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Approximately how many miniatures do you have, counted by base?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

All the old timers have amassed some pretty huge collections over the years. I was just wondering exactly how large some of those collections were. How many models (counted by base, so 1 tank = 1 model, 1 tyranid ripper swarm = 1 model, 1 space marine = 1 model) do you think you have roughly?

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Should I count non-wargame mini's?

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

like D&D or Heroclix? Lets just call it anything you have to assemble and paint.

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More than a thousand for sure..probably close to 2k.

   
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Fixture of Dakka





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1-100 is what I put down. I haven't been in the hobby long plus I got rid of a bunch of 40k stuff. I might have a little more than 100. I'm too lazy to count/check.


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Holy crap.... i just realized i was only counting 40k, Warmachine, and Hordes. If I counted my Star Wars then I'm hitting something like 500.

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The Main Man






Beast Coast

I had to guess, since most of my minis are currently Stateside. I voted 101-500, but it's definitely on the upper end of that. I was counting off the top of my head, and I know I've forgotten some stuff. I also was counting Flames of War infantry bases as 1 (but they have 3-5 figures on them). If I counted those 15mm guys out one by one, I would definitely break into the 501-1000 range (and it's close anyway).

When I get back, one of the things I want to do is actually catalog everything I have, and put it into an Excel sheet or something, just so I know. I'll share here whenever I actually do that.

   
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I'm planning to do an inventory.
I'm guesstimating ~6k
It helped to work in a game store & help out a distributor, so I had the not-retail advantage.
anyone need some old World of Darkness or Shadowrun minis... *cringe*
   
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I always end up selling the painted ones that I don't like any more, or give away/sell the sprues that I know I'll never get to (I know, shock, heresy!). So I doubt it gets over 1000 that often.

 
   
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germany,bavaria

Guessed its 1500 in 40k.
Maybe another 300 in whfb.




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Fixture of Dakka






Chicago

I've been collecting minis since 1981. Not all GW, but all ones that you assemble&paint, lines that have died off like Grenadier and Ral Partha are the majority of my early figs.

Add to that the number of GW models (over 1k in orks alone), and I pass the 5k line, just by a little.

Not sure if I should be scared (or scarred) by this.

   
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Lead-Footed Trukkboy Driver





Auburn, CA

Not sure but I think i am pushing 200 or just slightly over.


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The USA

40k, WFB, blood bowl, necromunda, space hulk, Flames of war, Warmachine... and a few others i cant rememebr right now....

ill just toss out 1k - 5k

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The Webway Gate in California

informal count close to 300

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Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)

Mostly guard. I put them on one-by-one, and I need a dutpan when the foe has his turn to get them off.

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Somewhere in south-central England.

I've got over 4,000 6mm figures and about 3,000 2mm figures.

2mm figures come in blocks so I counted the blocks not the individual heads.

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Longtime Dakkanaut






The land of cotton.

I'm guessing @2000. Easily 1000+.

This is of course including unbuilt, unpainted in my stash. If you want to narrow it to built models then you are probably half that... easily 500+ built and painted.
   
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1201 painted minis minus whatever terrain pieces are included in that number.

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Tail Gunner




I haven't taken inventory in a year or so, but here's the estimates from the last time.

Approximately 3000 BattleTech minis (including Mechs, Infantry, Tanks, WarShips, etc) - about 2/3rds of which was accumulated during the year and a half I worked for Iron Wind Metals.

About 500 WFB and 40K minis (infantry-heavy Skaven, Brettonians, and gunline Imperial Guard).

About 250 LotR minis of various types (mostly Gondor and Mordor).

About 300 bases worth of Napoleonics (French, 1814+ Prussians, early Austrians)

About 200 bases worth of various Ancients

Plus around a hundred bases each for FoW, BattleFleet Gothic, Warmaster, Crimson Skies, and Renegade Legion.

And perhaps 250 various and sundry individual fantasy or sci-fi figures for RPG gaming.

So about 5000 in total.
   
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The paint dungeon, Arizona

Ummm, I have a 40k room, a closet wasnt big enough to store all the crap Ive accumulated....

I doubt I have over 5k figs though...
   
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Mistress of minis wrote:Ummm, I have a 40k room, a closet wasnt big enough to store all the crap Ive accumulated....

I doubt I have over 5k figs though...


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lol its looks like a bomb went off and threw sprue shrapnel everywhere. I had to go bitz hunting for parts to my Hellhound conversion, and since I keep most bitz in the boxes with their respective armies- theirs IG, SM, and ork & chaos boxes all over....been too lazy to get them back on the shelves...
   
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5000 +

Back in 2001 a friend and I stopped counting at 10,000 assembled minis, we didn't even bother with the cupboard and a half of stuff still on boxes.

But a huge chunk of that was sold off to let be buy minis during my medical degree... like my 600 praetorians, 100 rat skin auxillaries and 40 tanks from my IG army.

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Galactics Comics and Games, Georgia, USA

I chose 1-100. I am trying to sell off my Orks so I'm not counting them. I have 28 models for my crimson fists, I'm just starting with them. If I counted everything then it would be around 101-500 as my orks number over 100 by themselves.
   
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I voted 101-500, although I think it might be a touch over 500.

 
   
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Waaagh_Gonads wrote:5000 +

Back in 2001 a friend and I stopped counting at 10,000 assembled minis, we didn't even bother with the cupboard and a half of stuff still on boxes.

But a huge chunk of that was sold off to let be buy minis during my medical degree... like my 600 praetorians, 100 rat skin auxillaries and 40 tanks from my IG army.


Just count the painted ones that you're most likely to keep.

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






SoCal, USA!

My inventory on a per-base basis fluctuates, but has been steadily between 1200 and 1800 minis for years now.

I doubt I'll break 2000, and simply can't see breaking 5000.

   
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Long Beach, CA

Nice spread. I guesstimated though.

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Hellacious Havoc





Wales

Counting everything, it's probably slightly over 500. Maybe about 600. I'm tempted to do an exact count.
   
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Southampton

I have little space, so I keep things small scale. Probably less than a hundred, although I will do that Space Marine Company one day...

   
 
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