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Alrighty, let's see what I've got, personally. No numeric order, since they all fill me with equal pride and shame:

- You own 4 different loyalist Marine armies.

- When digging through a box you find an unbuilt Land Raider you forgot about.

- What started as "Oh, I'll paint these Orks that came with Black Reach" becomes a 2100 point army.

- You have a barely touched Necromunda starter set, which you only bought because you found it.

- You have a barely touched 2nd edition 40k starter set, which you ALSO only bought because you found it.

- You have to stop and think about how many armies you actually own, and even then it takes two hands to count.

- There's about 1500 points of Iron Warriors, replete with GW conversion bits, sitting unbuilt in Ziploc bags in a crate, right next to where you sleep. To this day, 10 Marines and one rhino are assembled and painted.

- You bought the Imperial Sector, just cause. It still remains unbuilt.

Hoo boy, at least the Orks are almost done being painted.

Another one; You have a room just for Titans.

-You have enough Space Marines to actually field a chapter.

Another one: When your unbuilt models end up been part of your base decoration for your current project.

You sold your house to buy a shop full of it!

Heh. Number 6 applied to the former (awesome) manager of the local gw. It took him ten minutes to list his chaos army.

Blackmoor wrote:Top 10 signs you own too much Warhammer

Hmm...

#10. Selling spare stuff got me a couple armies worth of new stuff!

#9. I won’t need to buy a BA army because I already own Grey Marines!

#8. I've re-bought Assault Marines that I later found.

#7. I shrank down to "only" 5 armies (for 40k), technically: Eldar, IG, SM, CSM, & SoB - =I= doesn't count.

#6. I already own Iyanden, Alaitoc, Biel-Tan, vanilla, and Ulthwe forces - just for Eldar.

#5. I have 2 (large) Fantasy armies and don’t even play Fantasy (anymore).

#4. I can find 90+% of my stuff, because it's in labeled boxes or figure cases!

#3. Looking through my IG, I found I had a valid Inq Storms army, yet never tried to build or wanted an Inq Army.

So I guess I'm 80% of the way to owning too much Warhammer stuffs.

Of course, deliberately cutting back a few years back (before prices collapsed) helped a lot!
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LunaHound wrote:Good thing is i rebag them into neat little packages after cleaning up :3

Tackle / bead boxes are your friend. I have 4 bitz boxes, all sorted and stacked. Try it!

Here are a couple from my experience:

You find a fantasy chaos army in your bitz box.

You realize you are buying a new codex and have never played a game out of the previous codex.

You have terrain to go with each of your armies - theoretically. Actually, in many cases what you have is a tote of random crap you're saving to make said terrain for said army.

You confuse your squads with another squad.
You own so many armies that it takes 20 minutes to count them.
You are writing an essay on your army everyday.

When people ask you how much money you have spent on Warhammer you cant possibly count it all up, and your only response is "a lot"

You spend a whole day trying to figure out how many completed models you own, only to give up in frustration becasue after the 2448th model you forgot if you counted your grey/blue/red/green/black marines.

You want to play a mega-apocalypse game at your FLGS but everyone else combined cant get up to the point value of the army you brought.

You hate moving because you know you will have to actually pack up and sort all your models. (but thats the only reason you hate moving)

You have every single model with all of their various options in a specific codex.

You buy a 5th land raider for your Space Wolves, just cause'

When you have a dedicated shed for 40k storage because your room is already filled with 80% off 40k.

LOl rouge looks like an old Growing room to me!

You start finding stuff you don't recall buying.

Alternatively you have to buy duplicates of stuff because your original copies are too hard to find.

RogueMarket wrote:

When you have a dedicated shed for 40k storage because your room is already filled with 80% off 40k.

This looks like a fallout shelter. When the bombs fall and the raiders claim the wasteland, you'll be happily building Warhams in your private bunker.

When friends come look through your stock because the local store doesn't have what they need .

When you get all excited about collecting a new army and then find the last 'new army' you started half built and only 2% painted

10. You can field an army composed of minis from every edition of the game.
9. You have units that were good in previous edition, are worthless now, but you hold onto them waiting for their return to glory in the next edition.
8. You remember the thrill of buying a new box of Rogue Trader era marines. And still have them.
7. You go through your bitz boxes and realize that you have all the weapons and turrets for multiple predators, razorbacks, and/or whilrlwinds – but you don’t have any rhino hulls.
6. You think that you have enough parts for 10-20 boyz, and your search yields enough parts to build 80+ boyz.
5. You still have the second edition Ork paperstock dreadnaught cut-out.
4. You have terrain for different warzones (city, desert, etc.).
3. You think it’s ridiculous for women to have multiple purses and dozens of shoes, but have land raiders and tactical marines in multiple chapter colors.
2. You debate the possibility of inter-species breeding and women being space marines on the internet.
1. You have White Dwarf magazines that have pictures of Andy Chambers and his “Space Wolf” hair.

