So I'm moving over the next few days, and my hobby area is always the first thing I pack. I decided it was a good time to take a brief inventory of items that I have in MIB or new-open items I have laying around.

The final numbers made me kind of sad, until I calculated what I actually spent on them, which took some research.

For my "Collectors" models(models that I want to paint even though I don't play or collect their army) I have roughly $541msrp worth that are in brand new condition, most of which are single models and many of which are now OOP. Luckily I looked up receipts and trade values and found out that I only paid $239 for those 30 models, which comes out to about 56% off. Not too shabby for wandering around trade forums. Only one of those models came from ebay oddly enough. A few were from ChaosOrc at massive discounts for being overstock and OOP.

Then I added up the misc and 40k stuff I have laying around still in the box. $717msrp!!!! Of which $567 is 40k and ForgeWorld models for my Red Hunters project that has been put on hold.

So $1258 worth of models that are sitting around(and likely will be for some time before I get around to them) just hanging out taking up space.

Now I know that I'm not the only one here who hoards models up for various projects that end up getting delayed and put off for myriad reasons.

So how much(close estimates are fine) do you have that is just laying around nagging at the back of your mind for attention?

Those with spouses who read Dakka are exempt from answering of course, unless they are just as guilty as you!

I dread to think.

Probably upwards of £10k if you totalled it up....

I have only nine unbuilt models that I am quickly working through. Well-built too: mold lines remved and every part pinned.
I won't claim to have all of them painted (or even half), but I'm doing ok at getting things done at my own pace and have fielded fully painted lists before.

 filbert wrote:
I dread to think.

Probably upwards of £10k if you totalled it up....

I demand an inventory!!!

how long have you been collecting?

Granted my little list of current inventory was all bought in the last 8 months...

I usually build up an army while I paint my current project.

Using Ebay to get bargains over the course of months.

I probably have 1000 euros worth of oop daemons waiting to be painted once I finish my Sisters.

At least $140 confirmed, with just over $120 if each squad was bought separately, but they were bought in battleforces, so much less in actual cost

Not all that much to be honest, two boxes of Termagants and a few LOTR items. No more than £100 worth of stuff anyway.

I've got a lot, though thankfully not as much as some of you chaps.

Almost nil. I tend to want to get new stuff on the table top as quickly as possible. In addition, boxes and sprues take up considerably more space than assembled models, and space is at a premium here.

...unpainted stuff though...I don't even want to think about it

 Aerethan wrote:

 filbert wrote:
I dread to think.

Probably upwards of £10k if you totalled it up....

I demand an inventory!!!

how long have you been collecting?

Granted my little list of current inventory was all bought in the last 8 months...

Well, its the accumulated detritus of 20 years worth of wargaming so it tends to mount up, especially with a master procrastinator like myself. The stuff that I count as 'sitting around' is stuff that is all assembled and used but stuff that needs to be painted - that is essentially my hobby backlog. I never have stuff not assembled but almost permanently have things awaiting painting. This includes but is not limited to:

3000 points of every 40K army, including 5 Space Marine and 2 Chaos Marine armies

All released Blood Bowl teams - at the moment I have painted half the teams so far

3 3000 point BFG fleets

A bunch of Man O War ships

A load of Warmachine Starter sets

4 Brushfire factions sets

3 Historical Wild West gangs

A load of Dark Future cars, buggies and bikes

30k points of Epic Orks

30K+ points of Epic Space Marines

30K+ points of Epic Chaos

20K Epic Eldar

20K Epic Tyranids

Assorted HeroQuest stuff

A new edition Space Hulk set

A load of Incursion miniatures

3000 point GW equivalent Mantic Dwarf army

3000 point GW equivalent Mantic Elf army

3000 point GW equivalent Mantic Chaos Dwarf army

3 Carnevale starter sets + an 18th Century Venice game board to complete

That's the stuff I can think of off-hand. There's probably more I'm ashamed to admit. I used to have all the free time in the world and squandered it on booze and video games and then once my wife and daughter entered the equation, I have no time at all. One day I will finish it all...

If you would have asked me this 2 years ago it would have been bad......

Now maybe $200 worth.

Conquest
Bain Thrals
and a Dreadnought

I (and by I, I mean my wife), implemented a paint it before you buy more policy that is now strictly enforced at my house.

Had a brief look in the "pending" chest earlier this week with th gf, had to stop as it was getting a bit silly pulling out all these resealable bags filled with metal. Guess my recent few months worth of eBay activity amassed quite a bit!

I have hundreds of LotR metals, a Tyranid army (about 1250 pts), the rest of my Dark Elves, Dark Vengeance, Dreadfleet. Oh dear. If I implemented a buy no more until everything is painted policy I'd never buy any more models at the rate I paint!

I'd be afraid to count it all up. Lots of stuff just sorta piles up over the years. But the pile is on the large side...

Wait wait you mean unbuilted or unprinted?
In both points it is a nightmare still but it depends so I ll know what to answer...

Unbuilt, I only have my Dark Vengeance box, a box of Savage Orcs from WFB, and about half of an Ork Battleforce that I havent bothered to touch (3 warbikers and 1 trukk).
But Im slowly working my way to building a second army as I finish off my orks, so that may change

None! About a month ago I managed to work through the 'lead pile' now working through my infinity models, all based and sprayed

Unbuilt is mainly the focus. Things that you haven't even started on at all.

Well I always prepare new purchases (clean, build/assemble, prime) and then store them in a drawer/box.

Leaving shrink-wrapped boxes around just takes too much space and it gives the impression I'm just going to buy buy buy and never work on them!

Ok so for unbuilt I have: DV chaos models, 1 Valkyrie, 1 Catachans CCS, 1 HWT Catachans, 1 metal chaos raptors box, 2 plastic CSM boxes,
1 CSM rhino. And I have also have some unopened blisters: 1 warriors of chaos sorc (plastic), 1 VC plastic necromancer, 1 chaos lord with jump pack (metal) and 1 chaos terminator lord (metal).
Oh yes and there will be more when chaos omes out, at least one box from each new models from the new chaos range of minis.
Booyaaa!

I've got $600-$700 just in stuff for sale that I know I'm never going to do anything with myself.

Beyond that I've got boxes of bits, a DV box mostly untouched, a Land Raider to build... most of my stuff (high elves, a whole IG army, and a bunch of recent SM ebay buys) are in the "strip and repaint" pile.

I have so much work to do. I have about 11000 pts of empire to put together...So many state troops...

Hmm... This is one of those questions that I hate to think about, but makes me feel slightly better when I see that some people have exponentially more to do than myself.

I have the following just sitting around waiting in unopened boxes:

~2000 pts. of Imperial Guard

~1000 pts. of Orks

~3000 pts. of Space Marines (opened but still on frames)

Terrain: Imperial Sector, Craters, Barricades

The fact that I'm not alone is a large rock off my shoulders

- Loads of Bretonnia. Two or three Battalions, several boxes of knights, Grail Relique, some Battle Pilgrim blisters, Trebouchet, some more blisters (Damsels, Lords etc). It turned out I didn't want to build a Bretonnia army after all.

- A CSM battleforce and a box of ten Chaos Marines

- Dreadfleet

- The Warmachine two-player starter set

- A Republique of France fleet (Dystopian Wars)

I get roughly $1000. And so the rock is back on my shoulders again...

About 50-60$
I love painting, So i get them done right away. Im known as the second fastest painter at my club.

