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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: Paleskin on March 02, 2017, 09:40:39 PM
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bit of fun........ lol
im in the 'worst' category o_o
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I remember one of these polls with several votes for "over 10 000" and at least one for "over 100 000"...
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If we don't count random left-over plastic sprues (the kind you don't plan on building but hold onto for bits later) I'm probably happily in the 100 club thanks to a hell of a year and a half of painting.
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Poll needs a "I'm not sure, I'm scared to find out, but lots" category!
Last weekend I found figures I'd straight-up forgotten I owned, and I wasn't even into the really deeply buried strata of the lead/resin/plastic mountain!
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Phew, just based on the number of unpainted armies I own, multiplied by a couple of hundred figures each... I must be approaching high thousands! lol
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Are we talking any particular scale. Hundreds of 10mm doesn't seem so bad. Presumably this is unpainted. Once painted they cease to be a burden in my view lol
A sobering application to the lead mountain is working out your average painting output and project how long your current mountain will take to finish. You might find you will be a ripe old age assuming you don't buy anymore!
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Having decided to totally concentrate on my own twisted version of the Back of Beyond that includes Pulp and WWI and Darkest Africa and Island South East Asia I have kept it to under 500. Mind you there is the odd modern in there that I need to dispose of.
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I think I'm in the 500-1000 range, but to be honest, I don't really know.
I might well have surpassed the 1000 mark, but since my storage space apparently has the physical attributes of a Superior Bag of Holding (Superior Shelf of Holding?), I've never had to enlarge my storage area; every time a purchase arrives, I can fit it in there.
That, or I'm just really good at playing live Tetris! lol
Then again; it might all just be denial and I'm actually beyond help already... :D
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Are we talking any particular scale. Hundreds of 10mm doesn't seem so bad. Presumably this is unpainted. Once painted they cease to be a burden in my view lol
Scale's a good point. I have loads of 6mm and 10mm lying about unpainted, but I'm considering one block of figures to be equivalent to one 28mm figure. If it's each individual 6mm figure, I probably ticked the wrong box :D
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If it's each individual 6mm figure, I probably ticked the wrong box :D
Then I certainly ticked the wrong box, as I have the Space Marine 1st ed, 2nd ed and Epic boxes kicking around with some extras. There certainly are more than 1000 minis in those alone... ;D
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Less than 15 in the "lead" mountain, until a packet arrives from Portugal. Rather more in the "Plastic Pile" :)
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It depends of what...
Of boxes/projects I'm oh less than 20. ;)
Of individual figs/castings well... <Cough> likely in the 10,000+ Those 15mm figs and 6mm things soon add up. I call it my lead retirement saving plan.
Now equally I have several thousand painted as well. I recently counted that I have approx. 1500 painted 15mm ECW figs alone. My 2 Napoleonic armies likely combine to something similar as well.
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oh thats - um not entirely sure - I am a hoarder in miniature.
Takes up less space and there's always room for.. more
but its well into several thousand little things mostly in 28mm...
of course mostly not metal now - but the leaded contingent will still get me well past the first thousand, at least.
Years of dedication, hard work and innovation in storage.
In retrospect that does sound quite a lot.
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I am pretty good.
I would say less than 30.
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About 30 days ago I would have said 300. Down to 50 or so:) My hand is tired!
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Personally, definitely in the last category, but I feel Paleskin has missed an important option:
"Tons, but many of them are at Bob's house waiting paint so don't count towards the tally of shame."
;)
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Well I think I'm in the 500-1000 category. But if you include miniatures from boardgames such as descent, heroquest, and a myriad of others then I would be easily over 1000. I always plan on painting them but the lead gets in the way.
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I am not answering this question until you sign a non disclosure contract. If my significant other was ever to find out the true extent of the mountain I would be in a world of trouble.
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Probably around a couple of hundred in actual lead... I've been pretty disciplined at getting it down over the last couple of years...
