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So I recently received a windfall around $1000 US and I'm trying to think of neat things to do with it.

I have a couple of open 40k projects at the moment, 1 of which is almost finished and I'm looking around for ideas of what I can do with this money I earned.

What would you do with 1000 dollars/pounds/euros?

I would probably dump around $500 of it on gaming boards, materials, tools and general terrian to play on. Something I'm currently lacking(gaming boards), due to pet related bodliy functions and inquisitive accidents.

The rest would to be buff out/complete my 3 armies. Anything left over would go back into terrian or some cheap extra tables to put books/beers/snacks on etc.


But fantasy aside, it would probably be spent on paying bills and gak. :(

^ This.

Unless you have a great place to play already, start with the 'basics', and get armies after that.

Things like:
if you want a lot of vehicles or big models, get an airbrush setup.
buildings and LoS blocking terrain.
etc.

Splurge on "Shiney Stuff" id never use !

But more helpfully (assuming you don't just dump it all into your current 40K armies)..

Any local gaming clubs you quite fancied joining but never thought the fees were affordable ? pay for 3/6/12 months enough time to get a feel if you like it and if you do the chance for more and varied gaming

Any other systems played locally that you've been interested in, you could pick up a decent skirmish force for many of them for a lot less than you have

Decent tools/brushes setup if you enjoy that aspect of the hobby, it's amazing how much easier and more fun painting & assembly can be with high quality brushes/tools

Maybe an airbrush (a proper one, not GW) really usefull if you paint vehicals or big models regularly... not so good if you just do 'human sized' stuff. Iwatta make great air brushes (expensive though).... try and get demos from an art shop or anybody you know with one, they're not for everybody

If you've got space (and play at home) a decent table either a solid one you can have up all the time, or a well made fold away

Boardgames.... with minis, there are a lot around, some of them are really fun (and may help pull friends not interested in 40K into gaming) check some of them out, great for when there are 3 or 5 of you but time/space for only one game

Kickstarter.... Lots of interesting projects delivering stuff in the (far) future. THIS IS NOT A STORE, in theory you could loose your money and get nothing (I've backed a project where this looks likely) and stuff will be late, but that said it can be fun and nothing beats the feeling of a huge box of great new stuff coming through the door. Don't spend it all here, but 10-20% why not!

Probably get an army comissioned, or a titan?

I'd make a sweet ass display board, probably with a large fish tank, and fill it with themed scenery, set it up with good lighting and buy some shelf or something to put it on.

Do I need it? Not really. Would mine and my girlfriends plans on moving in together benefit from it? Not likely. But if I got free money, would I make it happen? Hell yes!

Pay my cell phone bill for the next year. Then I wouldn't feel guilty about upping monthly war hammer budget to about $350.

I'm in a similar situation. I sold my old M:tG cards and got a LOT of store credit at my FLGS.

It let me re-boot my old 2nd army, Eldar, when their new codex released.
I picked up the apocalypse rules/templates, and the extras to boost my army to fit into a couple of the formations.
Now that my primary army has been updated (Ultramarines) I got some of the new shiny things, as well as some older stuff I needed to round out my collection.
Next on the list is to get some custom foam to drag (most) everything around in. I specced some out earlier this sumer, but was waiting until I saw the changes to pull the trigger. It was always something I wanted, but if my hobby-dollar could go towards foam or more minis, I traditionally sided with more minis. Hand packing stuff in scraps of old foam gets old quick though.

My P&M blog is basically what I'm doing with my windfall, plus a few odds and ends of other projects.

Buy hella magnets bro! ...hella magnets... would be hella dope!

Buy intercontinental ballistic flying monkeys to attack anyone using "hella".

With the remaining $950 I would blow it on FW stuff, basically anything out of the ordinary that you would usually sit there and gawp at but your brain says "Yeah right, like you can afford that douchebag".

I've sorta done that, for the last two years I have put money aside to spurge at the FW stand at Salute and end up with about £500 each year.

I now have some boxes of some really fancy models along side the boxes of normal models. Money can't buy you time to build stuff!

 notprop wrote:
Buy intercontinental ballistic flying monkeys to attack anyone using "hella".

Hella harsh bro!

OP: 2 words... Squat Army.

...your welcome...

Do what you want/need to move you to the next level. If you need to finish up x number of points to field your dream army. Load it up! If you want to improve your painting/converting skills, then pick up paints/tools/airbrushes, etc.... For me, I'm more painting oriented in this hobby and don't paint much at all. I'd love to pick up the entire line of Reaper Master Series pants, but that'll eat the whole amount. So, I'd pick up an airbrush, probably limit myself to about $200ish on it. Just entry level for basecoats and zenithal highlighting on main color. I'd then probably pick up the Vallejo Game Color suitcase, finish picking up the last 1/3 of the P3 paint line, oh and get those Badger paints for the airbrush. If anything is left, buy a weekend trip for me an my wife, and get her something nice. Maybe I should do that first, then get the Vallejo colors, P3 paints, (so I can have plenty of colors....I just paint things I like. IF termies here, SDE there, anything that catches my fancy.) Then see if I can pick up the airbrush and Badger paints. This was fun.

I'd buy a Manta.

If you are feeling industrious and charitable you could find 99 or so other people with $1,000 and team up to produce cheap sci fi plastics. You know that we all would really like sci fi figures for a buck a piece.

