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not sure of the exact amount but here is what i've bought that ended up in an army and not a bitz box:

3000pts Blood Angels
2500pts Ultramarines (sold)
2500pts 2nd Edition IG (sold)
2000pts Plastic Cadians IG
2500pts Ork Speed Freeks (selling)
2000pts Nids (sold)
2500pts Tau (just bought)
2000pts Chaos Marines (selling)

Probably not enough for a car but i definitely could have a nice harley for what i spent. i try to mostly finance new armies with the sale of old but that doesn't include the cost of hobby supplies used to paint the figs.

My Black Templar, which I have built 5 (this being my 5th) times now - About 3k
Old Tank Company - Bout 1k

Total Fantasy (three armies) - About 2k

Random Bitz 1k

Paint/tools/stuffs 1k

Bout 8k USD in 9 years of being in the GW hobby. Hell I have spent that on my Passat and getting parts for my Volksrod project already. But those are cars, not toy soldiers. >.>

Random

If you consider that I started puchaseing GW stuff way back in 1988, I have prolly spent 5 - 10 grand since that time, though it's difficult to say since the stuff used to be muuuch cheaper. Also, you have to factor in forgeworld stuff. Ironically, nearly everything I have purchased from Forgeworld has since been made into plastic kits. It's kind of humiliateing to look at my 250 dollar baneblade, consider the difficulties in assembling it, and compare it to the much cooler and cheaper plastic version. I also (unfortunately) own a resin Shadowsword and 2 resin Valkries...If you add up the prices of those, they cost more than my first car.

Heck I probably spent 2-3k on apoc alone 4 companies. My ultras bought the old fashioned way one box at a time. At the same time stealing all the beekie bits for my raven guard. My wolves, a imperial fist drop pod company that I got from the apoc deals two bane blades wolfhound titan and a thunderhawk.
So in total about 10k or more

Firebuck wrote:I figure roughly between 500 and 1000 but I've only been playing since November 2008.

This ^

So far I have about 1000 pts of SM and Orks each + scenery and the Citadel RoB gameboard and paints, 5 codexes, some WDs and a few of the fluff novels. Once I have about 1500 pts of SM and Orks I'll probably stop for a while although I would like to start a Tau army.

I know that it will not be a surprise to some... I've spent over 10,000 on Apocalypse (in 18 months).

I've also spent around 15,000 on other 40K incantations and Epic including magazines, Codex, etc since 1987.

Plus another 15,000 easily, on non GW stuff in the last 30 years.

OUCH... it hurts bad when you add it up.

Mik

Ok, just to throw out some numbers:

Guard - 30,000 Points
(Includes Inquisitorial Assets, not GKs or SoBs, just all the other Inquisitorial units)
Chaos - 30,000 Points
(Includes Lost & The Damned)
Marines - 12,000 Points
(3 or so Companies + vehicles)
Tyranids - 12,000 Points
500-something models.
Necrons - 8000 Points
(bought mostly off eBay for a total of around AUD$700-800, so a good bargain there)

There's also a Deathwatch Army that has no points value due to not having an actual rules, but if I had to guess about 2000-3000 points (or so). Also almost every Necromunda Gang (or thereabouts), both editions of Space Hulk, every Warhammer Quest product ever made (save the Noble and Brettonian Knight, much to my chagrin) and... I think that's it. And then BattleTech stuff... 250 'Mechs, 150 vehicles, 100 or so infantry units. The BTech stuff was just in the last year though.

A lot of money over 15 or so years.

Ok. Not counting ONLY Games Workshop, but counting ONLY miniatures and rules (books, box sets, expansions, etc.), I have spent nearly (if not a little over) $20, 000 USD in the last 18-ish years. I literally need a bigger basement. A couple of people around Dakka have seen my basement and can attest to how much mini-gaming crap I have down there. It just grows and grows and grows, too.


Ghidorah

H.B.M.C. I think we should start an OZ club for GW big spenders... what do ya think?

Mik

It amazes me that you guys are willing to drop car-like money into 40k. Good on you for being able to do it, but I gotta ask what you've got for your daily drivers...

10-year old 3-door Pugeot 306 hatchback.

And I just put an offer in on an apartment, so I won't be able to afford much after this.

Well, I have a 1996 Chevy Blazer (that I just had the engine replaced in), my wife and I have a '99 Grand Am GT, and a '92 Honda Civic.\

It helps that our house is paid off and I have two sons, 10 and 8. That leaves me with a couple of bucks each month to spend on minis. I then bring them home and say,
"SURPRISE <kid's name here>! Look what daddy got you! I'll just put it together for you and paint it at some point..."

What's the wife gonna say?

Flip side is, one day the boys will come to collect...


Bear in mind that this is money spread out over the last 18 years, too.


Ghidorah

Easily "$1k to 2k USD" Which is alot seeing as I still have not finished school and have never had a job up until now (21 years old I am *had to throw in some yoda*)

GW has been my main source of outcome over ever since 1994. 2nd only to metal festivals and alcohol...

When I get a job I bet my outcome will raise FAST

JohnHwangDD wrote:It amazes me that you guys are willing to drop car-like money into 40k. Good on you for being able to do it, but I gotta ask what you've got for your daily drivers...

Well more than half of my spending was before 1997 and I have none of the stuff. I don't/can't drive, so it helps free up some money for hobbies.