The plastic, on the other hand... Dear God, the plastic... ;)
Boxes and boxes of the wretched things. But hey, they're not made up, so they don't really count, right? :D
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Well, only yesterday I noticed a few new lead comets orbiting around the Constellation of Shame, so.... lol
Let's keep it at a couple of 1000, upwards and counting, that's doesn't sound too problematic, does it?
*insert puppy eyes*...
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Miniature Gamers Rule 1 states:
"A person who doesn't own more than his own weight in unpainted lead is a danger to himself and his friends!"
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Yup, in the last category but if helps i´m reducing at a steady pace so within some months probably the 1000 or so.
A question. Does the painted ones count too? ::)
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I had a... significant... number collected over the years. I blame Kickstarters (mostly anyway).
Last year I sold or gave away a ton of minis, swore off the big Kickstarters, and upped my painting output while I was off sick. So I'm under the 100, and I will paint what's left this year if I don't buy any more.
Since that's known to be unhealthy, I am going to the Hammerhead show today to extend my life expectancy ;)
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I assume I'm in the 500-1000 category.
I might be over it, but I don't feel like doing an actual count.
Also, I'm afraid of what I might find.
Not sure the missus agrees on the 'good effort' assesment.
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I think I have crossed the magical marker where I have several thousand miniatures, but *the majority is painted*!
its on my bucket list to have 90% that I want to paint in the lead pile, painted when I go, the rest got rid of.
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Always too big. I get a mountain, get overwhelmed, sell it off at half of what I paid, and then typically start over the same mad cycle. It's really quite stupid. o_o
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Always too big. I get a mountain, get overwhelmed, sell it off at half of what I paid, and then typically start over the same mad cycle. It's really quite stupid. o_o
I think a lot of us do that. You dump all your stuff when you 'grow up' then years down the line get all nostalgic and collect it all again before deciding to flog it all again only to really wish you hadn't sold that special piece or particular set of models. It's why I rarely get rid of stuff these days as I know I'll want it again at some point.
I'm reckoning I'm in the 1000+ category as far as lead mountain shame goes. Might have come in under that had it not been for all the plastic in the GW games I've been hoarding over these past few years.
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Hmmm, probably around 100 to 150 in metal, not including a box of 15mm British Colonials waiting for a project.
In plastic that's another matter. A lot of Hat 1/72 plastic Punic Wars figures for Warmaster. Then there's 50 Daleks for a Dalek civil war project, and a load of Heroclix & Horrorclix waiting for rebasing & repainting.
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My lead mountain is now probably the biggest it's ever been. But there is nothing I want to get rid of, everything is going to get painted and gamed with.
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My lead mountain is now probably the biggest it's ever been. But there is nothing I want to get rid of, everything is going to get painted and gamed with.
Bold words there! ;)
I think I'd be better off cataloguing everything and teaching my GF how to list stuff on Ebay. lol
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weight or nothing. well over a tonne ;-)
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I have made well in excess of £1000 selling off figures I will not paint in my lifetime. It was quite cathartic. I will not be buying into new periods in the foreseeable future, either. I am happy to be rid of all that baggage.
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I might have lied just now.....
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At one time, I would have agreed, I used to go to 6 or 7 shows a year and spend a lot, the last two years I have only been to two, this year it will be one and that will be as a seller.....
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weight or nothing. well over a tonne ;-)
Bloody hell, Red, you're going to have to stop painting figures for other people and crack on!
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Am glad to be on the top of something.
Along with 33% of my LAF brothers and a few sisters.
Way over 1000.
We few, we happy few. lol
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Just in 28mm lead it's over a 1,000 (1,136 if my estimate list is accurate - yes I am sad enough to have a spreadsheet, but hey I'm an accountant!)
I'm trying not to add too much this year and finally finish off some of the half-completed forces.
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Oh dear I have a spreadsheet as well lol That's how I know I have 760 28mm to paint. I do now have a few 40mm but they are off the radar at the moment. Still categorised as "samples" :)
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bit of fun........ lol
im in the 'worst' category o_o
Define "worst". We have lots unpainted, but the two mountains are combined so I can't claim mine is particularly horrible. The rest are Weaver's. Honest.
