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Shadowbrand wrote:My terminator lord. Because my Daemon Prince works so much better.... Such a sweet model though!!!

My only purpose in getting on of those would be to have some laughs, replace his Daemon Weapon with and actual Bloodletter.

space marine scout bikers because they were on sale at the hopy shop. I dont play SM. So i converted them to Nurgle bikers and then realized that 3 of them is a huge point sink. Would do it again in a heart beath though... My dumb like that.

A wave serpent...but only because my friend was gonna hook me up with a small Eldar army.

I got a text about an hour after the purchase saying he was gonna build his Eldar army up again...

I went SM's. lol

I bought $350 worth of CoD terrain the day it came out. Its all still in the boxes.

I'd say my ultimate waste of a purchase would be...well....the list is long. I'd say Guardians. I already knew Id hate painting them before I bought them, but I did anyway, and sure enough....the models are so skinny. A brush stroke that is a hair too thick stands out alot on them. Especially when painting black models and having to highlight the edges.

When i returned to 40k after a long break I was given a SM army. I bought all this stuff for it and I was all excited to play it. Then, I looked at the GW site and saw the Valkyrie model. I instantly became sad that I didn't play Guard.

So I would say: My entire SM army.

kaptaink wrote:When i returned to 40k after a long break I was given a SM army. I bought all this stuff for it and I was all excited to play it. Then, I looked at the GW site and saw the Valkyrie model. I instantly became sad that I didn't play Guard.

So I would say: My entire SM army.

I'm still up in the air about which of those two I should play hahaha.

For me it was a Forge World Ven. Dreadnaught. It seems smaller than the plastic ones and overall unimpressive.

Personally, I think the metal V.Dreadnaught blows it away.

Darkness wrote:I bought $350 worth of CoD terrain the day it came out. Its all still in the boxes.

Not a waste! Price protection!

Baneblade. Was going to play an Apoc game with it finally but then a couple of guys showed up from Idaho and wanted a match, and now it gathers dust.

The master of the ravenwing on jetbike... when I play CSM and SoB. Yeah, not sure what I was thinking. It's a beautiful model, but one I'll likely never take out of it's box.

The possessed box IMO is a gem for the Chaos Marine army. Use a part here and there on your models and you will give them a great chaos look without requiring too much conversion. So many of those arms can be "count as" powerfist and other random assortment of weapons.

The master of the ravenwing on jetbike... when I play CSM and SoB. Yeah, not sure what I was thinking. It's a beautiful model, but one I'll likely never take out of it's box.

That's too bad. The model is really nice.
Think about starting a combined DW/RW army.

I remember how Possessed were promoted by GW when they came out.
Obviously, players bought them but recognized early that they are largely useless.

Chaos renegades.... 40 troops and a converted sentinel. 70$ I should have spent tracking down a Rouge Trader Chaos Dreadnought.

I don;t even know anymore. I know I wasted a ton of cash on putting together half a playable Elysian army back in the day. Also some other assorted IG stuff. Also, most of my vanilla Marines. I did a drop pod list, and try as I might, I couldn't make it effective enough. Now I've jumped on the Space Wolves bandwagon, and I couldn't be happier.

My worst purchase was also my most unnecessary. I had just started out, and it was my first trip to my unfriendly local gaming store. I purchase a bottle of GWS official PVA glue. I paid seven dollars for a bottle of PVA glue.

Just glue. But then you wasted not too much money.
Look at the guy with the Baneblade, just a huge hill of plastics he never plays. Very sad.

Many years ago (3rd ed I think) I bought 2K of Tau, assembled them, played two games then sold them. Then I did the same with Nids.

Never regretted anything bought for my marines (and I have 3 companies now)

Probably the FW siege drill, as I only play chaos and CBA to build a renegade guard army - however it si a *beautiful* model, so it has utility in just looking darn good.

Chaos Metal dreadnought. Sucky rules, sucky model. Have 3 forgeworld ones that look down their noses at their ugly brother....

That siege drill is awesome looking, and I've long contemplated getting it - as a counts-as seismic hammer, if nothing else.

