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Made in gb
Shas'la with Pulse Carbine





Norwich

Hi everyone!

Small off-topic conversation here, but mostly because I like numbers

But I had a small thought earlier today and wondered how expensive an average army would cost if you could strip the paint, remove the titanium dioxide from the paint and then convert it into pure titanium.

For hypothetical reasons, let's say it's extremely easy to convert the titanium dioxide to pure titanium, I figured that a pure army based of Tau Fire warriors equally 200 models to give an army of 2000 points would convert to $4283.28.

This is based on a single model using 3ml of paint, so I was wondering how expensive your armies are looking at it from this perspective. If you can guess the amount of paint used in ml, multiply the value by 0.09 and then multiply that value by the number of models of that type or size in your army.

Once you've got you magic figure, multiply that number by 668 and divide it by 100. That will give you the amount your army is worth is pure titanium.

Just a bit of fun

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Frenzied Berserker Terminator




Southampton, UK

Can you explain your working a little?

I have to think you're way out, if only because titanium appears to go for about $30 per pound at the moment (https://agmetalminer.com/metal-prices/titanium/) - so your 2000 point army apparently has about 140lb of titanium in its paint job!?
   
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Death-Dealing Devastator



Melbourne,Vic

Your base math is way out-200 minis at 3ml a piece gives you $360.72:

3ml*0.09 = 0.27
0.27*200 = 54
54*668 = 36072
36072/100 = 360.72

Which would correspond to roughly 12lb of titanium, perhaps slightly more believable.

I'll also point out that not all paint uses TiO2 as the pigment, so this isn't even really a fair estimate...
   
Made in gb
Shas'la with Pulse Carbine





Norwich

Titanium dioxide goes quite cheap due to the fact it's the raw material, once you get the oxide out, you get left with pure titanium, but because it's an expensive process it's the reason why titanium costs so much per 100g (which my maths is based on).

All paint contains it to some degree in one way or another, as it works out as a good filler instead of using more expensive coloured pigments so amounts do vary I agree, by this is only based on assumption with most paint formulas and is hypothetical as a bit of fun, nothing serious

And I see where I went wrong skolirvarden haha, I'd accidentally multiplied by 2000 instead of 200. But still $360 dollars for a small amount of titanium isn't bad

And my price came from chemicool.com/elements/titanium, it is based on 100% pure titanium powder which is extremely difficult to procure. Check out sigmaaldich as well for their prices at 10g and 50g.

If it was based on forged and shaped titanium prices with impurities and additives (more likely an alloy), we're looking at $26 per kilo which changes the 2000 point army to only having $1.40 which is a bit pants....

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