Arc Troopers for Legion and one of those grav tanks the republic can use. Forget the name but loved using them in Battlefront 2.

Bought some pdfs from wargamesvault. Song of Our Ancestors, Song of Blades and Heroes (basic since I already had advanced and our group prefers basic), and Void Pirates.

Managed to find someone selling a Derelict Manufactorum, a truly wonderful kit that contains a unique sprue available no where else.

Including shipping it was still 25% off. That gives me the 6th one of these I could never get a hold of at the time they were still on sale. Allows me to complete the Destroyed Fuel Processing Plant I've been working on, gives me another stack to Lothal Tower could potentially go to 5 stories tall, and leaves me all the necessary parts to complete the overgrown Imperium sections of my Death World table.

A bunch of crates/barrels/treasure chests/other-misc-things-you'd-find-on-a-ship for our upcoming Pirate themed D&D game.

Dirt cheap copies of Codex:Tau & The Greater Good PA volume.
As I'm simply steam-rolling every opponent in our 40k Crusade league with my Necrons, I figure it's time to switch things up for the next time.
I'll dig my Tau out of storage in the coming weeks & get them ready while we shift into a Sigmar PtG campaign.
I'm told that the Tau are terrible in this current edition.
Challenge accepted. Let's see how brutally effective I can make the Tau.

Bought some fake grass stuff for basing my non-eldar models. Might get onto doing that soon, but prepping for my two P&P RPGs has become almost a full-time job now lol

Need to pick up the Ork Combat Patrol, krule boy big bow and dude riding a troll at the FLGS.

Put in a preorder for... uh, krule boy dude on vulture, dude on star wars horse, and 2 of the trolls crawling on hands and knees. The names genuinely escape me.

Bought a box of the new Shang Ji Invincibles and an OOP Beyond Red Veil box for Infinity.

Ordered me a bunch of stuff on Amazon. The new Kill Team Octarius box, the compendium, a new box of Howling Banshees, another box of Harlequins (might make them my main in Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo) and the Munitorium armoured containers set, and all of it was cheaper than buying from GW here even with the GST and the large Amazon shipping costs.

Some token for my Thousand Sons magics, rituals and pacts. Just received them so it was really fast (shipped from the UK to Canada), just in time for me to try out this weekend!

Today was an expensive* day hobby wise....
1x Viking Longship model suitable for minis wargaming use,
1x new 40k Ork codex
1x new AoS orc codex
1x new AoS Stormcast codex
1x newest fey themed 5e D&D book
1x Necron Doomstalker
1× Necron Silent King
And several misc people minis that'll get used in our D&D game....

Seems exce$$ive, right?
But really it's just funds that had been set aside for GenCon. Since I'm not spending that $ on a Hotel room again this year.... So still within the "hobby budget" for 2021.

Purchased 1 metal Van Saar, 1 metal Escher, 1 metal Goliath, 1 metal Delaque from eBay.

Cheers,

CB

Fourth NDK for my GK army.
A fifth one is out of sight as it could only be used as a 2nd GMNDK and therefore would require to include a 2nd detachment.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I have been extremely tempted to get the tar and blood river sets.

So... I got the tar river set:



Not as carefully packaged as the main GF9 river sections (just put in paper rather than custom expanded polystyrene (weird given that they would fit in the existing ones they make). In any case, it will go well with my Orky stuff.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I have been extremely tempted to get the tar and blood river sets.

So... I got the tar river set:



Not as carefully packaged as the main GF9 river sections (just put in paper rather than custom expanded polystyrene (weird given that they would fit in the existing ones they make). In any case, it will go well with my Orky stuff.

Concerning the packaging, not weird at all.
Could be either
1) just a general cost saving step.
2) if produced recently, say in the past year, there may well be production/shipping/supply issues affecting the availability of those custom styrene trays.
I mean, nobody ever considers the packaging that stuff comes in - but someone sure as he'll MAKES it. Out of something. Wich comes from somewhere....
So if that supply chain gets disrupted, guess what? No custom styrene trays for you.

I'm sure it's a cost-saving measure, as they're crammed into a very small box, and you get twice as many as a regular box.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I have been extremely tempted to get the tar and blood river sets.

So... I got the tar river set:



Not as carefully packaged as the main GF9 river sections (just put in paper rather than custom expanded polystyrene (weird given that they would fit in the existing ones they make). In any case, it will go well with my Orky stuff.

Man It's been like 3 weeks since I ordered mine and the order is still "processing". random Danish webshop

Managed to find another metallic combat gauge for KT21 which was actually reasonably priced! Now I will be able to ditch the inferior plastic gauges.

Now if only someone made a metallic RED gauge in a matching style, studs, skulls and all..

Snagged another couple of LotRs minis off ebay for cheaps.

Some Khazard Guard, metal Easterling warriors and the Haradrim King.

Orruk & stormcast battletomes and their warscrolls.

Seems like the Sector Imperialis board tiles finally became OOP, so snagged up one of the few remaining sets from a FLGS. Figured it'll turn out way cheaper to score 4 tiles woth of board this way instead of buying em one by one from ebay..

Sometimes I wonder wtf I'm doing spending outlandish amts of money on TERRAIN.. it's an addiction/disease?

Bought the Cadian Imperial Guard box to use the heads, and maybe the arms, to convert my Death Korps of Kreig when the arrive. Also, a couple of Contrast paints for my Banshees which feel a bit MIA right now in all honesty lol

 tauist wrote:
Seems like the Sector Imperialis board tiles finally became OOP, so snagged up one of the few remaining sets from a FLGS. Figured it'll turn out way cheaper to score 4 tiles woth of board this way instead of buying em one by one from ebay..

Sometimes I wonder wtf I'm doing spending outlandish amts of money on TERRAIN.. it's an addiction/disease?

Well depends on how much you spend on models If you spend 10x money and effort to terrain it might be odd

Generally problem is otherway around. Not enough money and effort spent on terrain.

tneva82 wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Seems like the Sector Imperialis board tiles finally became OOP, so snagged up one of the few remaining sets from a FLGS. Figured it'll turn out way cheaper to score 4 tiles woth of board this way instead of buying em one by one from ebay..

Sometimes I wonder wtf I'm doing spending outlandish amts of money on TERRAIN.. it's an addiction/disease?

Well depends on how much you spend on models If you spend 10x money and effort to terrain it might be odd

Generally problem is otherway around. Not enough money and effort spent on terrain.

I've spent ~500€ on terrain this year, and about 350€ on models, so not 10x. OTOH I'd probably spend even more money on terrain if I had unlimited storage space

Only excuse I can come up with is always being super inspired by the miniature scenery used in OG scifi movies. Maybe I want to try to achieve a similar level of excellence subconsciously by throwing money at the problem? Oh well, there are more expensive ways to lose money..

 tauist wrote:
Seems like the Sector Imperialis board tiles finally became OOP, so snagged up one of the few remaining sets from a FLGS. Figured it'll turn out way cheaper to score 4 tiles woth of board this way instead of buying em one by one from ebay..

Sometimes I wonder wtf I'm doing spending outlandish amts of money on TERRAIN.. it's an addiction/disease?

They've been OOP for three years now. They just haven't all sold.

I wanted to get a set here in the US, but it ain't happening.

 tauist wrote:
Sometimes I wonder wtf I'm doing spending outlandish amts of money on TERRAIN.. it's an addiction/disease?

Not at all.

I have a '93 boxed complete blood angels devastator squad.

I *tried* getting some GF9 terrain and Wizkids Deep Cuts from a spanish online store. I have a 160€ paypal charge but they have no record of my order being placed. Fun.

 Dr. Mills wrote:
Most recent?

3 steel legion plasma gun troops and 3 heavy bolter weapon teams ready for a doubles tournament in May.

Hopefully I can get them all painted in time!

I've sat staring at an entire steel legion army in my GW cart before, until I hit X out of willpower I didn't know I had.
Enjoy! they are such rad IG models.

Painboss
Beastboss on Squigosaur

Don't think I'll build it as Mozrog.

2 Kruleboyz Big Birds, Marshcrawla Sloggoth, Skumdrekk, a box of Gutrippaz and a Beast killer Killbow will hopefully be with me in the next few hours if the postage Gods are on my side.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Sometimes I wonder wtf I'm doing spending outlandish amts of money on TERRAIN.. it's an addiction/disease?

