The 10 Most Expensive Warhammer 40k Models Ever
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Warhammer is not a cheap hobby - but the level to which you let it get expensive is really up to you. I talk through some of the most expensive options both in terms of raw cost, and the value of the item you are picking up in in-game terms.
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Me before watching this: Man I can't wait to get my first 1000pts of Tyranids together!
Me after watching this: I have made a terrible mistake.
Still going to build the bugs but man do I hope 9th edition helps out with a new model line!
If you are hoping to get rippers or gaunts. Then troll trader is honestly the way to go for them, ripper swarms are 6 pounds or like 10$ for 3. And guants are 10 pounds so like 12.50$ for 10
@@NobleChile Thank you so much for letting me know that! I have decided that until the new codex comes out I am going to only buy things the look cool to build and hold off on buying a lot of swarm pieces. But thank you for letting me know that!
@@JohnnyDeLeo1 hey thats a great way to go. Then your model will always look cool. But a quick tip, to play the game you need your army in a detachment. Certain units have different tags like HQ and Troop. To run a battalian you need 2 HQs and 3 troops. One troop unit is 10 hormaguants, 10 genestealers or 3 ripper swarms. HQs are stuff like swarm lord, tervigon. Of course id urge you to look into the battalian options because there are many different things. Such as one where you can run a bunch of heavy supports and thats all.
@@NobleChile Thank you so much for your tips! I am in the states so it’s going to be a bit before I can get a game in but I will make sure to eat some troops before then!
Just another tips for starting a nids army the current tyranids battleforce is a nice 1000pts and pretty good value money wise.
If I ever win the lotto first plan is to build a titan legion. After that... I dunno, swimming pool of nuln oil I guess?
Just play adeptus titanicus. It has plastic titans the size of knights, and they are some of the best models in the 40k range
Did you ever get nuln oil in you mouth? It's disgusting I don't think someone wants to swim in that ;)
i think when you get out you would be accused of black face
@@ethanmcclure4321 abbadon black face*
A swimming pool of Nuln Oil, you say? You need to step your game up, you dirty poor... Clearly filling that swimming pool with Devlan Mud is the rich man's preference.
I had a friend who used to work for GW. Alot of the pricing is based on expected sales, the cost of creating a mould and casting individual characters is higher than a sprue that makes multiple blokes. Add that to the fact each person will buy maybe 1 of a particular character vs 10 marine sets you get the idea. I still think the pricing is horrific tho. Just adding my 2p
@@fenris6051 take it for what i said, you dont have to aggressively call out a story as bullshit just because you think its wrong. Pretty shit way of having a conversation with someone. This was back when employees bought minis directly from GW just on the price of the lead. Its why i have 4000pts of the limited edition preatorians, because they cost me pennies. Its what i was told, but im sure your ape like keyboard bashing has got you all the inside information. It could be wrong, it was 20 years ago. I also pointed out i still thought the pricing wasn’t correct, but im sure you must know everything about miniature production, mould costs and design costs 🤷♂️
For further context my friend worked in product design, i have a fair few race specific dice cups, a large slannesh goblet, aquila covered boxes that were all products that went to prototype but never released, he was quite in the know but as its been pointed out...its probably bullshit.
Translation" We charge what we think we can get away with.
@@angelusnielson7135 theres always that aspect, i did say its over the top, but 20 years ago it might not have been as extreme, I remember all the characters at like £7-9
@@fenris6051 You didnt hurt a thing, i was just calling you out on your own bullshit. Smashing keys and pretending you're the smartest internet ape gets you nowhere, you need to have some intelligence and hold a conversation to actually counter argue. GW are a company that needs to turn a profit, they make some of the best miniatures on the market. They're expensive, and i don't agree on alot of the pricing and i stopped playing when Fantasy was scrapped but i was trying to add context with an anecdote. Anyone with half a brain knows to not take it as gospel, but it could inform an overall opinion. Why on earth would models get cheaper over time? Have you heard of inflation? Changing material costs? New technologies? Go on ebay and paint strip some second hand models if you're desperate. Or you can continue to smash your keyboard like an ape trying to act knowledgeable, but you do you, I couldn't care.
The upside of the manta is that it actually comes with the two Devilfish, two Hammerheads, eight Battlesuits and six Gun Drones that go inside its carrying bay. That is about 170 quid in value just there.