Hmmm so much stuff

Uncharted Seas 4 ships 3 monsters oh and a bone griffon starter (RRP £100ish)

Tyranids 2000pts(mostly elite and big models) (£300ish)

Blood Bowl - Human, Orc, Squig Hoppers (counts as slann) Parts to build my own board (hirst molds and various supplies) (£100ish)

A vast amount of Epic Orks (£100)

Dropzone Commander (Large Shaltari +extras and small PHR plus extras) (£450ish)- only got this today and will be next project.

Incursion Germans (£50ish)

Thats it off the top of my head so about £1100

Just a box of Incubi and some additional Wych models. Not more than 20 models in total.

I just got my 40k Starter Box, so my total is something above $200, but much less than $1000.

In money I've paid, I'd estimate about $400 of items in my "to do" list. Unassembled it would only be the new starter box, everything else waiting is assembled just lacking a proper paint job.

2k at least, if we're counting terrain...omg it hurts to think about it.

I always build stuff the day I buy it so nothing un-assembled. The amount that requires painting, however...

This is the first thread on dakka that has scared me. I dare not even try and compute this number.

 Redbeard wrote:
This is the first thread on dakka that has scared me. I dare not even try and compute this number.

It only hurts the first time, trust me.

I think around 1,8kpounds worth of minis to paint, very few havent been assembled and undercoated though, been trying to do that as I have bought them. Been collecting for 2 weeks

Maybe £150 - £200 but I've just started a new army of Necrons and I'm already bored stiff of building them and peeved with the seeming symmetry of the Triarch Stalker when in fact, the legs did need to go on a certain way $%£%&

I have 2 boxes of the new Plaguebearers that I have not had a chance to get to yet, other than that I am painting or done painting everything else. My wife and I have an agreement that we only play with painted stuff and I can always get more stuff if what I have is painted up, keeps me on top of projects (mostly). There are a handful of abandoned painting projects for Chaos in boxes but they are 3 color minimum and playable, just not "done". We live in a small place so we keep that rule in effect just to keep from drowning in projects/crafts!

Whoops! I do have a small horde of about 40 Rogue Trader era miniatures that will become henchmen at some point... probably 10 bucks or more a piece now.

 Shandara wrote:

 Redbeard wrote:
This is the first thread on dakka that has scared me. I dare not even try and compute this number.

It only hurts the first time, trust me.

It hurts just as much every time. But do share, Redbeard

I never miss an opportunity to run inventory, because I'm apparently a masochist (if you've read enough of my posts, you'll know how frequently I lament my sub-sluggish pace). Don't know point costs well enough to use it as shorthand universally, so by model count:

40k
+Orks:
-18 Boys
-3 Nobs
-metal weirdboy/warphead
+SM:
-1 Rhino
+Mantic
-2 Marauders (sample sprue)

Mantic
+Undead
-2 ghouls (sample sprue)
-30 Revenant, 2x command
-20 Skeleton Warriors
+Orcs
-9 Axe, command
+Elf
-2 bolt throwers + crew
-40 Spearmen, 2x command
-40 Bowmen, 2x command
+Dwarf
-10 Ironclad
+GW
-VC metal Vampire Lord

Terrain
+Pegasus
-Gothic City Building, large
-Gothic City Building, ruins

Board Games
-Dwarf King's Hold: Dead Rising (roughly clipped and poster tack-ed together temporarily, for play)

Non-Wargaming
-Monogram M48A2 Patton Tank
-Revell Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10
-Revell Wright Flier

Hard to estimate cost, since DKH is literally the only item bought at list price - two metal characters were on clearance at FLGS, Mantic plastics were from the holiday grab bag (the two sample sprues were freebies), GW plastics and Pegasus kits were bought on Ebay, aviation/armor kits were bought at Michaels with coupons or on clearance... All told, I'd guess it's somewhere between $200 and $250. DKH cost me $60 and all the rest of the Mantic figs were another $60 (the messenger bag came pre-assembled, so I won't count it ). The Ork plastics are what remains unassembled of a larger "new on sprue" lot.

Not nearly as bad as I would have thought, since a far greater proportion of my collection feels "untouched" to me, having been assembled for anywhere from years to months, but remaining unbased, unprimed, and, of course, unpainted. Were I counting those, I'd have to add easily (honestly, these are very conservative estimates) 1k more points of Orks, over 1.5K of SM, and two Infinity starter boxes (Ariadna and Haqqislam, with only the Janissaire painted, although the Veteran Kazak awaits final assembly, as his arms proved fiddly). At least my various all-but-abandoned scratchbuilds haven't cost me more than $30 in materials and adhesives.

I think I might have ~1.5-2k$ of stuff hanging out about waiting to be assembled or painted...

Unbuilt or started building hmmm....

For Fantasy, not as much, around $400 unbuilt mostly vampire counts.

40k, 5000 pts worth of new dark Eldars not touched
90 gargoyles and Harridan
Tau... around 2 vehicles and 2 suits not done

chaos... mostly not assembled ( might as welll sell it )

1 gundam model because it was onsale for $16 and not sure how to go about painting / assembling it

and tons more but Im too lazy to care about warhammer atm :'P

1k worth of Tau I have to rebuild, bought the entire list off ebay for 450$ and the twit that put everything togethor used a rubber cement and a primer with a grit, Its been fun though making my elite fire warrior squads.

Around another 1.5k in Guard, their largely on hold, and maybe sold soon as I am tired of that masterbation army it is.

100$ worth of Ork stuff, in different states of building, making a biker army is slow work.

Metric butt loads? After 30+ years in the gaming hobby and owner of Armorcast, I have lots... Never going to get it all done before I die...

Armorcast stuff
3 Eldar Phantoms
3 Eldar Revenants
Bunch of Tempests
A fair pile of Baneblades and Shadowswords
3 Reavers (will be Nurgle)
3 Warhounds
A number of Tyranid big bugs
Quite a few Chaos vehicles (Cannons of Khorne mostly)
A few BattleTech Atlases, Mad Cats and Vultures

Regular 40K stuff
2 DV sets...
Huge Nurgle army
Good sized Sisters army
A good start at an AdMech army (easily 2-3000 points even if AdMech stuff has high points costs)
Am actually working my way through my Necromunda stuff
Down to about 20 pieces (mostly big kits) for my Tyranids
Lots and lots of metal Chaos Terminators and other chaos bits. Was able to purchase at metal price on a visit to GW so my carry on contained 2+ kilos of GW metal. London airport security was not amused, but let it on the plane...
Some metal Eldar, lots more metal Marines (DA)
About 15 plastic kits. Land Raiders, IG, Eldar, Strongpoint, 2 Fortresses of Redemption for my DAs
And lots more

Other stuff
A bunch of Warzone, BattleTech and Dark Age metal, some WarMachine and god knows what else...
Large numbers of WWII 1/72 scale armor kits

Tim

After I dumped my Orks and Tau I have maybe $100.00 of stuff that needs to be worked. It is real liberating that when you buy a unit it is the only thing you have to work on since everything else is done.

At least £150 worth.

Ork Trukk, couple of dozen random Orks, two boxes of Gretchin, Tervigon, Flying Hive Tyrant, 8x Genestealers, dozen or so Termagants, box of Lychguard, box of Flayed Ones, box of Warlord Games Commando's, Blood Bowl and some random metal Crooked Dice & Harlequin miniatures I plan on using for 7TV.

And that's UNTOUCHED. There's then all the assembled but not painted/unfinished models lying around :(

Almost nothing is unassembled, a few ga(u)unts and skeletons perhaps.

