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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: Inkpaduta on October 03, 2017, 05:56:40 PM
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On just one figure. I am looking at Reaper Miniatures' Minotaur Pirate. He is so cool.
Yet, he costs $22.50! Ouch. I think the most I have ever spent was &15.00 of some
of my Wild West Exodus figures.
How about you? How high have you gone?
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If you mean on a normal 28mm sized figure? Probably $10-15 at some point. On a larger monstery fella? Perhaps $20. It all comes down to how often I plan on using said model. My normal average for a metal 28mm figure is probably $3-3.50. More than that it has to be something special.
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Glacier King for Hordes is $135, so I guess somewhere around there. It's not exactly 28mm though.
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£8.00 on an old citadel chaos figure. I stopped buying miniatures during the GW higher price for metals era of the late 90s early 2000s so I still find it hard to pay more than that for one miniature. I've got some metal sternguard I paid 6.00 or 7.00 pounds for and maybe an Oop citadel orc or two for about that but I don't like to pay more than a fiver... I prefer to spend too much on a lot of miniatures...
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I think the most for a 'normal' sized model was the Black Mountain Boys orc RoR champion, who cost me something like £12 I think. That's because he is very rare and like the proverbial rocking horse poo, as many of the pre-slotta RoR champions are (they were slotta models later added to the existing boxed sets after champions were added to regiments in later Warhammer editions).
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Sealed 1st edition Battletech Marauder..
Was over 100€ if remember right.... ;D
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I think mine might be about $25nzd. He resin krell. Had found memories of the guy from my undead at book but never had the mini. The new one was suitably imposing.
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I think I blew $20 or $25 on GW's Adeptus Mechanicus tech priest dominus.
(http://everything-games.com/uploads/3/4/0/9/34099677/s199857732490445458_p108_i1_w600.jpeg)
That was a rare purchase for me but it's an incredible figure. I think they're $30 or $35, now. For that price I expect a full model airplane, tank, or ship.
I see some of GW's $25-$35 single minis and I actually find myself feeling insulted.
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I spent $85 CDN on a Zombicide Black Plague convention special. :o o_o Last month. :'(
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About £8-9 ish on a Jes Goodwin Chaos champion that I'd wanted since I was a kid. I would really like an Inquisitor Genestealer but the cheapest I've seen one is about £40, which I won't pay.
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£7, including postage, I think - probably £5 + £2, I think: for an early Perry Citadel hobgoblin that had been teasing me on eBay for ages. That's pretty much my upper limit.
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Several hundred £ for a single 28mm mini :(
In my defence, has anyone spent 11 years looking for a single mini? If you have, you'll know how grating that one damn hole in your project is!
(I collect unreleased Citadel miniatures, so yes, I'm crazy. I actually think I didn't overpay for that particular mini).
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29,99$ for a Heroforge mini is the most I've coughed out... so far.
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$25 AUD on a single GW finecast figure. No problems with the figure, but I still regret that purchase.
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€ 35,- for a GW LotR metal Mauhur; no regrets as I dont like finecast but still not painted after 2 years....... :D
DJ
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Looks to be about £30 for a limited editon Studio McVey figure (Nikitta Perostek)
I have several others of his around the £25 pound mark. Needless to say, none of them are painted ::)
Other than those, it's probably Games Workshop. I collect the annual White Dwarf figures, which are around the £20 mark.
I don't mind the cost of the figures so much, what I object to more is the post and packing. I ordered some figures last night and the p&p for internal UK delivery was nearly 50% of the order :-[. I nearly cancelled, but the figures will be useful.
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I don't think I've bought a single figure in years - they all come in packs these days. Some of those packs work out at about £2 a figure for Foundry stuff, so I guess that's the most I've spent on one figure.
(actually, I bought some singles from Front Rank a couple of years ago. I think they were about £1 each)
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Around GBP 50,- for a 40K Sergeant Centurius mini (which I still have not painted, after 10 years of owning it... ::) ).
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Probably about 10 euro for an Avatars of War 28mm single foot character model. Not much more, anyway, since the want list is that big, so I prefer to buy in lots rather than single specific miniatures as it works out much cheaper ( and as a hoarder there really are no unwanted miniatures, are there ;D ).
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One self-justifying consideration with miniatures is the amount of time you'll spend painting them and a comparison with leisure costs. If I spend £7 on a miniature and then spend perhaps four hours painting it even before it's used in a game, it's pretty cheap entertainment - cheaper than a gym or sports session (though less beneficial, admittedly) and certainly cheaper than the pub.
