This Is The Staircase To Your Favorite Underground Music Venue But Twice As Long. That’s Sexy.

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!

Chaos War Mammoth that I painted a few years ago!

I’m going to my Friendly Local Gaming Store today, here are some minis from pro painters in the painting cabinet including some names you might recognize!

Yeah why not lol

Left to right: Käärijä (musician and noteworthy gender icon), Rarity (mlp:fim), Mollymauk Tealeaf (Critical Role Campaign 2 The Mighty Nein), Lt Commander Data (Star Trek TNG), Darkiplier (Markiplier Cinematic Universe), Alice (Disney’s Alice in Wonderland) & Alice Liddell (American McGee’s Alice games) & Alice (1988 Czech film by Jan Švankmajer)

Yeah basically 😂

Every now and then the bow variant of them is great for harassing dwarfs that can’t charge them and only dwarfs that can’t charge them 😂

15 horrible shitheads and their dogs. their job is to kill war machine crews, be cheap, and die

Avalard Mutis, sorcerer lord of Chagath's Plagueridden and right hand man of lord Chagath himself

Skarsnik and Gobbla with retinue! 98 goblins including 3 fanatics, plus two squigs makes 100 units.

This can be broken up into multiple units of 20 which is why there are so many command units in there!

Close ups of the Warriors of Chaos army. Still need to finish basing a lot of them.

I’m going to start showcasing more of my Warriors of Chaos stuff for a while. Starting with this converted chaos champion who rolled particularly peculiarly on the Realm of Chaos tables.

I love this guy.

I finally finished my 3 units of 30 savage orcs! I was encouraged to reclaim my coffee table for when we have guests over soon. These guys are kinda finicky!