Unpainted now. . .hrm.
I have 'painted' all my Tyranids, I think.

Not a single Tomb King model has paint yet though - so a few hundred I guess.

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The truly unbuilt stuff is the 40k stuff I've bought for my son....he'll look at the pieces, fit them together and build maybe one or two models from a kit. He's got 'Nids, Crons, and SWs....many a kit, two actual unfinished Cron Battleforces. And he's kind of out of the hobby ATM, he said I could build and paint his stuff....so I am.

I'd say about $500 -$750 for his stuff.

My two main armies are Eldar and Dark Angels, and I'm starting to pick up Dark Eldar stuff as it catches my eye. My MO on my own stuff is to build it up 50-75% before I get sidetracked by thinking how I can mod it to make it even better, or just sidetracked by another project. So started, virtually nil, but unfinished I'd say around $1500 give or take $200.

I've got smatterings of Reaper, Anima Tactics, Infinity, and other random stuff that is really items that have caught my eyes. This bulk is mainly unfinished/untouched and is probably around $200.

And finally I bought heavily into Confrontation in the early 2000's and just before Rak switched over to PPMs. I bought into Giffons, Lions, Wolfen, & Devourers as these were the armies I thought were the coolest. The bulk of this is either unassembled or unpainted and is upwards of $400 at least.

So between all this stuff I think maybe around $3000.

Not too much stuff. All my 40k models are done (except for a single Eldar Farseer that I liked as a model and haven't gotten around to painting yet). My Fantasy OnG on the other hand... There are about 100+ Night Goblins still unpainted (although assembled), at least 20 Orc Boyz and a Boar Chariot, and 20 Goblins. I think that's all. Money-wise, I'm not sure how much this all adds up to.

This thread makes me feel much better about my unbuilt collection.
1 Battle Wagon
2 Trukks
Box of Nobz
Box of Boyz
12 Bikers

All of them more or less on the table and waiting for the weather to get cold, so I have an excuse not to be outside all the time.

Needing painting:
*60 grots
*20 Lootas
*20 Shootas
*20 Sluggas
*15 Kommandos
*10 Mega Nobz
*1 Wunderrokkit
*1 Stompa head

Stuff waiting to be built:
*30ish yard-sale and ebay auction ork bikers (next big project)
*20 Stormboyz from an Ebay lot
*An old broke Armorcast baneblade to become a Skullhamma
*A liftdroppa stompa half built
*3 painted 3rd Edition land raider BWs to become battlefortresses with some add ons.

Really not all that much. I am usually in modeling mode or painting mode and I just finished preparing for NOVA. So I am probably going to churn through assembled units who just need paint. I painted 15 shootas in one day on sunday so now I get to do a 'fun' unit to reward myself then back to painting grots or something.

My apartment is infested with 100+ rats. And by rats I mean Skaven.
Also have about 10+ random figures scattered about that needs some painting as well.

Literally thousands of miniatures and countless thousands of dollars spent. I've been collecting miniature since 1983 and had a significant issue w/ -hoarding- collecting in the 90's. I was gone from the hobby from '99 to '09 but as soon as I got back into it I started to amass even more stuff. Then about a year ago I won an auction on eBay for a monstrous collection of old IG / CSM / random bitz / terrain, etc., most of it unpainted and a lot of it still in blister / box. I later found out from the seller that it was from their father's estate sale and they hoped I got better used out of them than he did.



That hit me pretty hard. I started looking at the overwhelming and unmanageable amount of things I have and decided I'm not going to do that to my kids. I have so many great ideas, so many projects I want to do, so many miniatures to build and paint, but at 45 I am feeling the press of time and eventually all things go to Papa Nurgle.

Over the next few months I culled my collection down to the items I am absolutely and genuinely certain I'll maintain an interest in, have scheduled what I want to do as far as projects go, and have started to clean my life up. I started w/ my gaming / hobby area first and removed 5 contractor bags and countless cardboard boxes of JUST 'terrain building' stuff. I also sorted through my entire collection and about 70% has been inventoried / boxed / ready for sale.

I feel a lot better about where I am in modeling and in life. My workspace is clean all the time, I'm able to focus on a few projects at a time instead of feel overwhelmed bu the 15-20 I was trying to manage. I get more work done in less time. I look forward to my next project instead of feeling like it is 'work'.

All total I still have about 1k models left, but most of those are painted or directly slotted for specific projects. I genuinely enjoy modeling again and I feel now I can realistically expect to finish the vast majority of the things I have left before returning to the warp that spawned ms so many years ago.

Word of advice to the Young Bloods- spend time, not money. You'll be a lot happier for it 20 years from now.

Unbuilt or unpainted, I have the majority of 3 armies. It's a big reason why I'm selling and downsizing to 2 armies instead of the 4 I have now. 1000s of points...I don't even want to think of the monetary value.

Probably less than $200 and that includes my resin anime figure garage kits.

I really try not to have too much just laying around. I tell myself I have to finish a unit before I can purchase another one. This keeps me motivated and why I have 4 fully painted armies and 1 currently under construction.

Two anime figures
1 ork warbiker that needs a little converting and paint.
1 ork tankbusta boy + bomb squig
1 set of aobr orks boys
1 box of DE warriors
1 box of DE reavers
1 box of Kroot (primed)

I have to stop counting after just compiling the Tyranid army I have been hoarding bugs since 1995 and have recently stripped all my bugs to repaint in a matching theme. but counting all the GW, FW, armorcast, old school forgeworld, Dark Arts minis and chapterhouse puts me just shy $9,700. sadly I have BFG Necromunda Bloodbowl and a eldar army of similar size to the bugs.

more then i could count
I have a whole hordes army I'm never gonna use
my orks, chaos, space marines
then half armies like dwarves, undead, chaos-beasts and warrior, snotlings...

i dont even play much anymore (especially not 40K, as I dislike 6th ed, 8th ed sucks, but 6th sucks worse)

Oh I probably have close to a couple grand at current prices.

And it is only getting worse.

Most of it is kinda assembled. Only like, 5 models are done being painted, and my two valks (of three) just need weapons and they are done

Everything else needs repainting, rebuilding, building, or painting. There is a good stack still NOS

Ugh, I try not to think about it.

Off the top of my hand

Death Korp of Krieg Army (about $1k) in FW bags
Deathwing Army
Warriors of Chaos WFB army
LOTR Rohan Army
LOTR Metal Galadrhim Army
Gothic Fleets - Orks and Eldar
Unassembled and unpainted stuff for my current WordBearers, Fleshtearers, Daemonhunters/GK, Dark Eldar, and Bretonnians.

Non-GW stuff
10mm Seven Year's War Austrians
15mm Napoleonic French
15mm ACW
FOW German Panzergrenadier Army
FOW US Armored Rifle Army
28mm Perry Samurai
28mm Perry War of the Roses
1/300 WW2 Aircraft for Check Your Six
1/600 Modern Aircraft for Check Your Six Jet Age
28mm Conquest and Perry Indians for French and Indian War

I'm sure if I dig around in my closets, I'd find more that I am unaware I bought and/or acquired. The above is bad enough...

In the neighborhood of fifty or sixty boxed kits and three battleforces (mostly Chaos, some Daemons, Chaos Warriors, a bunch of Eldar, SM, Dark Angels, Blood Angels, and a few thousand points of Necrons), and a pile of misc metal blisters (mostly OOP chaos).

