What to spend birthday money on?

[RGilbert26]

Morning all, at the end of the month I will have £500 of birthday money to spend on the hobby. Originally half of that would have been spent on spending a day and night in Nottingham so I could go to Warhammer World, but as a friend of mine asked me was I going to Warhammer World for something specific (I.e Forge World) or just to go for the fun of it? So it got me thinking, what could I spend £500 on?

I could buy £500 worth of FW Space Marine stuff, have 'fun' gluing it together and fixing any problems with the casting, then have a nicely painted old armour Space Marine army.

Another idea is I could buy £500 worth of new Tau, have a much easier time gluing the plastic models together and paint it and have a nice brand new army.

Or a suggestion from you guys :)

[Wolfshade]

Mars Pattern Warhound Titan.

Though the £500 of FW Space Marine stuff does sound like fun, I've been eyeing up some bits and bobs but nothing at such a large scale.

[Psychosplodge]

HOOKERS AND BLACKJACK!!

or 2x 660ti

or old armour mks because they're awesome, or a thunderhawk gunship because they're awesome, or an imp guard tank company with lots of fw goodies.

[Wolfshade]

You mean the little backjack sweets? You'd have hundereds of them for £500...

#First world problems

[Denzark]

Dunno. My answers were going to be, a la George Best, the vast majority should be on women and Booze - you can waste the rest. But that having been done, I would say go slow - spend only £100 max at a time, and build and paint everything before you spend the next £100.

[Brakkart]

Could go for a Realm of Battle board with 1 or more FW sections for added variety plus scenery, or even a Zone Mortalis board for awesome indoor 40k battles and Space Hulk games.

[RGilbert26]

Something I forgot to mention, after cost of hotel, money saved for taxi fair and money for lunch and dinner at WH World, id have around £250 left to spend.

I don't drink and I think hookers are cheaper where I live, around £120 an hour :P

Problem with only spending £100 on FW at a time is that you have to pay postage which would amp up the price, whereas spending at least £250 means I get the stuff postage free and I think automatically grants me special delivery.

Also im only after armies, if I was going to get a board id just save up for the standard Realm board GW sell and use it at home once I move. No interest in Titans or superheavies as I don't get play Apoc.

[RGilbert26]

urgh double post, someone delete this one please.

[Mr Mystery]

Get yourself a Heresy Weekender ticket, and one of the besterest treats ever will happen. You can meet me in person! Woo! Priceless that.

Serial, it's gonna be fun. And with pre-release goodies (I'm fingers crossed for Fulgrim!)

[RGilbert26]

That's in May :p

Handy thing is im getting the iPad Tau Codex on Saturday so after I finish reading it I can then decide if I want to go Tau or try old armour space marine army :)

[Wolfshade]

You could always buy your bestest buddies on the forum shiney things :D

[Psychosplodge]

You could always buy your bestest buddies on the forum shiney things :D

That sounds an amazing idea.

Hi...

[RGilbert26]

Ha ha ha ha

Ahem

[Wolfshade]

Ha ha ha ha

Ahem

Looks like we failed again Pinky.

[RGilbert26]

Have you watched their version of the Frozen Pea radio advert?

[Wolfshade]

Have you watched their version of the Frozen Pea radio advert?

No, is it good?

[RGilbert26]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8A2j3jDqg

I'm assuming you know what the Frozen Pea thing is about?

[Psychosplodge]

Looks like we failed again Pinky.

Uh, I think so Brain, but this time, you wear the tutu

[Demonus]

I don't drink and I think hookers are cheaper where I live, around £120 an hour :P


That is cheap? Come to Maryland sometime buddy :D

[RGilbert26]

Well actually they're escorts, they cost more than hookers :P

[Demonus]

Hey if they ain't interested in playing 40k, theyre overpriced!

[LordGrise]

RG, I like your original idea - get the Codex, and then decide. Me, if I had that kind of money to burn, it would be three Riptides, and as many of the flyer boxes as i could manage

[Power Klawz]

I would vote that you get a few things at first, glue them together and get them painted and then get some more after that's done. A year or so before I got married I put a LOT of money into collecting an Ork army and well... the better part of 6000 points is still in boxes and its almost 3 years later. Only buy what you can paint!

[RGilbert26]

What I find annoying is that when I look at the pre-heresy stuff for space marines I really want to buy them, yet when I go to the Tau page I really want to buy them too. Urgh :S

[LordGrise]

Go with the Tau. Of course, I just might be biased...

[Mr Mystery]

I would vote that you get a few things at first, glue them together and get them painted and then get some more after that's done. A year or so before I got married I put a LOT of money into collecting an Ork army and well... the better part of 6000 points is still in boxes and its almost 3 years later. Only buy what you can paint!

Wuss!

Besides, everyone knows that when a Hobbyist paints their last model.....they die.

[Wolfshade]

Wuss!

Besides, everyone knows that when a Hobbyist paints their last model.....they die.

And there are still unopened boxes in the wardrobe ;)

[Power Klawz]

I STILL NEED MORE BATTLEWAGONS!

but yeah, I guess its a more a strange psychological barrier than anything. Some people will look at the entirety of a problem and find its totality too daunting and be discouraged. Some people can probably dice it up a little better and not lose focus even when confronted with a literal army of small plastic creatures. If you know you won't be impacted by having 15 unopened boxes of toys then by all means go for it and make a big purchase, you'll probably make some store owners day at least haha. (Make sure you save a little for paints, glues, brushes and the like though, especially if this will be your budget for an extended period of time as a lot of "birthday money" tends to be.)