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I got into WHFB rather impulsively.

I had ordered three razorbacks for an army I'm putting together for an upcomeing tournement. I was at the register getting ready to pay for everything. The owner of the store says to me, if you buy the new WHFB rulebook and a batallion box I'll give you 25% off your entire order. I'm now the proud owner of an Empire batallion I have yet to play a game with.

5 3rd edition space marines.

Picked up a Shadowsword/Stormlord model at GenCon this year at the WarStore booth for Apoc games, along with the Mantic Skeletons for my D&D campaign.

Just as I'm reading this there's a knock at the door...
Looks like my 72 colour Vajello set is here!

If I see a Baneblade on ebay going for under £40, or any battleforce for that matter, I feel compelled to bid on it. Lucky I've got enough self restraint to impose limits on myself, although I've gathered an impressive about of "items you didn't win" in such a short space of time!

Scott-S6 wrote:

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.

Or the Razorback turrets are Tarantula turrets.

Oh snap.

Everything in my to-do list bought in one massive impulse buy by my marvellous wife. I will now spend the next million years assembling and painting... currently "to do" = Legion of the damned, marine bike squad, forgeworld Tallarn sentinel, terminator chaplain, Eldar battleforce, squad of banshees, vyper jetbike, shokk attack gun, imperial sector, realm of battle board...

RaegMachine wrote:5 3rd edition space marines.

Eh, geww.... I guess you really like 3+ saves. Please tell me they aren't alll built to 2k or that there is at least a mix of loyalist/ chaos armies.

Probably the Forgeworld order that maxed my credit card a few years back, went mad, brought myself a Stormblade, an enclosed Basilisk, enclosed Medusa, three complete Leman Russ Conquerors, stowage, tank aces and brought the Mrs a Harridann.

It was an ugly bill when the dust settled.

Probably the masque.

I had had a spirited argument with a GW employee on the fact I didn't like the plastic daemonettes, or any of the new daemon releases, and that I had preferred the metal ones. I then ended up buying the Masque. Never did anything with it, so Im honestly unsure of why I got it...

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Probably the Forgeworld order that maxed my credit card a few years back, went mad, brought myself a Stormblade, an enclosed Basilisk, enclosed Medusa, three complete Leman Russ Conquerors, stowage, tank aces and brought the Mrs a Harridann.

Pfft! Is that all.

I did a Forge World order that was a Baneblade (back when they only came in resin), Stormblade, 3 Manticores, 4 complete Vanquishers, 1 complete Russ Annihilator, 1 complete Russ Executioner, complete Enclosed Basilisk, 3 Cyclops Demo Vehicles and a Bombard.

Paying that off took... a while.

Bought an Empire Brigade yesterday ><

I most impulsive buy was my first kit form GW after being pressured by my friend and panting a LoTR goblin, It was a box of Uruk hai and some paints. My next impulsive buy was the Balin and Honour Guard kit. This was a few years ago.

My more recent buys have been a techmarine when i bought my servitors off a different friend, I also ended up leaving with a Land Raider crusader for AUS$ 20, it was badly glued, missing the bolters but I thought I would use it as a looted tank or a battlewagon in the ork ary I never started. It was a great deal but I sure as hell didn't need it.

Behold! My Mega-bastion! (7 Bastions, 1 Shrine of the Aquila, 1 Fortress of Redemption, and one Honoured Imperium)

My wallet cried, the Dog whack the drying wall with it's tail, but oh my word it is lovely. And yes, that is a KillaKan for scale!

Sand for £5 from GW.

As soon as I got home I realised how much I had been ripped off.

Three Baneblades on Apocalypse launch day. And five plastic Valkyries when they popped up for pre-order.

Mr Mystery wrote:Behold! My Mega-bastion! (7 Bastions, 1 Shrine of the Aquila, 1 Fortress of Redemption, and one Honoured Imperium)

My wallet cried, the Dog whack the drying wall with it's tail, but oh my word it is lovely. And yes, that is a KillaKan for scale!

My god that is a monster, It is so beutiful yet so god damned expensive!
What made you do that?

