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Here's what I have in my wardrobe. Also I invite you to add your own pics to this thread.



I have some rare bits and pieces. I used to have a load of books too but I sold many of them and kept only the best (which weren't the rare ones, for the most part). I'll probably show my favourites of those too.

I admire your dedication to necromunda. I dont have anything to share like that, since I tossed everything into a 55 gallon garbage bag in 2013 and dropped it off at the LFGS and let the customers just pour through it all dumped on a huge table. It was just taking over my life and space. It had to go.

I'm only allowing myself limited lifestyle games now. Full bore into Warcry, and a couple warbands for Necromunda. And I also have many teams for Blitz Bowl (basically Blood Bowl Lite) that I plan on owning all teams for. I must admit I do have some sisters stuff, but thats because I am a very old school sisters player and had to own a normal squad for them. I think they will be used as enforcers stand in for necromunda.

And even though I downplay it by "only" allowing myself those choices, the amount of boxes would rival what you have displayed. it's not a brag, its actually bringing reality to my rationalization. Warcry is kinda expansive if you let it be.

I envy your dark rising box. I should have grabbed it when I had the opportunity to. :/ I love everything about necromunda. I just wished I loved the rules as much as the models and setting.

Great stuff. Those sets of renegade are pure gold. I was hoping with the new knights codexes that are coming round, they remake renegade with the new kits.

It's sad to say will will still pick up a lot of the new army deal boxes.

I will not feel bad due to the price rises. What ever you pay now. It will be more in a few years. Hence nor a bad financial decision.


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I will add mine later when I get home. Pisses me off the hoops you have to jump through to add pictures.

That’s an impressive hoard. Even more impressive when I mentally convert each of those boxes into two DFC fleet boxes or 5ish Wargames Atlantic boxes.

You call it the "Stack of Potential".

I called it the Mountain of Madness.

Good thread, Ragweek I hope you repost your attic pictures to inspire us all.

I'll have to take some pics when I get home...

Following, will try to remember to post pictures of my Room of Requisitions.

You know you have a problem when local store managers call *you* to see if they can temporarily restock their inventory from your collection (to be replaced on favorable trade terms, of course).

It's a start

I can't post anything to compare, partially because... well, I don't have that much, but also because I throw away boxes. Can't stand having too many boxes around.

I just saw your Black Templar Banner lad in your Dakka Gallery JWBS.... I think your painting quality is so insanely high that your backlog became absurd. Do you bounce from projects that much?

I had to take a step back focus on finishing everything to a tabletop quality

I probably have 450~ minis left in my backlog (about 3 armies for 40k and 1/3 of that is D&D) which I'll paint over the next 2-3 years.

Are we supposed to post images of our backlog? Ok then.

 Wiz Warrior wrote:


I envy your dark rising box. I should have grabbed it when I had the opportunity to. :/ I love everything about necromunda. I just wished I loved the rules as much as the models and setting.

Of all the GW boxes I've bought I gotta say that Renegade, Precept maniple and Dark Uprising are my favourites. I bought two Precept maniples and now I regret not buying more, the value was insane, same as with Renegade (two Knights, plus a terrain set, all for a price that was significantly lower than two Knights alone), but Precept was possibly even more value iirc. But yes, Dark Uprising was the best of the lot. You can see from the pic that Dark Uprising is the largest one, it is a hefty box with tons of the best SF terrain that GW make (imo), I wasn't super keen on it at first but when I saw the sprues I was very impressed. It's a real shame it was discontinued, probably due to the high price and the fact that most people prefer minis over terrain. I'd buy two more tomorrow if I could.


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 Stevefamine wrote:
I just saw your Black Templar Banner lad in your Dakka Gallery JWBS.... I think your painting quality is so insanely high that your backlog became absurd. Do you bounce from projects that much?

I had to take a step back focus on finishing everything to a tabletop quality

I probably have 450~ minis left in my backlog (about 3 armies for 40k and 1/3 of that is D&D) which I'll paint over the next 2-3 years.

That BT bannerman isn't mine! in fact 95% of the pics in my gallery are from different people. I am a good painter, I started painting when I was like 6 years old, but I stopped taking pics to show my stuff on the internet when cmon died (back when cameras were 2 megapixels), idk why, something about the cmon system with building up a catalogue and having it reviewed by your peers was something I enjoyed, but when people stopped doing that I somehow lost the urge to show off my efforts. I can add some pics of my own stuff if you want. I stopped painting for 10+ years and started again when GW started making Primaris, since SM were always my favourites and I got inspired to pick up my brush again, and I found that I hadn't lost the knack (like riding a bike I suppose) Also cameras are good now so I imagine it's less stressful to capture paintjobs in their best light. Maybe I should make a gallery here on Dakka.

I don't have a huge lot of untouched boxes here, I usually go through stuff at a decent pace so there's not a lot on unbuild stuff here.

I prefer to build it and play with grey minis for a while than have it untouched and unplayed with!

