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I buy whenever i need a model or want to use a new model.

Oh yeah, impulse buy pretty much accounts for most stuff. One of the reasons I avoid ebay these days.

I will be climbing off of my wallet tomorrow and buy something Orky and possible Fantasy related Chaosy.

I will then be poor for the next 3 weeks.

When I see something I want. Usually I'll do things in batches, rather than buying things in dribs and drabs. So if I know I want "X" army, I'll wait an extra few months and then buy it in a single go.

Lately I've been broke so they only new models I get are with Tournie winnings.

I buy them whenever I can, I always enjoy some new things to paint.

When I have the money to buy something I want.


Which is almost never.

I'm not very rational when it comes to GW purchases. I will splurge out for a couple of months, buying new models every week, then I have so much unpainted stuff that i feel I can't get anymore. I'll spend about four months trying to get stuff painted (I'm a slow/lazy painter), so after four to six months, (and still alot of unpainted stuff) it's time for a new splurge!. I really envy those people who get their armies painted in about a month.

I'm a poor college student, so I buy figures when: A) I have the money and B) I find a deal on eBay.

I'm also a complete and utter neophyte, so I've been grabbing what I can find and afford with little consideration of any exact list I might want to develop or when I'll be able to get around to assembling and painting everything. Once I've started really working through my stuff, I'll probably start looking for specific units that I want for a list and become one of the "once I've finished painting everything" guys.

I have about 10,000 points of IG... so I generally trade. If I'm actually buying a model 99% of the time I'm buying a large used army on craigslist for a fraction of it's cost.

I try desperatly to limit what I buy, not have hard cash in pocket when im at the FLGS, but theres a possibility that I'm going to a college where theres a GW on the way back home....good times

i love ebay

When I feel like it.

Which means that:
- I've got the budget for the minis,
- the models are good-looking,
- they have playable rules, and
- I can get them for a great price.

If it doesn't hit all 4 points, I don't buy.

Each time i can i'm a compulsive buyer!

Building a drum kit at the min BTW does anyone think warp spiders could be used in SOTR?

Write In: When I find a deal I can't refuse. I'm a total cheap ass.

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I know what I want. I want lots of things. So instead of buying what I want, I buy
according to a budget every month and according to what I have to paint. If I have
some unpainted Soviets, I don't buy anymore Soviets until I paint them. If I have unpainted
Cygnar, I don't buy anymore Cygnar...

So the money gets spent, but I don't worry about unpainted stuff. I paint
a lot faster these days. I can stand to look at a few unpainted things on my
table.

When I can afford it, the store has something I want, I don't have a wtfhuge backlog of unpainted models, and I can face the idea of putting it together.

Although new or limited releases tempt me.

The combination of factors means I've bought virtually no models for months, as I'm still working on a guard battleforce.
Although I go shopping on monday for an army case, glue, and maybe another chimera or sentinel.

I have a baneblade, a basilisk, a hellhound, 2 squads of cadian troops, some ork barricades, a few buildings and various other scenery, some termies, Chaplain Grimaldus and his retinue, a chaplain in terminator armour, a rhino, a dreadnought, a squad of 5 BT initiates and High Marshall Helbrecht in various places around my house, waiting to be painted

now i've listed it all I realise I need to start painting my old stuff and stop buying new stuff!

Finished painting what I already own? That's a joke.

When I want a change of something.

I'm currently working on a guard army, for example, but I'm actually getting rather bored with 40k, so I'm looking at Warmachine (which I used to play) and infinty (which I will be playing in the near future (ba-doom-tish).

Guard infantry are tedious to paint and assemble. For a change, I bought some WM jacks and an infinity starter.

When I have the the following:

enough available funds
a reasonable chance to play said model
potential for limited or no backlash from the wife

I relay pretty heavily on media when I model and paint, so my purchases have a strange cycle of CD, model, Movie, model, and so on. This means that my money is divided between three different outlets so the actual amount of models that I buy are somewhat decreased. So I guess the answer to the question is, it depends if I have something to watch or listen to.

So much grey plastic and metal waiting to be painted....

Damn right. Too much!

When I want to build a new army. I've got ~2000 points of Orcs & Goblins with ~ 1200 points painted up. I've also got my Circle Orboros which is at 15 points with everything but my Warpwolf and 1 Argur.

I troll ebay on the daily for old/ limited/ unreleased cool stuff... and my paypal account reflects it lol

I tend to buy them as a reward for hard work in college.

Whenever I feel like it and have money at the same time.

Generally I only buy if I really need a unit or model to finish out whatever plan I'm currently hatching with my army (currently the super-duper melta tactical squad), and when that happens I try to hold out until I catch an online retailer or someone on ebay offering what I need on the cheap.

Of course, if all else fails I buy models when I'm able to catch one of my neighbors and steal their organs for sale on the black market. You'd be amazed at how many tactical squads and terminators you can buy from a kidney....

I am offically a "get stuff painted before you buy new stuff" painter. And I manage to stick to that a good 90% of the time... I do wind up picking up small things here or there just to paint though.

A Reaper blister here, some AoW Slayers there. I won't start anything big though until I get my current big project done.