Yeah in Canada that gives me like 500 dollars in stuff like that
i thought there were some fire warriors too
12:10 this is my life now
I'm both jealous, and horrified by what you are doing.
oh shit
Very excited to see this video!
wait.... are u actually going to hollow it out for Gork and Mork to wear
So Vince made a video just so we wouldn't say "I can't believe he bought the most expensive model in the game" when he inevitably show us his Warlord Titan, I can respect that. Good hustle sir.
I love the Titan purely on the basis that it is absolutely, unreasonably, enormous. That thing is insane
I know the true status symbol is the warlod, but i much rather have the phantom. Call me a heretic but the eldar know how to design a mech...
@@makeshift307 what bout us buggy bois with boo titans
this guys about 2 tins of cat food and a huff of glue away from being Charlie Kelly
40k armies, when you build to a list and not just accumulate models, is cheaper than magic decks.
Debatable... Especially if you place any value on your time and materials. Having played both for a while, the expense of playing constructed can be offset, massively, if you're regularly drafting, and trading up into the staples you need.
"Magic Decks" is way to broad a term. Legacy, yeah. Commander? Variable. Totally could go either way. Pauper? Hell no.
Similar statements could be said for Warhammer. There is a large market for resale on Warhammer. it takes a bit more time and energy, but can mean large savings. Also once you get an army set your good for a few years minimum. The difference is Up front cost vs cost over time. I might buy a $500+ army in short order, but it will never become unusable for decades to come (meta excluded). My brother on the other hand is spending about 30-60$ a month (closer to 100 some months) on magic singles and is constantly flipping things around. Hobbies are expensive, but if you enjoy them its worth it.
The thing is, nearly (rotating formats excluded) all magiccards can be resold at the same or an higher price where you will have your fair share of trouble to resell tabletop-minis if they are asembled and painted
As someone who plays both this is ridiculous, you can buy a magic deck for 20 bucks and some of the more expensive cards I buy are like 5 dollars as opposed to like a 40 dollar squad of generic dudes, or I would if I didn't buy everything used and strip the paint
As an ork player, I don’t build stuff I loot stuff.
yeah i just steal from my friends and family with an ork mask on
"little plastic piles of regret"
I have little pewter piles from my 80s figure collecting, but this tracks.
The one hobby besides fish and chips eating that British folk get an actual discount to America lol
I noticed that. British prices are so much lower on eBay.
@@manictiger Made in the UK mate, that’s the main reason why. GW is a British company after all.
Warhammer players strapped for cash: "EVEN IN DEBT I STILL SERVE."
thats just dumb and sad... thats why you will see 1000-5000 points armies unpainted or even unbuild for sale on the internet. DONT WASTE ALL YOUR MONEY ON PLASTIC
My Finances are my Shield!
@@warhounds
I'm rich and I'm cringing at how fast the costs piled up. I'm trying to kitbash some stuff to make the coolest looking terminators I can possibly make, but I'm now a little over 600 bucks into this hobby, including the 145 dollar airbrush (admittedly needed for another project, too). Can't wait to spend 100 bucks on paint. 🙄
I'll probably wind up over-producing these bad boys, so maybe I'll resell some of them for a small profit, while keeping my favorites.
Hehe, that’s a RussianBadger reference.
"I WILL ENDURE A THOUSAND DEBTS BEFORE I YIELD"
Well this is an interesting topic, the Power 9 of Warhammer.
Id be down to see the video buts its weird because warhammer is always patched. Imagine in black lotus had different effects and cmc ever 5 years. Same card but in 8th edition it tapped for 2 of any color
Like the other commenter said, warhammer's update scheme means models fluctuate in usefulness and consistently meta warping units don't really exist.
That said, you could look at OP units or strategies over time. Stuff like Fish of Fury or Iron Hands after they got shot into the stratosphere earlier this year.
more like the Dollar 9
There really isn’t a power 9 like there is in magic the gathering because games workshop never made the same wizards made in the past
"Warhammer is expensive!"
These people have never been to a model RC shop where a few plastic bits for a tiny car can cost as much as an indomitus box
I'm not playing at any GW stores. I'm not ashamed to have a bootleg tyranid killteam so far, more printing every day! 3D Printing FTW!
Honestly, a good print with some work and paint won't probably even be spotted by most store owners lol
I get what you're saying, but as a collector, i do enjoy original boxes and models. But as you say, they are not at all affordable.