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500-1000 for me and I'm trying to reduce that, even offering some of them to my friends :'(
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1000 or less it's a paint queue ;)
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Painted 770 last year without buying anything new. Have painted 123 so far this year. Haven't hardly put a dent in the pile. I have been collecting for a long time though. Have some figures in the pile that are older then most of the folks on this forum.
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I have made well in excess of £1000 selling off figures I will not paint in my lifetime. It was quite cathartic. I will not be buying into new periods in the foreseeable future, either. I am happy to be rid of all that baggage.
I must have sold off around £8,000 of kit painted and unpainted out of necessity at one point however you are right it can be refreshing, though the painted stuff I still cringe as new projects come up tat the club or with mates and my mantra is...I used to have.... :)
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Yup, in the last category but if helps i´m reducing at a steady pace so within some months probably the 1000 or so.
Decreasing yours, increasing mine :)
Tony.
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If we're counting all unpainted miniatures and not just metals, happy to say that I've whittled myself down from around the 200-300 mark to a tiny handful in the last few months. Considering I amassed about 250 unpainted Mantic and GW fantasy miniatures in the space of two years, I won't be too surprised if that jumps up again considerably in the near future, but moving away from mass army games into skirmish territory has made it a lot easier to stay focused and committed when I start painting.
As somebody whose still very fresh to the hobby, it's nice to be able to jump between projects now without knowing I've got a hundred miniatures to come back to as well; and knowing that I can realistically get a project finished up to start gaming with in a few weeks instead of having months of work ahead is really helping with hobby motivation :D Painting time's still very limited at the moment due to planning a big interstate move in a few months and taking on more work to fund that, but I actually feel like I'll have at least two or three leagues fully painted for Pulp Alley by the time we move, whereas if I'd stuck with AoS or KoW I'd have barely made a dent in the pile.
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Gawd, if I count plastics as well, especially the 1/72s, I easily hit thousands......
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Oh dear… just a, real quick, mental count of the 28mm figures I have in the lead pile, amount to 1200+ figures. I haven’t counted ALL the 28mm figures I have and didn’t count the 6, 15 and 20mm figures… nor the 28mm plastic… ;D
Luckily, my apartment is what we call a demi sous-sol, so the floor shouldn’t collapse under the weight of the minis… lol
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'I think we're going to need a bigger poll' lol lol
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Well, I find this thread highly therapeutical lol
I'm afraid I fall under the last category. On my defence, I'll say that just the Conan KS alone broke all my stats (while adding some kind of pressure, but that's another story...)
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Totally forgot about the Kickstarter Trap! :o
With a pledge of Myth still languishing unpainted as well as a full Mercs Recon pledge, I'm most certainly well over 1000.
Closer to 2000 actually. But in my defense; I'm still hoping to flog the Mercs one... ;D
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I find myself among the majority of admitting addicts too. Honestly I would have expected that most of an age over 40 should have accumulated at least 1000 unpainted miniatures at least. I do not feel surprised however...
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Wow!
And I thought my lead mountain (probably a bit shy of 500) was big. I do wonder about how scales affect the numbers though. My lead mountain is comprised almost entirely of 28mm figs.
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Oh yeah, When my Myth pledge arrives I'll have over 500 mini's for Myth alone, don't I?
That would put me firmly in the latter category....
Huh...
Well, in for a penny....
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Wow!
And I thought my lead mountain (probably a bit shy of 500) was big. I do wonder about how scales affect the numbers though. My lead mountain is comprised almost entirely of 28mm figs.
So is ours.
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Mines about to get reduced to zero.
I am leaving the "hobby" entirely and will be selling off all my gaming stuff, right down to airbrush and paints.
I don't think my real spark has ever returned in years and it's time to admit defeat. The hobby just takes up time I could spend doing other things like well anything.
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Mines about to get reduced to zero.
I am leaving the "hobby" entirely and will be selling off all my gaming stuff, right down to airbrush and paints.
