What to do when you're attracted to a kit but not its army?

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

So, here's the deal. For a long while, I've had my eye on an Atalan Jackals kit sitting up at my FLGS. I want it, I think it'd be a really cool modeling and painting project, but they're expensive, they aren't a Kill Team option so I don't have that excuse and they're not an army I actually want to play. No Start Collecting box, no easy box sets, and I would really just want to field a mining colony as an army if I did (file off the head ridges, call them miners defending themselves from whatever). If Jackals were a Kill Team option, I'd have them already and be fielding them, just because they're such a cool kit. I don't really have the funds to afford random kits, especially expensive ones... but I waaaaaaant them. What do I do?

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

Check ebay and if the price is right its right

 

There's one there for 42$ free shipping super tempting ;)

Edited November 13, 2019 by Kolgrim DeathHowl

[Marshal Loss]

Wait a couple of months and see if you still really want them. If you do, then buy the kit just to build/paint/own, and see where it goes from there

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

I would see if any of your buddies were interested in some of the models too and see if you can throw down together, another option.

[Slave to Darkness]

Make a Necromunda gang, eventually we will get Ash Wastes rules so we can finally do Mad Max style gangs. 

 

Or just buy the kit to paint, push your painting skills by trying new techniques without having to paint an entire army, or just paint it because its a nice ass set of minis. 

[Excessus]

Convert them into something your army uses? Though this has limited applications...

 

They really got some nice stuff with those and the ridgerunner! I need to find a way to use them somehow...

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

After you said the Necromunda thing it got me thinking about wanting to get them and creating something lol.

[Slave to Darkness]

After you said the Necromunda thing it got me thinking about wanting to get them and creating something lol.

Making a Biker Gang is high on my to do list, just finding the funds to get them though. :/

[Excessus]

Orlocks should be involved somehow, they got that whole bike gang aestethic. :)

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

 

After you said the Necromunda thing it got me thinking about wanting to get them and creating something lol.

Making a Biker Gang is high on my to do list, just finding the funds to get them though. :/

 

I really want to  make an Inquisitor on a bike, wouldn't be something I could actually play with. Unless I just counted him not on a bike but that's what I would really like to do eventually.

[MegaVolt87]

Just low key creep on master work paint jobs on it on places like insta to get your fix.

[Closet Skeleton]

Convert them into advance scouts and use them as objective markers.

[Excessus]

...and don't forget to post the project in the forge! :P

[Slasher956]

wallet: breaths a sigh of relief

 Me: breaths a sigh of regret, then come to terms with I have 2 40K factions with a fair bit un-painted.... & no I wont mention the 2K Roman Legion army, still in its boxes as I dont know anyone who plays ancients so havent assembled half of them, that I brought because I like to learn about the period...:'(

[Exilyth]

Wait and see whether you're just hyped or you really desire that kit is the best option imho.

 

As for uses besides honing modelling/painting skills:

• Conversion may be an option, e.g. I've seen atalan jackals converted to rough riders (and ridgerunners as sentinels or HWTs) for imperial guard astra militarum.
• Other game systems: unfortunably the jackals are not available for kill team as far as I know.
• Small detachment: Jackal Alphus, 3x Atalan Jackals would make a fast outrider detachment.

Edited November 16, 2019 by Exilyth

[Ishagu]

But the kit, paint is, use it in narrative games in future.

[Son of Sacrifice]

You'll buy them, and they'll sit in the box in your paint queue for years, because you don't really need them. Then you'll sell them.

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

What I end up doing is looking for half the box being sold on ebay and hope it's the half I want lol.

[Ciler]

I always fancied the FW SM Recon squads, even though they are NOT templary at all : what I did was build them as "count as"...

http://reho.st/self/f4dee4948d1cb478fb81eb99e5adbc2b506993cc.jpg

 

Now I have a proper crusader recon squad.

[Bat33.1]

Buy them, build them, paint them, eBay them and get your money back. Unless you are a quality painter and you can make a profit.

Get's that itch scratched...

[Xenith]

So, here's the deal. For a long while, I've had my eye on an Atalan Jackals kit sitting up at my FLGS. I want it, I think it'd be a really cool modeling and painting project, but they're expensive, they aren't a Kill Team option so I don't have that excuse and they're not an army I actually want to play. No Start Collecting box, no easy box sets, and I would really just want to field a mining colony as an army if I did (file off the head ridges, call them miners defending themselves from whatever). If Jackals were a Kill Team option, I'd have them already and be fielding them, just because they're such a cool kit. I don't really have the funds to afford random kits, especially expensive ones... but I waaaaaaant them. What do I do?

It's not a random kit if you want it. Wanting it is how pretty much all purchases are made. Buy it because you love the models and want to paint them. If you feel that itch is scratched later, then either keep or sell them.

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

I was lurking through ebay and I found that kit you were after they were piecing each piece out seperatly, if you go back and check it might still be there if you're still only dead set on 1 model or 2.

[Shard of Magnus]

I tend to buy first, question later. That pile of shame isn’t going to grow by itself you know!

 

Aside from finances, it really depends on where you are at with your army and what you want from the hobby. I have enough stuff to play so don’t feel the need to prioritize filling out options for an army. (That soon to change with Sisters plastics...). As a result I tend to make most purchases based on models I want to paint or convert. When I didn’t have enough to field 2-3k I focused more filling out usable units.

[MaliGn]

Buy kit, create diorama from kit, paint and enter golden Daemon.