I only do it when I proxy something to see how I want to arm it. I compete and play across Canada, and a lot of the USA, so I can't use printed models most comps.
I’m considering asking my friend who has a 3D printer to print me some minis 😅
As someone with a Genestealer Cult army, I understand this pain.
I was first introduced to 40k 10 years ago and my parents bought me like 3 tyranid boxes. Now that its picking up again I really wish I could still spend someone else's money on them.
I wish I could paint them properly lol
I spent about 500 USD on my Ironjawz army (Warhammer Age of Sigmar) and yes that is a lot but I haven't spent any money in that army since 2018 and it still is competitive and I can build varied lists for 2000 point games. So yes 500 USD is a lot for 2 years of spending (2016-2018) but it beats what my brother used to spend in yugioh for a deck that only remained competitive for 2 months and my army remains pretty competitive and will still be so for hopefully a long time
I'd really like to see more of a video about cool, rare Warhammer models that you can't buy on the website, like the Collector's Edition Terminator Chaplain, or the old 2001 Hive Tyrant that looked like a xenomorph.
Fun fact, the manta comes with some hammerheads and devilfishes which you can play with (not sure if the battlesuits and fire warriors work)
The battlesuits are normal, but not the fire warriors
Ah yes, as a budget American Tyranid player, I'll let you in on my secret. I buy different sized wooden discs for bases and print out the side profile of the models on a piece of paper. I then cut out and tape those paper profiles to the wooden discs. Because I love to play and I love the lore, but I don't like building models, I don't like painting models, and I don't like having to store and transport them. My 5000 points of Tyranids that I have ready cost me a whole $56 of wood on Amazon, and it is very easy to store, and the paper is easy to replace.
had no idea WH had proxies, cool
I would do except half the reason I want to play Sylvaneth (Aos) is the models. I also really want an allariel ( I'd how you spell it) which costs like 130 dollars for one model. I don't have a large budget so I'll probably end up proxying some stuff.
@@fel_95 Yeah, you're not going to be able to play in a GW store or in tournaments, but you can absolutely proxy with whatever you and your opponent agree on.
I laughed too hard at the warlord titan being used by a toddler as armor only because it's basically a demon prince wearing a titan.
10: “The only category”
9; The entire Nids army
Personally, I actually love scouring ebay for deals. That and repairing and restoring damaged models
The £400 metal Thunderhawk from 1997 would cost £732 today. I have one, sans paperwork, unassembled.
Ah yes the last time I played 40k proper was 5E and after the game my opponent started outright bragging about the money he had spent on (unbuilt) models: he has two of those metal Thunderhawks among other crazy items
He genuinely liked to go to GW ‘in a suit’ to show how rich he was and also to demean staff and customers
To my knowledge that was his last game too hehehe
Magic absolutely ruined me for 40k. I stopped playing 40k when I was unemployed and it got too expensive. Some time later I started playing Magic... fast forward 10 years and I've got so used to spending 100s of pounds on cardboard, when I got back into 40k it seemed cheap by comparison.
You need to tie up all your finances into investments, so that you feel threatened when you drain your checking too much.
21:31 "you can kitbash a Manta"
You could probably use actual plane parts if you tried that
Ah this brings me back to when I could afford 40k. I had 5 eldar Titans at one point. The games I won were worth the 2k us(at the time). Painted and built I was able to sell them and make my money back.
I don't remember who did a video on it, but the ImperiaL Guard are the most expensive army in the game, points for dollars (or pounds).
IT IS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES
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My 3D resin printer has saved me nearly 40K haha!
What kind? Do you have an Amazon link?
anycubic photon. i love mine
I just ordered a 3D resin printer and a few prints is all it's gonna take to make my money's worth than buying miniatures.
Printing your models instead of selling your kidney to build an army makes you just as much of a fuckin loser.
@@jborreggine8759 Here, have some attention. You must be desperate for it.
As an MTG finance person. I actually really liked this video for some reason. Interesting to see the history of this hobby.
One of the most expensive kits in terms of points per euro/dollar/pound is Flayed ones. They're absolutely insane. 46 dollars for a box of 5 of them, totaling about 50 points in 40k. You're spending almost 1 dollar per point. Insanity.
When I started playing, three rhino's for a tenner. Lead Eldar jetbike £1.50. Three (old) Land Raiders for £15.
I used to play 40K with a guy back in the third/fourth edition days who had around 3000 points of the old metal grots; it was probably the most expensive army that I've ever seen hit the table.
