So, recently I made a very big move across the country, and as any wargamer is wont to do, I had to inventory what I had to figure out how I was going to pack things up and move them. And I made an interesting discovery.

I have a problem.

I'm not sure if I've been drinking with easy access to the laptop and credit card again or what, but what I thought was a very modest collection turned out to be massive. As in, I found an entire army's worth of guardsmen from various sources that I had apparently accrued through various trades, swaps, and "ooh shiney" purchases. Like an entire platoon of Mad Robot Danamians I had forgotten I had. Almost a company's worth of Catachans that people practically gave me because no one wanted them. A massive baggy full of Victoria lamb armored toros hidden in a drawer, and then found another baggy full of legs, arms, and heavy weapons in another, enough to outfit several weapon teams. Not to mention an entire platoon of metal 3rd ed Cadians that I had come across for a steal, but those I picked up recently and figured that would be the majority of what I had left aside from my old Commissars and commanders from the first army I owned way back when.

What I had thought was going to be a meager platoon or two of guardsmen turned into a full company of 4 to 5 platoons easily, with a sentinel I must have had since I started and a Leman Russ that I didn't even know I still had. The scary part though was that I thought I had sold almost all my guardsmen a couple years ago, back when I sold something like 6 Leman Russes, 15 weapon teams, and god knows how many plastic Cadians because I was just sick of looking at the damn things. So that means that this new army has slowly sprung up over time from the ashes of the old one and I hadn't even realized it.

And then I realized I had 4 armies for Flames of War, and 2 full Bolt Action armies completely ready to go, 2 decent sized fleets for X wing, enough dreamforge minis to make a massive army for it whenever it gets a system, and a ton of Starship trooper minis, and even a small smattering of bikers, lootas, and shoota orks that somehow also survived that army purge as well.

So when did you realize that things had gotten out of control? When did you realize it had gone from Hobby to hording? I know there have to be others out there. I've seen pics in the KR case threads of the guys with the walls of cardboard cases. When was that moment where you looked at your collection and thought "holy gak, that's a lotta plastic crack."

I keep an updated Word document with a full inventory list. I have tons of stuff, but nothing is ever 'forgotten' like you've done.

I still have a huge collection, the word document is pretty large and it only counts individual models, it doesn't even count all my books, hobby supplies, scenery, and hobby-related stuff that isn't essentially on a 'base'.

More, more, moooooore is needed. Adeptus Mechanicus boxes incoming, lmao.

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
I keep an updated Word document with a full inventory list. I have tons of stuff, but nothing is ever 'forgotten' like you've done.

Mine's in Excel. I know Alpharius has a similar one.

It has many, many tabs.

And doesn't account for any of my 40k or Fantasy....

At this point I am always finding crap squirreled away. An entire Necromunda gang, recently. I'm trying to sell a bunch off, but sadly only so I can afford to drop a boatload on a new KS.

Just now, after I read your post I realized that I have a problem haha. I have more armies than I know what to do with and still want more. But I don't think I can ever have too much.

Moved recently and most of the hobby stuff ended up in a closet or the room containing the closet. Recently I made an effort to organize that room, which is going very well. However, I kept finding minis. "oh yeah I backed that ks", "oh yeah I bought these guys". Not as much as you claimed and I don't know if I could say I forgot about them either, but they were out of sight, out of mind.

I'm making it a point now to put minis on display as much as possible, to keep myself aware that I have a lot of hobby stuff to last me years of fun. I think it's psychological; I look at my desk and see a few minis there that need painting or whatever and I feel like it's not much, so I'm tempted to get more. But when I look at all I have at once it's the same feeling as making a huge purchase and I don't need to spend any extra money.

Minis are so easy to store and forget about, and then you end up saying "oh yeah, I have a baneblade to build". So really, do what I do next time you want to buy, or swap, or whatever. Just get all of your stuff in front of you and organize it all. Then put it back. You'll feel like you just spent hundreds.

Relevant!!

I was cleaning today and when I noticed my project box was more like three (big clear plastic tubs) and I still had things pouring out, on tables and paints everywhere.

Im trying to decide what is important a Warlord title (in a silly other game I play) or Warhammer 40K.....I can always play warhammer and buy with my girlfriend but I can only Warlord while im young(ish)

I should probably take stock of what I've got lying around. Might be a good way to motivate me into tidying up my room.

I went to a swap and trade event last weekend looking to get rid of some stuff, and ended up acquiring one guy's entire 40k collection. He kept bringing me more stuff and just forcing me to take it. Then another gentlemen had a fire sale on his Tau, and after that I doubled my already considerable Empire army for about 20 bucks. This is why my closet is overflowing with shame.

I don't have this issue with minis because I'm simply not that financially flush. At worst I'll forget some low grade plastic bits that came taped to the same card as something I bought at a show, find them and ask myself, "What is this?" I can otherwise name and ID my lead individually, with fond memories.

Buuuut... As a past collector in other scenes though, "that moment" came when I surfaced from a very, very long depression and found myself with literal boxes full of things I had no interest in, and no real recollection of buying. "Oh it's a Saturday, it's been a gak week. I deserve something nice." out came the wallet, and something else slipped onto the shelf upon returning home. And repeat.
eBay ate well that week. The rest I gave to my parents to sell at their convenience, just to get it gone.

I've never got so bad as to still keep things in their store carrier bags or mailing packets, which I know can happen (I've seen it many a time). Genuinely no offense to anyone that operates in that way, it's just not me.

The store-and-forget then handling it all again that you mention, holds very true. I made a habit of "reorganising" my minis drawers (really just getting hands on with stock-taking) every few months.

In the process of doing a major garage and basement reorganization, building heavy duty shelf units, sorting, setting up the stereo and tossing a bunch of junk and I figure its going to take a month.

Have been reorganizing and sorting the minis a bit as well, but its a much bigger job.......

T

Hit that point a few months back.

Now I've beaten down the 40k to two semi-modest armies, but my warmachine stuff has been breeding when I wasn't looking...

And now I'm being tempted towards more 40k.

I'm a hopeless case....

With me its terrain. I keep building, and every time I open the terrain chest, I find items I've completely forgotten about.

Worst part for me is the i don't even play the games.

Bough like a ridiculous amount of 40k stuff though craigs list and barter town. Never found a person to paly with

Bought a ridiculous amount of Warmachine stuff...same people who don't play 40k don't play warmachine.

Actually FOUND someone to play bloodbowl with...ridiculous amount of bloodbowl stuff.

Factor in SDE, Deadzone, dreadball extreme, Bones 1 & 2. cthulu wars, shadows of brimstone......