H.B.M.C., one year I spent like $1200 or so around Christmas at the bigger game store in town, the clerk said he had only heard of about 2 other times someone had bought so much from them at one time. I had to remind him that they were both me from the two previous Christmases. That was also very early 90s prices, so it would more likely be $2000 or more worth of the current stuff.

I was listening to a news story talking about a guy who stole over $1,000 worth of video games in his kid's stroller. It got me thinking that that isn't that many games: At an average price of $50 per game (which is high for budget games, low for new and shiny games) that's only 20 games! I know I bought over 20 PS2 games over the years, and then there's the other systems I own....

Much like wargames, it's a cost that doesn't get mentally 'added up' without prodding I think. You don't notice it if you spend $50 or so a month even if it's every month for a decade.

(Or look at how much smokers spend...)

That's how I justify my spending to non GW folk (poor misguided souls)... what they spend on smoking over a few years has paid for everything I have bought over 30 years... AND I still have every piece... what do they have left over... oops, read the label on the pack

Mik

I read the heading and though, "too much". I think I would cry if I knew how much I have spent on this hobby, for the simple fact that I probably could have bought a new car over the last decade instead. The only thing I think I have spent more on in my life is my fiancee.

Müller wrote:When I get a job I bet my outcome will raise FAST

Oh, no doubt about that.

When I first started working (no house, no car, no wife, no kid), dropping $100+ a month on hobbies was NOTHING compared to bar tabs and meals and other fun stuff.

Once you've got the cash, I strongly suggest getting:
1. the big TV
2. the cool car
Keep those priorities straight!
____

Lord Castellan Mik wrote:what they spend on smoking over a few years has paid for everything I have bought over 30 years... AND I still have every piece...

Suicide by cigarette is easily the most irrational way I can think of to literally burn cash.

That's why GW will never have a final version of 40k or WFB.
____

Elnicko5 wrote:I think I would cry if I knew how much I have spent on this hobby, for the simple fact that I probably could have bought a new car over the last decade instead.

The only thing I think I have spent more on in my life is my fiancee.

As a married guy, I can't fault you for spending on the fiancee / wife. Just make sure you're getting appropriate benefits "in trade".

But having a nice car is an advantage when you're dating, and it's hard to get a fun car once you're married, that's for sure...

JohnHwangDD wrote:It amazes me that you guys are willing to drop car-like money into 40k. Good on you for being able to do it, but I gotta ask what you've got for your daily drivers...

1999 Subaru Forrester ... still going strong

/shrug

I'll replace my television when it dies.

I spend more time checking out books at the library rather than buying the latest
thing that I wanted to read.

I stopped buying DVDs and DVD boxed sets except as presents.

My digital camera is 8 years old, from when I finished my bachelors.

I was temporarily interested in a smart phone until I realized the monthlies would go
through the roof compared to my current shared plan.

No kids.

No cable TV.

Too much.

malfred wrote:/shrug

I'll replace my television when it dies.

I spend more time checking out books at the library rather than buying the latest
thing that I wanted to read.

I stopped buying DVDs and DVD boxed sets except as presents.

My digital camera is 8 years old, from when I finished my bachelors.

I was temporarily interested in a smart phone until I realized the monthlies would go
through the roof compared to my current shared plan.

No kids.

No cable TV.

Wow. You just made me sad.



Ghidorah

I don't know how much I've spent and I don't want to know..

One of my friends had his collection valued for insurance and used it as collateral on a loan to pony up most of the money he needed to set up a HobbytownUSA franchise. He had been collecting miniatures a lot longer than I had.

Edit...Ugh. I did some quick figures off the top of my head. I spent about $300 give or take a $4 blister or 2 on Rogue Trader over about five years, more than $100 went for rulebooks and expansions. I still use them today, 20 years later. If I converted it to '00's money it was roughly equivalent to $1200, depending on what economic model you want to use for inflation. I've greatly expanded both armies since then, I probably spent thousands if I paid full GW retail (which I didn't on most of it)

I have used something between 1000-2000 Canadien. All in my 3 years of gaming!

I am ashamed to say that I spend more than some people make in a year on GW and FOW stuff. Last year 15k plus.

I have spent way over 10k but I also have sold over 10k worth of stuff. so it is hard to say. I am almost even

Oh!?! We're counting batletech too? well, I don't think that i spent more than $400 on BT. But between epic and 40k, $2000+. I started my GW addiction in 94, but I spent the most around 99-02. Ebay let me buy crazy things at crazy prices. $100 each for Slaves to Darkness and Lost and Damned. 3 copies of Space Crusade plus 2 Mission Dreadnoughts @ $100+ each. Tons of OP minis before GW's back catolage paid for at collecters prices. 8 years of WD (does that count). Pretty much all of my disposable income for 16 years.

Now that I think about it, it's probably closer to $4000 - $5000.

I've hit $1,300 this year alone, though this has been a big expansion year for me.

Heck so far this year, I bought out a store going under. There was 5K at a 50% discount so I spent 2500.Plus another $800 from online ordering to finish out orks and redo my marines. So yearly total so far is $3200. I have to admit though this has been a big year for me (couldn't pass up the 50% discount).

Tigerone wrote:I am ashamed to say that I spend more than some people make in a year on GW and FOW stuff. Last year 15k plus.

Hmm.... We may have a winner!