Just got a bunch of stuff for age of sigmar for Christmas and I already want a full kitted gloomspite gitz army.
I used to customise 40k kits way back in the 80’s/90’s I made a Thudd Gun Ork Buggy using a Squat Thudd Gun chassis and the drivetrain of an original Land Raider, I made an Ork captured Land Raider with extended rear tracks, quadruple Las Cannons each side, long barrel multi melta, robotic tiger beast head roof hatch cover and additional and fully detailed rear and underbody engine, coolant and exhaust pipes. I made a 6 wheel Ork Battlewagon, two Space Marine Baneblades, a Rhino with whirlwind launcher (before a kit was released for the whirlwind) two Rhino Vindicators, several custom Ork War Buggies and Wartraks and a customised Wartrak Scorcher. I also made several vehicles which didn’t conform to anything in the game, I used to play these against my brother and we agreed on vehicle stats.
I realise that some/all of these vehicles might have become obsolete, I haven’t played 40k since around 1990/91.
I bought a resin thunderhawk, $1500 Australian dollars. Half the pieces were warped to the point I couldn't use them, the others had areas missing. Emailed forgeworld, it took a MONTH for them to reply, and asked for a refund due to missing parts. Sent it back to them, Two months later, I got another thunderhawk kit, Still had pieces missing, and badly warped parts. Sold it for half price. I still have the thunderhawk proof of purchase certificate. My worst shame.
Yo bro. I just got out of mtg after 20 years and started selling off my collection. Scary direction it's going in and just isn't fun anymore with the overload of product and overpowered cards. But about 4 months ago I started building 40k. now that I've seen the light of this amazing game I've decided to never look back and have already built a decent ork and ultramarines lists. Love the warhammer content and good to see an mtg creator that does tabletop.
your painting is very nice pk. i also greatly appreciate your consistent focus on the enjoyment:value ratio of hobbies as opposed to comparing this kind of frivolous expense to practical spending like many people do..
This is why me and the bois play 500 points.
For each 2k army a normal player has, we can each have several with extra bits and bobs for on the fly army swaps. And our games are significantly quicker, so we can get more out of the different armies we carry around.
I think there are some distinct advantages to playing 500 points.
Perhaps a worthy content suggestion.
As a someone on a borderline of tipping toes into 40K, I am having hard time making a decision on the fraction to invest into.
Would be really cool to gt an overview + ranking of various fractions based on power and play style.
I know there are other tons of resources, but I am sure you would make it more entertaining!
Kudos on the awesome content!
i own a warlord titan and the thing only tok my me maybe 2 weeks to put togheter and a couple months to paint. metalics and armor panels are surprisingly fast to paint, there where no warping and the parts where very clean and it has a lot fewer parts than you might think. and you dont actually need any pins at all for it, the legs are held togheter with screws but the rest is just straight up held together with cheap grosery store superglue, magnets and greenstuff. but by god is it worth the cost. damn thing is awesome looking
My Tyranids are my favorite army! I hope you enjoy building and playing them!
Grab some resin models from creature caster or wargames exclusive , i think yu will change your mind about resin. FW is using dated tech and old molds and the results reflect it.
Love warhammer wenesday :) Can you do the opposite list at some point? Would be sick.
I dont play, never have or never willbut im on this complete W40K model video binge
Especially when it comes to paint jobs
But damn do I learn so much 😊
Thank you for a great video!
@Pleasant_Kenobi So... while the forge world option for ripper swarms may a bit pricey for 3 small based units.... They kinda look bad ass and I almost bought some this morning.
I did miss out the fact that they look great, tbf
@@PleasantKenobi in comparison to the regular ones they realy look like a swarm and cleaning them when you get them oily from FW is a real pain in the arse
you missed beasts of nurgle, those are a less than one point per us dollar ratio being a 43 dollar kit and 35 points a model.
Im making my own ruclips.net/video/ipOHvwr328A/видео.html
This February that just passed I was going to be off work for 3 months due to acl reconstruction surgery and a few other things wrong with my left knee and I decided to buy a warlord Titan. I got apocalypse missile launchers, the head, volcano cannon, plasma annihilator and a power claw after taxes all said and done it was $3112.02 Canadian dollars. I have easily easily 200+ hours into this thing so far and it’s not even close to probally 1/32 of the way done I don’t even have it fully built yet and started painting some of the accessories. This thing is such a undertaking I bet you it’s going to take me 3-5 years to complete it
I’ve been SUPER invested in Warhammer now that you’re making videos, but I have one big request: can you do a video on how kitbashing works?
