So, only been wargaming like 2.5 years.
and that is counting stuff like paint and airbrushes and gaming mats.
my main game is warmachine/hordes. Easy to spend maybe 1.5k to buy a full faction, bought two pretty quick.
then I bought a 40k army with a few FW things. So maybe 2K there?
then some FW stuff for 30k
then a faction for Malifaux
this month started FEC for AOS.
also spent $500 to fully back a warcaster faction, shipping this fall.
I paint everything I play with, but I obviously don’t play with everything. Currently have 44 FEC ghouls on the table I just started tonight, hoping to get them done by the end of the weekend!!
at the end Of the day, this hobby seems cheap. My previous hobby was triathlons which involved 10k bikes and 1k just to do an iron man. My buddies that golf spend way more than me.
Edit - I suspect long term I can live on a 3k a year ($250 a month) budget. I don’t think I would want more than maybe 3 armies a year? But little new releases to keep up my armies cost something...