Not at all.

Yeah man, I've been reading your terrain blog. You seem to have it much worse than me though hehehe! At the end of the day, nothing cooler than a fierce looking board to have a bit of game on

A pack of WK deepcut Gnome Bards (females) for our Pirates D&D game.

One of the players rolled up a Gnome Bard for the groups upcoming Pirate D&D game, handed me $, & asked me if I'd pick up the pack when I was at the shop next. (it's not like it's out of my way as they knew I had a KT game scheduled there this evening)

I finally took the plunge and ordered the Wargames Atlantic not-squats, lizardmen and spider boxes online.

Also ordered a decent-sized skirmish force of Quar, the definitive WW1 anteater men, from zombiesmith.

Spotted Imperium mag #4 when buying some printer paper in my local newsagent yesterday. Couldn't resist buying it, even though I had #4 on pre-order from Dark Sphere and already had the Skorpekh Destroyer kit from Indomitus courtesy of eBay.

Dark Sphere order turned up this morning.

My new Necron army is looking to be a little heavy on the Skorpekh Destroyer front.




NB: should probably think about doing something with all of the Conquest stuff I have still on sprue...

Another Talos, bringing me to 2 (plus a Chronos thingy), and a box of 10 Rubrics.

Just 5 more Scarab Occult guys and the new 1KSons character and my 1KSons army will be done.

I bought Octarius and I'm really enjoying it.

More white spray & a few new brushes.

Supertank printer, which has been a godsend for printing rulebook PDFs and paper miniatures. Would recommend (with some research) if you intend to make frequent large-volume printouts. Much better cost-wise in the long term than a cartridge inkjet printer. Makes it a bit easier to keep away from screens now that it’s no longer necessary to have the rules on a screen.

Printed out a good chunk of that Pokemon TTRPG (800 pages) and it only took about 1/5 of the ink in the printer.

Replaced a few used up paints & picked up a pack of WK archers (elves I think, the important part being that they're archers).

Purchased three old metal Scavvies for the Necromunda project.

Cheers,

CB

Got my hands on a pile of metal Dead of Dunharrow for my ever expanding Middle Earth collection for quite a good price. That now completes all the old metal warriors. Just need the horsemen and the plastic King/Heralds now.

Picked up last month's preorders:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
krule boy big bow and dude riding a troll, dude on vulture, dude on star wars horse, and 2 of the trolls crawling on hands and knees. The names genuinely escape me.

I am no closer to remembering the names

Bought Lady Olynder and a pot of Fenrisian Grey for a Ctan Transcendent proxy.

The Oct order of Talos x2 (a 40k drukhari kit) arrived today.
Only 6 more to go!

I might change the Nov/Dec orders from x2 to x3 each month so this project wraps up in 2021 instead of Jan.2022.

Fenrisian wolves box.

I got a Piscean Spektor. Not the whole Delaque box, as most of the models in that box are [url=https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/threeSixty/99120599028_DelaqueNachtGhulAndPsyGheistsOTT1360/01-01.jpg]absolute drek[/urk], but the big floaty brain thing is fine.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I am no closer to remembering the names

Never do! Always call whatever it is "dude on star wars horse", in every game, from now on.

Picked up the new rule book for 40k. I was just getting into the game when covid started so hoping to start again now that things are coming back.
I also picked up Five Parsecs From Home, probably more excited about it actually. Had a great time with it in early pandemic lockdown and its got me finally painting up my mdf terrain. I might order some more of that too soon.

Beastmen Gors box which will double as demons for solo/co-op games.

 privateer4hire wrote:
I finally took the plunge and ordered the Wargames Atlantic not-squats, lizardmen and spider boxes online.

Also ordered a decent-sized skirmish force of Quar, the definitive WW1 anteater men, from zombiesmith.

I love zombiesmith minis. Is the 15mm Quar project released yet?

Picked up some cheap brushes for dry-brushing terrain.

Cheers,

CB

I purchased the Dyniaq pumpkin people from Spellcrow to use in Frostgrave or other skirmish fantasy games.

 privateer4hire wrote:
I finally took the plunge and ordered the Wargames Atlantic not-squats, lizardmen and spider boxes online.

Also ordered a decent-sized skirmish force of Quar, the definitive WW1 anteater men, from zombiesmith.

I love zombiesmith minis. Is the 15mm Quar project released yet?

Wight King mini and corax white pot.

Posthumans for Infinity.

I've managed to put them together, which is better than my previous attempt neary a decade ago

Ghostbuster Zombicide pack.

Stay Puffed Abomination is so cool!

Just discovered this. This is the self-help thread for spending money you dont have right?

I received an order of dreadnoughts on the weekend. I am telling myself I am done for now for my SW...
Bought a Primaris Tech Marine, 2x Redemptor and 2x SW Ven Dreads.

Picked up the unarmoured Theoden that I missed in a previous MtO for a really good price. He's broken but easily repaired.

I bought some Infinity stuff plus MDF terrain as a backdrop recently. Now I just have to find a place to store a freight ship, dock, cargo crane and truck...

I bought a box of Genestealer Cult Acolytes and a box of Brood Brothers to put together a Necromunda gang, but that's the first purchase I've made in a loooong time now other than paint and a few secondhand bits.

Yoda and a box of Wookiees for Legion. With the Wookiees I already have, it'll give me 2 of the melee units, Chewbacca and a Chieftain to play around with

Van Saar Weapon upgrade.

Useless kit as they offer 4 arm/butts for the pistols and rifles and 20+ weapons to go on them.
The resin kits had the weapon holding arm attached,

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Van Saar Weapon upgrade.

Useless kit as they offer 4 arm/butts for the pistols and rifles and 20+ weapons to go on them.
The resin kits had the weapon holding arm attached,

That's what I thought. Ta for the report.

I bought a pack of Jotunn Slave Ogryn I found in a 2nd-hand shop.

Some alternative female tau heads to use for the model to represent my character in a Rogue Trader RPG I'm playing in.

Also a mini of Katina from this set to use as the basis for the model of the Arch-Militant in that game.

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Useless kit as they offer 4 arm/butts for the pistols and rifles and 20+ weapons to go on them. The resin kits had the weapon holding arm attached,

Can't you just use the weapons with the existing butts/arms from the regular Van Saar kit?

For magnetisers, more arms are the thing. I used all of mine up from the regular kit.
For anyone else, that's a lot of wasted options, with only 4 weapons to use from the pile of 20 in the set.
I can just see what look like a Las sub-carbine in the set though. That makes it almost worth getting.

[update]
That got me to check again, and the "Aircraft and Aces – Asuryani Cards" are back on pre-prder.
So, I just added the "Van Saar Weapon upgrade" to the order. That sub-carbines won me over. Lots of melee options and headshelped there.

You lot are bad for my wallet.

Bought the SM codex yesterday.
Have an idea of an army list that I want to test out.

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Van Saar Weapon upgrade.

Useless kit as they offer 4 arm/butts for the pistols and rifles and 20+ weapons to go on them.
The resin kits had the weapon holding arm attached,

Uh, you need the core box of bodies to put the new guns on and that comes with butts for everyone?

Kill Team Box Set for me, looking forward to when I get a chance to assemble and paint the terrain and Kommandos

Wife gave me quilt guilt money. Bought a quar platoon from zombiesmith, cityscape from dropzone commander, 3x3 game mat, oathmark human cavalry, and the new battletech game of armored combat box.

I am set for months if not the rest of the year, as in 12 months from now.

I just got the "Muskets and Tomahawks", "Shakos and Bayonets" and "Redcoats and Tomahawks" rulebooks.
And some cards and tokens.

I bought my first GW kit in probably five years just last week.

Its a Forge Fiend to eventually join my Emperors Children Army

Another Xacto knife.

I lose one every few months.
Like socks out of a sealed dryer,, no idea how. Or where they go. Just gone....
So be warned: if you find that missing sock pile it's likely got a bunch of razorblades mixed in.

ccs wrote:
So be warned: if you find that missing sock pile it's likely got a bunch of razorblades mixed in.