I backed wrath of kings and i don't even want it. Didnt even take the minis out if the box.

so yes MrMoustaffa..your have a problem...just like mine

I had 5 moving boxes filled to the brim with unopened and opened stuff.

Sold almost everything about 1.5 years ago.
Now I don't have anything more than 45 models at home. And those will be completed before I purchase anything new.

After about 19 years into this hobby i have finally gotten a grip on the spending.

I just bin anything thats sitting around unused for an amount of time and not getting touched.

How do you guys usually Sell stuff?

Nope, but I did sort of go too far on paints. I bought lots, mostly washes, lots and lots of washes. Someday I will use them all up, but it will probably take at least a couple of years lol.
I get excited when I finish a pot and throw it out. Shows that I actually probably got some minis done. lol.

I spent my entire Student loan on Space Marines and yellow paint. It got so that I couldn't afford to travel to Uni after the first term each year, so I just didn't go and painted Space Marines all day.

I didn't see it then, but I now realise that I have a problem with plastic crack.

I moved, and have spent the last two and a quarter years trying to make my collection fit, while adding way too many new items to it.

Or to put it another way, after I moved, and started bringing things out of storage, and boxes that had been packed away for years, and boxes that had been in storage for years at my parents' place, and way too many Kickstarters and eBay purchases, this happened:


Which is both great, and terrible.

All you need is a till, and you've got a store.
I'd love to get a game of Dark Future again.

And I'm complaining that three boxes and a cabinet shelf is full... I'm just a friggin scrub still.

I occasionally refind stuff that I've mislaid (as in "that's where that little **** got to.") and if it's not something I'm going to use, I get rid of it these days.

My armies fit into one cupboard (cases and all). I still have my Eldar (first 40k army and mostly Jes Goodwin designed figures), and my GK (bought in 3rd ed because I liked the models) but the rest is known and listed on a manifest I put together in excel.

But, like I said, I do periodic culls. So I don't end up with a mountain of crap I'm never going to use. Mostly the cull consists of GIVING STUFF AWAY to people who want it.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
So when did you realize that things had gotten out of control?

When you have several boxes of unbuilt miniatures in your hall closet labelled "Misc. Forge World".

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I went to a swap and trade event last weekend looking to get rid of some stuff, and ended up acquiring one guy's entire 40k collection. He kept bringing me more stuff and just forcing me to take it. Then another gentlemen had a fire sale on his Tau, and after that I doubled my already considerable Empire army for about 20 bucks. This is why my closet is overflowing with shame.

I have an entire armored company for the same reason.

I KNOW when a collection has gone too far when I completely forget I have something.
For me, that never happens if it is all going "right".
I may have an issue getting my hands on something, or forget just how many I have of something but to completely forget means things have gone too far.

I had a "Hirst Mold" that I had bought and completely forgot about (Industrial Accessory Mold #326).
Surprised by finding an "unseen" Battletech Pheonix Hawk in a blister.
A Land Raider squirrelled away in a dusty corner.
Two boxes of the original Cadian guard 20 pack.
3 converted dakka dreadnaughts for Grey Knights.
Found an "extra" sorted bits box for marines I swear I never had.
A box of "Abney Park" miniatures which I should get together to keep my Dr Steel company.

The above list is just "loose" stuff I found in one sitting trying to better organize the space since it was spilling out of the shelves onto the floor (almost literally).
I am afraid to look in the huge tote I have for 40k Chaos Space Marines, I swear they breed in there... the box (Steamer Trunk size) keeps getting harder to close.

Quite a few months back, I had 4 40k armies all at at least 3k points, and 5 fantasy armies at 10k a pop easy. I didn't want too, but I knew I was never going to manage to paint them all, so I sold and traded nearly everything off. As of today, I have a full company of space marines, a solid 2,000 points of space wolves, and a growing guard collection. I decided to start limiting myself on not buying untill I paint it all, but we all know where that goes. Also, I mean, if you don't WANT the guardsmen, I can help reduce your collection

I had a vague, creeping feeling that I might be going too far, and so I mercilessly crushed it by starting a business.

Now I have a perfect excuse to accrue even more gaming stuff!

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
So, recently I made a very big move across the country, and as any wargamer is wont to do, I had to inventory what I had to figure out how I was going to pack things up and move them. And I made an interesting discovery.

I have a problem.

I'm not sure if I've been drinking with easy access to the laptop and credit card again or what, but what I thought was a very modest collection turned out to be massive. As in, I found an entire army's worth of guardsmen from various sources that I had apparently accrued through various trades, swaps, and "ooh shiney" purchases. Like an entire platoon of Mad Robot Danamians I had forgotten I had. Almost a company's worth of Catachans that people practically gave me because no one wanted them. A massive baggy full of Victoria lamb armored toros hidden in a drawer, and then found another baggy full of legs, arms, and heavy weapons in another, enough to outfit several weapon teams. Not to mention an entire platoon of metal 3rd ed Cadians that I had come across for a steal, but those I picked up recently and figured that would be the majority of what I had left aside from my old Commissars and commanders from the first army I owned way back when.

What I had thought was going to be a meager platoon or two of guardsmen turned into a full company of 4 to 5 platoons easily, with a sentinel I must have had since I started and a Leman Russ that I didn't even know I still had. The scary part though was that I thought I had sold almost all my guardsmen a couple years ago, back when I sold something like 6 Leman Russes, 15 weapon teams, and god knows how many plastic Cadians because I was just sick of looking at the damn things. So that means that this new army has slowly sprung up over time from the ashes of the old one and I hadn't even realized it.

And then I realized I had 4 armies for Flames of War, and 2 full Bolt Action armies completely ready to go, 2 decent sized fleets for X wing, enough dreamforge minis to make a massive army for it whenever it gets a system, and a ton of Starship trooper minis, and even a small smattering of bikers, lootas, and shoota orks that somehow also survived that army purge as well.

So when did you realize that things had gotten out of control? When did you realize it had gone from Hobby to hording? I know there have to be others out there. I've seen pics in the KR case threads of the guys with the walls of cardboard cases. When was that moment where you looked at your collection and thought "holy gak, that's a lotta plastic crack."

I realized that I needed to cut back when I stopped playing 40k for 4th edition and came back in mid 5th and realized I had two completely painted marine and IG armies (one of each that I did and another of each that I bought cheap). I actually did a good job of cutting down my pile of shame and unwanted/unused painted minis until about last year when I realized with 7th edition that I was having more fun converting models than playing them with the current batch of rules. I actually made it down to only three 40k figs left to paint in my entire collection and only about 30 or so painted/unpainted to sell! Then came the truescale... then primarchs... and now tau conversions. I made it for several years without buying a GW kit after deciding it wasn't worth ever starting a new army during the finecast switchover period when I gave up my GK idea in 5th edition.

