"Cost of your most recent army?" Topic

How much did you spend to collect and field on the tabletop your most recent wargaming army?

Probably over $200 USD so far for a 28mm Russian Civil War armies---just started buying and painting. I'm kind of like Hans Solo---Never tell me the cost of my armies.

Difficult to say since it has been bought in bits and pieces either from E-bay or second hand at conventions. 28mm (some 25mm) NKE, spent about £40.00 GBP so far, £35.00 GBP shortly, and at least £100.00 GBP to go …..

My most recent army is still under construction. Probably close to $400 USD so far in figures, maybe another $200 USD to $300 USD in terrain so far. A chunk of it will go to painters, which will run $400 USD to $500. USD

I spent about $225 USD on a 4 point painted Jomsviking Saga warband.

A few thousand figures worth and don't really want to know

I dare not do a close count. But well over £1,000.00 GBP

DBA – maybe $30. USD

BBDBA – $60 USD?

Nice thing about DBA is the small number of figures needed for an army.

Also helps to pick up miniatures on the second hand market or by waiting for sales…

Only one army? Cost unknown as the miniatures been in the unpainted storage department for years. Just painting my way though the backlog pile in recent years.

+1 Dagwood.

My last new army was 15mm Dark Age vikings and Saxons. Maybe $500 USD in lead, $2,000 USD to have it all painted, maybe more.

Gangsters. One box of figures. A few Matchbox Models of Yesteryear.
Less than $100. USD
Buildings were already built for other games.

Just started a Saga Dark Ages Scottish army, which I think will cost about $135 USD – $140. USD I do some sort of cost estimate before starting. Like the government, for whom I used to work, I usually have a cost overrun, as I find more things I need to add. Costs are limited to figures, and do not include paint (used on all sorts of different figures), supporting books, or shield decals.

Grelber

~200 28mm Ottomans (incl 40 cav) – ~$200

Aztecs and Spanish…. about $500 USD

No idea, maybe $200 USD-250 new stuff and half the army (15mm Naps) out of the lead pile.

About $30 USD, DBA army

Latest project is a return to a previous project. Probably about $600 USD so far including a few books on the time period.

About US$30 for a 15mm BDA Marian Roman army, but it islacking a couple of optional elements.

Lots !

£300.00 GBP for a large (very large) 54mm Napoleonics collection which I am rebasing. There are, shall we say, interesting figures as liberal use has been made of repainting 1805-1809 autrians as other nations….

Mike

My most recent completed(?) army was US$200.00. A plastic Medieval army 76 figures I bought already painted and 18 knights I painted myself , 2 of which I've already lost :-(.

From memory about £2.00 GBP. I recently found my old Airfix 8th army & Afrika Korps figures I had as a child. Once painted and based, we've been playing a lot of Bolt Action with them.

Looking at my Old Glory orders, I have spent over $1,800 USD on Blue Moon 18mm ACW, which includes US and CS. I have spent several hundred more each with Scale Creep and Viking Forge.

Tom

At least a few hundred bucks on my Flames/Team Yankee forces,as well as paints,terrain,etc..

Hmmm

For my small Space Marines Chapter, nothing since they were Christmas presents – but I think they cost my boys about $300 USD

Never really thought about this and perhaps it's best I don't.

Never ending as I just keep buying figures for each army I already own.

£83.03 GBP for my Austrians, I will be spending more when I get to do the Cavalry!!!

I've been building out my 25mm-28mm armies using 1/72 plastic sets: Dwarves, Goblins, and Orcs. Each set runs around $19 USD delivered, containing 35-48 figures each. Paint is cheap (craft paints, around $1.50 USD per bottle, around 5-6 colors used). My Goblin hoard was recently upgraded with Giant Bat Cavalry, at $8 USD/Schleich Bat, so that ran the tally up quite a bit as I gave them around 10 Bats! For my 200-figures strong Goblin Army, I am probably at $175 USD, which includes infantry, Warg Riders, and Bat Cavalry. That averages to around $0.88 USD/figure (rider/mount counted as one figure, for cavalry types).

Did the same for recent Lizardmen Army, kitting them out with Schleich Lizard toys, to create Giant Lizard Cavalry: cut the Caesar Lizardmen figures off their bases, same as the Goblins, and glue them to the Lizards. Far fewer figures than the Goblins, but sooo much fun!

The 1/72 plastic figures for the Goblins and Dwarves, are much closer in size, to what Gygax specified in the 1977 AD&D Monster Manual, compared to a 25mm Human. The Orcs and the Lizardmen are a little small, but not enough to bother me. The prices make it worthwhile -- I can build larger armies, for the same, or less, cash! Cheers!

Can't count that high.
Seriously probably several hundred maybe a grand.
All SYW, Austrians, Prussians, French, and Allies about 20-25 battalions each, plus 5-6 regiments cavalry each, not counting light infantry and cavalry and miscellaneous artillery, baggage, ammo wagons, command stands etc.

This is ONE period army. I have built several, 8 or 10.

The most recent army (6mm South American liberation wars)is in progress, but I can't even hazard a guess at the cost. The figures were acquired so long ago that I probably bartered for them with glass beads and cowrie shells ;-) .

Too much!

Peter Pig 1/450th pirate ships for Pieces of Eight. A couple of Miniairons ships and a Tiny Mats sea hex mat. Just short of £200.00 GBP

A bit over $600 USD for my Team Yankee Soviets.

In 2019:
-Multiple 40k Kill Teams & terrain, about 2k.
-Still working on a complete Blood Angels Company for Space Hulk, between $4 USD-500
-Just started on a 30k Thousand Sons Army. Have spent about $500 USD so far and plan to spend about $250 USD a month for the rest of the year.