Buy A Warhammer 40k Space Marine Chapter For $11K
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And of course, Aussies get shafted on price, to the tune of 6k, just another reason GW is going bust here.
The whole point of this is that this is the first time they've precisely named everything a chapter might have available to bring onto the battlefield.
As it is unpainted and unassembled, and the majority of the pieces aren't chapter specific (other than the full set of Ultrasmurf characters) you don't HAVE to use them as Ultramarines, and I'm pretty sure that they're useful for conversion anyway.
I believe someone on Faeit212 calculated this to be a 11% discount - meaning that you can do better, certainly - but the convenience comes from the fact there's no way in hell that an online retailer would be able to give you all of this at once.
If you're really serious about anything like this, the only sound option is to buy this either because you've run out of anything else, and/or that you have the best gaming group ever so that you can paint this over a week as a team... because there's no way in hell anyone would be able to do this to a high standard by themselves.
TBH, what disappoints me about this is the lack of any cases or such to hold these in. I know you're nigh on NEVER going to bring this all to a store at once, but I think the display part of it is probably the hardest part when it comes to owning a Chapter - especially one where everything blurs together. (At least with the alternative chapters you can model your units differently - Smurfs be the same
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As it is unpainted and unassembled, and the majority of the pieces aren't chapter specific (other than the full set of Ultrasmurf characters) you don't HAVE to use them as Ultramarines, and I'm pretty sure that they're useful for conversion anyway.
I believe someone on Faeit212 calculated this to be a 11% discount - meaning that you can do better, certainly - but the convenience comes from the fact there's no way in hell that an online retailer would be able to give you all of this at once.
If you're really serious about anything like this, the only sound option is to buy this either because you've run out of anything else, and/or that you have the best gaming group ever so that you can paint this over a week as a team... because there's no way in hell anyone would be able to do this to a high standard by themselves.
TBH, what disappoints me about this is the lack of any cases or such to hold these in. I know you're nigh on NEVER going to bring this all to a store at once, but I think the display part of it is probably the hardest part when it comes to owning a Chapter - especially one where everything blurs together. (At least with the alternative chapters you can model your units differently - Smurfs be the same
)
...Hold that thought. There's the...Lunar Templar said:
- Imperial Fists
- Iron Snakes
- Salamanders
- Iron Hands
- Raven Guard
- Crimson Fists
- Exorcists
- Death Spectres
- BLUD REHVENS
- Mortefactors
- Astral Knights
AND LOADS MOAR!
(Note: All of these Chapters above could concievably be built with the Chapter Box and not including any add-on components or inappropriate models, such as the Black Templars and Space Wolves, as awesome as they are)
OT: Slow News Day? Because this has been kicking around since this weekend.
Man and here I thought Magic the Gathering was expensive back in the day. I mean I love strategy games so I'd probably have a blast playing this, like back in the SNES days I used to love Ogre Battle and had always had fun breaking up all the units and reorganizing my 100-man army, but man is WH ever an expensive hobby.
Speaking of which while I wouldn't actually wish this on any company I'm kind of surprised there isn't (or maybe there is?) a counterfeit market for these figurines. If the little plastic models start at $5 you'd have to figure that someone in China or wherever could produce some knock off versions and make a buck selling them for much cheaper.
Speaking of which while I wouldn't actually wish this on any company I'm kind of surprised there isn't (or maybe there is?) a counterfeit market for these figurines. If the little plastic models start at $5 you'd have to figure that someone in China or wherever could produce some knock off versions and make a buck selling them for much cheaper.
Yes, but will it satisfy your urge for plastic crack? My point is made.bjj hero said:
I checked out the old GW store not long back, just to see some of the displays and newer minis. What I found was the prices had more than doubled and the Space Marines are now using giant robot baby carriers.
I'm glad I bailed out when I did.
Decent plastic and superglues arent exactly rare or expensive. Especially compared to what GW thinks is decent value.Xan Krieger said:
And my solution to the paint is to buy one pot of each colour you think youre going to need, then take it to one of those paint mixing machines at your local hardware store and come home with a couple of cans of that.
Seriously, one of the things that going to be GW's downfall is the increasing number of ways you can circumvent them. With 3D printing around the corner i wouldnt be surprised to see or hear of people scanning and printing out thier own models.
With the money I've already sunk into my Dark Angels that sounds about right. Combine that with the cost of paint and it hurts the hip pocket.MinionJoe said:
Even then I'd want to pay extra just so someone would paint them, I've tried painting a squad of space marines and it went over about as well as a chainsword enema.gigastar said:
Sometimes my fiancee remarks that photography is an expensive hobby. I think I need to take her on a trip to Games Workshop to give her some perspective.
That's amazing. Honestly, I had more fun customizing and painting my army than I ever did playing it (that chump with the Grey Knights made a point of stomping every into dust). In five years when that tech becomes more common place, I'll have to do that.Noswad said:
My brother, who's a major Games Workshop fan brought this to my attention a week or two ago. All I could think was "As if I needed further proof that I don't make nearly enough money to seriously consider investing in this game!"
Games Workshop has its head buried way up its ass. I wouldn't give them another cent for their overpriced garbage.
They crossed a line when they decided they own the term "space marine" despite other sources using it befor them and started bullying people who use it in other media.
They crossed a line when they decided they own the term "space marine" despite other sources using it befor them and started bullying people who use it in other media.