I don't think my real spark has ever returned in years and it's time to admit defeat. The hobby just takes up time I could spend doing other things like well anything.
Sorry to hear that Grant but if that is how you feel. You seemed to be in a different place last week
"New girlfriend even games Star Wars with me, loves my hobby, and sees it as positive for my overall wellbeing."
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I only collect 28mm. There were a few years I bought over 500 figures; mostly GW or historical armies. I'm around 1800 unpainted figures which I never thought of as a huge mountain until this poll. lol Almost nothing big this year in KS for miniatures but I will hit three conventions so I expect that will probably add to the pile.
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Sorry to hear that Grant but if that is how you feel. You seemed to be in a different place last week
"New girlfriend even games Star Wars with me, loves my hobby, and sees it as positive for my overall wellbeing."
Yeah that's the way it goes when life goes up and down. It's down now and I'm moving on to other things. Just posted the first batch of stuff. Get a deal.
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Doing a clear out and think I have under estimated my collection when photo graphing minis to sell and these are ones I have touched and there are 300 plus!!!!! and that is only 2 little untouched projects lol
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If 1,000 figures constitute a "lead mountain" then I'm lost in the Himalayas for sure. Essentially all metal (only 'plastic' are zoologic except for the three udibi boys from the HaTT jungle set x 3 (once the Tarzan set when they were Airfix if memory serves - very long time ago). And all in one scale, 15/18 mm except for a very few tidbits that fit in about half of a shoe box lid.
And what of the resin foothills one has to cross to get up into the mountain range proper? That, too, is rather formidable though no Hindu Kush.
However, essentially done collecting figures unless someone releases a coherent range for German East Africa world war II in my scale. And then there is Blue Moon and the possibility of a Boxer Rebellion range - with structures - that worries me. I already have a bunch of figures for the period but I might go in whole hog if Blue Moon does it. And having a special affinity for zoological beasts - of the non-fantasy variety - I'm always on the look out for more animals. That is my personal oddity within the hobby. One hundred twenty American bison for instance. (114 already painted)
I'm trying to build up the courage to bring in some heavy duty excavation equipment to reduce the mountain range horde. But, by Gollum, that isn't easy.
At least I can point to about 5,000 painted and nearly that primed if not more now. Why, just last month, I put paint on a bit over 1,700 figures but it was just the basic skin tone. But no progress this month yet as 'my time' is being absorbed with the garden. Must keep 'her' happy so I labor away - over 36 different flowers blooming in the front yard alone (early spring here in northern California).
So, for me, you definitely missed a button - "well over ten thousand".
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I have very little in stocks as I plan what I need, buy it and paint it
Over the decades I have built up a bit of stock, but projects which are never really going to be done, I sell.
Amongst my gaming pals it seems I am a little unusual :)
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Hello...my name is Paddy and I am a lead addict...... I've been coming to Lead Addicts Anonymous for several years now....
This is a very therapeutic thread. I am firmly in the 1000+ category and all that virgin lead, excluding the several 100 partly painted figures that I started and then went off the project and pushed the figures to the dark recesses of the painting table, then into a box, then into the attic etc.
IN MY DEFENCE: My percentage unfinished stat (i.e. the ratio of unpainted and unfinished lead to my painted and based collection) is about 16%. So only one in six of my models has yet to make it onto the table. Is this bad or good?
ALSO: I have reduced the size of my unpainted lead mountain over the last few years by about 500 - so I am making inroads.
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Given I am not playing at the moment then I have to say all my figures reside in the Alps!
Why am I still buying figures?
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Oh dear I have a spreadsheet as well lol That's how I know I have 760 28mm to paint. I do now have a few 40mm but they are off the radar at the moment. Still categorised as "samples" :)
There's something wrong with the spreadsheet I'm using. It keeps saying 'does not compute' ;)
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At a Bring and Buy this weekend I bought over 1500 figures alone...Ok approx 1300 were unpainted 15mm peninsular British and other lot were a large collection of WW2 Americians. They just go in with the others in the pile.
I guess that says it all...