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Maybe you use a different glue or paint for example.
Maybe you don't collect GW products?
Tell me peoples!

I use Zap-A-Gap superglue, a big ol' bottle of PVA glue from my local art supply store, and whatever brushes I needed from a hobby shop. I do use GW paints to paint my GW models though.

I use whatever I need at the current moment. I have a large mix of GW, P3 and Valejio paints, brushes from many companies, Zap a Gap for metals/resin and Testors or GW glues for plastics. As for my GW minis themselves, I use a lot of aftermarket bits for head swaps and the like.

Only non-GW products I use dice and Zap-A-Gap. Oh yeah, and X-Acto.

Pig Iron heads.

I use my patented Uber-Death Glue, a mixture of the all powerful 'Tarzan's Grip' super glue, PVA glue and some other non-gw plastic glue that comes in a funny blue tube, all mixed into a bubbling concoction that has been known to attain sentience and attack people.

I use a weird glue that comes in a small blue container with a metal distributor. And a temporary putty made of blue-tac and superglue.

Everything I use is non GW.

Tim the Biovore wrote:I use a weird glue that comes in a small blue container with a metal distributor.

That's the stuff I was talking about!

Terrain... Very little that GW offers in this catagory interests me. They seem to simply lack the imagination that I need to build my world.

I won't tell you to google match-stick-rockets with remote ignition systems, because that would be an irresponsible and very dangerous thing to build into reactive terrain, seriously don't do it. But would it kill GW to add some LED's to buildings to make them seem more real? How about motorized garage doors on a hanger? Even Hotwheels playsets have reactive terrain to an extent. I know now that these things add maybe 30 mins to me building my terrain but you would think that someone else even in forge world would have thought of it.

Besides washes and the actual models, everything that I use is non-GW. Sooo much cheaper this way, haha.

I use paper miniatures and terrain from WorldWorksGames. For miniatures, I use Reaper, Old Glory, and other manufacturers that give me a lot of value for high quality. I hopped the GW train a few years ago and I haven't looked back.

I use superglue that looks like "Wonderglue" from Fallout 3. Pretty nifty.

I have a few GW paints, but I also use Vallejo and the Ral Patha Miniatures range as well as Humbrol/Revell enamels. I have revell glue, Uhu superglue, a mixture of brushes though I did buy a GW one about a year ago, swann-morten modelling blades and most things like drills, files and clippers come from generic suppliers.

pretty much all my new paints are vallejo, I only use GW ones because I had lots left when I had a break with the hobby and when I got back into ito it I had them all ready. PVA glue i sue is GW one, only because that was only one available in the FLGS the moment I needed it. Brushes, clippers and everything else is non-GW, I also try to use as much non GW models as possible for my armies.

I also use my non-GW drilling kit. Basically an electronic hobby drill with another thirty odd attachments thrown in.

The only thing GW I use is the minis. EVerything else is different things.

Well, in terms of GW stuff, I use models, Foundation Paints, Washes a Pin Vise and a Small Dry Brush.

I use paints, inks and additives from Reaper and a descent variety of their miniatures for conversion bitz, objective markers and models which are a little different.

My Green Stuff comes from Ral Partha (old, cheap stock that still works).

Basing materials tend to come from GF9 and some of the model train folks.

Oddball hobby tools usually come from GF9 as well.

Brushes from the local art store.

I use Gale Force 9 markers, Chessex Dice(some Custom Necron ones), I had Necron Symbol Objective Tokens custom made for my army, Sabol's Army Transport, illegally obtained sand for flock mixed with model train flock, glue from Wal-Mart, Elmers Glue, resin bases from Evil Mushroom/ebay/Micro Art studios, a few Vallejo Paints(to replace discontinued GW ones), and hardware store tape measures. I think thats it.

For paints I use both GW and Vallejo.

For brushes, several brands. I have some GW, and all the other brushes were bought in model kit shops.

For glue, I use Loctite Super Glue for metals, and Tamiya for plastics.

I also have GW greenstuff, Vallejo effects (waters, snow), Humbrol Decal Cote, sand and grass from other brands... and the tools I use are from a local hardware shop.

And I have some Infinity and Avatars of War stuff too

I use Gw washes, foundation paints, metallics and I have a few of there brushes.

I use mostly GF9 tools as they rock, lots of vallejo paints as they airbrush better armypainter brushes and matt varnish. I use revell contacta as the needle applicator rocks and the glue sets real fast. My basing stuff is from all differnt brands too

Any tools, adhesives or brushes I use are non-GW. I do use Green Stuff though as one pack can last me over a year it isn't too expensive. I make my own movement trays too for WFB. I do have the odd Heartbreaker, Reaper and even Wargames Foundry mini in the army mix. Chessex dice for sure. I even have my custom "anything but a one dice" which has "You suck" instead of a one.

A few Vellejo colours (mostly black grey, and their blue and green tones. For whatever reason I rather like GW reds), the FoW "German Armour" warpaint spray (identical to Vellejo black grey). Most of my hobby gear (drills, pins, plasticard, flock, etc) is Gale Force Nine because it's so cheap for the quality you get. I use a lot of Ironhalo.net resin bases too.

The only GW product I use is their glue, and that's simply a result of convenience.

I use Revell Contacta polycement for plastic kits - cheaper than GW's gunge in a bottle(tm) and lasts longer - also works much better.

Selleys Araldite for hybrid kits (resin-metal/resin-plastic/plastic-metal) or resin kits.

My hobby knife is an x-acto #1, with #11 blades. My razor saw is also by x-acto, as is my pin vice.

My paints (military colours) are Tamiya.
My other paints are P3 or Vallejo.
My pva comes from the hardware store.

My flocks and scatters are generally Noch or Heki and come from a model railroad store. In 3x large quanties for the price GW charge.

GF9 counters (vehicle and infantry, smoke wall/cloud and fire markers) and their tac and multi-templates.

I use Pig Iron heads and vehicles in my 40k IG army.

I use mostly Valejo paints but a few GW. I use Loctite super glue and outside sources of PVA. I use static grass from another company as well. I use foam and cases from Sabol and Battlefoam and have no interest in the GW ones. I use mostly GW models for tourny reasons but do use a LOT of the Chapterhouse stuff.

Superglue is generic supermarket stuff.
PVA glue was bought 2 years ago from a supermarket and still half full.
Movement trays are custom made for me from FLGS.

GW stuff I buy is the paints, the models and the paint brushes. And all of that is from an online discounter.

I use Home Depot superglue and plastic primer (I've never tried GW's white primer, but I only hear bad things about it).

My PVA is just some Elmer's Glue-All from Rite-Aid, the brushes I got off Ebay (some are Loew-Cornell, others are Princeton Art & Brush Co), one brush I got at an LGS (it's branded The Army Painter), and my paints are from Michael's, an art store.

Really, the only GW things I have are the models themselves.

I'm assuming here that you are talking only about GW games. I play a large variety of other wargames that don't involve GW in any way.

I will occasionally spring for a specific color of paint from GW (tinbitz comes to mind) but on the whole I don't use GW hobby supplies at all. They are not any better (and in some cases inferior) to other brands and usually cost many times the market price for such items. Paints are a case in point. What's one of those tiny GW pots going for these days? Three dollars US or more? I can go down to the local craft store and buy a bottle of Folkart acrylic paint in a bottle that contains about three times what the GW pot holds for less than a dollar. The same can be said for glue, brushes, flock, etc.

Only a fool, brand snob, or drooling fanboy would exclusivly use GW hobby supplies.

TR

Trasnport boxes
Minis
tape measure
scenery
glue
paints
brushes
ok everything.

GW is just one more shop.