Well, the book was released last weekend and I bought it, along with the limited edition mines, bombs and booby traps. The Skyshield landing pad was also released but that will keep; I'll buy it along with the larger boxed sets of bastions and defence lines later on.
So out of the £150 kitty I have spent £26.75 and have£123.25 left.
Since my last NMF post GW have also announced that there will be a further Battlescape scenery piece with a ruined Rhino buried into some craters, surrounded by shredded trees. It looks great and I'd like to pick once of those up too.
With that in mind, here's what else I plan to purchase:
- Imperial strongpoint £53.85
- Skyshield landing pad £23.50
- Blastscape craters £11.75
- Battlescape £14.70
I've been looking at my finances in a more general sense recently and they don't make for great reading. Despite my economy drives over the past eighteen months or so my situation is still a little precarious.
Because gaming is a luxury and not a necessity it will be one of my first activities to feel the pinch. I really need to buckle down and sell some of my stockpile of models in the coming months to make a dent in my debts.
It also means I may have to sell some models I had previously planned on keeping. Prime candidates are the Catachans I recently stripped. I found I had more of the models than I had thought, many of them metal, and they may bring some much needed cash in. If things get really desperate I may have to sell a painted army too, but that will be a last resort.
Of course any money I make will still go into the NMF but as I have made a resolution not to buy any models this year the fund is largely notional at the moment. Once my finances are back in order I plan to cash in the fund and buy big!
I feel your pain on the finance front. My missus recently tore a strip off me about my spending habits. What I see as important and essential spending is not necessarily what she sees.
ReplyDeleteI look to eBay and online stores more and more to help stretch every dollar spent. But at the end of the day, the hobby is a luxury like you pointed out, and will be on a temporary spending hiatus for the near term for me.
The key for me is to use the spending freeze as an excuse to paint up some of the models I already own. That way I feel good about reducing my lead pile, I can add some models to my armies and it costs me nothing.
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