Q of the Week: Most extravagant/expensive?

[Leon]

What's been your most extravagant or expensive one-time purchase?  A piece of custom-made scenery that you just had to have, even though you had no use for it?  Or armies to cover every aspect of a period, 'just in case'...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Complete BT tank brigade in 1/300th, long time ago.....

IanS

[Sandinista]

Not too extravagant, but more an indication of the addictive/obsessive side of the hobby. It started when I bought a real bargain, a large painted 15mm Wars of the Roses army for £150, which was £20 less than unpainted price But there were a few odd bits that didn't quite fit, some Scottish looking pikemen and a few too many units of mounted knights...
Well 8 months later and lots of e-bay trawling I have a 15mm Scots army and a 15mm French army all bought painted and all at about unpainted price too. Then to make things worse I suffered a moment of weakness at a show - £50 of shiny metal was added to my bag - stradiots and crossbowmen I did not really need, more pike for the Scots, some Border Horse just because they were nicer castings than the ones I had...

I managed to get them past the wife without complaint as she knew I was picking up an order from Pendraken (lovely BEF), so she just saw more shiny metal to clutter up the place

[Gunfreak]

My two biggest buys were 350+ Perry AWI metal, a good £450-500 the second was full table of terrain board from terra firma, enough for 8x6 table, cost me £700 with shipping and tax

[Nosher]

Probably buying approximately 60+ 2x2ft TSS terrain tiles which have been used once and then have spent the last ten years in my attic

[Nosher]

and lots of others that I am too scared to make a note of here else they whisk me off to the local loony bin

[Captain Verbeek]

Games Workshop, nuff said.

[capthugeca]

A very large cyclops - I can't remember who the manufacturer was now but it was about 120mm high, held a club up high in its right hand and a screaming woman in its outstretched left hand.

I think that it was £3.50 but I was only earning 90p a week on my paper round so it was almost a month's wages!

I never even got round to painting it.

Regards

Hugh

[Pruneau]

A GW LOTR Gandalf pointing a finger (probably at Merrin who messed up again) that cost over â,¬12 and looks like sh*t.

[lentulus]

Generally I am a frugal soul, with a careful weekly budget.  However, in 1976 I took my honest-to-God 1st paycheck and spent $200 on a 25mm late achmenid persian army from Minifigs -- I guess it would be $600 or so now.  Which is not very much for many folks, but is a lot at one time for me.

[Leon]

Some big bucks being spent here!

[clibinarium]

I've just received my most extravagant purchase; Samuel Hawley's "The imjin War". One book for £70, by no means a record, but for me it was, and I couldn't really spare it (damn paypal virtual money is too easy to spend!).

I grabbed at it because I've seen it priced much higher than that, but even a bargain costs money. It had better provide £70's worth of inspiration.

[Pruneau]

In a weird way reading all of this makes me think I'm definitely not the worst nutcase on the ward.  Thanks for that, fellows! 

[Eldamarelf]

I think the biggest single purchase was off Wizkids at their UK Nationals a couple of years ago that was £500. other than that a few orders here and there for my 10mm Russians which usually top out at £200 each time.
One of the biggest group buys we have done as a club was 7000+ world tank museum figures between 7 of us not going to say how much each vehichle was but lets just say it was a good deal.

Tom H
aka Bilbo

[NTM]

All I can really think of is Nafziger's "Lutzen and Bautzen" bought 5 years ago for c. £100 (it was oop would normally be £30) but had to have it because it is the only proper account tof the 1813 spring campaign available in the English language (lots of stuff available for nowt in German on google books though)