But this is possibly a dangerous way of thinking ...
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Probably in the neighbourhood of $40-50 US, either for a Mage Knight ultra-rare back when I was an addict, a very limited run figure (Studio McVey or Origen or Axe Faction, or similar), or a kickstarter-exclusive figure purchased after the fact (I refuse to buy into KS campaigns just to get one figure), though for the life of me I can't recall which figure exactly over 15 years of minis gaming.
Might've been the KS exclusive Hell Dorado/Kingdom Death Twilight Knight crossover figure, or possibly the Eve figure from Anima Tactics.
Certainly, I know I've paid more than $40 for a figure on several occasions, mostly for rare Mage Knight figures years ago, and more than $25 plenty of times.
I've also got figures which are definitely WORTH more than $50 - either Mage Knight or limited-run figures which appreciated over time, or very old miniatures which people on LAF kindly gave me a reasonable deal on.
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£20 on a citadel 80's balrog.
It wasn't worth that really and it turned out to be more damaged than i thought but it's a sculpt i really like.
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I plead the 5th as my wife may find this thread!
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Wise man. I am pretty sure my wife has little idea how much I have spent over the years.
And she will never know...
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£12 once on an OOP mini from Ebay coz I really wanted it. But that is in no way a regular occurrence...
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For a regular-sized 28mm figure, probably around $25. For a large monster, I think $90, but that was a large Japanese vinyl kit that was to be repurposed, and was a long time ago*. I think the most I've spent for a large monster that was made/sold as a gaming figure was somewhere around $35-45.
I'm a stickler for sculpting quality, and the best sculpted stuff tends to be the most expensive. limited run resin figures and the like. Plus I'm in the US, and 2/3 of the hobby seems to be in the UK, so the exchange rate tends to frequently turn cheap figures into expensive ones.
I try to find deals where I can (I've gotten some good stuff on half-off closeouts that would've otherwise been untenable), but I've learned to accept that if I want what I actually want, I gotta be willing to deal in certain price ranges. It still works out to be much cheaper by shelf space than the 1:8-1:6 figures I used to be into.
Plus I don't buy as many figures as others here, I think. My "lead pile" is only about the size of a child's lunchbox, so while I'm spending more per figure, I'm probably spending way less in total.
*These days for me there's a sliding scale where I feel it's better to sculpt my own vs buying. If something is flat out too much, either because it's big, or because it's overpriced for its size, I won't even look at it as anything other than inspiration. A brick of polymer clay and some iron wire is cheap, won't force me deal with an awkward pose or parts layout, and gives me total creative freedom/control. The higher the price in general, the more conservative that scale becomes, but even at low prices, some things are so simple that paying for them at all feels like a bad deal, since it'd be so easy to make my own.
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Probably somewhere in the thirty dollarydoo mark for some GW thing. Anything bigger I try and hold off until Christmas and get someone else to buy it for me.
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I think the most I've spent on a single figure is somewhat around 14€, for a Infinity heavy-infantry troop.
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$42 (CAD) on a metal hunter killer carnifex in the late 90s.
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I know I've spent $35-40 for Warmachine/Hordes jacks and beasts. 28mm scale, the most is probably around $20 for Infinity Gen Con exclusives.
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How much was the Grenadier goblin war giant back in the day? Probably about £25.
For a single figure? - I have no idea a few pounds, certainly less than 5. Mostly though I am still plowing through my old collection of figures with over 400 still to paint so I don't expect that to change too soon.
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I spent £35 on the Black Library Commissar Gaunt diorama set so I could use the Gaunt model in my regular Imperial Guard army. Whilst not spending £35 on one model per se, I did have to spend £35 to get my hands on that one model... which then came with a whopping mould slip right down the centre of his face lol
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Single 28mm small model around 20 pounds.
I want new Primaris Chaplain that will cost me 22.50.
I want Medusae from 45 pounds Cauldron set, but it comes with 3 extra miniature girls and an Avatar. - And I will buy it in combo set with 10 other girls for 60 pounds :O
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Well, I just topped myself.
I just bought a painted headless horseman for $20.00.
He looks great though.
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This year at Salute I paid £9 for Freebooter's Dark Nick the most I have ever paid for a single new figure, but what a character figure . He will appear in my campaign as a reoccurring villain.