When your closet contains more product than most retailers.

Sorry no pictures. :(

I for one, have been struck by something I call " new release syndrome"- once a new army is out I have to start colecting it... It takes a lot of strong will to stay faithful to VC.

Brother SRM wrote:

RogueMarket wrote:

When you have a dedicated shed for 40k storage because your room is already filled with 80% off 40k.

This looks like a fallout shelter. When the bombs fall and the raiders claim the wasteland, you'll be happily building Warhams in your private bunker.

hahaha. So my parents had this shed for a while now and never used it for much real reasons so had to toss it up. Yep when there is a nuclear fallout i'll just hop right in and lock myself in. At the very least when the apocalypse is upon thee I shall be safe with my models haha.

(Ignore the shiney wallls... i know .. its very interesting LOL)

RogueMarket wrote:
hahaha. So my parents had this shed for a while now and never used it for much real reasons so had to toss it up. Yep when there is a nuclear fallout i'll just hop right in and lock myself in. At the very least when the apocalypse is upon thee I shall be safe with my models haha.

(Ignore the shiney wallls... i know .. its very interesting LOL)

When the apocalypse happens, you can play Apocalypse!

I know I've got too much 40k stuff when I pack it up in my car and realize that they are worth almost as much as the Kelley Blue Book Value of my car. (2002 Mustang Convertible with 100,000+ miles on it)

Radda

Brother SRM wrote:

RogueMarket wrote:
hahaha. So my parents had this shed for a while now and never used it for much real reasons so had to toss it up. Yep when there is a nuclear fallout i'll just hop right in and lock myself in. At the very least when the apocalypse is upon thee I shall be safe with my models haha.

(Ignore the shiney wallls... i know .. its very interesting LOL)

When the apocalypse happens, you can play Apocalypse!

Damn, beaten at the draw.

My recent one was from over the weekend:

When you are listening to historic wargamers saying "Whew, that's an expensive model! I bet you only have one of those!" "Well, I got two, but at 35$ dollars each it was a stretch!" and your immediate reaction is "*scoff* Pikers..."

I had to explain to my father why I was snickering. Fortunately he has dropped about 600$ on random backup-backup match pistols just this month, so he can fully see the sense in owning 15 odd tanks for an IG army I don't even play that much.

LunaHound wrote:Sign #11 , been told how my armies are "inferior 2nd handed items"
Yes this explains why all my "inferior 2nd handed products" have absolute no flaws , even when its considered normal to have mis cast , bubbles

Sign #12 , receive messages accusing me of "never had the intention to sell , but only to *display* " when i wont agree to his ridiculous offers.

Are you certain he wasn't really talking about asking you out? I know I have heard a similar train of thought from guys before in relation to that...
My wife gets the same sort of hate all the time selling second hand stuff on Craig's List. "OMG IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE!! DIE IN A FIRE!! Will you give me 40% off please, YOU SLANT EYED NAZI!?" Funny how that never works out for them...

Guess that proves I don't own too much Warhammer. To the store!

Just in from UPS~~~~


Time forrrrr spazzzzeeeeee marinezzzz

- When you buy a FW kit just so you can justify another purchase by it 'looking a bit different'.

- When you count up roughly how much you've spent on your Apocalypse armies, and realise you're getting dangerously close to 'holiday in Hawaii' money.

- When the pile of boxed 40k stuff starts to become unstable because it's getting so tall.

- When 'cutting down' is dropping to 'only' 3 armies.

@RogueMarket: fffffffffff that's a lot of kits. Wish I had that many Razorback kits piled up

Neith wrote:- When you buy a FW kit just so you can justify another purchase by it 'looking a bit different'.

- When you count up roughly how much you've spent on your Apocalypse armies, and realise you're getting dangerously close to 'holiday in Hawaii' money.

- When the pile of boxed 40k stuff starts to become unstable because it's getting so tall.

- When 'cutting down' is dropping to 'only' 3 armies.

@RogueMarket: fffffffffff that's a lot of kits. Wish I had that many Razorback kits piled up

I'll admit.... not all of its mine.. i just like to pretend it is. Haha. Split between some friends from my wargaming group.

Wow dude you put my army to shame -.-!

#16 - someone mentions that for the cost of all your army transport cases, they could be real suitcases instead - and your reply is 'heck, they could have funded the entire trip!'