In any case, it sounds like you should take pics of all that and put it up all in one lot over in the swap shop or start another IG army.

Whenever my Mrs starts moaning about me buying more stuff, I'll just show her this thread and say "But see how much worse it could be!"

Mine shares shelf space in the craft/box room with my models.
For every area I have filled with plastic crack, she has one full of wool or wool-related 'items'.
So, when my collection gets too big, we'll have to argue over space. That'll keep it contained.

Or, we'll be swimming in sheep-fur.

I’ve yet to realize that I have a problem.

I do have a lot of junk I should probably do something with one of these days though...

I went through a similar thing a few years ago. Over a few years, I liquidated 6k of Painted Marines, 5k of unpainted marines, 12k of unpainted Eldar, 1500 each of tyranids and partially converted, partially painted tau, 2500 of mostly painted Orks, 8k of unpainted demons, 1500 points of bare metal catachans, and 3k of Empire.

While digging out of all that stuff, I kept finding things to sell. Mantic Abyssal Dwarves and Elves, 40+ chaos terminators, epic Eldar, and even grey knights. The amount of stuff I had was frankly ludicrious, even if much of it was painted.

What really motivated me to cut back was facing two major moves. First, I moved much of my gaming stuff from my apartment to a clubhouse. Second, I moved apartments. Handling everything led to me finding more and more stuff to unload.




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 rayphoton wrote:
How do you guys usually Sell stuff?

Historically, eBay has been the best way to maximize net sale price while also having the most reliable sale. Rising shipping costs and eBay fees, coupled with very buyer friendly policies, make eBay less attractive, but probably still the best option if cash sale is important.

Other options are more fact specific, including the Dakka Swap Shop, Bartertown, FLGSs that deal in used goods, bring and buys/flea markets, and bitz swapping at cons.

I've been addicted on and off for 20 years.
Dont see that changing anytime soon although I am reaching a zenith with my current forces. Depening on what ,if any new toys Eldar get, that could be it until Admech gets fleshed out or new scenery kits get released. Im a sucker for scenery.

When I start planning my second Space Marine chapter I will know that I have a problem.

For the record, I'm considering Dark Angels.

You aren't alone. Off the top of my head, I can think of approximately 2,500 models I have that are unpainted. I have another 500 or so models that are painted, mostly 40k. This is just the stuff that comes to mind. Who knows what I have lurking in the corner of the closet. I also have about 1,200 minis from the Star Wars Miniatures game, if you want to count those. All of this still doesn't account for all the incoming Kickstarters...

One of my life goals is take a group photo of all this stuff.

yes, you have a problem,

your problem is too many models.

send some of those guard to me! ESP the victoria lamb minis!

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
what I thought was a very modest collection turned out to be massive.

Haha, yeah, I have these wakeups from time to time. Most recently, I had started working on my IG, and I recently inventoried to find I had mysteriously gained a full 2000 pts of IG on top of the 5000 pts I thought I had. My Sisters broke 1000 pts. And that's just the Imperial T3 stuff, before getting to my MEQs and Eldar. And as I'm poking around, it looks like I have a ton more BFG Eldar than I thought I did. WTF?

Anyhow, I'm working through the IG pile, getting stuff playable. Last year, I got my big DreamForge Crusader playable; then built, primed and basecoated ~100 metal infantry. This year, I'm building a Shadowsword & Stormlord. :nods:

I probably ought to purge more of my stuff if I can't build it, because I've got a ton of Kickstarter inbound this year...

But I'm in control, man. I just gotta stay focused an not buy any more GW stuff. Probably need to clamp down on KS and side projects, too.


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 Polonius wrote:
I went through a similar thing a few years ago. Over a few years, I liquidated 6k of Painted Marines, 5k of unpainted marines, 12k of unpainted Eldar, 1500 each of tyranids and partially converted, partially painted tau, 2500 of mostly painted Orks, 8k of unpainted demons, 1500 points of bare metal catachans, and 3k of Empire.

How come you sold so much of the painted stuff? You didn't like it? I generally keep painted stuff, because there is some labor in there that you can't just buy back later.

I know I have a problem but threads like this make me feel better... Which then leads me deeper down the rabbit hole...

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Polonius wrote:
I went through a similar thing a few years ago. Over a few years, I liquidated 6k of Painted Marines, 5k of unpainted marines, 12k of unpainted Eldar, 1500 each of tyranids and partially converted, partially painted tau, 2500 of mostly painted Orks, 8k of unpainted demons, 1500 points of bare metal catachans, and 3k of Empire.

How come you sold so much of the painted stuff? You didn't like it? I generally keep painted stuff, because there is some labor in there that you can't just buy back later.

That's a great question. For years I championed not selling painted stuff.

The answer is really two fold. One, I saw the writing on the wall with me and 40k. I wasn't going to get back into it anytime soon, and multiple apocolypse level painted armies is a really unnecessary burden. Two, I didn't like the armies very much. The marines had kind of a dorky paint scheme, and the orks was very much an edition specific tournament list (battlewagon spam from 5th!).

The marines was actually kind of rough, but I had already fallen in love with the idea of 30k, and it was a DIY chapter that I had stretched into too many directions at once. Sure, there was a ton of sweat in that army, but it didn't really show it.

 Azazelx wrote:
after I moved, and started bringing things out of storage, and boxes that had been packed away for years, and boxes that had been in storage for years at my parents' place, and way too many Kickstarters and eBay purchases, this happened:

Spoiler:

Which is both great, and terrible.

I count at least 3 boxes of Sedition Wars, you poor bastard.


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 Polonius wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Polonius wrote:
I liquidated 6k of Painted Marines, ... 1500 each of tyranids and partially converted, partially painted tau, 2500 of mostly painted Orks, ...

How come you sold so much of the painted stuff? You didn't like it? I generally keep painted stuff, because there is some labor in there that you can't just buy back later.

That's a great question. For years I championed not selling painted stuff.

The answer is really two fold. One, I saw the writing on the wall with me and 40k. I wasn't going to get back into it anytime soon, and multiple apocolypse level painted armies is a really unnecessary burden. Two, I didn't like the armies very much.

Same. I generally dislike the idea of rebuilding things.


Besides, you have nearly twice as much painted IG as I own (and am still building), so it's not like you're hurting for stuff to put on the tabletop. But I am catching up!
But if you didn't really like the army, then yeah, it makes total sense to cash out.

