The Loose Association of Wargamers

Rise in the cost of living etc etc. I know.
But at the risk of sounding like a penny-pinching, cheese-paring, parsimonious Scrooge, the cost of the hobby is becoming a problem.

My ECW & Late Roman armies are mainly Tumbling Dice figures but after 2 price rises & the ruinous cost of postage, I'm thinking I'm done & will curtail any expansion projects in these areas.

I've had a eye out for SYW Russians that would need to be 3d printed but the 200+ figures I'd need for a decent army is not really sustainable.

And so on.

I could forego metal figures but sadly, my old stand-by - 1/72 plastic figures - are not being covered nearly as widely as the 'Golden Age' of the early 2000s. Only Red Box & Strelets left, really.

Obviously a First World problem but there you are.

donald

Donald I use this to make me feel better about the price of items.
Here is a example
£ 1.00 in 1975
is approximately equivalent to
£13.60 in 2024

https://iamkate.com/data/uk-inflation/

Willz.

The affordability is obviously linked to peoples personal circumstances but if you spread your costs over hours of enjoyment then i think its a pretty cost effective hobby. Compared to golf, or eating out or the cinema or going to a footie match (even if it is 90 minutes of rapturously enjoyable world class footie at Boro)

Enjoyment?

And yes, Peterborough do seem to be playing well this season.

I'll help you with the next joke in the sequence
Me: Peterborough are called the Posh not Boro
Andy: Yes thats right, Middlesbrough cant ever be considered posh

Better than the joke I was thinking of...

goat major wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:19 am The affordability is obviously linked to peoples personal circumstances but if you spread your costs over hours of enjoyment then i think its a pretty cost effective hobby. Compared to golf, or eating out or the cinema or going to a footie match (even if it is 90 minutes of rapturously enjoyable world class footie at Boro)

Those of us with no one to get regular games with obviously have a much higher cost to enjoyment ratio
There's also a geographical difference. Obviously Oz and NZ have huge postal prices to put up with and even in Scotland (and other far flung parts of the UK) things like paint or even rattle cans have to come with an expensive courier, you can't just run down to "Halfords" to pick some up.

(Also Golf is really cheap in Scotland by comparison as it's even taught in schools, membership prices are pretty low and most courses allow you to walk on for a low fee, cinema and real football on the other hand are just mythological north of the border )

enjoyment is only partly the games there's everything else.

goat major wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:49 am enjoyment is only partly the games there's everything else.

Now that's just heresy!

I hate painting with a passion that could only be expressed using the medium of an aggressive interpretive dance. Hence I keep it bottled up!

The social side was always the most important bit for me and many's the time over the past decade or so when i've thought about just selling everything and taking up macrame.

Macrame? What scale?