Talk about bulk painting...check this out

[Steve J]

If he did this using the current Victrix offer of 212 figures for £85, then to put the 28,000 figures on the table will cost him £11,226.80

Good God Almighty  .

[barbarian]

What would it be in 10 mm ?

[seano1815]

Well  based just on infantry i think somewhere in the region of £3734 rounded up   but then hed need cavalry and artillery on top of that he'll need a bigger house, I think he sould have used 10mm compared to Niks figure

[nikharwood]

Just to put this into (some, slight) perspective...

I've been wargaming continuously (not constantly, natch  ) now since, I think, about 1996 or so...that's 16 years or thereabouts. Given that when I got back into gaming, I went back to GW, and gamed in 28mm pretty much exclusively until ~2000, I'll do this as an average:

- monthly spend: £120 - this includes figures, paints, gaming (including trips to shows, GW, EuroGT etc)
- yearly spend: £1440
- times 16 years = £23,040

I think that's actually pretty conservative really - I know, at times, that I've dropped a couple hundred quid here & there on some pretty random stuff...

It's also, of course, another reason to have it listed on the house insurance, locked safely away, guarded by a German Shepherd (canine, not Fritz in his lederhosen - he's way too scary)...and to have a reciprocal arrangement with a trusted gamer in case I shuffle off this mortal coil: someone who can go through it & tell SWMBO what it's really worth and how to sell / distribute it 

[seano1815]

He's finished 10 companies of the 79th camaronians what an awsome sight i'll never complain about painting tartan again 

[Hertsblue]

Yes, but what's he going to do with it when he's done? Just to display it will take up more room than is available in the average semi. Or is it just the 21st century equivalent of building a Greek folly on the south lawn? 

[Malbork]

Absolutely amazing.

To misquote that French general about the Battle of Balaclava - c'est magnifique, mais c'est pas le wargaming 

Where on earth does he put them all? You'd need to live in a mansion just to display them all properly or in a shed and let them take over the house

[mart678]

I would do it if I had a venue to game it in the Olympic stadium is still empty and you could offer a company command for £5 or Regimental £10 Brigade £30 Division £50 Army £100 so if you had both sides and filled all the command  postions A what a Game B you would recover your cost's possibly as I would pay to take part in that
Martin

[FierceKitty]

There's a town in Japan which is widely famed for top-quality pierces for shogi (Japanese chess). They have buildings shaped like them, parking meters shaped like them...you get the idea.
Once a year there's a festival for top players. If you're in town, you can contact the organisers and be a shogi piece in a Kasparov-level game. I imagine they give you a crash course in Japanese so you can follow instructions like "knight to rook-side silver six, check". The online application form asks what piece you'd prefer to be; I wonder if shaggy round-eyed backpackers all end up as pawns.