I get into the bad habit of hobby army turnout. I've got though every army except blood angels and space wolves. I trade A LOT of armies to try different approaches to the game. It made my wife very angry with my hobby expenses. She made me downsize to 3 armies total of any game. So recently got another trade, followed by another trade. So sitting on 6000 points of imperial fists(getting close to finishing painting them) 2500 of dark angels ravenwing , 1500 warriors of chaos, and unknown large amount of dwarfs. Made a promise to my wife I won't buy new models for an army until every model for it is painted. Been going strong for 1 year. Trading is fair game.
Luckily for me I hate kick starters. I've been burned 3x so far in the last 2 years. Reaper miniatures and 2 non hobby ones.

I dumped 99% of my GW stuff a few years ago. keeping a few small projects.

Somehow I still have draws and draws of bits that would yield complete armies with a bit of thought.

I have also just been given a massive tool box full of 2nd ed metal marines, 2nd ed Cadians including the much lauded plastic storm troopers along with metal Eldar and rafts of metal dwarves......And lots of bits.

So, I'm not at the X thousands of points of 40k/WHFB I used to be at but I have enough models now that I can start a few new projects..just to keep my hand in...I wont get anymore....

 conker249 wrote:
It made my wife very angry with my hobby expenses. She made me downsize to 3 armies total of any game.

Luckily for me I hate kick starters. I've been burned 3x so far in the last 2 years. Reaper miniatures and 2 non hobby ones.

Her Rule of 3 is a good one, BTW. You can generally cover all of your bases with 3 different forces, especially if they are broad ones.

Kickstarter is dangerous, but the nice thing is that it generally fits in one or 2 boxes. Except Kingdom Death : Monster - that is going to be huge.

One summer several years back, I was going through a very depressing time. I had recently lost my job (due to my own foolishness ) and while I was looking for another one I kept buying stuff (obviously not a good idea with no source of income) until I had spent literally thousands of dollars from my saved up college money on stuff I had no business buying (WOTC Star Wars minis mostly, but some other stuff too, but I didn't start playing 40k until years later). I guess I did it mostly because I was bored and depressed. I lived at home at the time, and when my dad found out that I spent that much money on what he thought was a bunch of crap, he nearly kicked me out of the house (by that time I had another job). I vowed to never again buy stuff just because I was depressed, but I still do collect some stuff, just on a smaller scale (where I can actually afford it).

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 conker249 wrote:
It made my wife very angry with my hobby expenses. She made me downsize to 3 armies total of any game.

Luckily for me I hate kick starters. I've been burned 3x so far in the last 2 years. Reaper miniatures and 2 non hobby ones.

Her Rule of 3 is a good one, BTW. You can generally cover all of your bases with 3 different forces, especially if they are broad ones.

Kickstarter is dangerous, but the nice thing is that it generally fits in one or 2 boxes. Except Kingdom Death : Monster - that is going to be huge.

I was angry at the rule at first. But now I really enjoy it. Makes me appreciate what armies I have. And a desire to paint them to the best of my ability. She was ok with the "updated rule for 2 40k, 2 fantasy, and ffg conquest. Which she enjoys with me. She really loves the imperial fist army and how they are turning out. 13 vehicles, 20 assault marines, and 30 infantry left to paint for them. Ravenwing is done. Haven't started sit her of the fantasy armies yet.

The best part about the Rule of 3 is that it forces you to take a moment and think about what you want.

In my case, I treat 40k as my primary game, and have decided on 3 armies for it:
- Eldar
- Imperials (primarily Guard)
- Chaos Marines
It covers the Imperial / Chaos / Xenos triad, along with MEQ / GEQ, etc. Of course, I should have been more choosy in buying stuff against a single FOC, versus trying to complete the Codex, but it's too late for that. Still, I am glad that I backed away from 'crons, Tau and Dark Eldar, never starting Nids or Orks.

BFG is similar with Eldar, Imperials & Chaos fleets. After I get my IG squared away, I'll tackle that Eldar fleet.

If I ever restart Fantasy, it'll be Dogs of War vs Empire, max 3k each, with maybe a smattering of Skaven or Dark Elves.

Definitely need to work harder at paring things down, though. Polonius record of sale is a bit of an inspiration.

 conker249 wrote:
Luckily for me I hate kick starters. I've been burned 3x so far in the last 2 years. Reaper miniatures and 2 non hobby ones.

Reaper burned you?

I've got an Excel sheet running. But I do agree, it's horrifying when you have that moment when you realize you have a problem.

I thought I'd gotten it down to two armies: IG and Deathwing. But then I acquired some Chaos Marines from a trade, then a boatload of Loyalists (Iron Hands and Black Templars), Orks, and Tau. Easily 30,000 points of stuff that I somehow keep getting through trades. Then there's the Flames of War, X-Wing, and let's not get into my other hobbies...

 Talizvar wrote:
I KNOW when a collection has gone too far when I completely forget I have something.
For me, that never happens if it is all going "right".
I may have an issue getting my hands on something, or forget just how many I have of something but to completely forget means things have gone too far.

I have the opposite problem. I keep forgetting what I've gotten rid of. For example, I had a bunch of marines and spinny terminators I was going to trade away, and spent quite a while looking for them before remembering that I sold them to Matthieu Raymond for his principal to confiscate.

I am afraid to look in the huge tote I have for 40k Chaos Space Marines, I swear they breed in there...

You play Slaanesh?

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
after I moved, and started bringing things out of storage, and boxes that had been packed away for years, and boxes that had been in storage for years at my parents' place, and way too many Kickstarters and eBay purchases, this happened:

I count at least 3 boxes of Sedition Wars, you poor bastard.

Yeah, I still have pretty severe burn scars from that. It (along with KoW1) was my first KS, and I foolishly trusted McVey/CMoN to make good on all of the promises made in that campaign.


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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

I have the opposite problem. I keep forgetting what I've gotten rid of. For example, I had a bunch of marines and spinny terminators I was going to trade away, and spent quite a while looking for them before remembering that I sold them to Matthieu Raymond for his principal to confiscate.

Say what?

MrMoustaffa wrote: Almost a company's worth of Catachans that people practically gave me because no one wanted them.

Am I the only one that LOVES Catachans? And where was these people when I was building my IG !?! Son of a biscuit.

Azazelx wrote:I moved, and have spent the last two and a quarter years trying to make my collection fit, while adding way too many new items to it.

Or to put it another way, after I moved, and started bringing things out of storage, and boxes that had been packed away for years, and boxes that had been in storage for years at my parents' place, and way too many Kickstarters and eBay purchases, this happened:

Spoiler:

Which is both great, and terrible.