Friend of mine's "paint and tools" box used to be just a crate with everything shoved inside. Reaching in there was always a gamble, as you were just as likely to retrieve a paint pot or brush as you were a new case of tetanus or arterial bleeding.

Fun times.

Purchased a group of 20 old metal figures.

Feels some shame...but they are all ones I was looking for.

CB

Did quite a lot of work on my Callidus Assassin and a bit on my Vindicare Assassin. Both are great minis to practise edge highlighting. I've actually almost completed my Callidus Assassin already which made me happy. As I said earlier it'd be awesome to be able to play them in Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo, maybe two of them take up a Fire Team? So you could have seven guardsmen working alongside a Vindicare and a Callidus? I think balancing Eversor Assassin and his explosion would a bit of a bastard though lol

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Van Saar Weapon upgrade.

Useless kit as they offer 4 arm/butts for the pistols and rifles and 20+ weapons to go on them.
The resin kits had the weapon holding arm attached,

That's not an issue, if you buy the regular kit you'll have plenty of arm/butts. The upgrade pack may hurt only if you managed to find extra bodies (with no weapons) for cheap, and want to combine with the upgrade pack, which is not really likely considering the cost of the regular 10 man kit that is low enough that getting bitzes for something like 10 bodies is actually more expensive than getting the whole box.

Just ordered the final several Talos/Cronos kits I'll need to wrap my Drukahri project up in Dec.

Four more Scavvies picked up via eBay.

Cheers,

CB

Just picked up the Triumph of Saint Katherine for my Sisters of Battle. Not sure how much I'll use it in the current edition, but it'll make an awesome painting and modelling project.

Ordered another box of Harlequins at my local GW for Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Northmen Warriors from Fireforge Games.

Replaced a few more paints that're running low.

Two WGA British Napoleonic Riflemen sprues and 1 Frostgrave Demon sprue for Stargrave kit-bashing.

Some Mechanicus Standard Grey and Astrogranit Debris for my bases. Used a crap-ton for my Craftworld Eldar as their bases are...BASED...on the war they waged against Slaaneshi invaders attacking their Craftworld. Also, my Officio Assassinorum operatives as I've made them be on a dead world covered in ash like earth at the beginning of Terminator 2, so I want to make it the same for the enemies of the Assassinorum: Execution Force board game as well.

My aim was to cool off for a few months - maybe to the end of the year - and not buy anything for a while (with one very specific exception). I was even going to pass on the new KT box (except for a few rare Sector Imperialis frames from that box).

But, thanks to GW's Soviet/CCP-style "unperson-ing" of their various terrain kits, where things will just go OOP without warning or explanation, and the recent revelation that the Necromunda Gang Stronhold is now gone (according to GWUS), my hand was forced.

So I picked up 4 sets, plus some extra walls and extra stairs/platforms.

And the specific exception I mentioned? Well that's to get hold of 3 of the new Captain from Imperium Magazine (as two friends also wanted one), and Sergeant Castus.

MOAR ZONE MORTALIS!

Another set of walls (think I’ve now got six or seven in total?

Another set of stairs and platforms (three or four of those)

That natty transfer set whilst I remembered it existed.

Fourth and final (lol) floors

And a pot of XV-88 to just edge me over the £150 target so I can get a second Sgt Castus.

Why I shall have the prettiest Zone Mortalis Board in all the land! And being able to do a full 4x4 also means that when plastic Heresy comes along, said Prettiest Zone Mortalis Board In All The Land* can pull double duty like the dirty beast it is.



*I cannot back this up with facts.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Why I shall have the prettiest Zone Mortalis Board in all the land!

Are you asking for a challenge!!!

Granted, I don't have any of the 1x1 tiles, but eventually.

I did say I cannot back it up with facts!

It will be awfully pretty though.

I panic bought a Gang Stronghold too, along with a box of walls. This is my first zone mortalis stuff.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I did say I cannot back it up with facts!

It will be awfully pretty though.

Warning, this episode features copious amounts of Zone Mortalis. Hobbyists with heart conditions are advised to not look directly at Zone Mortalis. This also applies to hobbyists without heart conditions. It's very pretty. See? See how pretty it is? It's very pretty. I'd like to run my fingers through its stairs, and I'm just a voice.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I panic bought a Gang Stronghold too, along with a box of walls. This is my first zone mortalis stuff.

Welcome to the rabbit hole.

Poop wherever you like

The GWUS site indicates the Gang Stranghold is just temporarily out of stock? Am I missing something?

chaos0xomega wrote:
The GWUS site indicates the Gang Stranghold is just temporarily out of stock? Am I missing something?

A UK mail order troll said it was discontinued and we panic bought. Today it was restocked. GW gonna GW

 lord_blackfang wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
The GWUS site indicates the Gang Stranghold is just temporarily out of stock? Am I missing something?

A UK mail order troll said it was discontinued and we panic bought. Today it was restocked. GW gonna GW

My impression is that these days the mail order and phone staff are little more than the same as GW store managers. Which means most of the time the information they have is the same information that is on the GW webstore. Ergo they don't go and ask the web-store manager or the production staff for updates. They just tell you what the webstore tells them. Which IN THEORY should work because its tied to the Warehouse inventory system.


However in practice it doesn't work. GW makes changes sometimes appearing to change on the fly which throws up confusion; furthermore GW has an error on the webstore (The FW side has it appearing a LOT) where for some reason out of stock items get shown as discontinued. IT also doesn't help that any product change results in a new product code which means the old product has to be replaced in the system - which means the old gets discontinued. Sometimes you can catch the transfer when one is discontinued and the new is there; but often as not the discontinued is removed and its some tim before its returned.


Basically there's a communication breakdown between actual production staff and front-end support staff.

Yep, precisely that. Then add some employees just straight up making things up to cover their ignorance for maximum chaos.

It might not be them making stuff up, but trying to work within a system to provide an answer to a customer based on the company's general position whilst not being allowed/able to contact the relevant staff.

Part of this is likely just GW growing in scale and size. It's easy to ask production when there's only a dozen emails a day; but when you deal with hundreds suddenly it becomes a problem and someone higher up says "ok stop asking production you're interrupting their work".


Again in theory as GW has most of its company in-house they should really be on top of this - but they aren't. I think part of it is the hyper compartmentalising that GW does to protect its production secrets on what is coming and what is changing. Which has kind of always been there and got worse over the years - esp under Kirby and perhaps also as a result of dealings with WB and Lord of the Rings.

Blimey! Today’s order has already shipped.

Guess I’m getting busy with the clippers and glue tomorrow afternoon. Yay!

And now I snagged 2 boxes of Zone Mortalis tiles as Kutami.de got 5 in (didn't take all as I'm just gonna use them for raised areas and a second floor, I have a great underhive mat for the ground floor)

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Then add some employees just straight up making things up to cover their ignorance for maximum chaos.

Then add that GW does discontinue terrain sets at random and without warning or explanation, and is it any wonder that people panic bought them?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
And now I snagged 2 boxes of Zone Mortalis tiles as Kutami.de got 5 in (didn't take all as I'm just gonna use them for raised areas and a second floor, I have a great underhive mat for the ground floor)

Just bought a Mowang there as well. I have to say they are quickly shaping up to be my favourite online retailer.

Codex Blood Angels and new WD, today.

Big day today. Really big day. Got my grubby mitts on all 91 issues of Battle Games in Middle-earth. I've wanted these for a dogs age and now I've got em. Had to drive an hour and a half to pick them up, but it was worth it for what I paid.

The Drukhari Medusae (x4) I ordered at my local shop finally arrived. As did another Talos.

2 more Talos to go....

Ordered a box of Custodes Custodian Wardens to make a team for Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo. Might use them to practice NMM well, perhaps I'll use other models to practice it before the Custodes arrive...

It is done. I have secured 4 sets of Zone Mortalis tiles.

Comin' at'cha Grotsnik!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It is done. I have secured 4 sets of Zone Mortalis tiles.

Comin' at'cha Grotsnik!

Is a 'Zone Mortalis Off' a thing now?

Will there be smack talk and boasting of how big one's plastic clippers are?

The Public have a right to know.

Who sells Rhino sides without the tracks? I mean OK it was clear from the picture and description that tracks are not included and I should have noticed but still...

I mean who buys a trackless Rhino side? Who buys Rhino-less tracks?

