How much do you spend on kits a month?

[Kisifer]

Hello all Fellow Planet Figure members. I saw this question on Armorama, so I thought that it would be interesting to see how much our members here spend on kits per month.
Personally it depends on the releases. If there are a few good releases that I like I spend something around $80-$100 per month. But there are also months that I spend as little as $30.
What your badget????


Xenofon

 

[Christos]

It depends..If i really like a figure, I'll buy it.Usually I spend about 70$ per month for figures.For armour modelling the badget is extremely higher but now I paint only miniatures.

 

[mahross]

Being a poor student mine is quite low. I would say not more than £20 a month and that is a good month. That is all forms of the hobby. Not just my figure painting but also when i build armour too. I suppose i am quite lucky in that i have quite a big grey army from before i came to uni so i don't worry too much.

Ross

 

[Major_Goose]

Well there has been a month that i didnt spend a single dollar. But there are months that i go Athens and get many colors alltogether and brushes and some figures that i could have gone with more than 300 USD. There is an average of 100 - 120 USD per month i guess.

Good thing is that after 25 years i quitted totally armor and the likes so at least i dont have 2 seperate mouths to feed !!!LOL

 

[megroot]

Xenofon.

It depends on the figure's. This month i spend already €150 for magazines, and two figure's.
The new from Pegaso is also a must have so i think a spend this month for more then € 200,-. But in januari i spent not one euro.
Well, i think it is about € 75 a mont over the whole year.
It is the money that i save when i stopped smoking two year ago. :lol: At the other hand i say that to my girlfriend to when i bought a new racingbike last month and that was over (more then 4 numbers before the point) euro's.
Of say i then that i never use the car :lol: :lol:

Marc

 

[Major_Goose]

Marc what Bike you got ?. I usedto race in Moto cross with CR500 and CRM's now i have a Honda 1000 Varadero for everyday use . Ialmost never approach my car !!!

 

[megroot]

Originally posted by Major_Goose@Feb 9 2006, 01:58 PM
Marc what Bike you got ?. I usedto race in Moto cross with CR500 and CRM's now i have a Honda 1000 Varadero for everyday use . Ialmost never approach my car !!!

Costas,

I think we misunderstand eachother.. I have done motorriding from my 18. I ride the bike the whole year, snow, etc. The removed it from my @#$ with a surgical scalpel :lol:
Then at one day a drunk cardriver crashed at the front of my motorcycle. The motor was totall loss and i had NOTHING.
I bought in that time a new house, so there was no money for a new bike. Since that day i drive a racingbike where i must deliver the HP.
Now and then i hired a racemotor on a circuit usually a Kawasaki ZXR 750 RR.
Flame's out of my hair, and with one ear on the track :lol:
Live began at 240 km/hour.

Sorry but i have a racingbike for the summer now and a MTB for the winter.. I am the biggest engine you've ever seen. :lol:

Marc

 

[Major_Goose]

well i dont think we have misunderstood at all !!!! LOL bike is also partof my body, i am riding from my 14+ and till now have changed more than 19 pieces in my 37.

After quitting motorcross i used to ride street sharks like ZZR1100, and earlier a heavy modified Ninja 900 with half moteur from Yoshimura studios....been hunted by 911 Carreras but never caught if you know what imean...But after house and family i had to have something more family which is the Varadero

 

[Guy]

Lets keep it on topic guys :lol:

 

[Kisifer]

OOhhh noooo... the moto-cross maniacs invaded my post.

Xenofon

 

[thegoodsgt]

I've been in the hobby a while and have most of the figures I want, so I tend to buy only a few new releases each year. I spend probably $10 a month on figures, most of that money spent at the two or three figure shows I attend throughout the year.

I stopped buying magazines a year ago. The internet seems to provide all the information I need.

 

[billyturnip]

I still have a figure that was a Christmas present to do yet but it didn't stop me buying another. My job takes me away from home for a month at a time so I only paint every other month.
So far this month (Leave) I have spent £22, One figure, one Kolinsky brush and two wooden bases. I think £25 on modelling every month I am on leave would be about average plus about the same on books.

Roger.

 

[pgarri27]

I'm afraid to keep track of what I spend, and I don't keep records so there is nothing for the wife to find, but I think I spend about $40-$50 a month on the hobby (books, kits, paints, whatever). The I go to the local show once a year. I take $150 to the show, then go to the bank for another $150. When I am in that vendor room with all those goodies actually in my hands, I find I am a serious impulse buyer. I try to find the bargins, so I usually get alot of stuff for the money. I've got enough grey army to last two lifetimes if I retired today and just painted every day, all day. Which is another topic...how large is your grey army? Oh yeah, we already asked that one several months ago.
The Atlanta show is less than two weeks away, and I'm looking at almost $200 in kits I want to pick up which doesn't include the stuff I'll just see on the table. I'd imagine I spend $800-$1000 a year, and if the kids would move out of the house, it would be more.