1. That is one of the neatest and cleanest/ well organized hobby room I've ever seen.
2. I would probably annoy the heck out of you trying to trade for that Necromunda box.

chromedog wrote:But, like I said, I do periodic culls. So I don't end up with a mountain of crap I'm never going to use. Mostly the cull consists of GIVING STUFF AWAY to people who want it.

Again...dang, I never have luck catching people purging stuff they don't want. (Okay that's not really true, I'm a skaven player, pack ratting stuff others cast off is 2nd nature.)

As far as when I realized I have too much, when I'm looking at my Chaos army and going..."Man I have 3000 points here and all I want to do is strip all the paint off and repaint and re convert everything...again, but this time make them all Slaanesh devoted werewolves and wererats. And I still haven't finished painting my Fallout 3/NV based IG, or all my Skaven...And my high elves are all unpainted or unassembled except the pack of 4 spearmen and 4 archers I bought in the summer of 2000. And I have a 3,000 point Space Marine chapter devoted to the Cincinnati Bengals, when I live in North Carolina and my favorite team in the Carolina Panthers...but their paint scheme is going to my Elves, my college's paint scheme is on my Skaven. And then there is my growing interest in Necromunda and um...what were talking about again?

 Lt. Coldfire wrote:

 conker249 wrote:
Luckily for me I hate kick starters. I've been burned 3x so far in the last 2 years. Reaper miniatures and 2 non hobby ones.

Reaper burned you?

Backed their large kickstarter, went for one of the paint sets and figures. Received the paint, but no figures, when I opened the paint 1/3 of the paints were dried out and missing their eye dropper caps. 1/3 was usable, and 1/3 took some work to get them usable, never seen paint separate and the top layer "powdered" before. Sent an email explaining what happened, never got a response, left a kickstarter message and nothing. Sent one more message, and finally got a response. their response was that the paints do not go out like that, and that I should use them right(to sum up from memory what was said) For the missing figurines I was emailed back saying that my pledge didn't cover that level, and long story short By the month mark, I got fed up with it and just stopped even looking at kickstarter, that being my third time

I'm there too, I've had very sizable army's of orks, necropsy did a small Black Templar army, and now I want to repaint my space wolves that I started with. So I held on to them and I am looking into the paint I want to use and all. After I finish my new chaos space marine project I'm working on.. I also decided I want to do skaven in fantasy but I'm holding off on anymore of that till 9th edition drops. "Fingers crossed for skirmish lvl play"
And I aquired anold school battle force of dark eldar off an old guard for stupid cheap.... Five years of my life man and I have never even put them on the field.... I'm going to die some day man!

I have known that I have too many miniatures that will never get painted, and have slowly been selling stuff off. My biggest impediment has been my 5 year old son, who loves to "play games" with me and whatever catches his fancy. The last time I got rid of something he had played with, he had a meltdown of titanic proportions. Ever since, I've had to do it on the lowdown, which has really slowed me down.

Out of control? i have everything under control, i am not an addict!


Anyway move to a new appartment a few years ago, and a few months back i went through some boxes finding
lots of reaper miniatures and privateer press hordes and warmachine mini's i totally forgot i had.

Plastic crack! nuff said

 Azazelx wrote:
I moved, and have spent the last two and a quarter years trying to make my collection fit, while adding way too many new items to it.

Or to put it another way, after I moved, and started bringing things out of storage, and boxes that had been packed away for years, and boxes that had been in storage for years at my parents' place, and way too many Kickstarters and eBay purchases, this happened:

Spoiler:

Which is both great, and terrible.

I'm printing that out to keep for the next time the Mrs complains about mini's taking over the house,.

I've got stuff scattered between 5 book cases and 3 display cabinets and a lot of boxes. I occasionally find something I forgot about but I had a huge clear out when I got back into the hobby and I'm being more ruthless about (a) getting rid of stuff I'll never use and (b) at least getting the stuff I will use into some usable state (assembled and primed in an appropriate base colour). Unfortunately I have a problem with bargains, kickstarters, quirky miniatures and starting new games, but I'm managing some restraint. I'm still nowhere near the "painting at least as fast as I buy" mark though.

40KNobz11 wrote:
Plastic crack! nuff said

We used to call M:tG “flat crack”

I may have had a CCG problem, but I’m over that now.

See, I've found an Imperial Guard/Inquisition army that I didn't know I had, and didn't buy (mostly stuff other folks were clearing out and gave me, some repurposed from other games), and I have had the "Where in hell did all these Goblins come from???? moment.

But looking at this thread, I realise that while I have a shedload of stuff to paint, I'm actually doing OK. Thanks, folks!

 Nevelon wrote:

40KNobz11 wrote:
Plastic crack! nuff said

We used to call M:tG “flat crack”

I may have had a CCG problem, but I’m over that now.

"paper crack"

If you only bought Magic, and kept the cards in good condition, you could probably sell them and get most of your money back.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

40KNobz11 wrote:
Plastic crack! nuff said

We used to call M:tG “flat crack”

I may have had a CCG problem, but I’m over that now.

"paper crack"

If you only bought Magic, and kept the cards in good condition, you could probably sell them and get most of your money back.

Step ahead of you. I sold the bulk of my MtG collection in ’99 to help with the down payment on my house. Sold the rest (a small pile of alpha/beta cards) around two years ago to fund my 40k hobby, to the tune of about $2k.

My basement is still packed with L5R, Doomtown, 7th Sea, Dune, Shadowfist, Shadowrun, Battletech, Netrunner, Jyhad/VtES, Star Wars, and god know what else. Miniatures are expensive enough and require work to get fielded that I never impulse bought them. Booster packs of cards on the other hand, I’d buy all the time.

It's not the point where you realise that things have gone too far that's the problem. It's that moment (usually seconds later) when you think 'feth it' and order another box set online.

 Nevelon wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

40KNobz11 wrote:
Plastic crack! nuff said

We used to call M:tG “flat crack”

I may have had a CCG problem, but I’m over that now.

"paper crack"

If you only bought Magic, and kept the cards in good condition, you could probably sell them and get most of your money back.

Step ahead of you. I sold the bulk of my MtG collection in ’99 to help with the down payment on my house.

Sold the rest (a small pile of alpha/beta cards) around two years ago to fund my 40k hobby, to the tune of about $2k.

My basement is still packed with L5R, Doomtown, 7th Sea, Dune, Shadowfist, Shadowrun, Battletech, Netrunner, Jyhad/VtES, Star Wars, and god know what else. Miniatures are expensive enough and require work to get fielded that I never impulse bought them. Booster packs of cards on the other hand, I’d buy all the time.

Excellent! I'm taking that as a solid 5-figure score.