I buy mostly used and OOP miniatures, and do alot of trading so it's hard to really put a value, but my tally of completely unpainted stuff is pretty daunting. I'll put a value as a conservative worth if ebayed as my best guest

Void Junkers
50 Figs, 4 vehicles
$250

RT and 2nd edition era Space Marines
60 figs (mix of plastic and metal)
$300

Current Edition IG Vehicles
4 Tanks, 1 Valk
$250

Post Apoc figures and vehicles of various brands
50 figs, 10 vehicles
$150

Various Fantasy figs Reaper, GW, Mantic etc
100 FIgs
$300

Vintage Metal Magic Sardaykin Legion
50 figs, 1 tank
$210

Necromunda
30 figs
$150

Inquisitorial type figs from GW and Warzone
30 figs
$130

Total: $1700 (350 figs and 15 vehicles.)
Holy crap, I had no idea I had this much stuff! That's not even counting the many projects I have in the works, or terrain, or 10mm and 20mm stuff. I was just congratulating my self on having downsized. I guess that was premature.

A bunch of space marine vehicles, half a Dark Vengeance box, a Khador army & a Cryx army. About $500 worth of stuff but I got it all in trade so that's OK. Stuff I buy I usually put it together pretty quick.

This thread makes me feel so much happier.

Unbuilt only 1 box of termagants.

Unpainted, the termagants, some gargoyles, tyranid warriors, 15 marines or so, oh and the whole of Island of Blood

Still in the box? Coteaz who was bought for me as a gift (I don't play Grey Knights), although I'm planning on getting around to painting him simply because it's my first finecast.

I have a rule that, unless something is given to me for free, I have to atleast build it so it isn't a complete waste of money.

One venom, bought last week.

Everything else is assembled, though i'm still catching up on the painting end

All these Orks are on sprue, with a flat black undercoat:

Battlewagon
Trukk x 2
Chimera
9 AoBR Deffkoptaz
AoBR boyz
10 AoBR Nobz
Nobz box
Burna/Loota box x 3
Boyz box
AoBR Warboss

These are new on sprue or still sealed:

Talos box
Kabalite Warriors box x 2
Revear Jetbike box

These are all new in box:

Chaos warriors
Chaos Knights x 3
Marauders x 2
Warhounds
Khorne Lord on juggernaught
Exhalted Champion of Chaos (his blister was actually crushed when I got him so he's "open" lol)
Chaos Sorcerer

Also undercoated black and on sprue

Furioso Dreadnought x 3
Death Company Box
Assault Squad box
Tactical Squad box
Space Hulk Terminators

Loose models (metal):

Every Blood Angel Character model

Boxes full of odd models from various games. I wouldn't say they're bits as I also have a metal bits box and a plastic bits box.

Loose models (plastic):

Boxes of 40k stuff. I wouldn't say they're bits because they are all collected pieces to be constructed as something specific.

Was just doing this the other day myself as i was trying to figure out exactly what i've spent over the last 3 years.
I did some panic purchases when i knew metal was coming to an end and made around 6 largish orders to games-workshop. They were around $200-$900 each and the higher ones needed them to call me to process. Something to do with card purchases i think from credit companies (mastercard).

Then i went through all my paypal stuff over the last 3 years (thats basically all i ebay) and got quite the shock. I'm wondering if i can recover costs on it should i choose not to do the armies. Surely there are others out there that love the metal models (well thats what i tell myself).

$11,910.29 AUD in total was the damage report(i hate to think what ebay stuff was aus rrp). This doesn't take into account my 2 armies in the carry case (around 150 space wolves[65 grey hunters, 56 blood claws, 6 scouts, 18 terminators plus special chars] and 36 grey knights). The wolves aren't all painted.... hardly many are and have been that way over the past 12 years (collection only really grew in the last 5 years).

I have pretty much each metal unit from all 40k armies except
- sisters of battle (i don't have a single unit from this army)
- necrons (just immortals, chars in metal, wraiths, tomb spyders and some pariahs)
- imperial guard (wasn't alot of metal available for these guys so just the kasrkins and some chars)
- dark eldar (don't have beastmaster or the beasts. Was mainly interested in incubi and the mandrakes)

Ebay was the main purchase place as the model costs are horrendous in australia and i find even with shipping with the dollar being strong its cheaper overseas!
Auctions i'm most proud of
- 2 x NIB oop razorbacks (these things are friggen hard to track down)
- 3 x oop NIB predators ( 2 x destructor, 1 x annihilator)
- 1 x venerable dreadnought metal
- 1 x Asdrubael vect NIB
- 5 x ork in mega armour with twin linked shoota (i don't know why gw stopped making these and only did the rokkit launcha and burna ones)
- special ed chars that came with 2004 army box sets - kallistus, 2004 tyranid army box lictor.

I think most of it was fear purchases though i keep telling (maybe deluding) myself that i'll have it all done one day. Maybe my great grandchildren will.

A large window shelf worth..a much larger amount than those painted.
(I keep my unpainted minis on a window shelf)

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I take a lot of time before deciding to buy stuff...really pays off!

Though I don't use the monolith anymore...might use it for terrain building though.

thousands.

of figures and dollars.

Very sad to say at least 20k.

I have a box of IG Infantry and Khorn Zerks Ive only built and painted one of each.

Where to start. Sadly this is off the top of my head.

2 BR sets of Orks
5 boxes of Boyz
3 boxes of Lootas
One Trukk
More Gretchin than I should have
Squad of LOD
Land raider
Predator
Razorback
New starter set
30 DE wyches
10 Warriors
Literal crapton of metal (yes metal) terminator blisters
Somewhere there is the start to a BT army in my basement. In the neighborhood of 100 Marines and upgrade sprues for them.

All of Dark Vengeance (assembled and spray painted....)

Space Marine Devastators (will make them Dark Angels)

Venerable Dreadnought

I'm an addict that keeps buying and building, though that being said, I do have 5k of Beastmen & 3k of Chaos sitting around untouched

Boss GreenNutz wrote:
Where to start. Sadly this is off the top of my head.

2 BR sets of Orks
5 boxes of Boyz
3 boxes of Lootas
One Trukk
More Gretchin than I should have
Squad of LOD
Land raider
Predator
Razorback
New starter set
30 DE wyches
10 Warriors
Literal crapton of metal (yes metal) terminator blisters
Somewhere there is the start to a BT army in my basement. In the neighborhood of 100 Marines and upgrade sprues for them.

I know you have more than that. I have seen the piles in your basement. You got enough stuff there to provide a complete starting inventory to a small FLGS.

Pretty sure if I totaled up what I have in unopenned boxes and blisters and the wife found out the next thing I'd be collecting would be divorce papers. I still have unopenned boxes of rhino's from when there were still three in a box. Not to mention a forgeworld addiction that has boxes sitting in the hobby room I don't even remember purchasing

Box of Marines ~$60

and a whole Empire army still in boxes, most of which have not been opened. ~$500

Anyone want to buy the Empire lol

I've got quite a bit LotR models I bought last year sitting around - probably about $300+ figures. And then like, 5 Dark Eldar Raiders and a box of Wracks. So not as much as a lot of you guys.

Ugh, this is an embarrassing question. The answer is a lot. A stupid, huge lot.

1 Valkyre
2 Company Command Squads
2 Infantry Squads
3 (maybe 4) Chimeras
2 Boxes Witch Hunters
1 Box Inquisitor Lord with retinue
1 Retinue from the Inquisitor Lord box set
2 Retinues from the Coteaz and retinue box set
2 Boxes GK Terminators
1 Ven Dread
1 Land Raider
1 Drop pod
1 Leman Russ
1 Rhino
1 Immolator
1 Hydra Flak Turret
1 Hector Rex
2 Razorbacks
Half of a SM Megaforce (Tac Squads and Scouts)
About 10 RT era GKT
Oh, and there MAY be a Leman Russ Demolisher kit in there too.

