Just wondering how many people have considered selling their warhammer collection...
Say everything went well, you fetched a fair price etc etc.

What will you spend on instead?

Hookers and blow?

Hmm, a "fair price" for a 3500+ point ork army would probably be around $1000-$1500 (cant charge as much as GW can) so i would probably spend it on a micro-vacation with my wife.

azgrim wrote:Hookers and blow?

Have considered selling the GW stuff save for a few bits for converting for skirmish games to help fund other games

There are a lot of really nice sculpts by smaller studios that would be worth getting

If i sold all my stuff for 50% mrsp i could probably buy a decent car, or put a hefty downpayment on a house...

But who's kidding.. i'd go buy a different variety of plastic crack (or metal meth)...

I may have a problem there...

I'm guessing more warhammer is not an option.

I prolly would buy an ipad and read BL books and get hooked right back into it.

Or maybe save for some dope klipsch speakers.

I suspect that my gaming collection will be liquidated to fund my eventual funeral by my spouse..

It is in our will. (Lordy.. )

Honestly, although I could probably fetch a fair price for most of my stuff, the Truescale Marines would never sell. Too expensive no matter how you put it. Considering the parts and time that actually went in them, I'd put them at at least $800 (roughly $500 just for the parts, and another $300 for the work that went into converting them), but no one would buy 16 models for that price.

But with that in mind, I could probably buy a car with all my 40k stuff. Not a great car, but a decent one. Granted, I already have a fairly decent car... so I'm not sure what. Probably just save it for booze.

Even my bitz cans? That's a sadistic choice. Well, if I did that, I'd use the money to fix whatever disaster caused me to quit, and toss the leftovers in a CD or something.

If I did I'd probably get out of the hobby for good and sell absolutely everything. This is hypothetical though, since the idea of selling an army, let alone my entire collection, is one I find appalling.

I'd pay my rent for the next 6 months probably. Gotta be practical for the time being.

I would definitely use the money to buy a house of my own, that's for sure.... and then get back in wargaming with something less than the 20.000 + points I have.

azgrim wrote:Hookers and blow?

Damn it! Beat me to it.

So organise a dakkameet in vegas

No rufies though Never ends well..

Since I only have about 1.5K Skaven right now I could probably maybe get a maximum of 200€ for it, since everything is assembled and painted already.

I would probably use it to buy some effects for my bass

I need to find another hobby.

...Airsoft? Skidooing?

i'd spend it all on my car, easy to spend as little or as much as i want on it, the sky is the limit

A decent companys stuff

A small house, a car - few other bits and pieces...........

Sell my Orks?!? NEVER!!

I actually did sell almost all of my considerable bits horde a few years back. I sold it in 3 bulk loads, going for the quick and easy sale rather than maximum return and raised enough to buy all the components to build a new gaming PC.

I did back in 2003. Started playing WARMACHINE way back then and haven't looked back our regretted out since.

Knight

Real life important things.

That s*** is expensive!

I sold off all my fantasy stuff to finish college. It was a large empire foot list and after paying for may last few classes ... invested in 40k.

Already did that when 3rd ed 40k was announced and we saw the ruleset for it. Can't remember where the cash went at the time, but would have been something that was needed.
If I did it now, probably a location move and car.

If I sold all my stuff I'd probably be buying survival gear because I'd be stocking up for the apocalypse.

Then maybe we should sell our stuff Bat, I always wanted to have zombie minions, I could put my proceeds to making some and bringing about the zombie apocalypse

azgrim wrote:Hookers and blow?

rofl at this.

Thought about it a couple of times, obviously depends how much is in your collection so its a pretty open ended question.
I'm glad I havent as I find myself pulled back into the 40k world on a reasonably regular basis.

Here's hoping they don't screw up Necrons and then we have to wait 6 months for an FAQ...that really turned me off with the ruling issues from the Tyranid codex and no rush at all for GW to correct the rulings.

I dunno I have a necron army, tonnes of nids and some marine bitz I want to sell. It's hard to even get 50% of it. Anything less and it's worth keeping.