An easy fix with thin plastic card but c'mon!

Uh anyway I got 3 bare bones rhinos, coming in around $20 a pop, no hatches or extras which is fine since they'll be chaosed to hell and back. Fingers crossed this ends up looking good and not just a Rhino with random bits stuck to it...

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Who buys Rhino-less tracks?

Raises hand....

Why? Because sometimes you need to refurbish something.
EX:
Last year a local shop took in a sorry ass SoB collection.
It was a dirty, poorly painted, & poorly assembled mess. All the vehicles were missing bitz - including their tracks.
This player had slapped enough together to get playing, played a # of games, and then decided against 40k.
Then they left it sit in an open box on a garrage shelf for a year+ collecting dirt, never finishing the models & losing bitz. Including all the tracks apparently.
Then last year they needed some $.
The shop paid them pennies on the dollar.
I paid the shop dimes on the dollar for the force, invested around another $50 or so + some time (time was plentiful summer 2020....) and flipped it for a decent profit.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It is done. I have secured 4 sets of Zone Mortalis tiles.

Comin' at'cha Grotsnik!

I just got my 2 boxes and they're all banana bent. Trying hot water now.

EDIT: Fixed 2, destroyed 2, not touching the rest. Turns out there's maybe a 2 degree window just below boiling at which the plastic is pliable, go over and it's going to warp like mad and get stuck that way.

A small flock of sheep, a small herd of cows, a few civilians (to mind them) and some generic looking "supplies" in 6mm.
To be baggage for DBA and similar games.

Just ordered enough of the 40k Steel Legion squads to be sure of never needing any more SL Sgts/troops/grenade launchers/missile teams.

Today, I've bought the last (fifth) NDK for my 2000 pts GK army.

More Seraphim Sepia, and secondhand Tyranid Gargoyles

I'm in Germany for work and stopped in a local store. They had a copy of Five Parsecs From Home so I picked it up to check out.

Maybe a solo game is something I can get on the table.

Five Parsecs From Home.

Gorgeous book but...omg where do I start? Glad to finally have a copy all the same and enjoying just flicking through it for now....

I just bought the new vampire and a chaos sorcerer on manticore. Just need Archaon to finish my army.

Got the Camp Northwood buildings and mat along with the new Gourd Reaper from Black Site Games. I'm hoping to get stuff assembled and painted to run Don't Look Back at a local gaming con this January.

https://blacksitestudio.com/dlb/

Finally gave in and purchased the Sisters Codex.

Cheers,

CB

GW Rockgut Trolls for my solo/co-op bestiary.

It's gotta be some lacquer thinner.
Thought I had some, but nope.

GW Customer Service finally got my 'My Warhammer' password issue sorted.

So I ordered the new Primaris Lieutenant and the separate Dread Pageant.

My last purchase was to preorder Harrowdeep, so I could also get the acrylic tokens.

Army Painter black primer and their "Soft Tone" shade to try it out.

Second Gang Stronghold and a 99€ Octarius box from Kutami.de, looks like they slashed their prices to stay 20% under GW's special offer. Hopefully I can move the books and teams and keep a second set of terrain super cheap.

I broke my vow of 'no more models till the pile of shame is in order' And got a Razorback. However. Seeing as my Grey Knights only need another and a Godhammer pattern Land Raider. I might just cave and get all that and set to getting the army 100% built and painted.

 Shadowbrand wrote:
I broke my vow of 'no more models till the pile of shame is in order' And got a Razorback. However. Seeing as my Grey Knights only need another and a Godhammer pattern Land Raider. I might just cave and get all that and set to getting the army 100% built and painted.

It's frigging hard, it's called 'plastic crack' for good frigging reason lol

Pre-ordered the new Kill Team box. I have been trying really hard not to buy new models this year as I work down my pile of shame. But then GW decided to release a start box that contains both armies I play. Kind of hard to skip.

Managed to get a Wuzz Boy without needing to get an uber-expensive War Rig.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Managed to get a Wuzz Boy without needing to get an uber-expensive War Rig.

Nice, he's the only good part of that kit.

 Adrassil wrote:

 Shadowbrand wrote:
I broke my vow of 'no more models till the pile of shame is in order' And got a Razorback. However. Seeing as my Grey Knights only need another and a Godhammer pattern Land Raider. I might just cave and get all that and set to getting the army 100% built and painted.

It's frigging hard, it's called 'plastic crack' for good frigging reason lol

It really is. It will be a long way to the finish line.

Some D12 for tracking vehicle wounds.

Paints.

Blades for hobby-knife.

Van Saar weapons-sprue.

Went a bit MCP-crazy after realizing how quick those minis paint up and ordered Ghost-Spider/Ultimate Spider-Man, Taskmaster/Punisher, Green Goblin and Daredevil/Bullseye.

28cmx21cm oval base(trying to turn smaug into the khorne lord & his dragon).

Damn this sort of small order from UK order gets expensive. 2.5£ for base itself. 5.95£ for postage. Well this was still cheapest source for this sort of weird base that I know. Then it comes here. Outside EU so I need to go through customs. That added another 2.6£ to the fee. Then local post office charges extra for packages that needs to go through custom which added about 2.7£ more to the thing so almost 14£ spent on one bloody base.

Alas not much supply on 280mmx210mm oval bases...Not that there likely is much demand either

 Viterbi wrote:
Went a bit MCP-crazy after realizing how quick those minis paint up and ordered Ghost-Spider/Ultimate Spider-Man, Taskmaster/Punisher, Green Goblin and Daredevil/Bullseye.

I may be hitting this up, especially if I can find ways to do Ultraverse characters with minimal effort.

Two sets of pure awesomesauce.

Caved and purchased ten old metal Repentia.

Cheers,

CB

Just ordered a box of Custodian Guard from Mighty Ape so will have options for Custodes with both Guardian Spears and swords and boards for Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo.

A Drukari besstmaster (metal, not finecrap).

This guy fills in the last 2pl points in my very late-game Crusade roster.

Ordered 30 x 25mm round bases.

Cheers,

CB

Another infinite Zone Mortalis terrain generator (known as a 3d printer)

New prototype board, cards, and 2-sided tiles!

Grabbed the MtO Twighlight Ringwraiths and Kardush the Firecaller.

Just picked up a Stormraven for my GK.

New in box on eBay for £36!

Travelbattle from Perry Miniatures.

A complete Wargame in a box. Comes with 2 modular plastic boards (which have inch squares on them for measurements), terrain, 2 forces, dice, and rules. Everything you need apart from glue and paint.

Over comes the main obstacle of needing an opponent with an opposing force.

Happy days!

Forgot to add as well, got the new limited Vampire lady and a Steel Legion squad before they went OoP.

Picked up a green colorshift metallic paint from FolkArt to use for warpstone, wound up functioning almost exactly like contrast paint. One coat gave me highlights and shading, all with colorshift and some metallic sparkle for extra warp goodness. Best less than $4 US I have ever spent.

I bought myself the new kill team box set, the one with the sisters of battle.

I bought it and it arrives today, and I can't remember the name of it!

 dreadblade wrote:
Just picked up a Stormraven for my GK.

New in box on eBay for £36!

And today ordered a Chaos Land Raider for my TS (10% off from my FLGS)

•Restocked several paints I'm burning though.

•ordered several copies of that new LE Slaves to Darkness mini. One for use as is, one for a conversion, and the 3rd as a backup in case I botch the conversion somehow.

Taking advantage of Heroforge's Black Friday sale: https://www.heroforge.com/

Enjoy $5* off any of our physical 3D printed miniatures with the code:
EpicLoot
STL and VTT digital downloads are on sale for $3.99, no code needed!

The code is good until 11-29-2021.

Now the detail is about the same as the early Reaper Bones figures, and the cheapest plastic they offer is $19.99 before the discount. Shipping within the US is $7.99, so these 3d printed figures are not cheap or very detailed. However, this lets you customize a character model and get something offbeat that you need but no one makes commercially. Like a cyberpunk kitsune (although maybe there is one on Etsy since I last looked at cyberpunk figures). So anyway, I bought two figures I designed, both for Stargrave. Also designed the cyberpunk kitsune, but not bought it yet.

Also kickstarted Colony 87 Wave 4 last month.