I literally will likely never buy any more models. Ever.


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Oh feth me. I just checked, there's also a squad of Empire Flagellants I was going to use for DCA since I no longer need them for Sanctioned psykers (because I have untouched metal sanctioned psykers now) and also a Techmarine.

I also have 10 bare metal ratlings.

I need a time transplant. Someone, give me more of your time.

30 Eldar Guardians
5 Dire Avengers
2 War Walkers
11 Eldar Warlocks with Singing Spears
4 Eldar Warlocks with Witchblades
Space Marine Devastators
Space Marine Assault Marines
2 Chaos Daemon Bloodcrushers
10 Chaos Daemon Bloodletters

The Plastic Eldar are remants from 3 battleforces, and will be assembled and painted once I finish the Skimmer army painted up first. The Warlocks are all awaiting conversions for Jetbikes, most from Ebay, about 1/2 are stripped models (2 - 4 are NIB metals). The Space Marine Devastators and Assault Marines are NoS, purchased at one time but are now honestly probably never to be assembled (my Marine army feels "Done" as it ever will be to me). The Demons are to be assembled and painted as soon as the Eldar Skimmer Army is done (But before the 2nd wave of Eldar is completed).

I have plans, but still a surprising amount of value sitting not being used, some for upwards of a year so far. Roughly $500 in new market value, not that I paid that much for it (most was purchased new in the store, most of the Warlocks were Ebay buys). I probably dropped $250 on it total. It's hard to tell, part was a buy 2, get 1 free deal, part was store credit, part was with a 40% off discount (I have connections at FLGS's, I guess) - It's hard to tell exactly what I spent on it.

Um... left unassembled... since assembling is one of my favorite things, I have 3 Miss Terious Models from GenCon, my Santana Ortega, 2 Beckoners, 3 Depleted from Malifaux, Rasputina's Box and Leviticus's Box...

2 Brushfire Figs in wonderful Wehrcast

Bombshell Bombardier and Druid Gone Wilder, Boomhowler and Co. from Privateer Press.

All my 40k stuff is assembled...

Now if we go to painting, it'll be half my khador army (so like 200 bucks) 75% of my skorne army (probably 175 bucks), my ENTIRE IG army (bought second hand for 425 dollars total, but well over 1200 dollars in models), my ENTIRE vampire counts army (like 150 bucks (yay mantic!)). 4 Trollbloods Models, my Cygnar and Mercenaries army, and about half my Neverborn...


It's a work in progress, but I believe someone said you die once you get everything painted, so I don't really want to chance it... ya know?

This questions scares me and I dont want to answer it.. Needless to say its a crap load..

 Alfndrate wrote:

Now if we go to painting, it'll be half my khador army (so like 200 bucks) 75% of my skorne army (probably 175 bucks), my ENTIRE IG army (bought second hand for 425 dollars total, but well over 1200 dollars in models), my ENTIRE vampire counts army (like 150 bucks (yay mantic!)). 4 Trollbloods Models, my Cygnar and Mercenaries army, and about half my Neverborn...


It's a work in progress, but I believe someone said you die once you get everything painted, so I don't really want to chance it... ya know?

Wow. That's a lot of unpainted man. Get cracking!

Every time I look at the half of a Wolf pack I've yet to assemble, I felt bad, until I saw this thread. Everything else is assembled and primed at the least, or parts still awaiting a purpose.

I have a pile of grey knights, plaguebearers, and plague marines currently being worked through.

3-4k I would think...

 daedalus wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

Now if we go to painting, it'll be half my khador army (so like 200 bucks) 75% of my skorne army (probably 175 bucks), my ENTIRE IG army (bought second hand for 425 dollars total, but well over 1200 dollars in models), my ENTIRE vampire counts army (like 150 bucks (yay mantic!)). 4 Trollbloods Models, my Cygnar and Mercenaries army, and about half my Neverborn...


It's a work in progress, but I believe someone said you die once you get everything painted, so I don't really want to chance it... ya know?

Wow. That's a lot of unpainted man. Get cracking!

I have lol. I pulled my Warmachine bag out of my car (usually stays there for play lol) and I'm going through tray by tray until it's painted

erg, at least 2k worth of FW , 40k and fantasy

Quite a bit but not as much as some I see here:
1 Hive Tyrant
2 Hive guard
25 gaunts
20 stealers
3 chimeras
2 ravorback/rhino
1 land raider
50 guardsmen
5 kommandos
2 deffkoptas
1 sentinal
Although I do have more painted than unpainted. Damn it takes long to catch up

Oh dear... unassembled at present I only have the other half of my Dark Vengeance sets. Which is to say another DA force from DV. The rest of that force is assembled and a couple models are even primed. I really need to get on that before winter sets in and I can't ventilate my basement that I paint in properly...

Unpainted... well I've still got the majority of a Sisters of Battle Army to work through. But I'm getting there.

Total unassembled: $60
Total Unpainted (counting primed models): $400-500

Edit:

Whooop! Almost forgot the $160 I have in Infinity models to assemble.

Completely untouched, let's see:
1 Hellblade 84 USD
1 Valdor Tank Hunter 121 USD
Bunch of Cadians ~60 USD
Warlord Germans 40 USD
Metal Pink Horrors 40 USD
Metal Possessed 40 USD

Total: 385 USD

I'm not going to make the total of incomplete projects, that would be unhealthy as it would go far above three times this amount.

I'm running out of stuff.
I have
A half assembled attack bike
7 assorted marines with no heads, arms, backpacks
10 completely unassembled models (7 are forge world mk4 assault)
2 half assembled dreadnoughts
An unassembled thunderfire cannon
A half assembled thunderfire cannon with half assembled/half painted techmarine.
A almost completely assembled predator(just need tracks)
And I think that's it.

Wow...
Thunderfire Cannon
4 Vindicators
9 vendettas
5 Razorbacks
3 Rhinos
13 Chimeras
1 Reaver Titan
3 Exorcists
7 Immolators
20 Sisters of battle
6 boxes of various marine infantry
4 storm ravens
15 Leman Russes

And thats just 40k, I've got a huge Khador army.

By the way, since a lot of people in this thread seem to have a lot of NIB items, you can exchange them at a GW store for full credit - I got a hive tyrant for $5 today this way

 DarkCorsair wrote:
By the way, since a lot of people in this thread seem to have a lot of NIB items, you can exchange them at a GW store for full credit - I got a hive tyrant for $5 today this way

Hey, they'll get assembled when they do.... just... not today.

I am doing a quick inventory atm, yuck! 2 landraiders, 30 marines 10 from aobr, 2 dreads, 3 landspeeders, 4 Black templar upgrade sprues, 30 kabalite warriors, 30 wytches, 5 incubi, Dark Vengeance set, 2 ravagers, 3 raiders, 5 hellions, 15 terminators, 6 reavers, 1 vindicator, so many bits ima drown in them wanting to convert most of my stuff for the black templars have imperial guard cadians i was using for neophytes somewhere. One steel toed boot shoe box full of sprue im not sure whats in it mainly space marine stuff but im too scared to look.

It seems like I don't' have much compared to the rest of you, but i have a reasonable amount of addiction indicators.

