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I bought very little last year (May onwards I mean), but at the same time bought it all in one heap due to the embargo. I'm sure I would have bought more, but once that embargo hit that was it for me.

I bought some miniatures from other companies, but that's it.

i put $2500, but being english its realy about £2500
not sure of the exchange rate

2010 and 2011 purchases blur a bit but IIRC I think I didn't get any GW in the past year.

I bought kaldor draigo and load of paints


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crazyrossboy wrote:i put $2500, but being english its realy about £2500
not sure of the exchange rate

in english its about 1750 Pounds

Not counting BL purchases well under a hundred, as it was just a few primers and pots of paint, along with a trio of finecast blisters and a set of magical (bleh) dice.

So which scurrilous individual voted the maximum amount, then didn't tell us what they had bought?

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:750-1000, almost all up until the rest of the world embargo mid year.

if they had not done that it would be 2500+

Clowns...

Same situation, had to cancel a WFB Fantasy army (about $400-500 of Orcs) I had planned. Nowadays just the odd pot of paint, but even those I have subbed in Vallejo where possible, on the grounds of getting more paint for less money, and also the new GW paint pot (for standard colours) is bloody awful.

But, thanks to the embargo I decided to take up Infinity, which is an absolutely cracking game and something I probably would never have otherwise tried!

About 300 GPB worth of models paints and brushes.....

About £250 so that's the $300-500 box I think?

Mostly that's the odd boxset/codex, 4 copies of WD, and two finecast samples, that has taken my fancy, plus dreadfleet (Technically the mrs bought that) plus my on going addiction to FW books.

I'm actually trying to clear my backlog of models and armies so it really wasn't that much, certainly no conscious decision not to buy GW.

I definitely spent more individually on FoW stuff, FFG and the rest of the industry (boardgames, books and random small purchases).

Probably somewhere between £100 and £150, so $100-$300 for me.

I think the amount spent may be the same for 2012, but I don't intend to buy anything direct from GW apart from paints.

Too much. I spent about $500-750 if I had to guess, building the rest of my Dark Eldar army (like I said I was going to when they came out). The only non-DE thing I bought was Trazyn the Infinite, and I've avoided buying some DE models because they're in Finecast now: no more incubi, no wracks until they come out in plastic, no court models since I've yet to find any at the store I feel confident enough to buy...and no beastmasters or beasts because they're outrageously expensive (and when they inevitably go to Finecast will no doubt be even more expensive than they are).

I've spent just as much (if not more) on other games, though. I bought the introductory boxed set for Battletech and a couple of mechs from IWM, a ton of D&D 4e books (getting used copies on the cheap from the local store) and the Castle Ravenloft board game, I got a couple of used Dark Heresy books (with the Black Industries logo on them still, lol), and I just got into Warmachine, bought the rulebook and a Ret caster and jack. I spent an embarrassing amount of money on MTG also, but I got tired of trying to keep up with standard and spending what felt like $100+ every month updating my decks every time the metagame changed, so I've slowed down a lot on that.

between the warstore and helping to support my FLGS ... roughly 400.00

Bought around $400 or so of an O&G army (mostly G). Still need to spend another $100-150 to create a complete (playable) army, but I've got a load to paint first.

Spent around $250 for a complete Hordes army.

Hm.

Mostly forgeworld and tanks, probably lots.

The new IG plastic tanks are brilliant though (except the stupid Demolisher turret).

Personally I didn't spend that much, if you count Ebay my spending probably goes over £100, but just buying new, not much at all. I did get a few things for Christmas though, and will soon be buying some more GW stuff....

Probably a bit over 1500 bucks, but I dont explicitly track it. Maybe 1/4 - 1/3 from GW shops, rest from online retailers.

$2500+. There was the bulk of my SoB army and then some odds and ends for my IG and formerly WH army.

I started the hobby in 2011 so I bought my entire army and paints.

