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Definitely a couple of thousand. Maybe more...

I try not to think about this, but I'd say $3-6K is my window, dropped off a lot in recent years do to me being a broke uni student now.

I enjoy it though and I suppose I'd spend that money on some hobby anyways, so I guess that's not that bad.

Closer to the 1k mark, counting my vague attempt to get involved back at the end of 4th edition. This time around it's being fairly affordable, though that's due in no small part to the fact I'm building a Deathwing List and the local hobby store sells not only Dark Vengeance boxes, but also sells each DV army individually and the book/templates individually which makes it even more affordable.

12,000+ Pts of DE, 3000+ pts of Tau, coming up 1000pts of Chaos, a few hundred of Eldar and 2000+ pts of Skaven... through frugal spending / luck / ebay can't have spent more than 1/3rd retail for the lot : D

Up over 1k in discounted (online) retail in models alone.

Probably about £3,000, so about $5,000 I think?
That includes buying stuff second hand, including a 125pts Cryx army, 6000pts of Orks, 5000pts of CSM, 3000pts of Daemons and a 2000pts Warhammer Goblin army.

Probably about £500 ish total so around $750 dollars. That will be increasing though, guranteed!

Added it up and it was not as bad as I thought!

about $12000 AUS which includes 10 years of being the hobby, 1500 I spent on my friend, a few forgeworld bio titans and loads of IA books and some other goodies, loads of spray paint and other modeling supplies, lord of the rings crap and my beastmen army and a bunch of unique models from 3rd party sellers! And considering I bought a fair amount of that at my FLGS for aussie prices... not too bad

Of course baring finecrap my entire necron army, beastmen army and like 250 of my gaunts came from ebay sellers.

oh and throw a realm of battle board into that at aussie prices... >< not my finest moment..

A couple of thousand, between 2-5 grand.

I plead the 5th

I voted I don't wanna think about it...then I thought about it...

Across my armies I have, including FW models and 4 Sabol Designs Army Transports, spent roughly $3793.50. Some of my models were 30% off some were not, some where pewter some were finecast but I think this gives a good estimate at what I've invested in the last 3 years (not including my massive amount of paints).

YAY MY POST IS UP!!!! I wanna know who the insane guys with $$$100,000+ spent!

10 years in the hobby i'm at least 10 grand into this. it gets deeper. I think I spend at least $100 a month on wargaming material. usually terrain items for my table. we just dropped $140 on Hirst Arts molds. needless to say, there is some serious casting and table development being done

yea i'm at LEAST 10 grand into it. but across the years, thats not so bad really.

I'm at LEAST $80K down from motorcycles. (over the years)

Wow, shocked at the number of people at $50k+. That's a hell of a lot. I hope none of you got caught in the recent hurricane on the US east coast. Damn.

I'm in for around $5k I'd say.

I thought about this for a while before simply giving up.

Between buying and selling used, trading, acquiring stuff at reduced rates from closing stores or quitting players, gifts, and simply being in the hobby for over a decade, I couldn't do more than guess. I'd imagine around $10,000.

I mean, I have spent well over a grand on paints, brushes, battlefoam, and other supplies alone...

I can't imagine it being any less than a couple thousand. there were a few weeks this summer I spent $100+ a week. And that doesn't include the 100s in gifts.

Probably about $2000, but you just don't realize it when you're "Only buying a $30 set every week, that couldn't add up"

i spant under £100, buy and sell on ebay for cheap models, although it may be more dissapointing to get the models.

I went over my current collection, and I'd estimate that I've put close to $20,000 to it. But then I've thrown away a lot of my early collections (early 90s) that I had when I was young, and my entire collection of White Dwarf and early army books (which would be around $1500-2000 worth). Painting supplies, etc. while not that much also adds up. All in all, I think I've spent around $30,000 during my aprox. 20 years of being in this hobby.

Easily 1k, probably closer to 1.5k. Mostly 2nd hand though, probably be up around 5k otherwise

Lets see. 10 years of gaming + various price changes + ebay deals + random bits deals adding in trying different armies comes to......... maybe 5 or 6 grand. Ok, or even 7.

Oh god way to much - spent at least £500 this year and been collecting for more than 20 years.

So say around £10-£15,000

I genuinely don't want to think about this... I suppose at a rough guess, since 1994....ummmm errrr, £3000-4000, possibly more. Just spent £50 today actually...So in US $'s I guess around $5500....

On a side note, are there really people out there who have spent $100,000 plus?!?! That's a supreme amount of money guys.

Recently 'catalogued' everything I have...
A total of 18018pts of models.
451 on 25mm bases, 43 on 40mm bases, 14 60mm bases, 14 Bikes, 20 Vehicles and 6 (scratch built) Super Heavies and have spent probably £700-800 between models, paints, books and cases over 3 years.
I can live with that.

I have multiple armies - i realy dont want to think about it

 M@MAX wrote:
If it's free it doesn't count as a hobby :-)

if you voted $0, why are you here??


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That came out wrong, i dont mean you M@MAX, i mean the 9 or so people who picked '$0'

I would say over 3k but not by much

WTF! People have spent over $100K? really? You'd need a special room - no, a special house to fit all that in! I'm guessing around $3-4K for my lot though (quite a few FW goodies).

440+ on my Fantasy
710 on my Marines
210 on my CSM
500 on my IG

Including hobby supplies, Jebus, that's almost 2.3k

I recently had to calculate the value of my models for insurance purposes. I started adding it all up in my head, but that was a little difficult - I have models I bought in the early 90s. Instead, I just tried calculating the value of the models I would like to replace should they all be destroyed/stolen, but that was also pretty difficult.

In the end, I settled for about NZ$2500-NZ$3000. Only a fraction of the total.

money well spent