Khador:
Behemoth
Berzerker
Heavy jack kit
Squad of mechanics
Squad of doomreavers
greylord escort
greatbears
greylord ternian
wardog
widowmaker marksman
Manhunter
Drakhun

PVlad
Pbutcher
PHarkevich

 Aerethan wrote:
So I'm moving over the next few days, and my hobby area is always the first thing I pack. I decided it was a good time to take a brief inventory of items that I have in MIB or new-open items I have laying around.

The final numbers made me kind of sad, until I calculated what I actually spent on them, which took some research.

I added up the misc and 40k stuff I have laying around still in the box. $717msrp!!!! Of which $567 is 40k and ForgeWorld models for my Red Hunters project that has been put on hold.

So $1258 worth of models that are sitting around(and likely will be for some time before I get around to them) just hanging out taking up space.

Now I know that I'm not the only one here who hoards models up for various projects that end up getting delayed and put off for myriad reasons.

So how much(close estimates are fine) do you have that is just laying around nagging at the back of your mind for attention?

Actually, I have managed to get a grip on what I buy as time has gone on. I think i've become much more disciplined as I have gotten older, as I have had so many experiences in the past where I buy something and it collects dust for years.

Honestly, now I make a real effort to paint everything I have before buying something new, or at least if I buy something new I will work on it simultaneously with my current project. I think starting a project blog has helped massively with this. And those things that I just do not want or need anymore I will just trade for something. Nothing really goes to waste. I will happily use old models on projects.
Granted, part of this is down to my home situation and financial situation, but I think at a rough estimate I only probably have about £50 worth of stuff still unpainted....I also just feel too guilty speding so much money these days.

And here I thought my box of tactical marines and command squad is a lot already....

Then again, I dont paint my minis (after failing miserably the first few times) so I either commision stuff I need specifically or troll ebay for deals

I'm not sure I really want to list how much stuff I've got lying around but here goes! Bear in mind this list dates back to last year; I got a job and it has totally disrupted my painting...
1) True scale storm raven
2) 4 Razorbacks
3) 2 land raider redeemers
4) 15 plastic grey knights + 5 metal
5) 10 plastic grey knights+ 5 metal
6) Over 100 basic marines(yes,100! damn ebay!)
7) Gabriel seth,the sanguinor and astorath all metal.
8) 2 Boxes of defiance marines
9) 2 boxes of plastic amazons
10) 1 Wargames foundry horde(I've had it for 2 years now)
11) Almost complete set of blood angel terminators from the space hulk(bloody ebay!)
12) Dark vengeance,including extra set of terminators and tactical squad. Oh, and extra captain and librarian.
13) Storm talon.
14) Various figures I've bought on impulse from ebay(only discovered the joys of ebay bidding lately and became addicted. Still am.
That's all I'll admit to!
Help.

5 scouts. Built the one with the heavy bolter, then, the other 4 still need built. Was going to do something with them, but then changed my mind on what I was going to use for my IG allies. So, now BA death company with tycho, in a drop pod.

Will have to figure this out eventually... but probably upwards of $10k worth of stuff.

Will need to do a fancy spreadsheet with pie charts!


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as far as buying now goes,
only limited edition models and kickstarters... THAT'S IT!!

When I consider that I have around 500 models in transit from Kings of War, Relic Knights and Reaper... not to mention Sedition Wars!!! WOW... that's a lot of stuff.

I have about 300 bucks of unopened (or incomplete) models, 100 of that being FW

I would rather not add up the dollars...

But, let's see...
90% of a SM Megaforce
A Baneblade
A storm raven
25 tactical marines
5 tactical terminators
The dark angels from 2 Dark Vengeance sets

I'll stop there. most everything else is assembled or primed.

With as many unassembled models we all have sitting around, we could band together, sell our stuff on Ebay and donate the proceeds to ending world hunger. (Just amazed at the number of people posting "$10k" worth of stuff. Then again, I'm embarrassed to have $500 even myself ...

Hmm.. unbuilt,

2 Drop pods
2 Landspeeders
2 Thunderfire cannons
5 SMs
5 Scouts
maybe 10 Orks
10 Black Orcs
DA half of DV
Sanguinor
Snikrot
Ghost Ark
Rhino
Isle of Blood (everything)
most of the Warmachine starter box
2 ork bikers

Thats kind of a lot now I think about it...

Just today I was actually having this sort of mini-crisis! For the first time in about six months, I had no idea what to paint next. My backlog goes on forever, but I was able to dig out a pair of Hellhounds that I've had lying around since last May and get started on them. This of course was after hemming and hawing on a number of other IG tanks, Dark Vengeance sets, Crimson Fists, Arbites, Necromunda gangs, and miscellaneous old models I want to add to my Valhallans. I guess there are worse problems to have!

If I recall correctly I have about 30 PA Grey Knights, a Blood Angels Dreadnaught, a Landraider, about 3 Rhinos, and a Venerable Dreadnaught. Its not much, but that's only including stuff that I have never opened. Stuff that I haven't used at all nor painted is a much longer list..

My first post!

I'm glad to see I'm not alone, My Necron project which has been halted by the HH and Chaos Release are all still in their boxes..

Necron Warriors x72
Necron Immortals / Death Marks x25
Lychguards / Praetorians x20
Triarch Stalker x1
Doomsday Ark / Ghost ark x5
Annihilation Barge / Catacomb Command Barge x4
Monolith x3
Canoptek Spyder x1
Canoptek Scarabs x18
Canoptek Wraiths x3
Tomb Blades x3
Night Scythe / Doom Scythe x2

All i have made of my necrons are the heroes and a tomb stalker :S

Also have an untouched ork starter kit, the dark vengeance cultist, some skin wolves from forge world, and the old daemon prince and the khorne daemon prince from forge world.

Unpainted i have like 10k worth of nids 3k worth of orks and 1.5k worth of beastmen.. and the odd chaos, dark angel and eldar here and there. Edit: those are points not $$$

This is about to get obscene.





3 Exorcists
2 Immolators
5 Rhinos
2 Penitent Engines
11 Serephims type 1
17 Serephims type 2
8 Melta Serephims
4 Serephim Superiors
7 Melta Sisters no mask
9 Melta Sisters with mask
3 Flamer Sisters with helmet
22 Flamer Sisters no helmet
5 Stormbolter Sisters no helmet
9 Stormbolter Sisters with helemt
2 Multimelta Sisters
11 Heavy Flamer Sisters
13 Bolter Sisters with helmet type 1
3 Bolter Sisters with helmet type 2
18 Bolter Sisters type 1
21 Bolter Sisters type 2
32 Bolter Sisters type 3
25 Bolter Sisters type 4
7 Grenade throwing Sisters
7 Icon holding Sisters
4 Heavy Bolter Sisters
8 Power Sword Sister Superiors
1 Combiflamer Sister Superior (missing bit)
5 Chainsword Sister Superiors
1 Mace Sister Superior
5 Various Priests
1 Nurse Sister
2 Standard bearer Sisters
1 Canoness
1 Saint Celestine

279 Models

Damn my hoarding nature. So much damn work ahead of me. Though I did just finish 80 bases for them.

Oh I also have have to strip all the ones that are painted.

A fethton of Tyranids. I bought a helluva lotta Gaunts, and then I decided that I should get a Chaos army instead because Tyranids were getting boring. It wasn't a hobby anymore, ya know?

So now I have so many Gaunt sprues that I'm afraid to count them. I'll probably end up selling them on ebay later for like 1/10 normal price. I just want to get rid of 'em.

Inari82 wrote:
This is about to get obscene.