Go back to playing rugby. Its the only sport you can be a hooker and not be looked down on

I've seen a few Rugger Clubs for the 30+. Only problem is that you have to either drive 2-3 hours for a game or play the local university (which means against the 18 - 20 year old "HS American Football" kids who don't know how to properly make a rugby tack and will lead with their shoulders which usually result in more injuries on both parties).

It would be that or I would end up doing more family stuff. Right now I only game once a month. Its family first. That keeps a happy wife

I want to pass it down to my kids. Lets face it i will probably have better modelling skills than them rofl.

If I sold my Warhammer stuff I would go back to GW and buy more.

If I ever got rid of the stuff, I'd probably donate most of it to the store. The resale value is generally so low I'm not sure it would be worth it. Also depends on why I was selling it. Needing the cash is one story, but if I just didn't have time/space anymore? Well, I'd rather it get passed down to someone I know who would care about it rather than just sold to someone. I mean, it's MY work that's gone in to it, however untalented it might be. It's not just some commodity item.

Probably an AR-10 with lots of bells and whistles and a Remington 700 .300 win mag along with dies for .308 and .300 win mag.

I think I'd bank it and sit on it until something else interesting came along.

Another motorcycle.

Probably buy that Barrett 50 I've been drooling over.

I swapped an IG army for a Merc army for WM/H, when i sell my SoB it will probably pay most of my daughter's school tuition for the year. the marines, when i put them up, will probably buy a full fleet of DW stuff plus several nice nights out on the town with the wife.

I'm with Daedalus, I might sell my stuff eventually, but I'd really rather give it to someone who's either starting out or wants to give it a good home.

LunaHound wrote:Just wondering how many people have considered selling their warhammer collection...
Say everything went well, you fetched a fair price etc etc.

What will you spend on instead?

Already doing it and spending in on other gaming options that arn't trying to ... not be worth my time, anymore.

Playing a little more PP and looking hard at Golgo Island, Cutlass, USX minis and 10 or so games that don't cost me over 1000+ bucks to get into. Rafm Vs pulp City.... Muh ha ha ha....

Deep Ones and some zombies Vs some Heros gets a bit of attention. ( because everything goes better with zombies.)

With one army, I got into three different games... figure that one out.

Battletech is next on my list... again.

I'd buy some more stuff for my Khador army.

Like porkuslime, it'd probably go to fund my funeral expenses.

Either that, or my wife will just give them away she's that tired
of seeing them around.

I've been trying to sell all my warhammer stuff for 5 years. The room has more in it now than it every did.

mikhaila wrote:I've been trying to sell all my warhammer stuff for 5 years. The room has more in it now than it every did.

Room in the house or room in the store?

OR ROOM IN THE MALL?

malfred wrote:

mikhaila wrote:I've been trying to sell all my warhammer stuff for 5 years. The room has more in it now than it every did.

Room in the house or room in the store?

OR ROOM IN THE MALL?

The mall store is going to grow to encompass the world. Souls have exchanged hands, and contracts written in the silver bound book of Tzeentch that whispers the secrets to those who listen.....

My fething room at the house however, is now two rooms, and I still can't keep my gaming table clear! I've got 200 chunks of stuff to dump to ebay this week, just to clear the stuff I got in trades over the last couple of weeks. Too many ex-GW employees in this area with bags of old metal. )

Selling my 'Nids, Grey Knights, Lizardmen, and 3 (or 4)Necromunda gangs I would hope to get more than $3K. I'd pay off some bills and give myself a nice little padding on my bank account.

I'd still buy GW stuff, but it would be on a per mini basis, not for an army.

If I only averaged $3 per model, I'd still get over $24,000 (at last count I have over 8000 painted minis, and I know this because they have they're own rider on my home owners insurance policy). Not a clue in the world what I'd do with it....

J'santai Khan wrote:If I only averaged $3 per model, I'd still get over $24,000 (at last count I have over 8000 painted minis, and I know this because they have they're own rider on my home owners insurance policy). Not a clue in the world what I'd do with it....

