A Small Hobby Haul, Big Price Pain
Sometimes the plan is simple: just grab a few supplies
This time it was one of those very relatable hobby shopping trips. You know the kind: we start by looking at one thing, get distracted by something completely unnecessary, laugh at a suspiciously good deal, and then end up grumbling about prices anyway.
Pegie dropped by Wargamer on Wilcza to pick up some hobby supplies. The original idea was apparently sensible enough, but as always, the hobby has a way of turning a quick errand into a whole internal debate about what we actually need.
Online, the basket was already prepared and would have come out a few dozen złoty cheaper. But honestly, we get it completely: buying hobby stuff online is great right up until the moment we’re not 100% sure what we want. Sometimes it’s just easier to go to the shop, stare at the racks, compare things in person, and make peace with the fact that the final receipt is going to hurt a bit.
The eternal battle: convenience vs price
That was pretty much the mood here. On one hand, cheaper online shopping. On the other, the ability to actually see the products before buying them. When we’re picking paints or primers, that difference matters more than we’d like to admit.
Pegie also shared photos from the trip, including paints that looked very familiar. Same color names, apparently, but produced in Lithuania. That kind of discovery always raises questions. Are they a hidden gem? A clever alternative? A trap? We love this part of the hobby almost as much as painting itself: the endless investigation into whether a cheaper option is secretly just as good.
And then there were the skulls
Of course, no hobby conversation is complete without some completely random detour. In this case: skulls. Specifically, a Temu listing for 100 skulls for 43 zł.
At first glance? Potentially an incredible basing deal.
A moment later? Turns out they were about a centimeter each.
So instead of a glorious pile of grimdark basing bits, what we really had was the mental image of oversized comedy skulls. Still funny, still technically useful for something, but maybe not quite the bargain it first appeared to be.
The real goal: get that primer on today
Despite the distractions, jokes, and justified complaints about hobby prices, the most important part of the whole exchange was very simple: Pegie wanted to get some primer on models that same day.
And honestly, that’s the most hobby-postive ending possible. Not just buying supplies for the pile, not just theorycrafting the perfect basket, but actually planning to use them immediately.
We complain about prices, we overthink purchases, we get baited by weird online listings, but in the end it’s always about getting models ready for the next step.
Hopefully the primer went on smoothly.
Final thoughts
This was a very small slice of hobby life, but a familiar one. A shop visit, a bit of sticker shock, some curiosity about alternative paints, and one gloriously misleading skull offer.
Basically: a completely normal day in Warhammer hobbying.