I would buy another nice display cabinet for my painted stuff. If theres any left over maybe some Hirst Molds.

Wow. I feel really weird because there are at least 20 things I could sink $1000 into that would be more important than gaming, which makes me a little sad to be honest...

(I'm not ragging on you by the way, I'm just really not used to having large sums of entirely disposable money sitting around).

However, if I did have that kind of money:
A board for Bushido.
A board for Infinity.
Super Dungeon Explore + Expansions (because I LOVE the minis)
Sink the rest into either a necron force or more orks!

I'd buy a titan and pay someone to build it for me. I'd still like the 'honor' of painting it.

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
Wow. I feel really weird because there are at least 20 things I could sink $1000 into that would be more important than gaming, which makes me a little sad to be honest...

I'm the same way, but in all honesty the unexpected windfall wouldn't really help me out with my 'more important' things really. I mean I could pay off my car sooner, but that'd be 3 months sooner...

Thunderhawk or a Death Korps of Krieg army.

Probably just have someone finish painting my deldar for me...I don't think I'll ever get around to it.
Or buy more prebuilt terrain. I've been getting lazy lately.

As mentioned, a good table and scenery would be nice - you could afford to buy a few vehicles/flyers to wreck them for awesome terrain.

After that, I'd probably allow myself to buy a horus heresy army. You could get a pretty sweet setup for that much.

My first thought was "ooh, shinies!".

My second thought was "take a months unpaid leave so I can build/paint/finish all the models I still have lying round in boxes!"

At least then I wouldn't feel guilty about buying shinies in future...

Get anything you'd never normally buy yourself, but have always wanted. (so mostly forge world stuff)

I've got literally thousands of models and tonnes of scenery in various states, some completed some on sprue etc.
I'd pay someone to strip/catalogue alot of my old vintage metals either so that they are saleable or I can just get on and paint them....someday.
i'd then spend what's left on well organised racking/cases/cabinets (even for the unpainted stuff).

 ivangterrace wrote:
So I recently received a windfall around $1000 US and I'm trying to think of neat things to do with it.

I have a couple of open 40k projects at the moment, 1 of which is almost finished and I'm looking around for ideas of what I can do with this money I earned.

What would you do with 1000 dollars/pounds/euros?

As usual with large chunks of cash (that are dedicated to hobby/entertainment/personal expenditures, mind) I would spend it on something that one needs a large amount of cash at one time for. For example: pledging at an exclusive level to a kickstarter you are very excited about, purchasing a new fully detailed game board, getting an expensive tool such as a swanky airbrush setup, completely overhauling your hobby workspace, and so forth.

Another thing that I tend to do in such circumstances is start a brand new ambitious project. A very sizable percentage of my income comes in the form of a yearly bonus, and I always reserve a percentage of that bonus just for me, no questions asked (that's right Liz, no stink eye). Consequently, I am in a similar situation every year. Apart from things like the above, I like to use the funds to start something new. Not a new army, but usually an entirely new game that requires a ton of stuff that I don't already have.

This year I started my Wild West Fantasy miniatures campaign, having no western models and no western terrain. It all started from scratch in January. Sometimes I buy into a game or miniatures range whole hog, and get enough models and material for multiple people to play. So, if you think Dreadball would be awesome, for example, but don't know anyone who plays in your area, you can haul off and get the whole darn thing. Get all of the teams, a couple of sweet game boards, and whatever else one needs for Dreadball (I don't really know this is just an example). Now you can run a league that folks can play in without having to invest anything, which raises your chances of playing Dreadball regularly exponentially.

*Get a lot of the cool terrain out there that I 'like' but is not 'needed'. Even cheap terrain, when you want to buy a bunch can cost a few 100$

*Get army packing/transportation for my entire collection. Probably KR multicase stuff so I could pack and store everything if needed. Right now I can transport a large chunk but I can't pack everything. I would want to get enough custom foam to handle my entire army, future growth and all my board games.

*Consider backing a KS or possibly starting one, or even just doing some garage kits on my own. If I could blow 1000$ bucks, I could get some large quantity of resin and moldmaking, make some really nice reusable mold boxes and play around with casting some stuff I made. Kinda grow myself from the 50$ DIY kit to the next level.

*Get a quality airbrush setup

*Give Kromlech a pile of money for ork stuff.

*Maybe buy a higher backer level for a KS and get some custom figures made by buying in large enough.

1000 is my budget every year on Wargames. I sell off the army from last year and start a new one. Or keep last years and slowy build a new one with the money. I put it away and even though i have enough to buy every thing at once. I slowy pick things up so the x-mas feeling last a good amount of time.

I would split it in half.
Half wargaming, half for other things/saving for a rainy day.

The half for wargaming though would be used to do something big. I have a problem finishing projects and I would likely use this as an opportunity to commission someone for painting a force for Infinity to a good standard and have some conversion work done.

I'd probably spend some to buff up my Chaos Space Marine army to apocalypse levels and some on modeling materials and business cards for my commission business I'm planning.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I would split it in half.
Half wargaming, half for other things/saving for a rainy day.

No! Bad! No rational thinking! Fantasy and dreams only!

The thing is unless to do a planned project it can actually be quite hard to spend a ton cash on gaming in my experience.

As I say I've hit Salute a few times with the thought of splurging big time with spare money but common sense kicks in after a bit (about the second trip back to the car!) and do wonder what the hell your doing.