AWESOME.

How long did it take you to amass that collection and paint it?

I'd buy a drum set and home studio gear.

If I got rid of all my GW stuff I would almost certainly spend it on figures and terrain from other companies. Probably mostly historicals.

If I sold all my gaming stuff and wasn't allowed to buy more gaming stuff, i dunno... a suicide booth maybe?

I thought I was going to have to liquidate 3,500 points of power armor when I thought vet bills were going to be higher than they turned out to be.


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Ssgt Carl wrote:
If I sold all my gaming stuff and wasn't allowed to buy more gaming stuff, i dunno... a suicide booth maybe?

I'm in a hurry, wanna try for a two-for?

Well, I have effectively quit GW games. If I were to sell all the stuff I have for 50% of MSRP, I'd have about $900. I'd invest this in other non-GW games, or musical instruments... A low-end Roland synth, or an Ibanez 7 String guitar and an amp, or some music production software.

I did and it all went on my other crack project, photography equipment

The only gaming forces I have left are Wolfen & Kelt C3 models. Loved the models too much.

I already traded away most of my warhammer stuff for other games. What little i did sell went to paying off bills mostly.
All I have left I want to get rid of is a single death co. dread I converted years ago.

By more Warhammer. I can never have enough.

It would probably end being turned into Beer.

Now, if you're listening Jesus, that I would accept as a modern miracle. Turning unused sprues into beer.

What would I do? Well, I would apply the funds gotten to some of my other hobbies. My kids, my house, kayaking, rifle shooting, some other things.

I have approx. 60,000 points of 40k split between IG, BA, SoB and Tyranids. I have no way to estimate value of all this crap. Assume I could get 10,000 for it all (which, hopefully, would be a low value, but one I would actually consider if I got the offer), that would buy a lot of things I would really use. That heavy bag would go up in the living room, for sure. Some improvements to the back yard would be next. The remaining funds I would split between a new rifle I have been eyeballing for a while (or maybe some cartridge loading equipment, or maybe both) and maybe some investments, a bit of a hedge.

I've thought about it on several occasions, but thankfully I never did it. If I did, I'd probably pick up a new bass guitar. I've already got about 9, but I'd love to have a USA-made Lakland, either a

Decade...

...44-51 (modified early 50's P-style)...

...or a Hollowbody.


If I got a really good price for all my wargaming stuff, I could probably afford one of the above.

However, I like wargaming, and I've already got enough quality bass gear, so I guess I'll keep my Wargaming stuff!

mikhaila wrote:

malfred wrote:

mikhaila wrote:I've been trying to sell all my warhammer stuff for 5 years. The room has more in it now than it every did.

Room in the house or room in the store?

OR ROOM IN THE MALL?

The mall store is going to grow to encompass the world. Souls have exchanged hands, and contracts written in the silver bound book of Tzeentch that whispers the secrets to those who listen.....

My fething room at the house however, is now two rooms, and I still can't keep my gaming table clear! I've got 200 chunks of stuff to dump to ebay this week, just to clear the stuff I got in trades over the last couple of weeks. Too many ex-GW employees in this area with bags of old metal. )

I hear you there, Mak. I live right up in Norristown and some of the models Ive gotten recently have been quite lovely.

I would probably end up buying more models. I've done it a few times...

1. Sold off all I had in college because... well, I was in college ... a Good decision. Needed the money, used for expenses.

2. Sold off my tyranids after cleaning the mold lines off 100 gaunts, trying to get back into the hobby... a Mistake. Should have just put them to the side and picked them up later after not being so burned out. Put the money into fantasy, which was a good thing.

3. Sold off all my random fantasy projects to buy a single, already painted army... a Good decision. I was teaching and didn't have time to paint. I was able to play a lot of games of fantasy with a unique army, and start to learn the rules of a game I'd never played (having been a 40k player before) and even participate in painted-only events.

4. Sold off my painted fantasy army to purchase a Hordes army, and to motivate myself to paint my unpainted one... a Good decision. I was able to get into Hordes, which I love, and I actually did paint my own army for warhammer, so the motivation worked.