2 sprues of Northmen Folk Rabble and 1 sprue of Northmen Bowmen from Fireforge Games.

At long last Miniature Market has gotten the Wargames Atlantic Cannon Fodder. So I ordered them with the Raumjager and Lizardmen. Non WGA products were Sentinels of Order for Warcry, and the Steampunk Parvati for Aristeia. [Don't play the game, but I like the look of the mini. She can be used in Stargrave as Quarantine 37 introduced a two-gun specialist.]

I just picked up Twilight Imperium Prophecy of Kings as a spur of the moment Black Friday buy when I went into my FLGS to get a pot of paint. XD

My Areonautica Thunderhawk came in this week.

Picked it up today & saved some additional $ thanks to the shops Black Friday sale.

Very nice model btw.

Book of Outcasts, cards, and a box of Outcast gangers.

Book of Outcasts, Underhive Market.

Island of Blood Skaven lot minus characters, Rat Ogres, and a couple foot models. Has both weapon teams though...

My first 3D printed army came in today. 2000 points of Warmaster Dark Elves from Excellent Miniatures. Fantastic figs, it amazes me how far 3D printing tech has come in the last 5 years.

A Warbringer titan for Adeptus Titanicus.

I've been really good at not buying minis the last few months. This all fell apart when a friend of mine asked if I'd buy his 4000pts of Dark Elves for 150 bucks. So now I have 4000 extra points to add to my already unpainted 2000pt army.

I got Jain zar and another set of TTcombat containers.

Ordered a bunch of Black Templar Crusader helms, plus a few bits and bobs from the BT Upgrade sprue.

All my Primaris Sergeants will have Crusader helms, as they look cooler than the pseudo Mk.IV helmets Primaris normally have. And the other parts - the big sword, one of the hand-held icons, etc. - will go towards kitbashing a second Judiciar.

Wife ordered me three different inner sphere lances for battletech for Christmas.

I got a text late this afternoon from my FLGS saying "Give me all your $". I knew what they were taking about....
My Stormcast dragons have arrived!

So finally, much to the horror of my wallet & the delight of my FLGS, as of this evening I now own another 2k pt AoS army.

Necron Worldscour Legion.

Ebayed a 2nd ed era Whirlwind and picked up some GSC Neophytes for my Necromunda gang.

It's not a game purchase, but a hobby related one so will hopefully qualify?

Preordered "The Art Of... Vol 3: Ana Polanscak" miniature art book. I was dumb and missed the kickstarter, but at least I got my copy in, will just have to live without the backer extras.

Oh yeah, I did also buy Kill Team: Chalnath book from ebay. Figured I can always get the minis later, but the book itself will be harder to find for a decent price once Chalnath box goes OOP. Didn't fancy the terrain (prefer the more industrial looking buildings in the terrain range) so the full box wasnt a viable purchase for me. Besides, I'm still waiting for GW to release the KT21 DKoK kit separately..

I grabbed sly marbo along with a number of bases. I also got Army Painter steel balls. I have to get another set since they are revitalizing so many of my old paints. Next will be a pack of SW Legion rebel infantry upgrade pack.

After a thorough inventory of the Dark Elf army lot I won on ebay, my next purchases will apparently be 5 pairs of Harpy wing tips and 15 Executioner sword blades...

I ordered the USAF and North Korean aircraft sets of 1/600 planes from Tumbling Dice, along with a few B-29s.

I also ordered two boxes of Wargame Atlantic's Dark Age Irish.

Hopefully, I will get these in time to start stocking up my 2022 pile of shame, since I finished off the 2021 pile.

Unless I run out of glue or some color of paint? I don't envision any further gaming purchases for 2021.

I bought a bunch of 25mm round bases.

I just like having some around, just in case, you know?

Wizkids Giant Eagle, which is now painted and the first model I based with scale foliage instead of just plain Stirland Mud (which made a big difference) and used dedicated mini brushes on instead of generic acrylic (which made a much bigger difference!)
It could've been way better, and it really could've used some more forethought on the colors, but feth it- I'm happy enough with it.

1 sprue of WGA giant spiders and a pack of 25mm round bases.

I just bought the following for my wolfspesrs army

×2 Infiltrator boxes, x2 invictor warsuits, x2 eliminator squads, x1 stormspeeder and a phobos Liberian. Enough to bring my current collection to 2000pts.

Traded with a buddy - 10 x 25mm round bases for 10 x 25mm round slotta bases. After all, old metal GW miniatures are pretty well all slotta based.

Cheers,

CB

Picked up the Shieldbreaker Strike Force, to be divided up between my Dark Angels and Space Wolves.

As soon as I find somewhere to unload this garbage 5th Ed. Morathi on foot I plan on getting the plastic Dark Elf Sorceress. Maybe try to hunt down that Assassin from Warhammer Quest/Talisman.

Balin's Tomb and the King of the dead for MESBG.

Brings me to just shy of 800 points for both Dunharrow and Moria.

ccs wrote:
I got a text late this afternoon from my FLGS saying "Give me all your $". I knew what they were taking about....
My Stormcast dragons have arrived!

So finally, much to the horror of my wallet & the delight of my FLGS, as of this evening I now own another 2k pt AoS army.

I am so tempted to do the same!

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 Snrub wrote:
Balin's Tomb and the King of the dead for MESBG.

Brings me to just shy of 800 points for both Dunharrow and Moria.

the troll in there is the same size as a typical MESBG cave troll, yes? If so I might pick it up as well.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:
the troll in there is the same size as a typical MESBG cave troll, yes? If so I might pick it up as well.

As far as i'm aware, yes, it's the same size. Comes with both hammer and spear options, too! Which I didn't realise. Nice touch.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
Balin's Tomb and the King of the dead for MESBG.

Brings me to just shy of 800 points for both Dunharrow and Moria.

the troll in there is the same size as a typical MESBG cave troll, yes? If so I might pick it up as well.

It is the same size, and has the option for a hammer or a spear (I've got that troll from the old Mines of Moria starter, from back when dinosaurs ruled the earth ).

Edit: Ninja'd!

Night gobbos box.

Most recent purchase was two things as Christmas presents for friends. One got a blister for their favorite army and the other got a novel.

Both know my Dakka handle, so not saying what until after Christmas.

I got two Conquest starter sets (ea w/ 2 free bonus boxes). Also bought 2 each of all the 40k and AoS Battleforces (except the Ork one, which I have no need for, and the AdMech one which is delayed into next year). Also picked up 2 SW Armada starter sets (making it 4 total since I started with the game) since I was having trouble finding victories at a decent price and I could always use more Nebulon Bs and Corellian Corvettes.

Going all in on Turnip28, I just got in

Perry 1450-1500 Mercenaries
Perry 1450-1500 Mounted Men at Arms
Perry French Napoleonic Dragoons
Perry ACW Union Infantry
Victrix Napoleonic British Artillery
bunch of Renedra flat round bases
bunch of mud, rust and water FX
Citadel Creeping Vines and Barbed Bracken

Still waiting on Victrix 1804 French from eBay Belgium

I bought some cheap bushes from a model train set.

Multipurpose for basing of all kinds.

The Sylvaneth warband for Warcry and The Maze of Malcor for Frostgrave.

1x Lokhust Heavy Destroyer
1x Chronomancer
1x Convergence of Dominion
1x Ophydian Destroyers
1x Primaris Chaplain (to turn into a second Judiciar)
1x Ogre Tyrant (wanted the mini for so long)
1x Ogroid Myrmidon (starting to vanish from stockists)

Picked up a few crafty bitz & things the other day while finishing Christmas shopping g.
Stuff I envision needing to scratch build myself a Drukhari version of a vortex missile battery fortification.

Some Medieval German banners, an ogran gun in 15mm, crew and assorted equipment from Donnington.
To get the last few things for my 15mm Medieval German army and make it so that I can use it to field HRE, Low Countries, Hungarian and Burgundian for DBA with it.

A Wizkids Young Black Dragon, some fine-grain files, a fresh set of basic brushes, and a fresh can of Matte Finish that'll (hopefully) actually be matte unlike the cheap gak I have

15mm scale fortifications and a long boat while I was at it.
Museum miniatures has a sale on and I will need a fortified camp for my Romans eventually

Picked up one of the old 40k large templates - the one with the silver admech like ring & blue energy throughout the center.
I'm going to cut it up & use it as part of a Drukhari vortex missile battery fortification.
I imagine a warp gate opening in the sky & missiles pouring out......

