point Iron Warriors army. To date I've put together and painted 10 men and a rhino. I'm going to be painting 5 Terminators for them this month though!

Blood Angels Sangunary Guard. But god, do they look awesome.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Did you know that the Tarantula "hub" also fits nicely into those turret housings?

Not surprising. A lot of those things have been standardised. The Reaper Autocannon from the Defiler fits into a Razorback mount. Hell, you can even put the Icarus Lascannon and the Quad-Autocannon from the Planetstrike turrets onto a Land Raider where the Heavy Bolter normally goes. Looks great.

Wait till you see my finished Guard Orbital Relay.

Then you shall truly know what "great" looks like.

2 Baneblades and a Shadowsword, in one go. I thought "they'll be easy to build and paint, and I can use them against the 2 Stompas I bought last week". The tanks are stilll in their boxes, and I've half built one Stompa. It's amazing how rational an impulse buy can seem in the heat of the moment, and then you get it home and realise there is literally no more room in the cupboard...

Hey I bought 6 Valks when they first came out. Haven't built a single one yet.

An Iron Father that I bought on Ebay 5 years ago that is still unassembled.

500 dollars worth of CoD terrain that is still unbuilt. Bought it the day it came out.

From this thread, it looks like GW's marketing plan works surprsingly well.

Well enough that perhaps GW can improve things by cutting the advance notice in half, down to two weeks for preordering...

Tried to buy forgeworld Alpha Legion Rhino Doors for a spare Rhino I had. Stuffed up and bought Landraider Doors.

This is not the impulse. As a result of buying the LR doors, I impulsively bought a Land Raider... (and the Rhino Doors I wanted originally)

Bought my second Warhound and minutes later I decided to go for the Reaver too... May soon became Noodle eating month

All my warhammer purchases these days are impulsive :(

2000 pt ogre kingdom army still in bits, all desprued

2500 pt Tau Army all ready to put together but never used

1.) At one point I saw a guy had 3 separate auctions on Ebay for land raiders. They were going for around $25 and there was only an hour left. I figured I'd take a chance and bid on all 3, with a $30 max, hoping I'd win one. An hour later, all 3 auctions ended, and I won all 3 of them for $30 each. Sigh. I'm glad for the price but just wanted one.

Bonus points: A year later not a single one is painted or built, despite a further purchase of FW doors.

2.) Other purchases I got on impulse and sort of regret: Black Orcs (for use as Ard Boyz) - almost 2 years of bring primed and then reboxed, 2 skaven heroes (both primed and then reboxed) an Ironclad Dreadnought I totally did not need (which was partially primed and then reboxed), and to a lesser degree, about 25 Ork Boyz and around a dozen Burna Boyz, which are also nearing 2 years of bring primed and reboxed.

I also have a Valkyrie that I got maybe 60% done and abandoned - this one kinda stings the most because it was a fairly large purchase, I don'tplay IG (and never will) and really don't have anyplace to store it even if I do finish it. At least the above stuff falls into either the "I can field it" or the "just a cool model, but pretty cheap" category.

I've finally mostly stopped buying stuff until I clear some of the backlog, but even now I have top bid on an auction for 2 sprues of SM scouts that I don't especially need, have little inclination to paint, and will go nicely with my (primed and reboxed) Telion.

A lot my problems (maybe all of them) could be solved by just playing with unpainted minis, but I stalwartly refuse to field anything that is not completely and utterly finished.

Harbinger of Menoth. I CAN convert it, but I feel like I won't do it justice.

Just bought another landraider - I already have 4 (gave one to my brother, have one painted up for my CSM, and another 2 are being turned into a superheavy).

Don't need another one, hell, don't even need 1 (CSM LR's are rubbish ) but now I will have bought a total of 5.

Guess I will turn this one into some kind of superheavy as well - a mobile bunker/fortress?

My worst one was buying the Warkopta on my only visit to warhammer world.

I made a complete hash of the assembly, and it was a nightmare to transport.

Got £40 back for it on ebay so it wasn't all bad!

Ugh, I just remembered. This isn't 40K though.

At one point, I had decided that 40K was too complicated and I'd try Warmachine (when the new remix book came out). My wife got my Karchev, and I got a Khador battle box, and my mom got me a Cryx battlebox for Christmas. I also have 2 other warjacks of some type. All of them were washed, filed, rewashed, primed, reboxed, and sit on the shelf even still. The Karchev I did get nearly all the way done - all but the axe. I regret this more then all the others I posted earlier since the chances of me ever actually playing Warmachine are slim to none, and I'd feel terribly guilty e-baying presents my mom and wife got me (I hate selling on ebay anyway).

When confronted by the P&P from the US for the Rogue Trader Collectors edition ($90 tp post a book! WTF) I thought I would try to cover the cost it by buying 3 and selling 2.

I use 1 but the other 2 are sitting on my shelf not even out of their packing boxes never mind listed on eBay.

Also anything GW related bought by me before I was about 16, I have odd minitures and half armies for everything pre 1990!

Probably a bunch of Brettonian Men-At-Arms and peasant archers to convert into Imperial Guardsmen... mid 2008. I've done one squad and a couple of characters to date.

Kanluwen wrote:Did you know that the Tarantula "hub" also fits nicely into those turret housings?

Of course they do - the tarantula turrets are razorback turrets, no difference.

13 bloodcrushers for Thunderwolf cavalry.

Or my 2250 pt brettonian army that I resold before it was finished. I just ended up not liking fantasy all that much and I am use to buying full armies when I want something in 40k.

My Battlefoam PACK 1520. It was either 'do it on impulse or not alt all'. So I did it.

I almost bought a PACK 432 on impulse, but Romeo talked me out of it.

I think my most recent would be my 3rd. blood bowl boxed set and three teams. my excuse now i can run 3 games at once for league nite! but in reality everbody that plays is on different nites, i only need one box set.or 5th.edition whfb 5 box games, needed bret. bought them played once then never again. but lizards were used. by the way anybody need any archers or knights?

The Raven's Talon. The former Apocolypse set of 17 sentinals for $175, basically instead of $20 a pop, they were $10.50. I bought it as I thought it was an incredible deal and I thought "hey maybe i'll like Apocolypse."

End result: assembled, painted, played 1 game of apoc, realized I absolutely hate apocolypse, and the new rules for 40K came out about 2 weeks later resulting in me taking a 2 year break from 40K. So end result $175+ paints+ modeling time= 1 game I hated. Have to admit, still think sentinals are cool though