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MAY I SUGGEST SOME THING FROM SOME ONE WITH LITTLE TO NOTHING AT ALL....buy more MARINES GO FOR THE GOAL!!!!!!!


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I mean heck i am so poor i play with green army men :(

lol. My Marines are green
Also I'm a harden Player but i've been lately doing lore.

450$?

I've probably spend that much on painting supplies

yeah. I get great deals from people got 50 marines and 5 terminators for $30. But they were crappy painted.

Hey guys sorry to ressurect this thread. But my dad yet again says no you can't buy any more models. Ugh. Anyway I really wish my father wasn't such a hardass on me. When my brother spent over $ 2,000 on his army. While I only spent $550. And I have gotten all my models for dirt cheap.

Asherian Command wrote:Hey guys sorry to ressurect this thread. But my dad yet again says no you can't buy any more models. Ugh. Anyway I really wish my father wasn't such a hardass on me. When my brother spent over $ 2,000 on his army. While I only spent $550. And I have gotten all my models for dirt cheap.

Drown him in reason. Tell him how much your bro spent on his army, tell him how much you've spent on yours and then ask why you cant buy more.

Isn't it your money?
If so i'm pretty sure he isn't able to stop you.

Cambak wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:Hey guys sorry to ressurect this thread. But my dad yet again says no you can't buy any more models. Ugh. Anyway I really wish my father wasn't such a hardass on me. When my brother spent over $ 2,000 on his army. While I only spent $550. And I have gotten all my models for dirt cheap.

Drown him in reason. Tell him how much your bro spent on his army, tell him how much you've spent on yours and then ask why you cant buy more.

That works. I told him. But I think its that stereotype that the youngest child never makes the best decisions even though literally I am turning into an eagle scout, and I am also getting all these awards and stuff like that. I still tell him that I am not like my brother, and it is also when I was a kid i was really big into yu-gi-oh! and then i stopped then for mage knights i did the same thing except the company went down. He still thinks that I will just give up on another hobby. Even though I have been into it for 10 years nonstop while I played my other hobbies.

Sorry, what's an Eagle Scout?

Keep going! I dunno how you spend so little money....I've spent at least 600$ on my 1500 point CSM list...Although I have been buying a lot of paint..

purplefood wrote:Sorry, what's an Eagle Scout?

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ugh its fine. its just i need to show what an eagle scout is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scout_%28Boy_Scouts_of_America%29
http://www.nesa.org/VOSawards.html
Basically it is a honor society and only 2% of the boy scout population ever become one. It is basically an equal-vent of the Royal Scouts from England.

I told my dad that he can't control me in anyway. That I like build stuff. Of course he did throw the Well you never play anygames. But I wanted to throw so do you.

Yeah i have never heard of he Royal scouts either...
Maybe it's just me.

And I am the first one in my entire family ever to get this high in ranks and to recieve one. So I don't know why he has this anti-youngest feeling around him. Of course both my parents do. I have nothing wrong with me. I am intelligent I work out, but I rarely get out with friends ever since I stopped going to GW after their new sanctions of store times. And I have been assembling a table in my basement.

Yo. Asherian. Quit playing around with your avatar. That's the third different one today.

Yeah was looking through my avatars and Found my original one. XD Sorry about that. At least I didn't give anyone a Seizure

I like your first avatar the best

Samus_aran115 wrote:I like your first avatar the best

This one? Well It was a fun one. Then I changed to a custodian, then to a space marine with a powerfist then to a funny one that I can't remember.

This one has nice contrast..And looks generally epic.

The green and blue marine is neat too. You know you use dakkadakka too much when...You remember every poster's avatars....

Samus_aran115 wrote:This one has nice contrast..And looks generally epic.

The green and blue marine is neat too. You know you use dakkadakka too much when...You remember every poster's avatars....

Yes. That reminds me what happened to that thread?

It died... horribly.

Damn.
Anyway on-topic I will try and talk sense into my dad.

If your 16 and have $100 dollers then either you just had a birthday or just have nothing else to spend it on.

I would say spend a little of that but save some for well.... emergancies (I.E gfs and friend birthdays you only remeber the day before)

VikingScott wrote:

I would say spend a little of that but save some for well.... emergancies (I.E gfs and friend birthdays you only remeber the day before)

Yep I have that ready for emergencies unfortunately no girlfriend working on that. And no I have been working on a lot of stuff and I have a lot of jobs that I do.

And yeah. I spend a little at a time for like investments for the future.

Sounds to me like you should just quit your whining... surely you have enough?

If it's your money, then I guess it's a different case, but my parents wouldn't let me touch my savings/inheritances/etc until I went to university because I'd need them there (and golly I do...).

Tbh, as painful as it is to say it, despite this pubescent insistence that we teenagers are weathered enough in the world to make judgements equivocal to our parents, we really aren't. He's likely proud of you but just looking out for you and the line of argument "I'm an Eagle Scout, buy me things" is hardly mature.

Even if your brother did spend more money, does that make it right? Why don't you stick with a project and commit to it? Fair enough, painting can be enjoyable... but I'd bet my right arm that you haven't got every model painted, plus... if you have, just go back and strip what you painted badly when you were younger.

Asherian Command wrote:I told my dad that he can't control me in anyway. That I like build stuff. Of course he did throw the Well you never play anygames. But I wanted to throw so do you.

Can you really not see how delightfully cliché that statement is? I'm gonna guess you're about 15?