Also good - $2k buys quite a fair amount of plastic.

Oops. I am so glad that I only focused on Magic, then Pirates to a much lesser degree, and even then, mostly on sale/clearance. I am also glad that I largely stopped buying things that require building.

I'm waaaay past the point of no return lol.

40k/WHFB/Deadzone/BFG/Space Hulk/Epic and KoW lol

I have really always wondered how often other people play. I never play any games. I paint, I build lists I do everything in the hobby but game. Some times when I take a step back it seems silly of me. But then I want another army. Or something els for my wolves...... I need to finish something and play with it. I have come to a realization of sorts about being realistic with what I aquire... And I hates it.

I was kind of in that place. Wolves and Blood Angels and Tyranids and Eldar getting bigger and bigger, never got any of it finished painted, never played any 40k games, then I came to a conclusion that I enjoyed playing more than painting and painting more than collecting/trading/spending money/not doing anything.

So I sold off everything 40k and fantasy. Then I got into X wing and was happy buying prepainted minis and flying different spaceships every week at the gaming club but now I've started buying into Dark Age as well and it's difficult keeping up playing and painting those models and now I'm considering buying into Infinity and Star Wars: Armada >.>

Whilst nowhere near as bad as others, I found a single grey plastic grot head when I first moved into my house five years ago.

That ignited a flame that had been smouldering for fifteen years and in true ork style it rapidly multiplied to three 90litre storage tubs stuffed full of new on sprue and removed from sprue grey plastic.

I have stopped buying though apart from the odd oop ork on ebay as I paint far to slow to ever use them all, hell I'm still working on my first 1000pts

I was messing around on the bus the other day and realised that I had enough miniatures to do a 1500 point KOW army for:
Ogres, Orcs, Goblins, Twilight Kin, Elves, Dwarves, Kingdoms of Men, Undead.
That's ignoring my Legions of Everblight force, my unassembled Gatormen and my unassembled Chaos force.

Add to that the historical forces I've been working on, and it just gets a bit ludicrous.

I had every 2nd ed 40K army, numerous Epic and WHFB armies, various Necromunda gangs and assorted other bits and pieces until an unfortunate fire left me with a gorilla box full of remnants.

These days I am more discerning in my purchases, while I still have more than I can paint at least I tend to use everythign I buy these days.

I've had to start hiding minis in places my wife doesn't look so it doesn't look like I have so much when I buy more.

I know what you mean. I got rid of my orks years ago, but I keep finding meganobs everywhere. I didn't even know I'd bought so many.

 Istvaan wrote:
I've had to start hiding minis in places my wife doesn't look so it doesn't look like I have so much when I buy more.

How smart is your wife?

And how small is your collection that you can pull this off?

 Azazelx wrote:
I moved, and have spent the last two and a quarter years trying to make my collection fit, while adding way too many new items to it.

Or to put it another way, after I moved, and started bringing things out of storage, and boxes that had been packed away for years, and boxes that had been in storage for years at my parents' place, and way too many Kickstarters and eBay purchases, this happened:

Spoiler:

Which is both great, and terrible.

MY MY GOD GOD


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I might have a problem. I'm currently building and painting 2 armies and finishing up painting my GK and DA...Once complete I will have 4 armies each capable of fielding 2k points in a mono build. Though judging from a lot of other responses - it seems I'm not nearly as far along as some of you.

I understand the need for buying model kits. Even if there is no chance in hell you ever will get around to assembling them. There is just something about having them. I no longer play, which means my 500 or so painted minis just sit in their cases never seeing the light of day and I still cant bring myself to sell them. Mostly because they are mine and I really dont need the money.

Thankfully GW pricing being what it is has made the idea of purchasing any more of their product unstomachable.

As for my anime garage kit, I have a hard rule. No more than 3 unpainted figures at a time. Yes there will always be that OMG I must have that model, but Ive realized that there are at least three of those put out every year. If I dont get this one, I'll just get the next one that comes along when I have an open slot.

Its this mentality that has allowed me not to turn into one of those people who if they never bought another kit, would still be building off their closet of collection for the next 20 years.

 Jayden63 wrote:
As for my anime garage kit, I have a hard rule. No more than 3 unpainted figures at a time.

Its this mentality that has allowed me not to turn into one of those people who if they never bought another kit, would still be building off their closet of collection for the next 20 years.

I'm not sure someone as disciplined as you belongs in this thread...

Well, good to know I'm among friends here at DakkaDakka Anonymous

I'm at a point in my life right now where I really can't buy anything new, so it'll be a good time to break the habit of buying more than I can paint. I'm looking forward to having some finished armies and, I dunno, having closure?

Its also good motivation to get back to my P and M blog. I've actually been painting, just been forgetting to update it. Now that I have no way to buy new models all I can do is paint.

I feel like this is something all hobbyists go through, we all want those awesome armies and want to see all that awesome stuff come to life, but at the end of the day we're only human

The bank took my house and now I live in an igloo made of unopened miniatures boxes.

Seriously though, I don't have an awful lot. When I started out ~2 years ago I admittedly did go on a bit of a splurge, but I sold of most of that, due to lack of space. I haven't bought anything wargaming related since October or November, so I think I can justify picking up some new lovely stuff soon #slipperyslope

This miniature hobby is not a problem, if you won't make it a problem.

Even though crack is cheaper, I find this a much better and healthier addiction.

Yeah, I'm fairly awful about hoarding at this point.

To give an idea of the scale of my problem, I had once tried to write an app for my PDA to help track things which worked...ok-ish (not a programmer by trade, but it synced into Access fairly well). Then I got an iPhone and found the app "MyStuff" which was much better. I liked using it, but data entry on a phone is a PITA. So when the iPad was announced, I pre-ordered one almost immediately...to inventory my models. Then when the app added barcode scanning for rapid entry I got a newer model with a camera on it (among other reasons that time at least). People thought I was insane to spend $1000 on electronics to inventory my toy soldiers; little did they know the insanity is the retail value of my GW collection is many, many times that...factor of multiple tens. This doesn't include my Mantic, Dreamforge, FFG, SDE and FoW nor my expected KD:M collection which, while all dramatically smaller, is still quite a bit in aggregate.

I think it's safe to say I waved towards "too far" about a decade ago and just kept right on trucking towards the horizon. We have a lot of fun toys over here though.