As a magic player, I can’t imagine going to a tournament and saying “Well, I didn’t have the money for an Ancestral Recall, so I snipped the name and text box from an Ancestral Visions and a Hurkyl’s Recall, the mana symbol and card type from an Opt, and I just used the card art for Borborygmos, because I like it.”
Honestly, it seems Kitbashes are for casual play, and rarely Tournament legal.
The Squiggoth is such an awesome looking piece. I'd have it solely to place it in my home and see how many people stop to ask what on Earth it is.
After so many years of commission work it fills my heart with joy to hear someone say the same thing about FW quality. Thank you
FW isn’t ‘basically a subsidiary’, it IS a subsidiary
Just for the record: While I agree that injection molded polystyrene can achieve the level of detail that resin can, there are types of details that you can only get with resin, and additionally there are going to be fewer halves/seams to deal with with resin.
Resin is cast in a soft mold that has some give, so small undercuts in the details are possible without having to engineer some complex two part mold. Look at the new sister models for examples in how mangled the kits are to achieve the details with injection molding. So I agree with your overall assessment that resin kits are overpriced, given the pain of construction and not being superior enough to polystyrene, but I argue it still has its place in model making overall.
And as an additional fact, I *believe* the resin FW uses is a polyurethane plastic. All plastics are resins, and it can be quite annoying to find the actual differences since "plastic" in the hobby has come to mean "plastics that are soluble by organic solvents" (plastic cement is any one of these organic solvents).
Me looking at my water bill for the whole year, with 4 people inside the house (sometimes 6), a garden, 12 dogs, and an indoor swiming pool : ouch !
Me looking at that video : ...
Me looking at that bill again ... smiling at it with a bit of pity in my eyes : if you only knew what expensive is, little thing.
in a recent video squidmar miniatures mentions that he payed about a months rent for a metal thunderhawk even mentioned that another one sold for $7k USD or 5100pounds.
Beats of nurgle are quite bad, with 1.09 points per pound and you want to play 9-27 of them a Single Modell costs 27.50
they also run into a similar problem as the Mek guns. Nurgle is probably the easiest army to scratch-build and kitbash outside of orks since nurgle-y skin has about the same texture as greenstuff and most sculpting materials
ruclips.net/video/ipOHvwr328A/видео.html
Hence why im just making mine
@@Brisarious ruclips.net/video/ipOHvwr328A/видео.html
The reason characters are seen as such a high price is because generally you're going to be buying multiple boxes of troops for example. As for characters your gonna generally be buying just the one, and that's it
A titan is more of a project car then a game piece for how much you put into it, both time and money wise
And then when you finish it, you can put it in a display case to decorate the room.
I know absolutely nothing about Warhammer 40K but I'm watching any.
Chaos doesnt judge
You forgot models only available in box sets, venom crawlers, lords of contagion, etc.
I build gunplas and other mecha stuff, but BOY, DO I WANT THAT TITAN! I love the building side of things(I hate painting with a passion though), so building that GINORMOUS thing would be a blast!
If you're interested in titans, the Warhammer 40k spinoff game, Adeptus Titanicus, has titan kits at a much cheaper price. They are 1/300 scale, or thereabouts. Very nice bits, though I have to use tweezers for some of the very fiddly bits.
@@kglguy Thx for the tip, I will check it out.
I'm a bit late, but a Metal Thunderhawk was recently sold for well over $7000 and is the most expensive Warhammer model ever sold.
Glad to see you getting some Papa Nurgle pieces.
You gotta remember tho, the tau mantra comes with a small army lol
English pounds?
Wales, Scotland and NI would like a word champ.
*USA has entered the chat*
@@GM-rs2fv Y'all don't use pounds...
@@Demonarrows1 No but we do hate the British which is what my comment was referencing
@@GM-rs2fv casual xenophobia...
Shouldn’t have had your arse conquered by the English then, should you?
I hope for the day GW might decide to take the Deathkorps off Foregeworld and put them in their regular line of plastic figures alongside Cadians and (hopefully updated) Catachans.