Just bought 8 Wild West MDF buildings. I signed up to run a Wild West game at a local con, and after doing so realized one of my 2 bins of buildings is MIA. Might have got lost or misplaced in our last move. If they do turn up, I'll just have a bigger town...

Allarus Custodians.

Oh man, not another army. I'm determined that this one won't join all the other unfinished ones.

Deffkoptas.
Mansions of madness second ed.

Genestealer Cult Saboteur
3x sets of Allarus Custodian Terminators

I love it when Battle Boxes flood the market with cheap full kits. Better than 50% off on those Allarus sets.

Two packs of Battle Ready Bases by Gamers Grass to finish off a pair of D&D figs.
25mm winter & 25mm broken cobblestone.

My initial thought was to base the minis on cobblestone as that'd be very thematic for the adventure.
Now I could make such bases myself. But seeing as I was going to be at a shop that sells exactly this today....
Then I saw the winter bases.
I Couldn't decide wich I liked better, so I got them both. They'll all get used eventually.

Dragon Castle (a board game).
3 different cyborgs from Urban Mammoth's Urban War line for use in Stargrave.
Astreia Solbright. [Wanted her, and since she's been discontinued, thought I'd better buy her now. The others I saw for sale had already been marked up.]

From Barnes and Noble, Bladeborn. It is Warcry light as a board game. So a hex grid, and no vertical movement. Otherwise, it is similar, even including a campaign system. Abilities activate off of doubles and triples, as the Wild dice have been removed. The simplicity is mainly any choice has been removed: everything is fixed.
Also included are cards for four other Warhammer Underworlds "teams" like The Eyes of the Nine, and there is a separate rules inset that gives Warcry stats and abilities for all six war bands. They each play as their own faction, not as their components would suggest. Thus the Beastman team uses its own ability card, not that of Beasts of Chaos as one might expect. Normally, the Eyes of the Nine would not be a legal team in Warcry as it mixes mortal and demonic Tzeetchians, but GW has made it its own faction with its own abilities.
While I may never play Bladeborn itself, I wanted the figures and it was cheaper buying them this way. And, hey, maybe I will play this as a board game. Quicker set up and tear down than standard War Cry.

Custodes Codex and box of Custodian Guard.
Also Army Painter Plate Mail and Aegis Suit Satin Varnish sprays.

Phoenix Cell Squadron for X-Wing, belated self chrimbo pressie which doesnt add to the pile o shame, although now have enough a-wings to have a go at painting Ahsoka card matching

5 Chaos Spawns and Command Barges. And a single Carnifex for fun

Battletech Clan Command Star that my FLGS ordered for me a year ago finally arrived, so that got bought.

WD471 and a box of Rangers of Middle-Earth to finish out my Ithilien Rangers.

Thousand Sons Start Collecting for a Kill Team. Always loved the aesthetic, but not enough to go in on a full army.

(Would love suggestions for an optimal KT build from this box btw)

Picked up a Manticore for my Astra Militarum whilst I was between rounds of a tournament in Kansas City.

A dude at work wanted to practice CAD stuff for his 3D printer and I half jokingly told him I'd buy 40mm ogre bases if he can make them in the same dimensions. Well, we work in a machine shop. He came over to my locker with some digital calipers and got the exact dimensional data from one of my models. The 5 he handed me today were the free test run, and I now have options to order as many as I need as well as an offer to have the program if I wind up getting a printer of my own.

The Death Zone book for Blood Bowl. BB is kicking off where I play, and 7s is getting popular.

More 6mm hoplites and phalangites with some Persian cavalry to hire or oppose them (respectively).

A couple of days ago I ordered a 1:144 scale WACO glider for my WWII Flames of War Americans.

All the other planes are 1:44 so I didn't really think about it. Later on though I decided it'd probably be too small if actually on the table - you know, after it lands/crashes & the plt disembarks.
Figured I see in a few days....

The kit that arrived? Nice model, but yes, definitely too small to represent a landed glider. I'll have to track down another one at 1:100 scale.
I'll still build & paint this one up though.

Bought some different sized files as my old ones are not as good anymore.

Now that I live in a country where one can't prime miniatures year-round; brush on primer.

Plus a few other paints and some "tiny tufts" in preparation for my 15mm Roman project that's next in line.

I just grabbed some more models for my Tau. Another Hammerhead, a start collecting set and a commander.

The time has come….for me to continue my vintage book collections into 2nd Ed. The greatest Ed ever, because that’s when I cut my teeth properly and clearly that therefore makes it the best and if you disagree you’re wrong and silly and you’ve not though it through at all.

I’ve already got the Imperial Guard book, and I’m presently stalking a copy of Codex Eldar on the eBay. Reckon I’ll make like a Pathfinder and do what I can to snipe it.

I’ve no particular plan to buy them in any particular order. Rather I’ll see what’s what around each payday, and if I can get a good price on a book I don’t have, I’ll go for it. Though I’ll probably shelf them in publication order.

I may even rope my friend into a couple of games for old times sake.

A 2nd ed Tyranid Codex is the only one I'm missing from my set of Tyranid ones. At some stage I'll hunt one down to complete the set!

 Overread wrote:
A 2nd ed Tyranid Codex is the only one I'm missing from my set of Tyranid ones. At some stage I'll hunt one down to complete the set!

The Tyranids one is the only one I have for 2nd edition (when I started) Its a great one too, I love it!


As far as purchase, I got the Custodes book and cards last weekend (nice that the points value is already outdated), resisted getting more models so far as I paint what I have and try to not get sidetracked!

Bought a box of Outcasts. Said they were on 'pre-order'. Very interested to see whether the store can get them, of if they'll have to get me 3 boxes of the single sprue. It didn't say 'Sold Out' like other thing that are 100% gone, so who knows?

Also got the Gravis Captain, 'cause that Chainsword version looks ace. Decided not not to get the Ancient.

I got myself Isildur and Elendil. Numenor time.

Land Raider and 2x Contemptor Dreadnaughts for my fledgling Custodes army.

Ordered the new tau codex, a commander, start collecting box and another hammerhead.

A Union Brigade box for Black Powder Epic Battles (Warlord Games).

A couple of us are considering trying this game.
So we figure we'll start really small, invest $30some bucks, & split this box.
Comes with 300 infantry, 3 cannon, & 3 HQ guys. That'll be enough to give it a demo.

So I bought the box & another guys going to pick up a rulebook.

That's a good way to approach it. I looked at the main box set for Black Powder Epic and I was just overwhelmed thinking of trying to paint that all, not even knowing if it was something worthwhile.

I got my Kharadron Overlords beaten senseless on Saturday. So, I got the hardback version of the Battletome (The old GW app is useless to use in play) and a Getting started for 1750 points total.

32+ more of those 40x40 monster bases...

Sigh. After a pretty responsible 2021, I’ve just bought a sisters combat patrol and ordered 2x Kill Team Starter box.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Bought a box of Outcasts. Said they were on 'pre-order'. Very interested to see whether the store can get them, of if they'll have to get me 3 boxes of the single sprue. It didn't say 'Sold Out' like other thing that are 100% gone, so who knows?

They were not willing to substitute the Outcast box for 3 Hive Scum boxes. Waaaah!



So they cancelled the order and refunded me in store credit. Guess that's where I'm getting the Eldar/Chaos box now...

Cartaventura: Oklahoma.

It was only £12 and apparently its a card-based western in the tradition of "choose your own adventure". Having finished but not distributed a similar western game for android, I couldn't help but snap it up. Its also in a very small box so it seems ideal for travelling.

Purchased an Eldar Vyper before the box is rebranded and the price goes up.

Cheers,

CB

I've got a Tau codex waiting on me at the FLGS.

Eldritch Omens - Turns out, despite its UK and US price, it was not AUD$340 as I predicted, but AUD$290. Still stupidly expensive for a tiny amount of models*.

Re-added the Primaris Captain from my cancelled order last week, and threw in a Hexmark Destroyer as it was on clearance, so got it for 25% off.