At this point- I don't plan to sell off anything that I've painted myself (note that the only time I've done that is in college, when I was in dire straights) or even probably assembled myself . It's more valuable to me because I did it. To this end, I haven't gotten as many models second-hand recently... I seem to value them so much more when I build/paint them myself, and it's rewarding.

So, yeah... if I were to ever sell things again, it'd go right back into the hobby! Oh... I left off that I sold / traded-in some Dark Eldar I'd purchased, thinking of starting 40k, to get Dreadfleet... at this point I plan to do smaller skirmish level games and not start any more "full army" projects. So future funds will likely go to that, after finishing off my Hordes faction.

If I were to sell my stuff I'd have a very happy girl, a vacation to Vegas and all of the sudden, a very, very empty room.

If I sold all of my stuff... I'd probably just spend it on tattoos.

Much of it is older figures from 1st-3rd ed WHFB, so one has to assume people would want mismatched inferior sculpts from Citadel/GW's early years. Initially, I'd put the money into an automatic investment program, but I'd probably withdraw part of it for either a big terrain project for Malifaux (which is what I'm currently playing), or more Malifaux figures. Probably more figures, been looking at the Viktorias and von Schill's Freikorps after I finish Ramos and his clockwork automatons. As it is, to get all the figures I'd want for both crews would cost $107 straight retail, so there might still be money left for homemade terrain tiles.

azgrim wrote:Hookers and blow?

I've sold or traded most of my GW collection over the past year. I still have several bitz boxes, some Grey Knights, and some Eldar, including the Avatar that was my first purchase going on 15 years ago now. The trades were for more WM. I've never fully quit 40k before. I've always kept at least one army, even if it was only partially assembled. This time I'm done I think. I'll probably keep the Avatar, because it's very nicely painted (by a friend a long time ago), but the rest will slowly go to Swap Shop or eBay.

BrookM wrote:If I were to sell my stuff I'd have a very happy girl, a vacation to Vegas and all of the sudden, a very, very empty room.

Thats a win, win and also a win!

Do it Do it

Can I go with Malifaux stuff?

Timmah wrote:Can I go with Malifaux stuff?

Anything o_o

I would expand my collection of real weapons.


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azgrim wrote:Hookers and blow?

Best Answer. Period.

The first thing I would do is pre-order Skyrim. After that... it sits in the bank until its time to pay for school again.

A Mars bar. My collection is broken, badly converted and poorly painted to the extent that that would be a fair price for it.

azgrim wrote:Hookers and blow?

You win /thread =o]



I did that, I sold a rather large SoB army after I saw the dire condition of the WD dex. I haven't liked the way the company has been going for a long time so I decided to pull out while I still could.


I have since moved on to modern historicals (Ambush Alley Games) great system, great rules, awsome models from a varity of companys that actually help eachother and want a strong community of gamers.


To each there own though, the only thing I really miss from GW is the Ad-Mech and I have to scratch build that stuff anyways.

I've actully given a lot of thought into selling my collection down to just GK and Skaven.
If I did sell my GW it'd be for that shiney custom job I've always wanted on my Colt 1911. The rest would be on tats, and fixing up my 78 Cobra.

Or a down payment on that sweet new Camaro ZL1.

I've actually sold all my stuff already i spent it on beer bills and my former gf. The problem is the quitting i sold it all and said thats it but its very much like an addiction. Im already starting a new WoC army albiet slowly with stuff i want not buy it all and do an army fron that lol

I have spent the last couple of years selling all my GW stuff. I was getting very tired of the whole GW "Scene"

The first wave- all the extra armies- went to pay bills. I was in a bad way. It was at that time i realized that I would not self destruct if I got rid of stuff. That was about 2 years ago.

These last few years I have sold off various remaining 40K armies as well as most of my specialist stuff. All I have left is my first army, SW which I have been playing since 3rd, and my first BFG fleet. those are looking more and more likely to go.