It was more the DK actual drill - its aout 50points and when it surfaces it does S8 AP2 hits to everything in a large blast marker, and has meltas etc whcih allow it to ram at strength 10 from a standing start...in other words its *great fun*

The siege arm for dreadnoughts is just sexy, much like the huge heavy flamer on the open topped chimera-chassis command vehicle...

You can also have veteran squads come out of the hole it makes - what's not to like!

I'm not keen on the salamander command myself - I think the salamander scout looks better (in the middle of painting two at the moment)

2.5k worth of Tau, played one game then auctioned them off.
A box of Devastator's that I glued with plasma cannons and Lascannons, why to many points

TobyDog wrote:Vesipeds ( mine cam in the Tau big box )
Kroot OX ( wost model sculpt possibly too)

Scout sgt with powerfist ( metal fig ...it's horrid)
6 Scouts with Missile launchers ( I play DA's so Termie or Scout? Which one do you think I take)
Plastic Droppods...built 1 gave away 2...
Land Raider Redeemer...Should have made them Crusaders

Vostronen co and sqd boxes... bought them cheap from shop going out of business... still have them in the wrap

Reaver Titan.... no just kidding , maybe the best , just when I got mine I was stupid and got the Gatling blaster and Apoc missile rack... now all I use is the 2 Tri laser blaster and the Double barreled Turbo laser...straight Cheese.

Still have a Tigershark AX-0 11 in the baggie and well as 2 sets of Remoras that have been sitting for 3+ years.

dude if you do not want your vastroyens I will takes them lol.

worst models I ever bought was the old metel LOTR morgul knights terrible models $50 no options in the box.
but the worst 40k was probubly the SM commander box it came with non of the weapons I wanted :(

6 Baneblades and only have put togeather 2 of them.... Rest just sit there and look at me for almost 3 years. Also spending 1000$ on new Guard Vehicles ect (Valks/Executioner crap ect/Sentinals) and not using any of it but just having it sit there for the past year or so.

Vlad Von Carstien wrote:
but the worst 40k was probubly the SM commander box it came with non of the weapons I wanted :(

What the hell else do you want from that box? It has more options than any kit from the time, and still has a heaping helping of options for models these days. The only thing missing is a second lightning claw.

My unnecessary purchases list is distressingly long. Let's see...
- 1500 point Iron Warriors army - 3 Marine squads, 3 rhinos, 3 vindicators, 5 Terminators, and a Warsmith. Bought the metal GW conversion packs for every squad. This was a year ago. I have since built and painted one squad and one Rhino.
- Was going to start a Flesh Tearers army. Bought the Blood Angels codex and Seth, and I'm supposed to pick up Flesh Tearers shoulder pads from my FLGS. Thankfully I stopped before I got in too deep.
- I bought the Imperial Sector, only to realize I had absolutely nowhere to put it if built. I do plan to build a table with it in the future, so it's not a waste yet!
- Ork barricades set. They're sitting on top of my speakers right now, unpainted and untouched.
- I have a Land Raider and a drop pod sitting in their boxes. I've had them both for over a year and a half.
- 2nd edition starter set for 40k. It's sitting with my Necromunda starter set. Both are unpainted and mostly unassembled.

Oh, buyer's remorse.

Nagash...had to buy him just to see how bad he was...he was indeed bad...

FW Avatar: I still use my original GW model. It's still in its bag.

Dark Angels army: About $200 worth to start the army; still in their original boxes.

I would say that my worst purchase as a 3rd edition metal Lictor. I played 'Nids at the time, but that was
1) A *VERY* ugly model,
2) A living hell to put together.

Also, Swooping Hawks. They're good lookin models if you can get them together, but the wings are damn near impossible to get on there, and once you do get them stuck on there they fall off when they tip over because they're not balanced well.

Ugh.

metal guardsmen

Scott-S6 wrote:You can also have veteran squads come out of the hole it makes - what's not to like!

I'm not keen on the salamander command myself - I think the salamander scout looks better (in the middle of painting two at the moment)

Not the vehicle, just the actual Heavy Flamer - it is massive, amazingly details. The scout vehicle looks better, but i didnt think it had the flamer?