"What would you buy with a thousand dollars?" Topic

Let's imagine that you get a $1,000 USD check from the government, that you are healthy and still have your income, and therefore you are encouraged to spend the money to stimulate the economy.

And let's further assume that you spend it all on wargaming!

What would you buy? (Be as specific as you can.)

Well, since I am retired, I'm not sure I will be getting a check. If however I do, I will not spend it on myself, I will split it equally among my three daughters and their families.

Well, living in Canada I won't get one, but if I had to spend it on gaming I would

- buy a few new rule books
- get the 6mm stuff I need to fight out Sidi Rezigh
- buy a couple regiments of those Eureka Toy Soldier figs
- buy some 28 mm SYW French cavalry (I have 2.5 cavalry regiments to my 16 plus infantry units)

Complete my 15mm Russian Civil War Army
Buy terrain for Zona Alpha
Complete my 28mm Sudan armies

Spin casting machine

My $1,200 USD is going to pay household bills such as utilities.
Now I had an excess of $1,000 USD, I would buy $500 USD each of two custom nationality/ faction dice. They are 1,000 at 50 cents each die.

Could buy enough lead that I would never get through. But most likely get more limbers for my Napoleonic armies

probably either more John Jenkins figures, or use it on a painting service in order to jump start a new project.

Absolutely NOTHING from Black Tree Design – see post a few down from this one!!

I would buy a few tables worth of terrain, some random minis that I like from Reaper Miniatures and explore a lot of new products.

Or… I might put that towards a custom 6' by 4' gaming table for my basement. I want one that looks great, rather than just a utilitarian one. Currently using a 7' by 3.75' table that was built 30-years ago for a slot car track.

Trees. I never have enough trees.

Really, really fab trees.

If I could use it frivolously, I would send figures off to be painted…never have enough time to get figs painted myself.

I think that I would spend it on hotel rooms at the next few conventions. That's the most expensive part of a convention for us.

I would take one week off work, without pay, so that I can paint… Cheers!

I feel I might be obligated to buy a good 3D resin printer.

Maybe a couple of armies from Shiny Toy Soldiers….

I'd save it.

Some people don't read the rules.

A 3D printer, an inkjet printer with scanner, and as many 3D files as whatever cash remains will buy me— mostly of spaceships and fantasy sailing vessels. And plenty of supplies to start cranking things out!

Not sure what they would cost, but I'd buy some 1:100 and 1:56 SJGames Ogre Miniatures. I mean the Ogres, none of the conventional stuff.

Read the rules, but, the cash goes to the general fund. Where it could be used for paint, supplies, and such. That said I was considering not having my spring sale (proceeds go directly to the funding of the War Department and now with all the extra money coming in to other gamers – IT'S ON!

I would start having my unpainted figures painted. Start with 25mm ACW, followed by 15mm ACW, then 25mm Napoleonic, then 15mm Napoleonic, and then 20mm WWII vehicles and figures. If I still had money left, I'd send off various miscellaneous fantasy amazon figures followed by 5mm ACW. And I would still have unpainted figures left. I'm not sure a $1,000 USD would cover all of it.

Re: the rules, I consider paying to have figures painted to be akin to buying painted figures.

Probably divide the windfall about equally:

Finish a 15mm American Revolution set with an order from Stone Mountain and Peter Pig;

Ditto 25mm Mexican War armies from Historifigs;

Adler and Baccus would get a substantial order to complete my 6mm South American Liberation armies;

and, finally, Pendraken gets a chunk for adding to the 10mm imagination interwar army (largely late WWI German).

I would buy every Avalon Hill and Victory Games bookcase game that I used to own but gave away.

Most of it would go to painting services to whittle down my lead pile. Then some GZG and Brigade 6mm stuff, and painting services for that, too. Then pizza to fuel the all night gaming fests to come.

Toilet paper😀

I'd break down and buy an airbrush, and possibly take a few lessons to learn how to work the darn thing.