I got some money unexpectedly, so spent it in a like fashion!

I use it as an immobile Reaver Titan. Big missile pod thing is the one from the Fortress of Redemption, but with walls all round, and no ground level access.

My friend was coaxing me to start a new army, and I had always liked the idea of nids. So when he was online buying stuff for his new BA army, he asked if I wanted anything. I ended up, 2 weeks later, with 2 battleforces of nids. The worst thing is that it happened again 2 months later. out of the 152 models I have made from the boxes, I have painted only 31 models.

Another story. Ages ago a new magazine for LotR was released with GW miniatures. The first issue was sold for $5 Australian, and came with a sprue of 12 goblins warriors. Seeing this, I begged my parents and saved up enough to buy 6 sets. 72 goblins later I think I have primed maybe a handful. Later on in the set, I got every copy despite going for 3 times the first copies price, was another goblin sprue. So now I have 84 of the stupid things and really don't like playing LotR.

My friend is far worse though. When BA was released, he picked up his copy of the codex, went online and ordered 6 boxes of Death Company, Land Raider Redeemer, 2 Assault squads, 2 Tactical squads, Devastator squad, a couple of Baal Predators and 3 vindicators. In the space of a month, his new BA army now dwarfs the size of my DA. And I have been collecting and playing for 14 years.

My most impulsive buy was 5 dark reapers. I dont even play Eldar. Fortunately my friend is just starting Eldar, so i traded them with him for some SM Devastators (which ill later convert to havocs). So it all turned out well.

Mr Mystery wrote:I got some money unexpectedly, so spent it in a like fashion!

I use it as an immobile Reaver Titan. Big missile pod thing is the one from the Fortress of Redemption, but with walls all round, and no ground level access.

Got any pictures of it from other angles?

And I'm assuming it comes apart?

Sorry about the quality...took them on my mobile!

Tower, Statue and Lasers remain seperate for the time being, and I'm considering different tops for the tower, like the nose of a missile, psychic array etc. Depends what I can come up with!

kirsanth wrote:My first model.

After that, I got a codex and things became deliberate.

Ha! It all starts to innocently...

Hi all! My most impulsive buy was when I scoured Hawaii for all the old Slann models I could find before they were transformed into the Lizardmen army.

Lizardmen are very cool, but the cannibal Aztec tree frogs were so neat!!! Oh well...life goes on.

I think the most extravagant buy I ever made was a whole unit of Repanse de Lyonesse models to represent my grail knights. Pricey, but not as much as poor Vampire Count players pay for their Blood Knights I suppose.

Be well, be blessed!
Frankie

My most impulsive buy was almost the entire 40k section of the store I used to work at when they shut their doors. It cost me a cool $3000 but I walked away with over $4500 worth of product due to my discount, which I knew I would never get again.

I didn't do a lot of looking as I grabbed stuff off the shelves though, and somehow ended up with 3 thunderfire cannons, lol!

Apoc came out:

Warhound Titan
Marauder Destroyer
3 Thunderbolts
Vanq Turret
Executioner Turret
10 Vanahiem Basilist Gun Shields

My first Chaos Rhino. I bought it because I was told 40k was a great tournament game. Ugh.

I just won on eBay a Dreadnought and a Terminator squad all for a total of $31.

I happened to be browsing around, I'm not entirely sure why, but I saw the auctions and their low bids and thought 'why not?' I put in a max bid of $25 on each and before I knew it I won them both.

I don't even know wtf I'm going to do with them honestly.

I own 9 albion fenbeasts.

'nuff said.

so many impulsive buys, but the biggest was a FW Warhound Titan. I was on holiday in Nottingham and decided to drop into Warhammer World, the second the missus' back was turned I had whipped out my wallet and parted with best part of £300. I remember driving back to Bristol with a big bag of resin, a smug grin and a rather pissed off girlfriend

Hmm..

Brass Scorpion (I WILL finish painting it...really)

Space Hulk (Played one game and back in the box it sits)

Stopma for cheap from the Swap Shop (I don't even play Orks!)