I am not even getting into this debate. 

Remember I have convinced Mrs Orcs that figures are "Thruppence" a pack. so I do not want to undo all my good work.

Whlie I won't mention cost , I have a Den with built in cupboard and my very own loft to store stuff.  Yes both are pretty full,

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 05 March 2016, 08:38:10 AM
I am not even getting into this debate. 

Remember I have convinced Mrs Orcs that figures are "Thruppence" a pack. so I do not want to undo all my good work.

Whlie I won't mention cost , I have a Den with built in cupboard and my very own loft to store stuff.  Yes both are pretty full,

I use the entire house 

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ow!

No ... ow!

I'll be OK ... but OW! OW! OwwwWWWwwww!

I've just added up my Pendraken purchases. £4,691 since 22/07/12. 

Add in another £201 for 1:600 aircraft, £180 for 1:600 ships, plus about £250 on scenery, ?? on paints & brushes, about £160 on storage boxes, oh and there's the pittance at Doms Decals and £679 on Amazon on war/wargames related items ... but there's those unaccounted trip to Waterstones ...

That's about £6,500 in less than four years! 

To be fair, 2012 that was a Year 0 with me starting again from scratch. Getting rid of everything when I found the one true scale. Let's ignore the costs of that, and all those books I've bought since the 1970s.



I'm going to a darkened room to lie down.

Lightweight!

I'm not even going to look into this one.

The way I justify the expense of converting everything to 10mm is, that since retiring, I no longer need clothes.

 

Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 March 2016, 11:10:12 AM

I'm not even going to look into this one.

It's cheaper than playing golf.

Thought that you could only play 1 round, after that you died of the utter tedium involved. Gofff is lmost as bad a teniiis or darts.

IanS

When shipping my wargames stuff to NZ last year I insured it separately for £25,000 this was based on replacement cost as painted & based etc.

I have since found out that contents insurance here counts it all as one collection limited to a max payout of $2000, so I have taken out separate insurance which includes theft/damage at club days, car parks etc

cheers
Ian

Due to leaving the life of the 19th century gentleman-scholar (i.e heavily in debt all the time), I tend to discipline my miniatures gaming purchases. The expensive stuff for me is rules and uniform books, since I like the less well known wars and that means Helion.

But I am pretty sure if I add up all the money I have spend in 15 years of gaming I am going to feel awfully quilty considering my debts :p so no. Let me think its just a harmless and cheap hobby! :p

wow that a lot but to be fair others spend a lot on other stuff throughout the years. im sure ive spent a lot on video games and about 500 on board games and war gaming.

Well, with what i spent in wargaming since my teenage, i probably could have financed a cure for cancer.

Likewise - it is 50 years of wargaming now.

I'm afraid I once worked out how much Mrs T and I spent on ciggies and cat food and vets' bills over the decades...... (I think I worked this out over 20 years ago.)

It was truly horrifying !

Neither of us have smoked for 25 years or more...(Couldn't remotely afford to now !).....And the last of the cats 'went' more than a year ago.

I DO NOT want to try and work out how much we've spent on the gee-gees, over nearly 40 years......I'd cry. 
Mind you.....If we hadn't spent it one those 'items'.....We'd have spent it on something else, I'm sure. 

Cheers - Phil

Can't take it with you Phil.

Very true, Andy. 

(But think of all those extra CDs I could have bought.  )

Cheers - Phil

Got any Taj Mahal CDs?

No, Will.

For some reason I never liked his stuff, back then.
(Never know...might enjoy it now.)

Cheers - Phil