"Your Most Expensive Hobby Project?" Topic

What was your most expensive miniature-wargaming project? A new army, terrain set, game room, trip to Salute…

I spent $1,000 USD on a Dora railway gun in HO scale.

My garage is converted into a wargame room; TV, 7 X 16 foot table, carpet, and etc, that was expensive over time.

My Berlin project includes Reich Chancellery, Brandenburg Gate, Victory Column, Reichstag, Fuhrerbunker, and many other pieces; they have cost thousands of dollars over time.

This is my only hobby, so what others may spend on beer, golf, fishing, football, I spend on army men. I have used the same scales, 60mm, GI Joe, HO/OO/1-72 since the early 1960's, buy a little bit nearly every week.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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My own 28mm AWI figure line. Kings Mountain Miniatures.

Cost?

I don't want to think about it!

Garrison Miniatures, though to be fair it did pretty much pay for itself.

Uh, let me see. I paid full retail price Squadron Strike. Does that count?

I also paid full retail for Striker (in about 1983) and StarGrunt II (in about 2000).

900+ Prussian Calpe miniatures…..

only the reichstag in 1/72!

still not finished it sadly.

Probably something from Games workshop I got a little bit obsessive about completing my 1st edition 40k and 3rd edition WFB book/game collections a few years back I'm not ever going to tell the wife how much I spent getting hold of a copy of the Realms of Chaos the Lost and the Damned book.

My John Jenkins 60m F&IW project.

My most current project.

Probably my Alexander the Great project. All the Macedonians and Greeks are Foundry figures. The Persians are a mix of a bunch of stuff, but there are more than 1000 figures all told. In terms of opportunity cost for painting them, the cost of the figures, bases, pikes and movement trays.

It is insured.

Napoleonic 28mm project. I have armies of all of the major powers kickstarted by purchasing some painted figures.

1,500 for 750 25mm painted ACW troops

For figures, my 60mm John Jenkins and for terrain, my Table Top World buildings.

Here's a link to pictures.

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Matthew

I think adjusting for inflation, it would have to be my first--30mm Napoleonics. Mind you the expense has been spread out over decades.

My Team Yankee/FoW collection thus far.

The gaming room. However it came with a new 600K house attached.

Deciding to collect miniatures.

Most of my projects overlap, so "these figures and this terrain" will also support "that other game over there". I end up with a distributed total operational cost model.

So probably the most expensive would be the Mexican Army for the Battle of Puebla. Everybody and everything else does double (triple, etc.) duty somewhere else.

My current 40mm F&IW project and my Toytown armies.

X-Wing. Bought almost £3.00 GBPK of ships.

For me it has been All Quiet on the Martian Front.

Its all one big project isn't it, so where to begin?

Of all the hobbies? Restoring my '65 Mustang. Thousands later and, well, the engine starts.

Another member of the John Jenkins F&IW Club here!

And here: link

2 storey shed for hobby. $17 USDk. Before figs, terrain, etc.

well if we are talking non gaming then my s&s models promotional off road suzuki vitara is!

spent much more than i intended
oh well off to the mud

And only to end up promoting another company called Sands models.

LOL….

:-)

It must be the HEXON 2 terrain, got to be a £1,000.00 GBP or more. The latest addition, flat hex was £400.00 GBP