I'll see your obscene and raise you to insanity.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/476407.page

That's 22k of SM's that are at most 50/50 bare or primered (probably closer to 2% painted, 18% primered, and 80% in bits, pieces, or boxes.) and doesn't count the IW or Eldar I have in boxes.

unbuilt:
emperors fist tank company
CSM squad x2
defiler
CSM term lord x2
land raider x2
storm raven w/chapter house bits x2
chaos knights box x5
ogre lead belchers x2
ogre bulls x3
Valkyrie x2
stormblade
baneblade x2
dread knight x3
regular dred
space hulk
CSM spawn tide
sure theres more

built/being converted but no paint:
3000pt GK army
3000pt SM army
1500pt CSM sorta army

have 4000+pt IG in different stages

id say 10% of my collection is done

Still have two boxes of Gaunts that had both types in it left to build. I probably have some stuff that's older - an old box of 20 Cadians, a Land Raider I bought by accident. That sort've thing. There's an Arvus Lighter still in the bag somewhere in my gaming room...

I didn't want to do this but here goes :(

Forgeworld
Complete FW Stompa with Belly Kannon and Lifta-Droppa
FW Warboss on Bike

Horus Heresy - Angron
10 Catraphractii Termies with chainaxes
World Eaters Dreadnought /w arms

Games Workshop

Dark Vengance box set
Space Marine Mega-Force
24 Khorne Bezerkers
20 Maruaders
20 Bloodletters
10 Daemonettes
10 Nurglings
5 Flesh Hounds
2 Battle Wagons
Box of Killa Kans
Deff Dread
2 x AoBR (Ork Halfs)

this is just from memory there may be more....... and if you think this is bad you should see my to paint list.

Decimator Engine
2 Blight Drones
2 Plague Marine Squads with FW Conversion Kits
1 Nugle Termie Squad with FW Conversion Kits
2 CSM Rhinos w/ FW Doors
30 Bloodletters
40 Bloodletters (waiting on paint)
1 Lord Of Change
Typhus
5 CSM Chosen
5 CSM Possessed
1 Agies Defense Line
1 Nurgle Daemon Prince
2 DE Raiders
1 Space Marine Battle Box

Edit: I forgot about these
1 Exhalted Seeker Charriot
1 Bloodthirster (needs paint)
1 Vendetta (needs conversion and paint)
18 Demonetts

I'd say I have around 400 dollars worth of unassembled miniatures...

1 IG Sentinel
1 IG Heavy Weapons team
1 LRBT

1 Wolf Guard Terminator box

2 Devilfish
3 XV25 Stealth Suits
2 ForgeWorld XV88 Broadside suits

Games Day Exclusive minis from 2002-2004 and 2007..

Not as bad as some here ... But it made me sad thinking about it...

 DarkCorsair wrote:
By the way, since a lot of people in this thread seem to have a lot of NIB items, you can exchange them at a GW store for full credit - I got a hive tyrant for $5 today this way

Does it work like this everywhere? If I know the local GW staff right they'd not be too excited about this.

And does it work even if I don't have the receipt?

fishy bob wrote:

 DarkCorsair wrote:
By the way, since a lot of people in this thread seem to have a lot of NIB items, you can exchange them at a GW store for full credit - I got a hive tyrant for $5 today this way

Does it work like this everywhere? If I know the local GW staff right they'd not be too excited about this.

And does it work even if I don't have the receipt?

refunds need receipts, exchanges generally don't.

Ugh. Way, way, way, way, way, way, way too much. A lot of it accumulated while I was out of the hobby and now I'm getting back to it I have a mountain of stuff.

To tackle it and stay sane I'm approaching it as individual projects and going after it in stages:

Dark Angels - Stage 1:
Dark Vengeance Box set of --
10 Tacticals (Finished!)
5 Terminators (Primed - Armor test complete on 1st)
3 Bikers
1 Chaplain
1 Captain
1 Librarian
(The Chaos faction will be handled later, not a faction I plan on collecting. Given away, sold, whatever)

Stage 2:
5 Man Terminator Assault Squad
3 Man Ravenwing Biker Box (to add to the DV bikers)
10 Man Jumppack Assault Squad
2 Assault Bikes
5 Devastators
10 Man Tactical Squad

Returning to my Steel Legion IG for Stage 3 (I bought 2 of the Armageddon box sets back in the day):
4 Chimera
1 Russ
1 Demolisher
1 original Hellhound
3 Steel Legion Sentinels
1 Griffon
~ 120 Steel Legion Guardsmen (20 + Command Squad are painted)
10 Stormtroopers
3 Commissars of various kit

Stage 4:
2 full Battalions of Mantic produced Dwarves -
80 foot with 1 hand weapon + shield
60 foot with ranged
30 foot with greatweapons
4 cannon
Mantic Dwarven commanders box set
80 Games Workshop Dwarf foot soldiers with hand weapons
20 GW Dwarf Miners
2 GW Dwarf Cannons

Stage 5:
PP Menite Holy Zealots (with Monolith Bearer)
PP Menite Reckoner (old school metal)
PP Menite Redeemer (metal!)
PP Menite original Feora
PP Menite original Reclaimer
PP Menite original Knights Errant (metal - ewww)

Stage 6:
All the new stuff OTW from the Mantic Kickstarter. Ugh. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea to buy more as I keep getting deeper...

Stage 7:
A half purchased Skorne army for Warmahordes
2 Warlocks
2 Elephants
10 infantry
3 cataphractii
(can't remember the rest, been a while since I've looked at them)

Stage 8:
All the stuff from a Vampire level pledge for Bones from Reaper Minis.

Stage 9:
20 GW Empire State Troops (fantasy)
5 GW Empire Outriders
5 GW Empire Knights

After looking back through this list, I... I'm afraid. Should I be on that TLC show Hoarders? Sooooo much stuff. I don't want to even BEGIN to think of what the monetary value is.

As a percentage of my painted collection, I'd say 5%. However, I
actually think the number is ower, but 5% is a good enough
number as any.

Man, I never have stuff sitting around NIB. First thing I do when I get home with my new toys is open them and build them. But then, my spending has been curbed a lot lately, and I really try to paint more than I buy.

Inari82 wrote:
This is about to get obscene.

279 Models

Pfft!

Is that all? I've got 400 unpainted Guardsmen, and they're only part of a 25-30k Guard army of which virtually nothing is painted. They sit aside my unpainted Chaos (30k), Tyranids (12k), Marines (12k) and the recent Eldar and Tau armies I was given (4k/2k). My only mostly painted army is my Necrons.

I have way too much. Just told my wife I'm going to try to stick to current projects instead of starting new ones. At least for a while. Will see how it goes!

Oh deary, deary me.

Some people seem to be bragging about how much spare cash they have...
'Well I can afford to spend £1000s on minatures and just let them sit on my shelf...'
(GW plc prime demoghraphic...far more money than sense.lol)

I NEVER have spent more than £50 on minatures before painting them up.
Currently painting up 2 teams fopr Blood Bowl.
(I shall not post up pics as my painting is decidedly 'average'...)

Lanrak wrote:
Oh deary, deary me.

Some people seem to be bragging about how much spare cash they have...
'Well I can afford to spend £1000s on minatures and just let them sit on my shelf...'
(GW plc prime demoghraphic...far more money than sense.lol)

I NEVER have spent more than £50 on minatures before painting them up.
Currently painting up 2 teams fopr Blood Bowl.
(I shall not post up pics as my painting is decidedly 'average'...)

