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Not enough.

£500, so about $750 US Dollars

Wow I am in the upper half here. I started playing Warhammer 40k back in 1992.… I would say I am into it for 6k or more. Years of book up grades and model upgrades, I have a full 3000 point tyranids high born army that I can’t even play with because they took them out of the game. My friend Jeff had a full 5000 point squat army form back in 02. Crap I have probably 1k in just white dwarf magazine subscriptions over the years. The whole new paint set the just released 2012 set my back $530 USD I believe. Any how I love building models and then getting to play with them.
Hey can we count the new Fantasy Flight Game stuff as well? It has Games Workshop all over the books as well…. I would say I am close to $700 USD in the RPG game as well. Thank god I have been able to save a buck or to by using Ebay. Any how I love gaming

Last I checked I had spent some 15k. A good deal of this went to Forge World as I used to have dreams of a DKoK army. Needless to sat that was not cheap.

I chose the 3k range, because I often sell, trade or rebuild my armies.

I am probably close to 3k. I've been into the hobby for a little over a year, and I have 40k and fantasy armies for both myself and my wife, as well as warmahordes armies for both of us, along with a lot of stuff that I have picked up for use in Mordheim.

*edit- This price includes the roughly $800 that I recently spent right before the price hike (I needed some tanks for my Dark Angels, and $75 for a land raider was not going to happen)

Probably about $2000, I've been playing for three years.
Sounds about right.
Paint is expensive.

Going all the way back to 1989 when I'd just started secondary school... I have no idea. To be honest, I don't really want to think about it...

Do i have to add in the fact that i bought a house that was $30,000 more than the other one i wanted purely because it meant i could have a wargaming room?

Ive spent around the $7,000 mark on models and materials.

In the top 12 percent... Guess it's not that bad when figured over 15 years.

Seeing as I have only just started...

IG probably £200 (box set, 3 chimeras, a russ and some forge world details bits)

my "new" army - Blood Angels successors (no name for them yet!) £60

Paint and stuff - £50

So around £300 so far. Not good for less than 6 months in the game!

somewhere around $500. I try to keep things cheap and convert rather than buy bitz, but books, models, paint, brushes, knives, boxes... yeah even a little army gets expensive fast. Nice to see I'm right in the middle of the most popular range

I was thinking closely, and... At first I was stuck at the 1-3k range. But now I think about it, it's more around the 3-6k range.

Still staring at the 2% in the bottom though! :s

In total it's probably somewhere over the two thousand dollar mark. I've been collecting for about 6 years...So it's really not too bad for a hobby that I love.

It would be significantly less, but I enjoy collecting other armies, as well as terrain pieces, I own the citadel realm of battle table, for example. (i got a deal on it, bought it from my FLGS that was looking to get rid of it and it had a small tear in the carrying case)

I try and get my stuff on sale, but even then I would say in the 1k-3k range. Ive been doing it for 5 years so I guess that's not too bad.

My force isnt too big (currently) but I'd say about 300$.

I am at about $4,000 maybe $5,000

I have about 25,000 total I think, Haven't assembled, painted, added up points, or deligated models yet. I am maybe 40% ready to field and play them all.

Have to think about parts, art supplies, and shipping fees too.

I've spent about $700-$1000 per year on this (not too bad, I guess) over the past 4 years.

So between $3,000 and $4000

17 votes for 100,000 dollars or more?!?!?!??! I wanna see those collections.

prob around $4000... but that is since 2005, unfortunately i think about 2/3 have been over the last year and a half...

roughly $900/$1100......
so THATS why i dont have a girlfriend.....


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roughly $900/$1100......
so THATS why i dont have a girlfriend.....

Don't know where to even begin calculating. Been playing since late 2nd Ed and have bought and sold more armies than is probably healthy.

100,000+? Really? Who even has that much money to spend on a hobby?! I'd have a house with that much! (1000-3000 over almost 9 years now).. including books and video games.

6-10k probably. I've also been playing and collecting for 14 years or so. I would probably cry if I actually totaled it up.

Total 40k must be about £650 (so about $1000) not including airbrushes, compressor etc.. as I already had those.

Not as bad as re-enactment gear...nearing about £3000 by now including clothing, musket, pistols, revolvers, tentage, etc.. :O

About 2,000$ for two years of seniority

1000-1500 I guess

I know I spent more than 300 on the hoby, but less than 1000. If I may say so, that feels like a really really big range, that's a $700 spending range.

Edit: there are people who spent over 100k on this hoby!?

I'd have to say i am at about $2000 so far, would be far more if I had paid full MSRP for everything instead of getting a lot of it online lol

I honestly do not want to know exactly how much I have spent on figures.

Their pure retail replacement value would seriously depress/scare me but including all rule books + figures + consumables I think I would be far to close to 15 grand for my liking