Back in the UK, at my mum's house (I'm sure she's dying for me to move back so I can clear everything out), I have far too many models. I've been collecting GW minis since I was a nipper.
Got complete boxed sets of Hero Quest, Warhammer Quest (plus extra warriors and expansion stuff), Gorkamorka (which I don't think I ever even played), WHFB and 40k.
I have an army of undead, from back when they were just undead (4th or 5th?). Most of that is pretty heavily modified using dragons and such from various elf armies. Then there are all the orks, which I've never really played, I just really like orks! And a bunch of 40k Chaos minis, just cos they're cool. That's just the stuff I don't use.
I have a pretty big IG force, I think it's getting up to about 7k, not counting the stuff I've not assembled, like the baneblade. I've not really played for a few years though, so to get back into it I decided to start another army, so I have a good number of boxes of Space Wolves, cos I've never actually played marines, and I love the lore on them. And I wanna get back into Fantasy too, and I finally went down the road of the dark gods. Atm it's just a bunch of chosen, warshrine for heavy conversion with bags of skulls, and some posh khorne captains.
And then there is the bitz box, which is more like a bitz chest, which is everything I've accrued over the last 20 odd years. I wouldn't say I have a problem, but maybe once I've moved back to Blighty and pack it all up...

My spread sheet currently states I have about 10k usd worth of GW retail, which might not be a whole lot compared to what y'all got. But for starting in 6th edition 40k I can say i am well on the way.

twinner wrote:
My spread sheet currently states I have about 10k usd worth of GW retail, which might not be a whole lot compared to what y'all got. But for starting in 6th edition 40k I can say i am well on the way.

I use the fact that I bought stuff when it was cheaper to help justify my collection. That and a lot of it was purchased at deep discounts. A while ago there was a thread about pricing out your 1,500 point lists, it was pretty eye-opening in terms of the cost of the hobby. You extrapolate that out to the number of points in a collection, number get big. Fast.

But if you buy 2-4 units a year, and collect for ~20+ years, you get a massive force, and it seems reasonable (and is, frankly).

Jesus wept, Azazelx that is impressive

Although some of the collections here pale in significance to some I have seen in historicals mags, where you get some guy who has been collecting for 40 years and actually needs a warehouse to hold his collection (all painted, too.. I'll see if I can find the pics)

I have a rule for myself that I won't hold more than two armies for any system, if I get a third then one of them gets sold (the one I use least). It's a little sad, especially if you put a lot of hours into completing it, but I think at least someone will get some use from them and I simply don't have the space to store everything.

I also try and limit how many 'mass battle' armies I collect at once, at the moment I'm just finishing of a FoW army and starting on a War of the Roses army, it's normally about 2 years per project. Skirmish or small scale games (just finishing off a Blood Bowl team for instance and starting a new Infinity force) means you can save on a lot of space, money, and get playing quickly too.

Finally got rid of my ex last friday and cleaned up the place over easter. I was shocked to find that I had boxes over boxes of models in all states from sprue to almost-finished, painting and modelling supplies in literally every single room, including the kitchen. Eh, guess I'll have more time to paint them now...

I had everything in Excel but that sheet went to poop the last time i spilled my container :/

I needa get bit baggies.

I currently have 12 40k Armies with 3,500 to 15,000 points each (most around the 8,000 area), and a rather large titan collection (40k scale that is). I once sat down and realized that I now have 37 Titans, Gargants, Eldar titans, and other super heavy walkers in 40k scale.

If that wasn't bad enough, I've actually made plans for a future home remodeling that includes space for a large gaming table, storage, and construction table/painting area.

Although my wife did veto the built-in spray paint booth with exhaust fan.

Check out some of the "list of shame" type threads - they REALLY put some of this in perspective (lists of unbuilt or unpainted minis).

I moved a while ago, and the amount of boxes I pulled out of my storage closet that just held stuff still in boxes was a lot - the wife was like "you had all of that in there?"
(8000 poitns of marines, about 6000 in necrons, 2000 in tau, and maybe 2000 in tyranids, plus other random star wars/battlestar galactica etc. models
I have an entire company of marines still in boxes....).

A while I ago, I tryied to not buy stuff unless I build and paint stuff -which takes a lot of discipline. I did manage to start focusing about a year or so ago, and manged to completely finish two armies (every model I would build, got built and painted).

Now, I am trying to be disciplined and not build faster than I can paint. Its not easy, but it helps a lot.

Oh, and having kids helps - or just being responsible about other financial planning - for example, who much would all those unbuilt models be in my 401k now, if I had put that money away years ago.

Then again, compared to the cost of kids - this hobby is nothing.....

I think for me it was when my house got robbed and the insurance claim for the minis alone was around $20,000. It was that combined with the knowledge that I probably had at least another $3000-4000 in deep storage at my family's farm.

-MaxGravity

 cuda1179 wrote:
I currently have 12 40k Armies with 3,500 to 15,000 points each (most around the 8,000 area), and a rather large titan collection (40k scale that is). I once sat down and realized that I now have 37 Titans, Gargants, Eldar titans, and other super heavy walkers in 40k scale.

If that wasn't bad enough, I've actually made plans for a future home remodeling that includes space for a large gaming table, storage, and construction table/painting area.

Although my wife did veto the built-in spray paint booth with exhaust fan.

Nice collection of stuff! I'm always glad to see people with vas

I just want a large, multi-purpose gaming table with inset playing level, built-in storage. The tricky part is that I want it upstairs, so that somewhat limits the dimensions of the components, as I would have to build them in the garage, but assemble them in the room. I'm also seriously thinking about display wall cabinetry for additional storage when I remodel the room.

Heh, the voice of reason asserts itself!

You know there's a problem when you have to start sorting through/condensing collections just to reduce the amount of space they occupy, buying cases, clearing out room for the cases. It's the hours of fairly non-productive work and hundreds of dollars that could be spent actually completing past and current projects rather than just making room for more that it starts becoming apparent.

Planning out projects ahead of time is key, knowing how large it is going to be, making provisions for cases ahead of time and in general trying to avoid surprising for your future self.

Storage cases are not a waste of time. They are the best - they keep your hard work protected and organized.
____

In other news, I inventoried my BFG stuff. Roughly 2.5k points Imperial, 2.5k points Chaos, 4k points Eldar, 500 pts Orbital defenses.

I have 6 separate Ikea shelving units completely full of gaming stuff, a dining cabinet, two glass display cases and a half dozen GW hard cases crammed full of minis and I still have loose stuff piled in every corner of my room. I very likely have several times my body weight in gaming stuff. Then there's all the equipment I use for my resin casting business which takes up another full room.

I was getting seriously overwhelmed during the holidays and have finally started clearing out some of the stuff I never use. I've been building up my collection for 25 years and finally decided it has to get under control one way or another. It's hard picking out what stays and goes as there's so many good times in there but when it has an inch of dust on it from non-use it's hard to justify keeping a lot of it.


