lead mountain????

[Pijlie]

Gawd, if I count plastics as well, especially the 1/72s, I easily hit thousands......

[Calimero]

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…

Luckily, my apartment is what we call a demi sous-sol, so the floor shouldn’t collapse under the weight of the minis…

[Paleskin]

'I think we're going to need a bigger poll'

[Suber]

Well, I find this thread highly therapeutical
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...)

[Daeothar]

Totally forgot about the Kickstarter Trap! 

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... 

[Michi]

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...

[eilif]

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.

[The Voivod]

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....

[Neotacha]

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.

[grant]

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.

[armchairgeneral]

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."

[syrinx0]

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.    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.

[grant]

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.

[Lowtardog]

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

[FifteensAway]

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".