 

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by thegoodsgt@Feb 9 2006, 08:11 AM


I stopped buying magazines a year ago. The internet seems to provide all the information I need.

Monthly? Hard to say... I'll make a trip to Michigan Toy Soldier four or five times a year and spend atleast $100. Mostly on supplies, reference books and such. At shows I'll spend about $150 -$200. And like alot of you, I'll scan the discount bins
for those little suprise gems.

Steve, thats interesting. I've stopped buying magazines a couple years ago. I'll flip thru them at the shops and shows but can't bring myself to pay those prices.
Besides, what we see in them usually make it to the forums and the like anyways...for free!

That would be a good question for the membership. With figure forums gaining popularity, will we be seeing the demise of figure magazines in the future? I know they won't ALL go away (people still like to see their fig's in hardcopy but seeing Historical Miniature cutting back issues...Will this spread to the others?

Jason

 

[Vikingz]

I don't really have a monthly budget or buy my figures that way. As to I only collect one era, its kinda like buying on a binge. About two times a year I buy figures related to my interest, generally all the new releases $150-$200 worth. But I have just come off a major buying binge by finding this site, as since Christmas spent $600 and have about 12 new figures. Started by my wife getting me 4 for Christmas: Latorre, Elite, Young, and Heroic. Then the wheels fell off when I found this site doing searches for older figures. I then bought several Fort Royal Review figures: Northumbrian bust, 120mm Viking, 120 Saxon, 1/35 Northumbrian and a few other 120mm missing parts from Michigan Toy Soldiers. This buying binge inspired me to paint again and start my current project which I needed and bought the Pegaso Celt and Del Prado. I have ordered but yet to receive the new releases from Seil and Ant.

 

[billyturnip]

Originally posted by Jason W.@Feb 9 2006, 08:31 PM

Steve, thats interesting. I've stopped buying magazines a couple years ago. I'll flip thru them at the shops and shows but can't bring myself to pay those prices.
Besides, what we see in them usually make it to the forums and the like anyways...for free!
Jason

I also stopped buying mags at about the same time. For the same reasons.

Roger.

Oh and I also have a sneaky look in the newsagents but don't buy

 

[Paul Kernan]

Not sure what the average monthly bill would be. I usually attend MFCA and MMSI every year, so I spend a couple of hundred at each show. In the interim, I have found the worst thing ever invented by man......ebay. I have discovered some absolute gems but I too have enough in my grey army now to last several lifetimes (~85). The Seil Landsknecht will be joing them when I go to MFCA in May

Fortunately, I paint with oils, so excluding brushes, I rarely have to buy much in materiel. Literature on the other hand has become a second hobby. I too have weaned my self off the mags. I will buy an occasional one if I am going on a trip or a 'special' addition if it grabs my fancy. On the other hand, my book collection grows steadily. My weakness, I cannot pass by a book store (stumbled on a copy of "Spearheading D-Day" by Histoire and Collections yesterday in a local used book store for $18!!!). Again ebay has been the other culprit.

All in all (hotels, shows, books, figures, bases, etc), I assume I spend around $1000-1200 a year. Probably the same as my wife spends on shoes :lol:

 

[Wendy]

Ah, ebay. A budget's bane.... if you don't look, you won't buy.

I don't have a monthly amount. I'm part of a club for a particular manufacturer, and we get to decide what minis are made, though we must buy 9 out of 12 figures for the year to remain in the club, with the average figure being about $40. I might spend a little on auctions now and again, but that depends on how much money I'm bringing in. I don't feel right spending my husband's hard earned money on my hobby. He can't complain too much though, as I don't buy a lot of shoes... :lol: shopping is anathema.

Then there's brushes. I can't bring myself to buy expensive ones as I go through them too fast. They are always on my Christmas list. :lol:

My husband says I have enough figures. My "grey" army is more like multi-colored as I have a bunch half finished. I probably should strip half of 'em and start over.

I never buy magazines. The internet and library are my best sources.

 

[PJ Deluhery]

Between my painting and collecting toy soldiers, and throwing in all the books and magazines and videos, I think a drug habit would be cheaper!

Wendy - I quit looking at EBay for just that reason! And by the way, are you trying to annoy your friends at UW with your signature line reference to "Badgers." I know you're from Michigan, but Wisconsin deserves a little respect too!

 

[Wendy]

I would like to make it quite clear that I dislike UofM (not fond of MState either) and much prefer UofW. So please, those in Wisconsin, do not take offense. I just like the movie. I guess I will have to add a disclaimer to my sig. It's a spoof of the line "badges? badges? we don't need no stinkin' badges".

Back to the regularly scheduled topic, I hate to imagine how much I'd spend if I painted 54mm and larger sizes! Most of my stuff is 32mm and smaller... Frighteningly, I'm looking to expand my horizons and get more into 54mm.