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...*cries when thinking about how much was spent over 13 years of gaming*

At 16 yrs in the game I really don't want to know how much I have spent. I do know that my GT grade IW army cost over $800 in figs & bitz for conversions.
So I would give over $5000 as a low ball estimate.

I would say a little over $1000

Over the last 20-odd years, perhaps around $6-8 k USD.

Not like I smoked, drank to excess or had a car to run.

I'm somewhere in the $1-$2k range. It's probably more than $2k the more that I think about it. I've bought quite a bit of stuff off of the rack but most of my big purchases have been great deals on collections that people unloaded on me. I've also bought quite a bit of new stuff off of ebay for half of retail or less. Usually I like to give the business to my local shop but if I see a screaming deal on something that I want I jump on it.

I have NO clue and don't EVER want to know. Like that and the secrets of Atlantis. There are certain things man was not meant to know

Started back in 1998,lost 3 armies in huricane Katrina and have since rebuilt 2 of them..I estimate between 5k to 6k total( including paints,tools,putty etc etc etc etc).

Wow. I don't know if I'd have the strength to rebuild a lost army.

malfred wrote:Wow. I don't know if I'd have the strength to rebuild a lost army.

It was a nerve wracking process,especialy since one of them was an Ork horde...I spent many a nights thinking "hell I've painted sooo much green already!",the othe 2 armies that were lost were a Death Guard wich I actuly enjoyed rebuilding because I had some better conversion/green stuff ideas than I had on my first one,the 3rd army was Dark Eldar....given the curent state of DE I may never rebuild that particular army.

My old FLGS quoted me how much I'd spent at their store before it closed down. Sum total over about two years ended up being around 16,000 USD.

That was two years ago.


My car's nine years old.
I should've bought a d*** car.

How much have I spent?!? I don't think it would be an honest answer unless I tried to adjust for inflation, but without adjusting I'd say easily $5k.

My orks cost me about 300 bucks, my grey knights around 120, and whatever else probably adds up to 150. So somewhere between 500-600, give or take. Anything over 1k, and I'll probably stop collecting minis. Similar to how I stopped collecting gundam models once I hit a similar point.

I don't know. 10K or more probably. Your guess is a good as mine.

I'd be well on my way to an early retirement if it were not for toy soldiers!

And I'd have a crack habit to end all crack habits.

Thank the Emperor for small plastic men.

I have had enough Plastic and metal to buy a new small car... well over 20k over the last 14 years...

hm....couple hundred into my cygnar,
maybe 150 to 200 on my trollblood
120 or so on my orks so far
maybe a 100 in paints and supplies

not as much as i would if i had a more steady income

I want to see someone post about how they broke a crack addiction with 40k. How it just cost too much to do both.

The three people who've spent less than $200 obviously haven't been playing long or are spending someone elses money.

Me....somewhere inbetween 500 and 1k...my family...easily 2-5k

Started GW gaming in August of 1989. I've spent well over $10k just on GW gaming since then.

When I look at it closer, that's just $500 a year... hell, I've probably spent over $1000 just on WD magazines since then.

Like someone else said, I think I'd rather NOT know exactly how much I've spent. I'd probably have a stroke or something if I knew the exact amount - or my wife would certainly help me meet an early demise if she knew exactly how much I've spent.

I've spent the most since I met my wife. She has spent much more than I have.

ryzouken wrote:My old FLGS quoted me how much I'd spent at their store before it closed down. Sum total over about two years ended up being around 16,000 USD.

That was two years ago.


My car's nine years old.
I should've bought a d*** car.

Wow.

You know, when I put the poll together, I had thought about 20k and over 50k being additional break points, but I figured that nobody would spend that much.

After all, $20k is a new car, and $50k is a downpayment on a house...

Sorry, dude.

Mort wrote:Started GW gaming in August of 1989. I've spent well over $10k just on GW gaming since then.

When I look at it closer, that's just $500 a year... hell, I've probably spent over $1000 just on WD magazines since then.

Like someone else said, I think I'd rather NOT know exactly how much I've spent. I'd probably have a stroke or something if I knew the exact amount - or my wife would certainly help me meet an early demise if she knew exactly how much I've spent.

Without admitting it to the other half, I think i've spent in excess of £2500 on 2 40k armies in a little over a year, and wont be spending that much in the next year! still got enough painting, modelling, etc to keep me going for quite awhile now.

Over the years I wont even hazard a guess on how much i've spent on all the RPG'S wargames etc.

well over £5000.....but then, ask me what I've spent on petrol since I started driving, or income tax, etc etc....I guess you've got to spend it on something...

Above is an extract of a mantra I practise before bed, to help me sleep

I can actually give a pretty good indication of how much I spend. Yesterday I ordered the following:

Codex: Arbitrary
Commissar Lord
Primaris Psykers
Imperial Advisors
2 Cadian Command Sections
2 Catachan Command Sections
3 Sentinels
2 Shadowswords
6 Valkyries

Plus some other random things - a few PAGK arms, White Scar commander kit, old Techmarine w/Axe.

Most of it came from Maelstrom, where the price difference between OZ and the UK, plus their 15% off sale saved me 30%-35% off everything, with the Direct Only stuff coming from GWUK (also about 25%-30% cheaper than OZ retail). Had I bought it all here, it would be AUD$1377 (or thereabouts). I got all that for AUD$900.

I do orders like that about 3 times a year.

I think I'm in the 1k-2k range. I'm pretty certain I've broken 1k, especially when consider things like RPG books and other gaming accessories, not to mention miniatures.

However, I might be wrong. I might have broken the 2k mark already, it's hard for me to keep track without making an inventory of everything. If I haven't, I'm pretty sure it'll happen within a few years.

I guess that'll be an interesting job when I get back to the States where most of my collection is. I ought to make an inventory of it all. I'll probably be surprised.

In the good old Uk and GBP ive spent well in excess of £10k, started this hobby at 11 and now im 24. 6 different chaos marine armies, 4 different ork forces, 3 SM forces, 2 Imperial guard armies, Tyranids, eldar, tau. Beastmen, Bretonnians, LOTR`s. Ive bought everything possible lol even the over priced battle board. Alas my spending will soon stop unless im desperate for something

I just purchased 6 tanks and 6 battle suits for my
UEDF army ( earth army of 2145 )

but AHA they arnt GW products, too bad GW!

Introduced to mini based wargames around 11 - 12 by my history teacher. Promptly aquired army #1 (French for Napolionic wars) and have been going strong ever since. 2 years ago, my wife and I cataloged the collection for insurance purposes and it was WAY in excess of 35,000 in retail at that time. But hey, it's better than doing drugs, right?!? RIGHT?!?!?

I've been playing since 2005 (since i was 12) and have spent well over £500 (uk) which if you use the translation rate at the times of expenditure works out as around $900
I dread to think how many video games consoles i could have bought

Way, way, way too much. I've been gaming for over a decade now, and I have models, books, and paints coming out of my ears.

Yet still, these new kits beckon to me...