*"bUt ThEy'Re At A dIsCoUnT iN tHe BoX!"
A discount compared to what? Their eventual separate release, where they'll be even more of a a rip-off? Doesn't stop them from being a rip-off now. They're just less of a rip-off than they will be.

I thought I bought 250€ worth of Perry and Victrix historicals but what actually happened was I was robbed by https://www.frontlinegames.de/

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I thought I bought 250€ worth of Perry and Victrix historicals but what actually happened was I was robbed by https://www.frontlinegames.de/

Wait so actual theft/supply problems or what did you end up getting instead?!

 Overread wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I thought I bought 250€ worth of Perry and Victrix historicals but what actually happened was I was robbed by https://www.frontlinegames.de/

Wait so actual theft/supply problems or what did you end up getting instead?!

Just took money and never shipped, even stuff in stock, and don't respond to any communication channel. We'll see once the Paypal claims time out uncontested and automatically rule my way (gods I hope that's still how it works) if there's money in their account for refunds, in which case they all died and the system is still running by itself (had this happen once before), or there isn't and they really took the money and ran.

PayPal will refund you, then chase them for the debt, if their PP account is empty. If that’s any comfor?

Honestly it sounds like it deserves a thread of its own, scams/issues like that deserve highlighting in public.

And PP are generally pretty pro-customer in how they handle things. Certainly if you've presented your case sensibly, calmly and well and if they've not countered then there's every chance PP will refund you and then chase them. If they are trading through PP then that will be a big blow to them to get refund requests like that.


Also really strange if they are not communicating. I can understand listing stuff in stock and not shipping (eg waiting for the whole order to be in stock or their stock on website isn't tied to their inventory system perfectly); but no communications or replies or anything is a big red flag.

Needed it and too cheap to pass up...

Got myself the WD with the Crusher Stampede rules, a single pot of pain and a white primer can.

I don't plan to run the Crusher army in the very short term (and with the codex coming soon-ish, probably not before the book is released unless an opportunity came for such a game), but for the curiosity of it mostly. The rules seems good, and hey, good Tyranids contend is very few and far between so Imma at least give that a read!

If it's still compatible with the new book, great, if not, no biggie, a single WD in probably 15 years isn't so bad and there's the rest of the magazine to read too

After the price rise alert, I have ordered the FW Van Saar models for Necromunda.

hmmm....interesting

DebraSpen wrote:
hmmm....interesting

You really think so?

 Skinnereal wrote:

DebraSpen wrote:
hmmm....interesting

You really think so?

They're a spambot.

"Panic bought" a few missing pieces for specialist games and a whole bunch of historical kits (at 23€/box of 36-42 multipart minis)

 Overread wrote:
Honestly it sounds like it deserves a thread of its own, scams/issues like that deserve highlighting in public.

And PP are generally pretty pro-customer in how they handle things. Certainly if you've presented your case sensibly, calmly and well and if they've not countered then there's every chance PP will refund you and then chase them. If they are trading through PP then that will be a big blow to them to get refund requests like that.


Also really strange if they are not communicating. I can understand listing stuff in stock and not shipping (eg waiting for the whole order to be in stock or their stock on website isn't tied to their inventory system perfectly); but no communications or replies or anything is a big red flag.

Woo! First of two orders just got refunded through Paypal dispute, still with zero feedback from seller, so I'm sticking with the "everybody working there died" theory.

DebraSpen wrote:
hmmm....interesting

Spambot please.

A whole lotta FW resin.
I've had the shopping list drawn up for some time, I've got the $, & FW listed all but 1 piece as being in-stock.
So, with the coming price increases, there wasn't really any reason to keep delaying it. Unless I wanted to spend more for no reason....

Atalan jackals and 9th ed GSC codex. Very tempted by a haruspex or harpy next.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Honestly it sounds like it deserves a thread of its own, scams/issues like that deserve highlighting in public.

And PP are generally pretty pro-customer in how they handle things. Certainly if you've presented your case sensibly, calmly and well and if they've not countered then there's every chance PP will refund you and then chase them. If they are trading through PP then that will be a big blow to them to get refund requests like that.


Also really strange if they are not communicating. I can understand listing stuff in stock and not shipping (eg waiting for the whole order to be in stock or their stock on website isn't tied to their inventory system perfectly); but no communications or replies or anything is a big red flag.

Woo! First of two orders just got refunded through Paypal dispute, still with zero feedback from seller, so I'm sticking with the "everybody working there died" theory.

I'm now fully refunded, thanks for the emotional support, Dok and Overread Still no reaction from the seller at all.

Gonna have to make another order very soon, I forgot to add something for a friend's birthday. Contemplating getting myself a 2nd Underhive Sector alongside the present, at least that way I hit the free shipping threshold...

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Honestly it sounds like it deserves a thread of its own, scams/issues like that deserve highlighting in public.

And PP are generally pretty pro-customer in how they handle things. Certainly if you've presented your case sensibly, calmly and well and if they've not countered then there's every chance PP will refund you and then chase them. If they are trading through PP then that will be a big blow to them to get refund requests like that.


Also really strange if they are not communicating. I can understand listing stuff in stock and not shipping (eg waiting for the whole order to be in stock or their stock on website isn't tied to their inventory system perfectly); but no communications or replies or anything is a big red flag.

Woo! First of two orders just got refunded through Paypal dispute, still with zero feedback from seller, so I'm sticking with the "everybody working there died" theory.

I'm now fully refunded, thanks for the emotional support, Dok and Overread Still no reaction from the seller at all.

Gonna have to make another order very soon, I forgot to add something for a friend's birthday. Contemplating getting myself a 2nd Underhive Sector alongside the present, at least that way I hit the free shipping threshold...

Sounds like the store must be in really bad shape for them to not even react to a PP dispute. A shame, but at least you've got your money back from them

I made my two orders from them a month apart and from the order numbers it's clear they took 300 other orders in between... if they're all ending up like this it's a gakshow of epic proportions. And from their FB wall it seems this was like a mom and pop brick&mortar store that used to hold events and everything.

I guess they could have hit the problem that not enough on-foot sales and events sapped them of income. Throw in rising shipping and a few delivery delays and they've like as not run out of operating money and rely on new orders to pay for previous orders. Which often is a slow, painful, drawn out death for any firm unless they can source an investment, a massive sales spike or otherwise overcome the deficit. Of course along the way refunds, chargebacks and such will all make it worse - as will lack of transparency and communication.

Middle-eath MTO Goblin shaman, wood elves, and Easterling unit. Had to forgo the armoured and elves and the goblin horde this time.

Bloodbowl Troll, Goblin Pitch and the new Kommando's for 40k.

Got the Greenskin bug, I guess.

Ogre Pirate Maneater (yea, failcast, but I need one for a thing) and Mantic steam power armoured dwarf

Purchased seven old metal Necromunda figures, awaiting their arrival.

Cheers,

CB

Had to get a pack of much stronger magnets than what I have handy.

Ordered me a new box of Shadow Warriors of Nargarythe. Was on special at Might Ape. Wanna convert one to look a bit more like my TTRPG character in my cousin's campaign and one to proxy an assassin in Warcry Warband. They're still very cool models in my eyes!

BattleTech "Barnes & Noble exclusive Wolf's Dragoons" Annihilator and Blackjack minis. Found someone on eBay selling both and had both in stock.

Picked up the Clan Heavy Lance for a friend as well.

I bought a metric ton of ZenTerrain hdf buildings and spent last week putting them together.

GT 2022 pack, 2 boxes of Howling Banshees, and a fistful of paints.

Ordered 2 lots of the MtO Easterlings, and had them already arrive yesterday (a nice surprise for sure). Today, since I had a bit of extra money kicking around and I was already at my FLGS to pick up a couple of paints, I decided to grab a box of Stormdrake Guard for my Stormcast Eternals army.

Edit: I guess yesterday is 2 days ago and today is yesterday since it's well past midnight locally. Don't post when you're about to pass out from fatigue, kids.

Necromunda gang box Delaque, Orlock Weapons and upgrades and a box of 40k Gretchin before the price rise.

A few more gangs to go before I have all I want from Necromunda.

Drazhar.

I only intended to go to my local store for a few paints, that was naive.