I have whole grey armies though, I can't paint fast enough!

@JWBS - a lot of people use blogs or Instagram to show off minis if they don't have a site.

Been driving mine down hard since the pandemic. I’m basically down to this shelf, though it should be said that renegade box has far more than a couple knights in it and the boxes on top each have a good sized project to clear.

Are those 3 Grand Master editions?

 CragHack wrote:
Are those 3 Grand Master editions?

In my pic? No, I didn't buy any of those (I did buy a few of the second edition ones though, with the Reavers, I think that's a good value set). Those titanicus boxes are Civitas Imperialis iirc.

@Stevefamine - yeah good call. I think I'll probably do that, it does seem to be the main place for the painting community these days. One thing I'm not too keen on is the chat, I much prefer forum style layout for conversations so I don't ever read the discussion on insta. As far as pics go though, there's a heap of great accounts to follow.

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 CragHack wrote:
Are those 3 Grand Master editions?

In my pic? No, I didn't buy any of those (I did buy a few of the second edition ones though, with the Reavers, I think that's a good value set). Those titanicus boxes are Civitas Imperialis iirc.

@Stevefamine - yeah good call. I think I'll probably do that, it does seem to be the main place for the painting community these days. One thing I'm not too keen on is the chat, I much prefer forum style layout for conversations so I don't ever read the discussion on insta. As far as pics go though, there's a heap of great accounts to follow.

I prefer forums as well! I also hate Reddit and Twitters format but I have accounts there

Old school proboards/forums are the best for wargaming

Well this excercise is certainly making me feel a bit better.

The backlog is currently housed in 2 closets (though with some painted stuff in there as well). Not much in boxes I'm afraid.



Some of those model kits on the bottom shelf have been following me since the early 2000s, my grandkids may end up getting them.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:


Some of those model kits on the bottom shelf have been following me since the early 2000s, my grandkids may end up getting them.

I don't have a legal Will, but I'm gonna jot down a signed declaration that my Nephew is to inherit my £1000s collection of overpriced, untouched plastic sprues of toy soldiers, and he in turn is obliged to bequeath them to the proceeding male in our genetic line. Who knows, in 2120 they may actually be something of value, worth preserving!

As an aside, I paid £40 to the Air Ambulance charity and wrote a new will. Win win..... and my wife knows that my Dogs of War army is also our emergency fund.

I have expressed to my family that my wake requires people to play the wargames I have written with the models I have painted with the terrain I have made to properly remember and celebrate my life and passing.

Oh..... my pile of potential is 0 models. That gamer's wake maybe coming sooner than I expected!

I've told my wife that I want my ashes to be interred in a small tomb somewhere in the mountains with my armies arranged in parade formation around it, and then sealed for the historians of 3022 to ponder about.

M.

I cannot even..

To have so many boxes, and none of it assembled, let alone painted?

How can you live with yourself?

I don't think I'd have bought that many boxes of gaming stuff over the 30+ years I've been in gaming.

JWBS wrote:
Here's what I have in my wardrobe. Lots more scattered around - I will add some detail pics of my favourite minis when I get the time through this week. Yes this is obviously a brag thread - I don't have a brand new Yamaha or collection of MontBlancs or menagerie of exotic pets or rack of D&G & Fendi - this is my luxury hobby spending that gives me pleasure. Also I invite you to add your own pics to this thread.



I have some rare bits and pieces. I used to have a load of books too but I sold many of them and kept only the best (which weren't the rare ones, for the most part). I'll probably show my favourites of those too.

Are those empty boxes of already finished models? Or is it just a good old pile of shame?

I'm asking since I never keep the empty boxes, I always trash them, and my pile of shame consists in assembled models.

Gentlemen, I just ordered two wheeled shelving units so I can have shelves in front of my shelves so I can add to my pile for another year or two.

Good to see such huge piles of shame. Makes myself better about my unpainted boxes and my drawer full of just primed or half-painted stuff.

 chromedog wrote:
I cannot even..

To have so many boxes, and none of it assembled, let alone painted?

I can imagine having it all unpainted but unbuilt for longer than a week? Impossible for me

Thank you for the photos I can use as "You think I'm bad. Look at these..." distraction ploys every time the Long Haired Admiral gets huffy as another box arrives.

I must admit, one such photograph from a couple of years ago did vex me greatly when a collector had something like 10 - 15 unopened Praetorian Imperial Guard platoon boxes. I was just thinking of the absolute waste and the denied opportunity for others to enjoy the pith helmet goodness.

 Miguelsan wrote:
I've told my wife that I want my ashes to be interred in a small tomb somewhere in the mountains with my armies arranged in parade formation around it, and then sealed for the historians of 3022 to ponder about.

M.

This is something for another thread I think but I have recently given some thought to what happens to your collection after you die There must be a fair few hobbyists from the 80s/90s who have subsequently passed on and what of their collections? Gone in the bin, sold, retained as family heirlooms?