A nice set of somewhat modular gasmask dudes to enforce imperial armies. I kinda imagine that no one would hate that. Those that don't want to play them at all will ignore them and will probably also not be interested in Cadians... But a lot of people "grim up" their Cadians, likely because they miss the opportunity to go for the real deal in terms of grimmdark imperial fighting force not made of marines, because dkok is locked away as expensive resin models not easily stumbled upon because it is on foregeworld...
Worse troop might be tzeentch horrors. Pink horrors die and become two blue horrors so each model needs three models to field and guess what? they're run in blobs of 30.
You don't have to split them. At comp, you often can't
I've heard that the Manta is bigger than the Warlord Titan. I might have misunderstood the meaning of what was said though.
It’s the largest single model. Technically you need to buy the warlord in several pieces. However comparing them in size is weird. However that being said, the manta weighs 28 pounds, which means it is more massive than the warlord, but the warlord has more surface area in total.
Mantas are basically a small coffee table.
The price of Warhammer kits must be directly tied into what you can make selling pre-constructed and painted figures. What a racket
Shout out for Play on Tabletop if you like watching 40k games.
Expensive models: When I started I could only buy 2 pewter models at a time... My Hive Tyrant never fit together till I used a pound of green putty LOL Now they got whole squads of plastic on sprues still expensive but more reasonable and easier to fix than pewter.
I think Orks are probably the cheapest army you could make considering that Ork players are encouraged to customize their own stuff like any self respecting Ork player would never buy that Gargantuan Squiggoth they'd just make one from some random toy they bought at Salvation Army :P
Depends doesn't it.
When I was skint and working class (under 25k a year) warhammer was expensive.
But doing the RIGHT degree to not be happy...never pick a career you think will make you happy or that you love...
Anything you do for 45hrs a week and spend time travelling to and from...
Will be shite eventually
But the right degree...returned me social mobility and a career that has made warhammer cheap as fu*ck
Same.
The warlord titan, A.K.A the thing cheaper to pay a dude to print it, than it is to buy it.
My first army was 40k Slann, GW stopped supporting the range so that was several £100 wasted, then I brought a massive amount of Squats, about 50 Exo armoured ones, a dozen or so trikes and a few hundred basic infantry, again range was not supported to that was also a complete waste, I rage quit 40k after that and went to Fantasy and build a Kislev army and an absolutely massive Empire Knight army, around 50 Knights of each of the main orders, White Wolf was my personal favourite, then a 3rd Bretonnian Army, GW not only killed off all those armies but the entire game system. . . So far around £10k spent and not a single playable army. . . . I got back into 40k a while ago and brought a complete Forgeworld Mechanicus Army , unfortunately they forgot to give it any rules for the last couple of editions so it's just sat in a box, then I saw how awesome the Imperial Knights look, now I have a massive Imperial Knights army with all 4 Cerastus and both Asterius, just keeping my fingers crossed the FW knights dont end up getting scrapped like every other army I have tried to collect.
Hey PK just thought I should mention that the Manta model actually comes with a small army included in the price tag:
48 Fire Warriors
6 Gun Drones
1 Ethereal
8 XV8 Battlesuits
2 Devilfish Transports
2 Hammerhead Gunships
Resin is fine and for experienced hobbyist, New kits look amazing.
The battle sanctum is the most absurdly expensive model. Only 55 points for 70 quid. 1.27 pounds per point. And it was actually good in comp play in 9th.
The kicker? The new fortification FAQ just made it unplayable.
Edit: Oh, and beasts of nurgle. People play 27 of those things in a list and they are like 28 pounds each.
I had heard of the beasts before, didnt realise there was something that was as bad value but also got obliterated by rules changes >< that sucks!
I for one would be super excited to see a budget army list, that would be super exciting as someone fairly new to the hobby as well as a good thing to get more people into the hobby.
Forgot about the beast of nurgle boys we did it! For Papa Nurgle
The model kit is pretty neat, but is sure terrible value! 1 model per box for 1.2 points per £! and it has a unit size of 1-9.
I wonder if it is the worst value kit in all of 40k?
I was turned-off making a big blob of chaos spawns for a similar reason (not as bad at 2.4 points per £). Still on the lookout for good 3rd party resin stuff for that, no luck yet.
I started 40k coming from warhammer battle (fantasy/age of sigmar /whatever) playing orcs and goblins.
I picked the (at the time) brand new army, grey knights. Not because I loved the models more than other armies but because I was sick of buying and painting 40 models for 120 points and wanted to get 2k points painted without emptying my bank account or losing my mind.