4x Rhinos
2x Razorbacks
1x Space Wolves Battleforce
1x Rune Priest (pewter)
1x Njal Stormcaller (Finecast)
2x Devastator Squads
3-4x Space Wolves Packs

All my paint, bits, tools, etc.

Maybe $40-$50 for paint here and there, but I'm moving that over to Vallejo and Reaper. I did but some bitz from The War Store for round bases and Blood Bowl parts.

Balance wrote:Maybe $40-$50 for paint here and there, but I'm moving that over to Vallejo.

You know, there's rumblings over on Warseer that the Citadel paint line is going to be 'refurbished' in March. So now's a good a time as any to start picking up Vallejo paints.

Wow...I am about to feel sad at the money I spent on this hobby in 2011, but it is just money...
-I am in the 5000+ category, if you considering ancillary things like bags and such I am in the 10k range realistically.

So, at the start of the year I did 1500 points of Nids,then, 2000 points of termincide DA, then 2500 pnts of DOA BA, then 2500 points of purifier spam grey knights. I did a brief stint with 2000 points of tzeentch daemons, now my current one, which is all purchased, unless I decided I want more this year is about 15000pnts of death korps of krieg. So 25 chimera, 3 bombards, 6 hydras, 3 warlords titans, 9 medusas, 300+ DKOK guardsmen + weapon sets, 6 hades breaching drills, 10 death riders....and the list goes on.

So...good thing I helped pay GW salaries this year, and glad I have a job that allows me to spend like that. I am sure there is more I purchased, paints and such, but it is a ton to list on here, not to mention projects I started and ended quickly, like converted guard, or a DE force (2500 points worth) I purchased, and then unloaded quickly through trades and such.

For the first year since 1999 I spent 0 dollars on GW products...the previous year I probably spent 800-1k.

I did spend quite a bit on Privateer Press and Infinity.

in english its about 1750 Pounds

infinite_array wrote:

Balance wrote:Maybe $40-$50 for paint here and there, but I'm moving that over to Vallejo.

You know, there's rumblings over on Warseer that the Citadel paint line is going to be 'refurbished' in March. So now's a good a time as any to start picking up Vallejo paints.

The main thing s there's a couple local shops that carry GW paints (in addition to a GW store) I can get to reasonably easily. I have to order Vallejo and Reaper paints.

Quite a lot of money is my answer

Started a Space wolf army including a FW thunderhawk, got my bro inlaw a FW Eldar Phoenix and both my wife and I started fantasy.

So all in all around £1500

Over $2500 if my Tourney winnings are included. Still have over 100 boyz, 2 trukks a Land Raider and no telling what else sitting on my shelf still in Shrinkwrap. I'll be painting until I die.

I spent maybe $20 on paint from Reaper, but nothing to GW.

However I did give $100 or so to Black Library, dunno if that counts.

LunaHound wrote:Thats not sad, without your support GW might go bankrupt

lol I can't tell if you being sarcastic or not

infinite_array wrote:

Balance wrote:Maybe $40-$50 for paint here and there, but I'm moving that over to Vallejo.

You know, there's rumblings over on Warseer that the Citadel paint line is going to be 'refurbished' in March. So now's a good a time as any to start picking up Vallejo paints.

Do you know if there is any clue as to what this re-design is going to entail? The current pots for the standard range are bloody awful. All of the washes/foundations I have still have the small 'crick' in the neck that means the lid stays open, and are far better.

Probably around $1500, all from before April. Which is a major drop from the usual $3000-$4000 I used to spend annually on them.

So far, it's looking to drop even faster, down to probably around $150-200(vehicles be expensive) for 2012, depending on what I get to finish the BA I need for DD2.

Shifting that money into Warmachine and my Transformers collection just seems to go so much farther with regards to enjoyment...

Mine is up over $2500, if you count purchases from other players. I made a couple big lot purchases of sisters to flesh out my army and then resold all the bits I didn't need to break even.