I am lucky that a FLGS has an auction every 6 months or so. They sell it and you get store credit. After 3 of these, number 4 is happening now, I wave gotten into Malifaus heavy, and many smaller HIstorical games, Force on Force and GHQ being the biggies. This time around I am going back to my first love- boardgaming. not the FFG brand, the games in the old(real) Avalon Hill variety. Lock and Load games and GMT mainly. Also doing some playing with Federation Commander.

I don't think I could ever give up on gaming. Been at it since 1976 so it is a large part of how I relax. Although Hookers and Blow might work

LunaHound wrote:Just wondering how many people have considered selling their warhammer collection...
Say everything went well, you fetched a fair price etc etc.

What will you spend on instead?

In our current circle, I'm handling the selling of one guys lot of stuff, and paring down my own alot. Monies are going towards warmhordes and stuff for the kids.

Sold all my remaining 40k stuff for drugs, new paints and PP minis.

Wife is super happy with all the extra space Ò_Ò;;

Got rid of the majority of my 40k stuff...and now I have empty shelf space for other stuff.

If I sold all my warhammer stuff, I could probably get a celebrity love doll. They're only about $9000 right now, and they come in Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, or Miley Cyrus flavor. It's amazing what you find at 3am when you're bored and your brain is no longer working correctly.

A minor South American country.

TDA and storm bolter?



I will only sell them once I become a space marine

I would have a hiatus of perhaps a decade, then be pulled back into miniatures wargaming by Warmachine. Er. No. That was a decade ago

I would probably waste it on weed.

Wargaming was instrumental to me gaining control of my habits I can honestly say that I would not be in a good postion if not for wargaming it provided me with a way to occupy myself and now I hang with nerds who are by far the most gentle and enjoyable class of person on the planet.

I just can't envisage ever doing it. I sold some bits to someone once but I had to think long and hard about that in case I ever needed them for some unimagined project.

I guess I'm just lucky not to be in the position where I have to.

Jubear wrote:I would probably waste it on weed.

Wargaming was instrumental to me gaining control of my habits I can honestly say that I would not be in a good postion if not for wargaming it provided me with a way to occupy myself and now I hang with nerds who are by far the most gentle and enjoyable class of person on the planet.

Really??? Gentle and enjoyable??? I guess you have never been in the middle of a nerd fight between waring partys deciding for the good of all man who is hoter Gillian Anderson in early X-Files or 7 of 9 from Voyager...wow I tell you those nerds can get rather mean and testy


edit and you can never 'waste' money on weed...it's always a good choice...although drugs are illiegal and I do not condone or suggest people pruchace them.

A Lamborghini.

I would buy an X-Box 360 and some games and spend the rest on booze, because when you're drunk, you're not sure if you're winning or losing and it really doesn't matter!!! .

A H&K USP .45, a box of mags, and ammo. After that, beer and rent.

LunaHound wrote:Just wondering how many people have considered selling their warhammer collection...
Say everything went well, you fetched a fair price etc etc.

What will you spend on instead?

Im planning to sell of my army but i am not getting out of WH, just out of GW Minis. Any army can be made with any models (its part of the hobby), but i am feed up with constant price hikes and now this embargo thing. So i am lookin forward to either re doing my empire army once Mantic releases their humans or turning undead or dwarft if i dont like them.

I like the Guitar guys dream the best!

If I sold out of gaming forever, I would get my house remodeled! I want steel bannister railings in a modern style, hard tile floors and my 2 story indoor chimney stack re masoned!

That'd be great!

This has me thinking. Might throw my collections up on eBay just to see what they would fetch.

I think about this after every competitive event. And I'd end up spending it on therapy, lol.

I'd spend it on hiring a private detective trying to find out why people are interested in blowing hookers.

I have thought about selling my warhammer stuff due to the the overall attitude from GW, though I've settled to not buying anything new for now.
I guess I'd spend some of the money I would get into Dungeons and Dragon rulebooks, always wanted to play it but don't have the funds required, for now.

Down payment on a house?

ball jointed dolls, the hobby that can rival this one in expensiveness