And wow, who thought I'd be able to go on a "damn young'uns" rant at 19 years of age...

Too many...yes! Stop collecting...never! What would be even more impressive is if you have them all painted. Youve already sunk your hard earned savings into GW why stop now!

I hope to own a complete BT chapter someday...

But seeing as thats between five and six thousand marines I don't know if it will ever happen.

At this point, you're pretty much just throwing money at a collection just to collect.

Sure, if that's what you'd like to do, then that's fine and all. But honestly, fo you "need" more Marines? Will you be buying something that adds or changes the way your army is fielded?

Personally, I'd use the money and buy all the special characters, this way you could field your 300+ marines in different ways.

Henners91 wrote:Sounds to me like you should just quit your whining... surely you have enough?

If it's your money, then I guess it's a different case, but my parents wouldn't let me touch my savings/inheritances/etc until I went to university because I'd need them there (and golly I do...).

Tbh, as painful as it is to say it, despite this pubescent insistence that we teenagers are weathered enough in the world to make judgements equivocal to our parents, we really aren't. He's likely proud of you but just looking out for you and the line of argument "I'm an Eagle Scout, buy me things" is hardly mature.

Even if your brother did spend more money, does that make it right? Why don't you stick with a project and commit to it? Fair enough, painting can be enjoyable... but I'd bet my right arm that you haven't got every model painted, plus... if you have, just go back and strip what you painted badly when you were younger.

Asherian Command wrote:I told my dad that he can't control me in anyway. That I like build stuff. Of course he did throw the Well you never play anygames. But I wanted to throw so do you.

Can you really not see how delightfully cliché that statement is? I'm gonna guess you're about 15?

And wow, who thought I'd be able to go on a "damn young'uns" rant at 19 years of age...

Well. Its my money. And I worked for 6 months for it. And I have not bought something for 1 year and I am 16. And I need a new army of marines so that I can make a melta army which I kinda need at the moment. But yeah I get most of what you see the thing is I've been working on other things and I have a basement filled with stuff that is waiting for me to use. And I need to make a blood angel army as one of my friends wants to play them but unfournately he changed his mind. Plus I am only going to spend 126$ thanks to a few sources I have. And its a 2000 point army.... I still think my fathers choice of words are very unwise.

He believes that just because it is my hobby does not mean I get to spend my own money on it. Of course It is my money and I earned it due to hard work. Not only that but Most of my army is not even built by me. It is deals I have gotten from friends that have quit over time. It took me a long time to gather it in one place. And it took some digging in my bits box.

He also says that what I do in my spare time computer games, video games, trying to paint, writing lore, and working on certain things that I love doing is pointless. Of course he wants to be sports oriented like my brother. But Instead I tell him No ever since I run every day for fun and I train every day for combat. It is a very difficult position. But Yeah I know that everyone believes teenagers are not that smart and cannot make decisions. But Compared to most teenagers my age. I take everything against my self, when someone fails I take it upon myself to aid them. Do people ask for it? No.

I am also building this other army so that We can have more variety in our collection of armies. We have tau, eldar, imperial guardsmen, daemonhunters, space wolves, Space Marines, orks, but we have more marines than anything but at least 40% of the space marines eldar, guardsmen and daemonhunters we got in tournaments that I have been in, or my brother was in or from gamesday every year at gamesday I collected 25 marines. That is 4 years of gamesday. 100 marines all free and most of them from conversion contests that I came in fifth place.

Devilsquid wrote:At this point, you're pretty much just throwing money at a collection just to collect.

Sure, if that's what you'd like to do, then that's fine and all. But honestly, fo you "need" more Marines? Will you be buying something that adds or changes the way your army is fielded?

Personally, I'd use the money and buy all the special characters, this way you could field your 300+ marines in different ways.

Well the first part I know is wrong. As I want this army for gaming purposes, and not only that but I use the marines from other chapters.

I love fielding massive armies as I am a big horus hersey reader and I have been for a while thinking of starting a prehersey thousand sons army, and the blood angels army is because I really love the new blood angel stuff and I have been needing to start a melta army for a while.

I make my own special characters. I will not buy metal models, i have a few custom models that I build and I keep making new special characters. And my modeling skills are at its peak and I can build a character by making 3d images using my map making skills as my time at hiveworkshop helped me create 3d images of models with relative ease. It takes me weeks to think of ways to build models. And even then my father complained that I would never build every model.
I so far have 5 of the 15 characters I want built. I have been for the longest time trying to buy some marines so that I can use up some bits to make these first knights and paint them up. Which I need to get better at. I am a great builder but I suck at painting. Even my brother who is a big guy and can paint like he'vy metal worthy models says that I come up with the best ideas and I can make the best models with relative ease and no mess ups.

Alot of my perivous gaming buddies that have quit are putting up their marines for sale and I reserved them all. and they are all Marine Players. I get the marines 3 years after they have quit the hobby and I get them for literally 1/4 of the price they bought it at. Compared to my brother I have only spent $460?
He has spent triple my amount and same with my father. I am wise in my decisions when it comes to spending my money compared to my younger days. It takes my months to think of ways to save money.

I have math problems all over my notebook, I am a mathematician and a historian and I love doing math!

16 in the USA doesn't to have as much freedom as 16 in Britain...

I would say collect how you feel you should.

But if you ever want to get rid of some stuff, I am in need of Jump jet assault marines, vindies, razorbacks, and perhaps a land raider or three.