how much £££ does this hobby owe you....

[matt-b]

with all my mercig models and afew others, rake of megafrets etc... i think i`ll be pushing the £3k mark, which when i think about it, is crazy!

[bluedepot]

yeh it is mad.... i'm new to the hobby but already spent loads....

but then again, sky sports, football season tickets, alcohol, golf, flying..... whatever the hobby, they all cost a lot of money....

i do need to try and budget though!!!!

i think it's good to limit yourself to an era or region, and not buy new models that don't fit in with that just because you like them!!!! have some discipline!!! ha



tim

[michael]

given that its about 9 years since I took the hobby up again, I dread to think!!! thousands but as you say, other hobbys cost a lot to. For example you can buy a lot of trains for the same price as a set of golf bats 

[jonclox]

    If I told you  roughly how much I have spent on the hobby and 'the wife' ever read it I would probably be beaten to death so I`ll keep my mouth shut and hope to live a bit longer 

[EtchedPixels]

It does make you realise that despite the recent price hikes the cost of models has dived versus disposable income.

In the 1970s I saved for a year for a Hornby Hymek, and that was not uncommon. There are good reasons 1960's layouts are so often branch lines with one or two locos and small stock levels. Mind you it did mean the stock was sometimes really quite spectacular because there was a lot more time per model

[OwL]

I would hate to divulge how much I've spent for the same reason as Jonclox (missus would go crazy if she found out :'()

With model railways and N in particular getting better, the price will go up, especially if you look at the quality of some of the latest releases from Dapol and GraFar, but we all have our vices and mine is N scale modelling, so although it squeezes my disposable income, at least I have something to show for my money and it gives me deep pleasure to play trains, and have a railway with engines-trains that  I want to run.

[longbridge]

I sometimes wonder why I decided to take up one of the most expensive hobbies around but hey a mans got to do something in his spare time.

If my Wife knew how many thousands I spent on trains she would have my suitcases packed and on the doorstep.

A flick through the receipts for things I bought for my OO gauge layout in 2003 came to $5,400au or about 4.000 quid, I have built another three layouts since then and probably spent about the same on each of them

[Claude Dreyfus]

I'm feeling poor just thinking about what I have spent. For me it is also not just the actual cost of the stuff; it's the postage, VAT and handling fees ( to the latter) that add to it...

[porkie]

I dread to think what I have spent over the 13yrs....

But when I hear my mates saying that they blow over £100 at weekends drinking  . 

At least I have something to show for it

[EtchedPixels]

I dread to think what I have spent over the 13yrs....

But when I hear my mates saying that they blow over £100 at weekends drinking  . 

At least I have something to show for it

So I imagine have they - spilling over their belt

[porkie]

So I imagine have they - spilling over their belt

[/quote]

lol,
yeah they have beer and keebab gutts

[michael]

But when I hear my mates saying that they blow over £100 at weekends drinking  . 

At least I have something to show for it

thats exactly how I look at it, and what a think to have to show!

[Lawrence]

For me it is also not just the actual cost of the stuff; it's the postage, VAT and handling fees ( to the latter) that add to it...

hear hear 

Good old Royal Rip Off Mail

[tadpole]

Mine's about 5k, but I also have 2k worth of EFE/OOC 1:76 buses, total 7k which is ENOUGH already!

So, N-gauge purchases are funded by selling buses, which also frees up the required space. (Buses and their boxes take up heaps more space than equivalent trains. After fees/P&P you need to sell 2 buses to fund a carriage, 5 for a loco).

[Rod]

I've been modelling N gauge for about two months, done virtually nothing and spent about £350...but most of that was funded by selling £270 worth of continental TT, so that makes me feel a bit better...
Rod