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first off, painting isn't really that hard, it will take a bit of practice, but it is kind of nice and relaxing.
It looks really, really difficult. The figs are so small, and what if you screw-up a stroke with one color when you've already painted another part, and now you've got two wet paints sitting on top of each other?
You paint over it.
That's how paint works.
While racing light mechs, your Urbanmech comes in second place, but only because it ran out of ammo.
I just started playing WM recently. My friends told me the initial price would be $200 or more. I tried a couple of practice games, liked it and dove in. I've bought enough models to have a 35 point game, and Im sure I've spent between $400-$500. But hell if Im not having a good time.
Before this I was spending more money video games. Now I am spending significantly less on video games.
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first off, painting isn't really that hard, it will take a bit of practice, but it is kind of nice and relaxing.
It looks really, really difficult. The figs are so small, and what if you screw-up a stroke with one color when you've already painted another part, and now you've got two wet paints sitting on top of each other?
You paint over it.
That's how paint works.
Also, unless you're actually trying to do this ("wet blending") you really probably won't ever have multiple wet colours on a miniature at once. Especially if you roll assembly-line style and paint five dudes at once.
I would set the total cost at this point at $300-$600. That's a whole lot of money for toy soldiers, but hold on a moment. You have an entire army! Not only will it take you a long time to paint, figures/units almost never cycle out play.
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I've looked into the costs involved in Warhammer quite a few times, and it's never seemed within reach for me, even when I had a decent wage. It's over $45.00 for a basic Space Marine tac squad, with 10 unassembled & unpainted guys in the box (so about 5 bucks a guy). If I'm spending that sort of money on such awesome sculpts, I sure as Hell am not going to use my untrained hands to paint them, so I'm going to have to pay someone to do that too.
And that's just a basic unit of basic guys. The set pieces, heroes, monsters & vehicles individually are often twice that cost (Land Raiders sell for over 80 dollars, for example, and from what matches I've watched on YT they seem like a staple vehicle), and presumably will cost more to have painted / ship around. Then there's the fact that you also have to buy redundant boxes of product in order to get special weapons.
Terrain costs are tough to quantify, dice & measuring accessories are lolz-cheap, and books you get get at bargain prices from used stores... but dem figs.
I just don't see how you could get a cool looking, playable army up and running for under a thousand dollars.
Could you do a price breakdown?
What crazy place are you buying your warhammer? that's about 130 percent of what it should cost. Space wolves and other boxes with extra accessories are 37, tacs should be 33, land raiders recently went up to 66. Land raiders are also by no means obligatory - most marine players by a smaller tank called a predator first, or a foot unit called Devastators (tac marines with heavy weapons)
You can buy a starter set when they do one and get enough for two people to play with for 100. Most people don't stop there, to be fair.
As for painting, it is a challenge to do some levels of detail, but basic painting is essentially a trick - because you're painting on a 3d surface. You just paint from dark to light as you go from shallow to high and the model will look passable. If you pick up that, and then three simple techniques - drybrushing, washing, and blending - and you'll be good.
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You paint over it.
That's how paint works.
Before this I was spending more money video games. Now I am spending significantly less on video games.
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What crazy place are you buying your warhammer? that's about 130 percent of what it should cost. Space wolves and other boxes with extra accessories are 37, tacs should be 33, land raiders recently went up to 66. Land raiders are also by no means obligatory - most marine players by a smaller tank called a predator first, or a foot unit called Devastators (tac marines with heavy weapons)
You can buy a starter set when they do one and get enough for two people to play with for 100. Most people don't stop there, to be fair.
As for painting, it is a challenge to do some levels of detail, but basic painting is essentially a trick - because you're painting on a 3d surface. You just paint from dark to light as you go from shallow to high and the model will look passable. If you pick up that, and then three simple techniques - drybrushing, washing, and blending - and you'll be good.
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Even with our dollar being almost par with the US.