Today Is A Little Different, I Want To Talk About The Secondary Market. Because Some Friends Of Mine
Today is a little different, I want to talk about the secondary market. Because some friends of mine on discord were astonished at how much my empire units new in box cost and I want to elaborate more on making the best use of kits. Consider this part two of hobbying while being cheap and neurodivergent.
You should have a healthy bits box at all times. You can have several of them. There are a lot of eBay listings for just piles of bits and unfinished minis that you can use to make bespoke Warhammer minis out of just spare parts from multiple kits. Kitbashing is not a revelation, it even predates wargames as it’s a carry over from model railroad hobbyists. But you should buy listings of random bits because you can get some fantastic parts from kits you weren’t thinking of getting for incredible prices.
The re release of these old Warhammer kits comes with a lot of great bits for conversions, I think they really are worth more than people are thinking they are!
The main thing I want to talk about though is how to exploit the chud cycle to maximize your hobby hauls. I won’t get super political in this post because it’s not really what it’s about. But there is a cycle where really negative dudes get into the hobby through a video game like space marine 2 or a lore channel and buy a lot of minis. Then they get upset about how modern games workshop, a multi billion dollar company, has gone woke or whatever. Then they go farther back into earlier editions to try to escape whatever it is they don’t like, only to find that the satire is stronger the farther back they go. A lot of these guys putt around for a while and then give up and sell their armies for really cheap on eBay and Facebook marketplace. A lot of them are willing to haggle.
That isn’t political, it’s economical.
Neither is the satisfaction I get when these guys tell me I don’t belong in the hobby and I show them my armies I’ve painted over almost 30 years.
Take advantage of the deals!
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And here is Gorfang Rotgut and his unit of 25 classic GW orcs!
Continuing on basing minis while I catch up on YouTube videos. Here’s the 6th edition WHFB Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs. A unit of 20 Marauder Minis (the GW sub company founded by Aly Morrison, Trish Carden and Bryan Ansel) Orcs plus a couple extra command units and Ludruk from the original Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs.
Do you remember how there was several different origin stories for Master Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Sometimes he was a rat that turned into a humanoid, sometimes he was a human that became rat-like? You know how Master Splinter predates skaven by a year? I decided to make a skaven if they had been humans that became rat-like! Happy April Fool’s whatever!
This is the staircase to your favorite underground music venue but twice as long. That’s sexy.
something about that one narrow staircase in Spadina station is deeply haunting to me, what do we think?
Went for the moon from Soul Eater!
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Some more trolls properly based! All three flavors! I do have some chaos trolls elsewhere! But for the Orc and Goblin army I have these three kinds and I have more of them coming down the pipeline from that big MTO they did a while back, plus the marauder giant and the orc shaman on wyvern, to get painted up so I’ll have six river trolls, six common trolls and 12 stone trolls plus Ripper Bolgrot from blood bowl. You might notice an interesting troll at the front center of the stone trolls. No, not ripper or the one with the river trolls head, the one with the sword! I have no idea where it’s from but it’s old, has GW design aesthetics all over it including dwarf scalp loin cloth, but it has a slotted base and tab! Wild! Let me know if you know where it’s from!
Nice!!! A well deserved tabling of a fitting kitbash! If you can find a PDF of the chaos war mammoth rules online, you might be able to get someone to play 8th edition with you as well. But a massive giant definitely makes sense for a proxy!
Chaos War Mammoth warshrine conversion
Khorne Juggernaut!! From 2023 or 2024!
I kitbashed a Nippon Ronin in the Empire! They’ve taken out some raiding orcs!
I’m not an asmr person, or a stim watcher generally, but as a hobbyists seeing a great resin pour happen is just the best 😚👌
That looks so good! Congrats!!
unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my sump. focused. flourishing.
Resin success! Well, probably... we'll see how it cures in a few days!
It was super windy today and I was filming in one hand and holding the resin in the other, so this is all I could film really. Looks super cool, I understand now why people like those slime stim videos!
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