Best decision I have ever made (warhammer related), I now love the army and actually enjoy both painting them and playing the models. Moving hundreds of minis on the table gets old rather quickly.
Here for the magic, stayed for the 40K... I played Warhammer in the mid 90's when I was still in highschool, as the scoutmaster of my troop was super into tabletop games. He probably had over a metric ton of lead (yes, lead) models in his garage, for various games... From historical antiquity, to naval pirate themed battles, to wild west, to WWI aerodrome, to modern, 40K and beyond.
Are harlequins still a thing in 40K?
They are currently one of the strongest armies!
You should check out the price to make "full" noise Marines. If you want a noise marine with the proper backpack, gun, body, shoulder pads and head you need to buy a box of Chaos Marines (£35) and a upgrade pack PER MARINE at £9 each. So a squad of 10 costs £125!
This dude: these warhammer kits are so expensive!
Me who lives in Australia and has to pay even more for warhammer kits:
As someone who doesn’t play Warhammer but has a vague, approximate understanding of it; “bespoke orks” is pretty goddamn amusing.
Thanks for mentioning the kitbash characters bit. That's what I did for a Death Guard Chaos Lord for multiple reasons. Smashed a bunch of bits and clay together to make myself one brand new.
Damn, I should've kept my old Blood Angel army as an investment instead of selling it 10 years ago.
If it makes you feel better, resale value for models that have been assembled and painted is generally pretty low.
Just came across your channel, and holy fuck. You're a beast my friend, keep it up.
skateboards are way more than ten pounds, but it depends how much you want to spend.
for a pro deck it's about 60 quid (thats just the board, nothing else) trucks are generally around 30-60 quid also, but can cost a lot more. pro wheels are about 30, and say 15 for bearings.
most skate shops will do pro deck set up's for 120 quid, but the trucks and wheels won't be the best.
you can get shop boards and blanks and stuff for a bit cheaper, like 30 quid though, thats what most people do. buy a shop board from your local to support them, then get some nice trucks, wheels and bearings (this stuff is way more important than a pro deck) black cat bearings are the shit, way too fast for me though. I like my softer "cruiser" style wheels as well, they don't go as fast as hard wheels, and it's a much smoother ride.
PS: you can probs find a skateboard for a tenner from a toy shop, but it'll be terrible, and probably a liability to actually try and skate it for real.
I spent 200 dollars to get 1500 points of Space Marines. Second hand is awesome. I got a 70 dollar model for 8 dollars. Then I just used SimpleGreen to strip the paint. My girlfriend was happy I got a whole army for the same price as a used Playstation.
If you don't want to kit bash and want to buy a single character model, it is about the same price of less to design one on HeroForge and get it 3D printed for you! Still pricey, but you can have a very detailed bespoke model even if kit-bashing is not "your thing".
GW pricing structure is dependant on how many of a model one person may buy. So a named character would cost a lot as you only need one. Compared to a bunch of rank and file troops.
gotta say, I feel lucky for getting a prepainted 1500+ point tyranid army a while back for only about 400 dollars, I've love tyranids forever but if I had to buy and paint them all myself with my dyspraxia I'd have never gotten to play warhammer 40K
Ive had alot of fun painting WH minis and other models, then realized Oh shit, what the fuck am I going to do with all these fucking TOYS?!? God, the Warhammer models are beautifully detailed though and They are an absolute joy to paint.
Didn't the Orks have a zeppelin that was like $1000? Can't find any information nowadays but I remember seeing it in a White Dwarf book.
I can’t believe the hike in price of citadel paints since i was a teenager. And i still miss the lead minis, just don’t like the weight of plastic ones feel cheap.
Have you thought about crowd funding your gaunts? If you had each person who has watched this video mail you one , you’d be halfway there.
I agree the Titan has a hobby/modelling and even narrative element that is a part of the value, not just the cost. I'm working on a Reaver I bought second hand, built and magnetised, for £450.00, so yes there are deals out there. But if you look at points efficiencies, even in 8th, never mind 9th, no super heavy of 1000pts or more would on average stand up to a non-super heavy army of equivalent points.
Imperial Guard would like a word about deceptively expensive armies. Also, characters are more expensive (not that I agree that this is acceptable) because you need fewer. You only need 1 Marneus or Mephiston, but you can always field more troops so fewer of these kits will be sold. I also did a video about a year ago reviewing points per £ of forgeworld models, which was then invalidated by chapter approved ....