Do you spend money on models regularly? You said you buy as you go.

Well I don't. Instead I design my army list, think out the modelling designs, and then save up the money to buy the entire thing all at once, so that when I start building it, I have every piece I need for cross kit conversions and such.

As such, I buy about once a year, doing all my shopping in a single large order that saves me money on shipping. I don't ever buy flavor of the month items, and I tend to wait until all release waves are out before deciding to start a new army.

This has absolutely nothing to do with showing off disposable income. Many of us have ambitious ideas that we either are building up to, or we end up not having the time to get them done.

And I'm sure some of us buy things we don't need currently but might in the future at the current prices, lest they be raised(which they will) before we start on that project.

I bought all my SM tanks a month before the price hike this year, and I won't start that project for at least another 6 months. But I saved money.

Lanrak wrote:
Oh deary, deary me.

Some people seem to be bragging about how much spare cash they have...
'Well I can afford to spend £1000s on minatures and just let them sit on my shelf...'
(GW plc prime demoghraphic...far more money than sense.lol)

Well, yes, I can, but that's not the point. Frankly, I WISH I didn't have this kind of backlog. The problem is that free time to money is a zero-sum until you get to insanely large values of money. As a result, I've gotten to the point where I have more money, but less free time to paint. Most of my stuff was purchased about the time that money increased, sending free time spiraling into the ground. I'm gonna get there, just not today.

Also, something to consider, if you're buying GW one way or the other, and GW continues to increase their prices faster than inflation, you're still making the wiser business decision.

Hi again.
IF the post reads here is my current 2000pt army I have planned/bought.
And here is what I have assembled .
And here is what I have painted.

Then thats IS sensible and NOT bragging.

But when its just 'here is an even longer list than yours and loads more ££££ spent.'
It seems like bragging on how much cash you have spent of stuff you have no motivation/time to do anything with.IMO.

I am not a collector. I am a gamer.
I buy stuff to use in games.
I have bought complete armies in one go .(But paint up what I have bought before buying more stuff.)

My hobby is playing games, with buying building and painting as an enjoyable hobbies that support my main hobby.

(Some people seem to have a hobby that is mainly buying Citadel minatures. )

Lanrak wrote:
Hi again.
IF the post reads here is my current 2000pt army I have planned/bought.
And here is what I have assembled .
And here is what I have painted.

Then thats IS sensible and NOT bragging.

But when its just 'here is an even longer list than yours and loads more ££££ spent.'
It seems like bragging on how much cash you have spent of stuff you have no motivation/time to do anything with.IMO.

I am not a collector. I am a gamer.
I buy stuff to use in games.
I have bought complete armies in one go .(But paint up what I have bought before buying more stuff.)

My hobby is playing games, with buying building and painting as an enjoyable hobbies that support my main hobby.

(Some people seem to have a hobby that is mainly buying Citadel minatures. )

I have a good number of models that are not for my armies that I collect and intend to paint when I have time. And in all of those cases I bought them now either because they are OOP or because they are already expensive enough and I don't want to spend even more when I do have the time to paint them.

Lanrak wrote:
Hi again.
IF the post reads here is my current 2000pt army I have planned/bought.
And here is what I have assembled .
And here is what I have painted.

Then thats IS sensible and NOT bragging.

But when its just 'here is an even longer list than yours and loads more ££££ spent.'
It seems like bragging on how much cash you have spent of stuff you have no motivation/time to do anything with.IMO.

I am not a collector. I am a gamer.
I buy stuff to use in games.
I have bought complete armies in one go .(But paint up what I have bought before buying more stuff.)

My hobby is playing games, with buying building and painting as an enjoyable hobbies that support my main hobby.

(Some people seem to have a hobby that is mainly buying Citadel minatures. )

Well, that's just, like... your opinion man.

I am a collector and painter, which I've been doing since 1986. I haven't gamed in years, at least 10 if I recall my last game day correctly. When I have money to round out my collections, I buy. When I don't have money, I don't buy. I believe my Wishlist from FW is somehwere around the $10k mark, but I will buy it down over time.

The irony of your post is that is smacks of the same "I'm better than you because I do X and you do Y." that you are accusing others of.

I own more games, books, cards, paints, and minis than a small FLGS.

I also work 40 hours a week, go to school full time online, have 2 sons, and a wife that works 3rd shift. So I'm quite busy with life and paint when I can to take a break. I like to read game fluff and rules. I like to look at game art. These are my hobbies and I enjoy them.

I do what I enjoy, you seem to do the same. It just happens that our paths cross here.

No need to get uppity or read too much into others list, comments, etc.

@ TalonZahn.
Yup just my opinion.
I have expressed mine ,and you have expressed yours.

But the...' here is a massive list of stuff, I say have ,but say I have not painted yet....'

Type post appears to have stopped.

Spend your cash on what makes you happy.

My point is buying building, painting and gaming with minatures gives you more 'bang for you buck' , than just buying minatures.

I think the biggest piece in the pile of shame would be the fourty diaz seekers and the seventy plus diaz daemonettes, but to list it all would probably terrify me.

You know there's a bit of a problem when you're working out what to take for an apoc game and the other's decide you should bring maelstrom of gore. Then you look in the bits box, get back on skype and tell them it won't be a problem cause there's about 40 zerkers sat in the box unbuilt in there.

All of this adds up to why I haven't actually bought anything for the new chaos dex just yet unless dark vengeance counts!

I shudder that the thought of the current market value of those Diaz daemonettes.

Please tell me you bought them years ago.

 Aerethan wrote:
I shudder that the thought of the current market value of those Diaz daemonettes.

Please tell me you bought them years ago.

A mix of years ago and auctions ending at weird times or ungodly hours, or terrifyingly enough included in a mislabelled job lot in the 'general toys' type section! Never paid more than £5 each though mostly less.

Edit: I should clarify I meant £5 each on the seekers! The Daemonettes come in at less than that or I'd also be terrified!

Indeed, current Ebay prices have Diaz infantry at $6.8ea right now.

So you have about $475 worth of OOP sexiness just hanging out.

Good Lord.

As soon as I plot out some Horus Heresy lists and some Chaos list, my unpainted army will grow.

I have been ravenously assembling lots of new CSM and Demons models, but thus far 20 Bloodletters and now 2 Bloodcrushers are added to the list for untouched. Not for long, though, I already have enough assembled for an 1850 army .

[opens model draw army boxes etc]
[stares in shock]
[closes said storage devices]
[shuffles off to a dark corner in shock]

On a serious note let me see:

about 4K points value of skaven horde-mainly finishing off but in some cases still at bare plastic/metal

converted xenos IG squad-bare plastic

IG LC-bare plastic

4 converted IG xenos snipers-bare metal

6 converted xenos IG ogryns-bare plastic

1 armoured sentinel with autocannon-needs finishing

1 super heavy SPG-needs finishing

The Elves from Blood Island-need finishing

Necromunda gang-some need finishing in the converting department but all bare plastic

2 STuIG 33B-bare plastic

2 sherman m3a3s-bare plastic

2 sherman fireflys-bare plastic

2 panzer IVs-need finishing

2 Cryx Deathripper Bonejacks-WIP but there being done for a competition

BFG fleet-half painted

3-4K of SM-all but the dreads bare plastic

A small collection of Epic stuff-various

Numerous Warhammer/40K figures

Numerous scratch builds/conversions for a steampunk game system

Numerous historical stuff

And i am hoping to get a cryx starter set soon as well as some more Bonejacks and the Dark Vengance.......