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I work with a hard annual cap of $1,000. This includes anything hobby-related, such as paint, new blades for knives, resin for casting stuff, and so on.

I spend about 5k on my personal 40k collections in 2008. It will be much different in 2009. I have alot of the 2008 purchases to model up and paint. So spending will be down.

My GF asks this enlightneing question all the time "When you going to use all this stuff?"

My response "It's better to have, than to use"

I earn close to £50k, and if anything that should go up this year to just over £50k. I'm single and share a flat, so rent is low, as are bills...

Naturally, my number 1 expenditure is Friday and Saturday nights out, but beyond that, it's hobbies.

I got back into W40k after 15 years of no GW at all, so I spent a little over £500 (I added it up cos I entered a wish list competition at the local GW store. I could win as much again in a prize draw tomorrow). That included paints, new orks, enough Eldar to make my old army legal again and a few new rulebooks...

I figure £200 per month would be reasonable. Enough to get pretty much all I want, and a bit more, without going bankrupt. It depends on whether I still buy as many books, DVDs, computer games and comics. I have about 5 years worth of books backlogged though, so should be okay, and the computer games I already have get very little time, so I ought to hold off on any more!

I probably spend no more than £500 a year. However, if the IG is shades of awesome like the Ork one, and depending on releases, I won't be sticking to it.

I'm not planning on spending anyhting on miniatures untill at least august, due to the 2K deamon army which i my project (which no doubt will last untill then) If the 2nd wave deamons are available I will reconsider.

After that, well, I plan on an average of £25-30 a month. Depends what I decide upon after that.

I'm probably looking at around £300 this year right now, but when the new IG codex appears that could jump some. I'm lucky that I take a while to assemble and paint things, so there's normally something idling in my 'to-do' pile that stops me spending more money until it's done/

Hah! Budget?! I need no budget!

probably nothing, I may be limited to 500 pt games for the forseeable future. Im moving out in a couple of weeks, & I just worked out my finances last night... Im going to have something like £1.19 a day to live on.

didnt spend a happy christmas due to personal problems, so i still have all the christmas cash, i probably might buy the 3 cartons of half priced blisters my flgs has.

I don't have a budget, but I don't spend that much anyway, not compared to many. Well, maybe it gets more expensive when adding in all model kits. As a painter more than a gamer I tend to make infrequent pruchases. If I want I buy, but I'll go for long periods spending very little.

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:

My GF asks this enlightneing question all the time "When you going to use all this stuff?"

My response "It's better to have, than to use"

QFT -

Well... $450 so far, given I just did an order of that size to IWM... damned archive service...

BYE

If the new guard codex is buff and I find opponents regularly, enough for a new army.
If either of those is no then my spending is minimal.

Howard A Treesong wrote: As a painter more than a gamer I tend to make infrequent pruchases. If I want I buy, but I'll go for long periods spending very little.

i like this.

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:I spend about 5k on my personal 40k collections in 2008. It will be much different in 2009. I have alot of the 2008 purchases to model up and paint. So spending will be down.

My GF asks this enlightneing question all the time "When you going to use all this stuff?"

My response "It's better to have, than to use"

$5k?

I'm trying to figure out if I ever spent that much on hobbies in a single year, but guessing probably not. When I first got into 40k, I was super-disciplined about painting stuff. Like 90+% fully-painted. (Today? Hahaha.... not even close) That much painting kept buying down, as a lot of time was spent on the hobby aspect, rather than just buying stuff. When GW closed down the US web sales, I dumped a bunch of cash (like when I got into Magic), but even then, I guess it wasn't that much.

My hobby stuff stays in its boxes and storage cases, so they don't add clutter. And the total space taken up doesn't spill outside my room. Or even take up an excessive amount of the room. So my other half has very little basis for complaint. She knows I have a lot of stuff, and there's enough in there for me to sneak in extras, but not so much as to create nagging. Really, I have the perfectly-sized backlog. Of course, I'm also sticking to a budget, so that helps, too.

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Howard A Treesong wrote:I don't have a budget, but I don't spend that much anyway, not compared to many. Well, maybe it gets more expensive when adding in all model kits. As a painter more than a gamer I tend to make infrequent pruchases. If I want I buy, but I'll go for long periods spending very little.

That's a good sign, IMO. If you don't have a reason to buy, don't.

JohnHwangDD wrote:That's a good sign, IMO. If you don't have a reason to buy, don't.

Yes. Unfortunately I'm not currently in a long thrifty period as the DKOK are currently burning a hole in my pocket.

On the otherhand I have to paint them, otherwise my wife will kill me. They're too expensive to just sit around.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Unfortunately I'm not currently in a long thrifty period as the DKOK are currently burning a hole in my pocket.

On the otherhand I have to paint them, otherwise my wife will kill me. They're too expensive to just sit around.

Heh, that's pretty funny.

The only better story is of this other guy (name withheld) who bought models. He got to the point where he was hiding models from his wife in his car trunk, I guess because his home storage space was getting to be a problem. Eventually, he overflowed the trunk, and came to the guilty realization that maybe he should actually build something...

But I tell you this, those scale model guys are certifiably nuts. I've seen reports of entire basements being filled with unbuilt model kits. That's a few full cargo containers worth of stuff, enough to easily stock a large hobby store. Something about the notion of entire squadrons of 1/48 aircraft or 1/35 armor.

Anyhow, this year, I'm finishing my Tallarn / Armored force. Want to compare notes next year to see who's done better?

