"Most You Ever Paid for a Painted Army?" Topic

What is the largest amount you've ever paid for a fully painted, ready to go miniature wargaming army?

(Convert prices to USD for comparison purposes, please.)

I've paid for painted units, but not an entire painted army. I've traded for an entire painted army.

Do we count inflation?

$50 USD for a brownie pan full of 80's era GW Skaven.

I have paid for painted figures at yard sales and flea markets, and then stripped the stripped the paint off. Does that count? I think the most was $10 USD for a box of Star Wars stormtroopers in about 25mm scale.

$1,800 USD for 1200 25mm figs for the Franco-Prussian War. It was back in the 1990's.

$2,500 USD for a Union civil War army ,the entire first Corps plus…extra brigades of cav…etc…

Never done it. $0 USD

I did have a friend of a friend donate her WFB starterset Imperial(?) army to me because her boyfriend made fun of her playing wargames. I guess that is a "full ready to play" army (though I repainted them into two warring factions).

So, again $0 USD

$700 USD for a ton of well painted 28mm SYW Russians – about 10 years ago

I've never bought painted ready-to-play figures.

I sold many of my own fully painted armies over the years getting from $2,500 USD to $10,000 USD for each army.

Back in the early 90s I was out of work and had not 2 nickels to rub together. I managed to scrape together enough dinero to attend an HMGS con in Pa, and quite strangely, I bought 2 painted armies there. It was the only time I ever bought painted figs.

I got a sweet Stone Mountain FFL and Arab set up with a painted Airfix FFL fort for $20. USD It came to about $.06 USD a fig. I also got a big AWI army for $40. USD That one came to about $.09 USD a fig. Both were solid 5's. The AWI needed dullcoating, but that was it.

Strange.

0 … I like to paint my own minis …

Technically I've never paid for a single *painted* mini. The one time I purchased a lot (here) that contained both nicely painted as well as bare metal minis, the seller considered the painted ones incidental. It was a great deal even without the painted ones.

I've thought about it many times, just never have.

The only ready to play figures I've bought were in a used black box copy of Chaos in the Old World that I bought from someone on TMP. I think I paid around $25 USD-30 for it (I can't find the post), and I was pleasantly surprised when the figures were already nicely painted. Thanks to whoever that was, I treasure your work.

Never done it. I suppose I might consider it when my eyesight really goes, but by then I should have everything I want

Hard to figure out as I have never bought an entire army, just groups of figures here and there. I just keep collecting….

never have

All at once: $250 USD for Hittites with a nice resin fort thrown in.

Never done it, probably never will. Hell, 1/2 the fun is the painting, research, reading, then admiring the product of your labors.

About $30 USD IIRC for a Stone Mountain Arab Colonial Army from a local game store in Berkeley. These were not totally nasty so I thought it was a good buy-- still have them for DBR and colonial games. This was a unique event, though.

$1,200 USD for a British and Mahdi armies set

Two or three hundred dollars.