I would divide it up something like…

$250 USD Full 6mm Pony Wars set-up when Baccus releases that
$100 USD 6mm WW2 Russian Army
$100 USD Expand existing Tumbling Dice 1/600 WW2 Aircraft (Russians, Italians, Japanese, US)
$100 USD Add the missing bits and pieces I want in 28mm fantasy (more peasants and thug-types, plus a few more dwarfs, mainly)
$150 USD Finish off all the 6mm Napoleonic minor nations I don't have already (Polish, Westphalians, Saxons, Sicilians)
$100 USD More 6mm and 15mm buildings and terrain
$100 USD Some bits and pieces for my modern 15mm stuff
$100 USD Scenario books

Toilet paper😀

Combat Colours is on the right track, convert it into the currency of the After Times.

Pay a painter to paint my millions of figures!

Yeah, I'd definitely hire a painter to make a small dent in the lead mountain.

A colour laser printer.

Some eBay Napoleonic armies.

Probably redo all my 6mm desert stuff in 15mm.

Replacement paints and brushes from Foundry.
Magnetic sheets and wooden planks for building battlefields.
Some fancy Dice Tower.
6mm and 10mm figures from all fellow producers, as espionage.. ;-)

I'd use the money on Steve Barbers figure comission service and see if I could get some darkest Africa miniatures made for the kingdoms of Bugunda and Bunyoro.

Send out more figures to be painted.
That, combined with my own current painting, would continue to get armies on the table as soon as possible.

What do you mean, if I had to, what else is there to spend money on!? I would probably buy a decent airbrush set up, or, failing that, I'd probably try to buy enough models to make a demonstration game for events and shows. I've always fancied doing something with two parts representing an early skirmish leading to a later encounter.

Deep Cut Studio double sided game mat for air combat

More Wings of War/Wings of Glory WW1 planes

A mixed lot of Raiden 1/285 WW2 planes

A pretty significant order of AB Napoleonics

A few boxes of Perry Sudan

A few blisters of Foundry pirates

A couple of Avalon Hill naval games

A spray booth and airbrush accessories

If there's anything left, terrain for Stingray game

Strong drink and loose women.

$200 USD a good standardized set of boxes for storing my figures instead of the random set of things I have them in now.

$800 USD small storage barn for my wargaming stuff and my/SWMBO's crafting supplies.

King Monkey, that would brighten up many a wargames.

Front Rank & Triguard 40mm AWI miniatures. All of it. :)

No brainer for me….

Khurusan Mid-Late 16th Century figs for French Wars of Religion.

Make new table to go across spare bedroom bed:

Drawing pins (pin down sheet).
Decorators sheet (follow contours).
Camping mats (contours).
Cork tiles and glue (to pin above into).
Flat-sided doors (totally flat and non-wobbly – for a change).
Draw latches/catches (hold door edges together).
Leg holders.
Metal legs (counter-act gravity.

Anyone suggest an ideal table height? (I am six-foot tall.)

I believe 28" to the lowest point of the table edge is "standard" height for commercial tables in general. Don;t quote me.

I'm pretty sure that's what my 6x12" table is. Low enough for everyone to lean over and reach the middle without crushing everything in between and high enough to not bang your knees on the bottom. I'm 6' 3" and it works for me.

Ikea Kallax Shelving !

Or a bottle of GW Contrast Paint
(whichever is more expensive ! ) lol )

Bribe Russ to finish the OG2 line…

I'll take that as 1000 USD (I am Canadian)

$150 USD for a Sassanid Army from A and A
$500 USD for a better airbrush and better compressor. I have a cheap Badger airbursh and compressor and I am ready for something better
$150 USD again for some Huns from Footsore
$150 USD on some Fireforge plastic Byzantines
$50 USD left for Artisan Berbers

I need more stuff like a hole in the head, but if I had more game dough, I might snap up some goodies from Pulp Figures and maybe some senselessly extravagant accoutrements from Wyrmwood.

150 points of French for Team Yankee, I figure that's about $800. USD I'd buy more terrain with the rest of it.