I've been airbrushing recently and wasn't feeling great afterwards. So I ended up panic buying new filters for my mask and one of those spray booths with extractor fans you see all over amazon.

A universal carrier* from Bolt Action.
I'm going to convert it to be a truck for a squad of Gretchin.

* I was looking for a BA German 1/2track for the grots. But the only one the shop had was in a starter set - of wich i wanted nothing else from. So rather than waste a lot of $....
They'll look cool enough mounted in a Universal Carrier.

I stupidly ordered Hero Forge minis of Attelus Kaltos and Karmen Kons as well as characters from my Angaran Chronicles stories for my TT Skirmish game of Jelcine and Emilia (both human and werewolf forms) Then I went and pre-ordered the illustrated new version of Eisenhorn: Xenos. Maaan been spending way too much money lol

Ordered a "Fallout: Wasteland Warfare - X01 Survivor & Dogmeat" set, kinda curious to see what the quality is of both the minis and the game, may give it a go, especially now that I've learned that they've been doing New Vegas minis.

 BrookM wrote:
Ordered a "Fallout: Wasteland Warfare - X01 Survivor & Dogmeat" set, kinda curious to see what the quality is of both the minis and the game, may give it a go, especially now that I've learned that they've been doing New Vegas minis.

If they're anything like the two Enclave Hellfires I got? The quality's fairly good!

60 victrix minis saxons, the cannon fodder kit from wargames Atlantic, 36 British guys to turn into praetorians and 36 armored knights from perry miniatures.
And an airbrush.
Militia and cults horde list here I come.

Last week bough some new army painter brushes and on the weekend bought the new HH blood angels character and a box of Orlock specialists for Necromunda.

A Mek Gun.

Mir Kainan from Kainan’s Reapers, Gorlock of the Blackpowder Buccaneers, Khagra and Zarshia from Khagra's Ravagers, Prophet Hedkrakka from Hedkrakka’s Madmob, plus Prince Duvalle, Gorath the Enforcer and Vellas Von Faine of the Crimson Court.

Bits sites are great.

Dire Avengers.
Helverins.
The Crimson Court.

Used gift certificates to pick up dice throne game and a box of Star Wars legion commandos droids for use in off brand gaming.

Pre-ordered the Eldar codex.

Cheers,

CB

Decided to just go for it and get the Quest for the Ringbearer book.

My weakness for rulebooks strikes again.

Necromunda underdog cards pack.

So much blood!

1x Blood River
1x Blood Pools
2x Blood Crystals

And also 1x Tar Pits, to go alongside the Tar River I already have that's pat of my Ork table.

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Necromunda underdog cards pack.

Hope you didn't end up with a second mortgage trying to get that one. OOP Necro card packs can be pricey.

Perry Zuaves and 1450 Light Cav, and a bunch of the biggest Wizkids DeepCuts for KoW monsters.

A dozen loose model vehicle tires & wheel insertsfrom the local hobby shop.

Over the weekend I'm going to use them scratch building 6 Nebelwerfers (aka "lobbas") for my growing 40k grot force.

Picked up Eldar Codex, the Datacard, and 2 boxes of Windriders this weekend.

Purchased some KR Multicase boxes to store my old metal Eldar.

Not as happy with this as I have in previous purchases. I used their recommendations on the size trays to fit my army, but I found the foam cut-outs to be much too small to fit the figures. And I have old metal Eldar, which are much smaller than the current range.

Previous armies have fit in splendidly into their foam trays.

CB

Transfers for battletech and a heavily discounted starter box for Gates of Antares

A 40k Ork warboss in mega-armor.

Just in case I can't negotiate scrapping the stupid ork codex Crusade rule that named characters can't be the waaghboss.
(I'm running an all gretchin force - and theres only two grot characters. Both are named characters.)

 Captain Brown wrote:
Purchased some KR Multicase boxes to store my old metal Eldar.

Not as happy with this as I have in previous purchases. I used their recommendations on the size trays to fit my army, but I found the foam cut-outs to be much too small to fit the figures. And I have old metal Eldar, which are much smaller than the current range.

Previous armies have fit in splendidly into their foam trays.

CB

I currently need to look for some more foams now that my original source for Army Transport foam dried out, also for a friend that got into the hobby and need some fn her own. Been looking at both KR and Battle foam, but KR site is a bit confusing to use I think. Are you talking about pre-cut infantry foam with square/rectangle in them?

Ten wolves to use to convert up some Centigors.

Then my brother hit a BIN for a massive number of unsorted models which looks to be predominantly cavalry.

Bought a 6+1 box of Space Marine Heroes Series 2 from ebay, as the prices of these are starting to rise even more..

Now I'm missing only a regular BA terminator assault squad kit and some deathwing kit bitz and I'll have all the pieces I'll need for kitbashing my Honour Guard

Preordered Nachmund (split box with a mate) and a Necromunda Hive Market, since I noticed it had gone OOP @ GW online store.

Found someone selling Agathae Dolan by herself.

I always wanted to get that model, a friend of mine was going to split the full box with me but decided he wanted both, so I figured I'd get her one day, but never saw anyone selling her on her own.

Got lucky!

A copy of some army books and campaign books for Bolt Action.

Bizarrely, one I accidentally bought twice -Armies of Great Britain. Which was BLANK every 2nd page. I got the refund today after taking a week for it after I asked. Seeing as I ordered 2 by accident, it actually worked out for me all ok.

I also got a Small Supply Crate and Crusader II tank from Warlord- list of what came in the crate is on the link at my blog. Some of which I actually liked to get!

I bought some cheap zombies, because I can always use a few more zombies around the place, you know?

I picked up a big thick 3rd edition rule book at a used bookstore just to learn more about 40K. I do have a soft spot for the bright colors and (to me) straight forward rules (speaking as someone who hasn't trying painting anything yet).

A mage hunter from the Wizkids Magic the Gathering range.
To be a dread fiend, because the bone naga doesn't quite fit in with my dark and purple nighstalkers, but will go well with my slowly rising undead horde.

'Cybernetica' hardover 1st ed Horus Heresy Novella via ebay.

Flight of the Eisenstein and about 10 Novellas and I have everything in hardcover, about 80% 1st edition (not limited editions though)

Preordered Nachmund. Splitting the Elfdar off to a friend.

My second last GW purchase. A malcador.

50 Gretchin - I needed crew for scratch built Big Gunz.

 Skywave wrote:
I currently need to look for some more foams now that my original source for Army Transport foam dried out, also for a friend that got into the hobby and need some fn her own. Been looking at both KR and Battle foam, but KR site is a bit confusing to use I think. Are you talking about pre-cut infantry foam with square/rectangle in them?

Yes, KR Multicase cuts the foam blocks to fit all sizes of infantry models, as well as thicker blocks for tanks, bikes, artillery, etc. Cost wise, you want to buy one of their cardboard boxes that fits a number of trays (rather than buying just a couple of pre-cut foam sheets). It is an expensive supplier, when you look at the cost of individual trays it looks even worse...but they have a flat rate for a box filled with trays which makes it more affordable.

My two cents,

CB

Some paint by Army Painter.

Army Painter skin tones set, let's see if this will make me do better skin tones for once.

Also some regular GW paints and the Catachan novel.

 Captain Brown wrote:

 Skywave wrote:
I currently need to look for some more foams now that my original source for Army Transport foam dried out, also for a friend that got into the hobby and need some fn her own. Been looking at both KR and Battle foam, but KR site is a bit confusing to use I think. Are you talking about pre-cut infantry foam with square/rectangle in them?

Yes, KR Multicase cuts the foam blocks to fit all sizes of infantry models, as well as thicker blocks for tanks, bikes, artillery, etc. Cost wise, you want to buy one of their cardboard boxes that fits a number of trays (rather than buying just a couple of pre-cut foam sheets). It is an expensive supplier, when you look at the cost of individual trays it looks even worse...but they have a flat rate for a box filled with trays which makes it more affordable.

My two cents,

CB

If you email your model list to KR, they used to sort out a tray list for you to fit them all into.
Their auto-filler tool has got better than it was, and has a go at the same, using a list of models to suggest which trays to get.
At long as you know which type of box you want to get for the foam, which determines how much foam will fit into a box. 1 KRU is a standard cardboard box, and trays are rated as fractions of a KRU.