Reply To: Are you spending too much? Frugal Hobby

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Buy flock from specialist companies who do car dash renovations 100g bag about a fiver

Buy pva from diy stores, 5liter container about £10 its cheaper if you got a builders merchants

Use lentils for cobbles

If you can wait buy your tools from china on aliexpress, its where all the hobby companies buy there tools from before they slap a badge on it (gundam tools is the secret search term to find awesome things)

Think laterally just about everything sold as a hobby supply is repurposed from something else a lot cheaper.  Basing gravel, is just fine reptile grit from the pet shop, 1kg bag £4

Take broken things apart you never know what widget you will find inside that that will look cool, or be useful or both, water filter cartridges for example are full of plastic and charcoal grit which mates a great basing material just spread it on a tray and microwave for 5 mins or put by a radiator to dry, the cartridges them selves with a bit of imagination can be turned into refinerys, rocket engines, wells, storage silos, caps off of plugin room stinker refills are good techno widgets in a scifi game, vape coil wire makes excellent aeirials on vehicles 5m roll of clapton wire £3 or so much cheaper than guitar strings

As mentioned the range is your friend, as is B+M, and surprisingly hobby craft just look in the kids section, bought a bag of assorted sponge brushes for £3 they are great for weathering just rip chunks of sponge out to get an irregular surface and stipple away, also if any makeup in your house is getting thrown away hoard it, eyeshadows can be used as weathering powders, the brushes are really good for dusting and drying excess water from decals.

Nailart supplies can be great for cheap decals especially for weird things you wouldnt normally find for hobby stuff.

Dont buy snips from hobby shops, instead look for a beading shop they have a wider range and are the SAME but usually 30% cheaper for not having a hobby brand on them.

If you want cork for basing or terrain cant go wrong with ikea placemats

I could go on for hours……