How much have you spent?

[zemjw]

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.

[SteveBurt]

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)

[Daeothar]

Around GBP 50,- for a 40K Sergeant Centurius mini (which I still have not painted, after 10 years of owning it... ).

[Duncan McDane]

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  ).

[Hobgoblin]

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 ...

[FramFramson]

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.

[nic-e]

£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.

[AndrewBeasley]

I plead the 5th as my wife may find this thread!

[Inkpaduta]

Wise man. I am pretty sure my wife has little idea how much I have spent over the years.
And she will never know...

[vodkafan]

£12 once on an OOP mini from Ebay coz I really wanted it. But that is in no way a regular occurrence...

[Connectamabob]

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.

[Vladimir Raukov]

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.

[Reed]

I think the most I've spent on a single figure is somewhat around 14€, for a Infinity heavy-infantry troop.

[chamberlain]

$42 (CAD) on a metal hunter killer carnifex in the late 90s.

[Karadek]

 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.