About a year ago I made a post detailing the scale of my wargaming addiction (http://ferbsfightingforces.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/hello-my-name-is-ferb-im-wargameaholic.html). This must have struck a cord with many of you as it was one of my most read posts of last year. In that post I said I was going to keep a record of my wargame expenditure to help me control my spending. Well my latest post provides a breakdown of my spending in the last 12 months. The amount I spent may shock some of you and give comfort to others depending on the state of your own addiction. :-)
The full post can be found here (http://ferbsfightingforces.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/wargaming-addiction-yearly-update.html).
Ferb
I find that you didn't spend that much. If you look at other hobbies, the cost will be much higher. My buddy restores old vehicles, he bought a djnepr last year. I can assure you he paid way more than that just to get it, let alone the price of the parts to repair it...
Yep, compared to say golf wargaming is a fairly cheap hobby, and yes I'd reckon that what youve spent is about par for the course (golf terminology intended) I'm usually around £130 a month for all my bits and bobs, thankfully the missus doesnt read this forum.
It feels odd justifiyng money spent on a hobby to SWMBO.
After all her hobby is shopping for things she doesn't need ;D
Yeah I can appreciate that peter, the deadly quote for me is "Are you doing anything on the computer?" I know as soon as I hear that, that there will be a delivery from Next tomorrow. :(
I don't want to check my spending ! :-[
Quote from: GordonY on 01 April 2013, 09:44:29 AM
(...) compared to say golf wargaming (...)
What could be "golf wargaming" ?
;) ;D
Hi Ferb,
great to read your full post but some comments below:
£396.31 on figures, painted and unpainted
Well buying 28mm and FoW stuff soon adds up. I think I spent nearly £200 on a Western Desert FoW army about 5 years ago :o.
£84.78 on paints including spray primers
I spent I think nearly £100 on a complete GW paint set about 10 year ago and these have lasted a suprisingly long time. All I can say is you must paint a hell of a lot more stuff than me, which isn't difficult to be honest!
£149.78 on rules
Given that the glossy coffee book rules now seem to be around the £30 mark, you only need a few to suddenly have some large expenditure. I have sold off or am attempting to sell off stuff that I never use, or am likely to use in the future. Limited gaming opportunities mean that I focus on a few core rulesets, such as BKC. Less-is-more in my book these days.
£266.34 on terrain
I make most of mine from off-cuts of stuff at work, so minimal cost. I think I bought a batch of flock etc about 5 years ago and still have loads left. One advantage of now down-sizing to 10mm is that I only need one set of scenery :).
£27.97 on dice
Hmmm, SAGA and FoW die etc?
£64.23 on board games
Never play them nowadays, though we did at Uni as they were so easy to store.
When you break the cost down to a weekly basis, it is not that much at all as you say. As mentioned above I am concentrating on a few rulesets and periods so that when I do get to play, I can enjoy the game rather than constantly referring to a rulebook!
What's that - about £20 per week when you break it down over the year?
A quite night down the pub every Friday will cost more.
That doesn't seem tobad to me. I think I spent around that much last year at the two conventions that I attended. Maybe I have a problem... Oh well.
Bryan
Truth be told it's not as bad as I expected and as others have said not as expensive as some hobbies/pastimes.
@Steve J - The dice were loads of Chessex D6 to replace my crap old dice and to use for Bolt Action, plus a bunch of D8/D10/D12's for Pulp Alley (which is a great game btw)
Ferb
I am genuinely too frightened to add the figures up. When I add in books of a wargaming character the total probably nudges £1000 for the year. However weighed against a comparable hobby like, for instance, model railways, it pales into insignificance. Wandering around the Festival of Model Railways at Ally Pally last week we discovered that a bog-standard "N" gauge loco will set you back £45 - £60, rolling-stock anything from £7 - £8 up to £15 - £20 a pop, add in track, electronic controllers, scenery and ancilliaries and even a small layout will set you back a couple of grand.
Me, I'll stick to the little lead chappies. :D
Quote from: Hertsblue on 02 April 2013, 09:36:54 AM
a bog-standard "N" gauge loco will set you back £45 - £60
And a decent one will cost even more, especially with the current exchange rates if you buy American stuff as I do :(
Current hobby expenditure for wargaming and N scale model railways comes in around two grand a year, but then I don't often go down the pub and I've had to give up playing with Motorycles. Now that was REALLY expensive :D
Cheers,
Kev
When I was a teenager and used to spend a lot on GW products, I was a little dumb and once said to my mother :
"Would you prefer me to buy cocaine instead ?"
Quote from: barbarian on 02 April 2013, 01:07:13 PM
When I was a teenager and used to spend a lot on GW products, I was a little dumb and once said to my mother :
"Would you prefer me to buy cocaine instead ?"
Betcha she would have freaked out if you came home with a bag of snow flock a week later :D
Quote from: barbarian on 02 April 2013, 01:07:13 PM
When I was a teenager and used to spend a lot on GW products, I was a little dumb and once said to my mother :
"Would you prefer me to buy cocaine instead ?"
If I'd said that to my late mother I'd have had to leave home even earlier than I did. =)
I said that I was dumb.
I never do an annual count.
Better this way.
I actually do the count by space, as long as i have space i buy stuff :D
And if i run out of space, i buy stuff to organize the other stuff to make more space for buying more stuff to then organize......etc etc etc
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