JohnHwangDD wrote:But I tell you this, those scale model guys are certifiably nuts. I've seen reports of entire basements being filled with unbuilt model kits. That's a few full cargo containers worth of stuff, enough to easily stock a large hobby store. Something about the notion of entire squadrons of 1/48 aircraft or 1/35 armor.

My dad is a big military modeller, there's 30 years worth of kits providing insulation in the attic at my parent's place, must be hundreds of the larger kits and masses of boxes of 1/35 figures and little 1/72 or 1/144 things. Far more than I'd ever want to build if he thinks I'm completing his legacy.

Anyhow, this year, I'm finishing my Tallarn / Armored force. Want to compare notes next year to see who's done better?

You're on.

Awesome!

As you know, every little bit of motivation helps!

JohnHwangDD wrote:Awesome!

As you know, every little bit of motivation helps!

And money!! I'd need more more units of men, and the flamer pair is nice, then the HQ unit is a must-get, I love that. I really like the cavelry, but I really do have to ask myself about the value for money on those, £50 for five 28mm mounted figures? Quite like a Gorgon too...ouch.

The rough riders are the best of the Tallarn range IMO.

Aside from the mismatched 2E Attilan boots, yeah, the metal Tallarn roughriders are aces. Lately, I'm thinking of getting a unit just to rebuild as Sentinel conversions, but the cost keeps putting me off.

For resin, I very much like the Tallarn snipers, although the monster riders are pretty cool.

Besides, I'm planning on 3 Valks and a Shadowsword to go with the new Codex, so that's a good chunk of cash I'll be laying out this year... I mean, 3 Valks or 1 Gorgon? Gotta go with the Valks.

You hoping for the plastic Valk?

Who isn't (other than non-Guard players)???!!!???

Can't wait for that one. That's my budget then:

2 Shadowsword/Stormlord kits
6 Valkyries
8 Drop Pods

And a Vulture ever shows its face (either the combined Valk/Vult kit, or a FW conversion kit) then add three of those as well. And maybe some Deathwind Assault Pods or whatever they're called now.

BYE

Just received $26k CAD tax refund today, but still must hold my temptations from purchasing anything since :

no paints yet!!! wth lol + i dont game anymore :"/

i'll see if new lizzy have any new battle forces , i love having plastic armies.

bought super glue btw ... time to tackle the mountain of metal miniatures stored away.

how many % of the glue will be on the mini instead of my fingers i wonder....

LunaHound wrote:Just received $26k CAD tax refund today, but still must hold my temptations from purchasing anything since :

no paints yet!!! wth lol + i dont game anymore :"/

i'll see if new lizzy have any new battle forces , i love having plastic armies.

bought super glue btw ... time to tackle the mountain of metal miniatures stored away.

how many % of the glue will be on the mini instead of my fingers i wonder....

26k refund???

Did you reassess your home or something?

my 40k priorities are

1. finish up my nids. mostly bought, i just need to build a few and paint-n-dip a lot. hopefully ill be done in time for Adepticon

2. Finish buying my Sisters of battle, just a few oddes and ends around $200 i think. depending on new guard codex, the girls might get a few guardsmen to kick around. that would take me over that 200 though. plastic valk

3. Paint up some tau. enough for a combat patroll first, then work my way up to 500, then 1000, mabey even get up to 1500

4. Start an Eldar army at Adepticon (i am hoping i will be disiplined enough to go with a "Must paint the purshase before you buy more"... we shall see how long THAT sillyness lasts)
sadly enough, i am thinking ill start the eldar off with buying a Titian at Adepticon... mabey resist the urge and put it off for 2010.

not a whole lot of spending in store for 2009 mostily building and painting. should be easily under 1k for the year (even with the titian) plans as of now are to take care of most of my buying when the tax returns and stimulas packages (i didetn get one last year, H&R block said i will get it this year) come out.

funny, i dident think about it untill now. but in the past 6 months i have spent more on blood bowl then on 40k 50$ for a team in early october. will i keep this trend or not

Howard A Treesong wrote:You hoping for the plastic Valk?

I'm counting on it!

I'm just wondering if 3 would be "enough"...

For me this year its all defendant on how much I make. I try and commit to buying at least a little something every week when I hit up my FLGS. If for no other reason to support them. So lets say I spent at the least 15$ a trip. 60$ a month for 12 months plus more whenever I can

malfred wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Just received $26k CAD tax refund today, but still must hold my temptations from purchasing anything since :

no paints yet!!! wth lol + i dont game anymore :"/

i'll see if new lizzy have any new battle forces , i love having plastic armies.

bought super glue btw ... time to tackle the mountain of metal miniatures stored away.

how many % of the glue will be on the mini instead of my fingers i wonder....

26k refund???

Did you reassess your home or something?

not too sure, but when my dad's citizenship ran out years ago ( hes not in canada anymore ), the government
made us pay a******* amount of penalty fee. after months of them going through the details, they refund
w/e left they over charged.

I hope the new battle force comes with something like....
1 skink unit, 1 saurus unit, 1 temple guard unit ( new plastic of course ) and 1 sauraus cold one ( with new darkelf coldones )

is this a possibility? and why arnt the kroxigor in plastic of 3 per box sort of like rat ogres? or ogre kingdom stuff?

arrrrrrrr D":

no budget. if i see something i want, i buy it, if o dont have the cash i save for it. if i HAVE to have it right then i have reserves i dip into that i replenish on a weekly basis.

then again, no kids, no mortgage, cheap rent and a sugar momma helps alot.