BENevolent BENefactor -episode 3 repost

BENevolent BENefactor -episode 3

Well, I had originally planned to talk about my choice of chapter but I decided that it would be more exciting to buy my first batch of marines!

Buying on a budget 

There a few main ways that I have sourced models in the past when looking for good bulk deals:

• Friends

• Direct trading sites (such as Facebook market place)

• Ebay

• Trademe (similar to ebay but with some differences)

I'll try and talk about how I use each of these when I make a purchase with them, but today I'm going to go see a good mate, Ben. 

When buying from friends I'm always cautious about making sure we are both happy with the outcome. In this case I had been chatting to Ben about my plans, and he lives at the intersection of

• Has a lot of space marines 

• Won't ever paint them all

• Wants money

We had had a few chats about what I was after, so Ben went digging through his older minis and managed to find a big pile. At the same time, I went on a bit of a round up of what I had sitting around.

I managed to dig up around half a company of various marine bodies. I also dug up my old bits box, which was filled with spare marine parts such as weapons, heads and shoulder pads. I had done some head swaps on my marines so this was seriously useful.

Ben on the other hand really came to the party and came up with a massive 240 marines! With this haul I now had a massive start on the chapter. After sorting it all out, I now had 4th, 5th and 7th companies completed! Much more than I expected at this point, and I’m actually starting to feel that this might be achievable.

Here is the haul:

This blog is a few months behind, this used up my budget for September and October, as well as some left over from August. 

So now I've started on models, I need to figure out the paint scheme and chapter.

Completion: 30.4%

See you in a week

Mark