table top wargamers

[Rogerborg]

know people who have printed whole armies for next to nothing and only needed to buy the rulebook to play.

The Inquisition would like to know their location.

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Playing in GW stores is a thing of the past now as most of the shops have closed.

Huh, actually more than I thought still open.  Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth up here.  Mostly independents though, and I doubt they give so much of a stuff about purging the heretic as long as they're turning a few £££ on the occasional Codex or piece of plastic crack.

As I understand it, GW are still hugely profitable, although it'll be interesting to see how long that continues if they don't keep getting Little Johnny hooked with starter packs.

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[Sneaky]

I have got back into painting minis since the first lockdownnd have been enjoying getting back into the hobby. I was a huge GW nerd as an early teenager and yeah it has changed SO much. The number of editions and rule revisions is staggering, the cost of minis went to a ridiculous place and although still very expensive for what they are GW are doing a good job of making box sets to make it affordable and also there are smaller scale skimish games (think 40k or warhammer but with 1 squad vs 1 squad rather than armies).

And there is a huge interest for early edition games and models with some original models selling for stupid money. I cry at the amount of stuff my mum must have chucked out when I moved out and what its now worth on ebay and the sales channels.

Also lots and lots of companies making and people 3d printing proxy models means getting into the hobby now can be cheap as anything. I know people who have printed whole armies for next to nothing and only needed to buy the rulebook to play.

Yeah GW frown upon proxies and making your own and the true neckbeards will always grumble about this but its the same in airsoft with the geardos and cryebabies. But I play a few of the smaller skirmish games at a gaming cafe and almost every single table/game when I am there has a proxy or homemade printed model on each table when I look around. Playing in GW stores is a thing of the past now as most of the shops have closed.

I’m glad I kept all my old stuff. Seeing the prices one eBay are eye watering and makes me happy that I didn’t part with mine, nor the books.

 

[proffrink]

And there is a huge interest for early edition games and models with some original models selling for stupid money. I cry at the amount of stuff my mum must have chucked out when I moved out and what its now worth on ebay and the sales channels.

Also lots and lots of companies making and people 3d printing proxy models means getting into the hobby now can be cheap as anything. I know people who have printed whole armies for next to nothing and only needed to buy the rulebook to play.

I've been playing around with the Sonic Mini 8K this week. Providing the model sculpters themselves can keep up - as they have been able to do already - these machines will probably exceed the quality of the GW cast resin minis (but be shy of the injection moulded classics) whilst being about 80-90% as durable. You're not going to see this from many quarters yet though as most are only just moving to 4K from the old 2K machines. Resin is also silly expensive for many.