When you start counting the collection by how many file boxes it occupies it's a good indicator you've gone a bit off the deep end. My bits collection for 40k is 4 file boxes worth of bits all out of box and cut off the sprues then repacked in baggies to save space. It's a heck of a lot of parts for stuff I don't even anticipate building.

You know you have a problem when you're buying more stuff knowing that you'll likely never need it but it's too good to pass up (North Stars mystery bags, I'm looking at you here).

More worrying, I'm redoing the hobby room (It's turning into the main bedroom) so I'm going to have to actually take it all out to sort.

Not sure if this thread makes me feel not-alone or quite sure that I have a problem.

I purge the collection of random odds-and-ends a few times a year via TMP, Dakka and Bartertown, but the collection really seems to shrink. I've got a porch full of gaming stuff and I'm often finding things I had forgotten I had. The problem is that alot of it is really large toys and models that I purchased with the intention of turning into terrain, but never quite got around too it.

Doesn't help that I just finished adding 4 big tubs of buildings that I finished up for a recent convention game.

Hit that point at some... point.
Every time I wandered close to a GW store, I'd always be drawn in to buy something. Glad I stopped before prices got too high. I just proxy all my armies now.

I think several recent actions have made me realize I had a problem:

I found six landraiders with terminators that I had forgotten about.

I found my stack of unbuilt IG was both taller and wider than I am.

We are planning to move and in straitening the house I found four unbuilt forgeworld Warhound titans, and an unbuilt Reaver titan.

My buddy asked me if I could play a 20K Apoc game, and I realized I could play Imperial or Orks.

I'm not sure it's the same problem, but I opened a box today expecting to find supplies, and found a pack of Fenrisian Wolves that I patiently assembled and prepped this month and managed to forget immediately.
I think I'm running parallel to "too many things" with my "too many things on the boil at once."

I have a spreadsheet for my 40k stuff to paint and one for my Mordheim stuff (all warbands)

It mocks me when I haven't removed anything from it in a while

Javin wrote:

We are planning to move and in straitening the house I found four unbuilt forgeworld Warhound titans, and an unbuilt Reaver titan.

I think you might win. It makes my unopened FW blisters seem irrelevant

Herzlos wrote:

Javin wrote:

We are planning to move and in straitening the house I found four unbuilt forgeworld Warhound titans, and an unbuilt Reaver titan.

I think you might win. It makes my unopened FW blisters seem irrelevant

Yeah, forgetting about Forgeworld Titans is pretty impressive.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
I currently have 12 40k Armies with 3,500 to 15,000 points each (most around the 8,000 area), and a rather large titan collection (40k scale that is). I once sat down and realized that I now have 37 Titans, Gargants, Eldar titans, and other super heavy walkers in 40k scale.

If that wasn't bad enough, I've actually made plans for a future home remodeling that includes space for a large gaming table, storage, and construction table/painting area.

Although my wife did veto the built-in spray paint booth with exhaust fan.

Nice collection of stuff! I'm always glad to see people with vas

I just want a large, multi-purpose gaming table with inset playing level, built-in storage. The tricky part is that I want it upstairs, so that somewhat limits the dimensions of the components, as I would have to build them in the garage, but assemble them in the room. I'm also seriously thinking about display wall cabinetry for additional storage when I remodel the room.

Heh, the voice of reason asserts itself!

Ikea has some very affordable display storage cases. A few friends and I all own them, and use them in our game rooms. (glass fronted display cases are notoriously expensive).

The inset table idea is really cool, you might want to see if you can play on one first, as some players don't care for them in person (you might be fine...but until you try...).
For example, doing actual LOS checks can be tricky...and some players don't like not having an edge for playing things (reserves, etc.).

best of luck with the game room!

Thanks on the Ikea pointer.

I've played on inset tables before, and it's very nice to be "above the action" - I feel more like a commanding General surveying his troops. I do like that the dice stay in the pit, and being able to place reserves, etc. literally out of the fray. I kind of predate the TLOS thing, with area terrain and such, but I do own a laser pointer, if someone insists...

It'll be a while before I build anything - got a lot of other house projects to work on, first.

Hopefully finishing off painting two carts (one's made out of a car) and a shack for Fallout. I started the shack ages ago for a tutorial I made, so ah, It'd be nice to have it actually finished so I can bung it in that thread instead of the temp image that's been sitting there for months. =P

Well, I think my moment came when I realised I have a partially painted 4K point Skaven army, an unpainted Goblin army at around 1.5K points, an unpainted 1.5Kish HE army, a Necron army I got from a friend at around 2K that needs re-doing, several Chaos units including a Noise Marine band that I am assembling, a nearly finished IG army (lacking some units), a German and a British BA platoon's that are half done, a crap - ton of other stuff that needs finishing and I had just gone and purchased a load of oldhammer from the local market.

And thats just the stuff Ihave the will to count

I think the only thing I "took too far" gaming wise, was when I first started to get back into gaming in the early 00s.

I bought enough Epic Imperial Guard miniatures to do a Soviet-Styled Sci-Fi Regiment on a 1:1 scale (roughly 5,000 miniatures).

I sold most of them when I realized that I would never have a gaming table to be able to field a Regiment with a reasonable ground and time scale in the game (it would need a ground scale of something like 1mm = 10m, and a time scale of one turn = one hour for the infantry to be able to move more than a few mm a turn).

I kept an entire Reinforced Battalion (4 Infantry Companies of 4 Platoons - 3 regular Infantry Platoons of 4 Squarda of 12 men, and one weapons Platoon per company - and a Support Company for the main Battalion, plus an transportation company, Supply and Logistics Company - the rules I use have resupply as a part of the game - and an Air-Support Platoon and the Battalion HQ, which was about the size of a large Platoo). I suppose that is still technically Two Battalions in size, but it is still much smaller than the Four Battalions plus HQ of the original Regiment.

I might still be a little out there on my LotR miniatures.

Even though I detest Peter Jackson's Middle-earth, I still have enough of the miniatures to field a substantial army from each Nation. The largest being the Moria Goblins (something like 700 of those.... I should probably sell some off, I probably only need around 300 of them). And I still buy more figures to be able to fill out units for which GW never made figures (having to do a LOT of conversions - like swapping heads on the Perry Crusader/Norman Archers with WoMT so that they look more "Gondorian" to use as Archers of Morthond Vale... Oh! And replacing their bows with Longbows).

But Middle-earth is an obsession I have had since Heritage first held the license for Middle-earth figures.

It is my primary gaming obsession.

MN

I love threads like this, they remind me that, while I might think I'm developing a problem, I've got a long, long way to go before my unpainted pile becomes too much of an issue.