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Ok. Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but it needs to be addressed.
I'm Dylan and I'm a modelling addict.
I could spend my spare time doing things with my wife and kids , however I don't. Instead I choose to spend this time with tiny plastic men, changing them to fit my ideas.
Today I woke up intending to go to the park. Instead I set up my modelling equipment and spent the day building my army.
Am I alone in this or am I part of a group of similarly affected people. Lol

I wish I could join you I really do!

If I had the right equipment I probably would though, I need new everything!

Let us pretend I have everything so I can join!

*stands up*

Hello my name is Chris and I have been a modeler on and off for 7 years.
When I come home from the gym I often go and grab some Orks or Tau to make/paint.
The only reason that I've come to a halt is that my black has run dry and my glue is naff.

*sits down*

*stands up*

Hello, I'm Bruno.

I don't have a full year of experience with "the Hobby" but I consider myself addicted.

I spend the whole working day thinking about the leaving hour, get home and paint more. My free-time is mostly painting. I have been slowly losing interest in video-games, only some very rare catch my attention nowadays and video-games were my life's joy for pretty much all of it.

I actually choose to say "nah" to the idea of finding a companion because it would just eat my small ammount of free-time.

My main goal, that's in my mind every single day, is to keep improving and improving until one day I can post something on CMON and be proud I painted something beyond awesome.

If I'm able to, no regrets.

*sits*

*enters room sobbing and shaking*

Hi my names Alan.

I have been modeling for 26 years. Like Tomcat I have a wife nd kids and I put them on the back burner to spend my time with small plastic men that speak to me and demand I build and paint them.

I have contemplated taking up drinking so I can't see straight enough to assemble or paint my little plastic friends. Since I screwed my shoulders and was made medically unfit for work I still wake at 6 every morning take my dog out and feed my daughter and then stand in the kitchen brush in hand while slurping back a hot cup of caffine filled inspiration and get to work.

My wife doesn't understand that I've had this love affair since way back in 1987 when I was 6, 2 whole years before she was even born. How can she understand how I feel. She doesn't have small plastic men demanding her time or even contmplate how they give me so much pleasure!!!!

It was my birthday yesterday and instead of going out in the hot sun and spending time with my wife and to kids I opted to barracade myself in with fine films a bottle of rum and my beloved little lifeless friends.

*slumps onto chair sweating shaking and whispering into the ear of one of his minis*

Ahem........

Hi my name is Rob and I am a plasti-holic.

I to have a wife and 4 kids, I have had this addiction for 6+ years. I have boxes and boxes of unpainted miniatures, just waiting in line to be painted. I have gone so far as to buy the wife a craft room with gall the fixins just to get her hooked on something so that I can be left in piece with my shiny models.....

When I am dragged on vacation the first thing I do is look to see where there closest FGLS is to where we will be.... I left Disney World last summer to grab the "a Few Things from the hotel" Just to check out an amazing game store I read about in Orlando.


Yea I might have a problem......

Hi. Uh. This is awkward.
I think I'm in the wrong room. I was told there would be cake.

 Purifier wrote:
Hi. Uh. This is awkward.
I think I'm in the wrong room. I was told there would be cake.

I am sorry. The cake is a lie.

/stands

Hi everyone, my name's Warren, and I'm a painting addict.

[everyone: "Hi Warren"]

I've been painting since I was a teenager, and this year I'll be 40.
It started off small, with a dwarf here, a paladin there. Then I moved onto the harder stuff - old-school Slann and Cold Ones, even ... /chokes ... the occasional dragon. I would beg and plead with my brother for £1.20 for a hit of White Dwarf.
... /hangs head
... then came the Eldar. It seemed so controllable at first. I told myself I was just painting because I enjoyed it, but in my heart I knew different. It all changed when I saw the Dreadnaught. Those long legs, the beautiful lines. I knew then that I had to admit that I was hooked. I even... /sobs ... I even talked my dad into buying me a battleforce. Even he knew he was doing the wrong thing - I could hear the doubt in his voice! Maybe he thought he could control the habit himself... How wrong he was.
Years have passed, and I've had periods of moving away from painting, but I always come back. Always.
/tries to conceal the raw emotions coursing through his pallid, nerdy frame
It's even worse these days. I have a job, so I can afford all the plastic I want. I've even discovered new ranges of plastic to tempt me. I try to stay strong, but I fall every time, and I find myself hunched over my painting desk, doing layer after layer after layer of yellow. And...
/whispers
... I enjoy it.
I need a Golden Demon! I NEED it I tell you. Once I get one, I'll stop - I will!

/slumps back into seat, head low...

Once I have a Demon, I'll stop, honestly, I will.

This is me, just substitute the word model.





I'm the worst kind of user though. I got my wife and kids hooked. My wife now paints better than me. I have 2 Demons. She has many awards. We have a family shared hobby room. It looks like a nerd crackhouse.

Hi my name is Luka.
I've given up video games, movies and alcohol so I can afford to fund my 40k hobby. Also general socializing. And buying new clothes. Sometimes lunch.

Hello everyone, I'm addicted to plastic.

I've been modelling for awhile now. But I have no passion for the painting. I requent 3rd party websites as well as bits bins and sites whenever I can.

I've got dozens of models for games I don't even play, just because I liked the way they looked, or thought I could tear them apart and use them for bits.

I've put together and modded entire armies for people, just because. Scrapping mold lines and making the models unique is strangly soothing. I've been told I could be paid to do what I do for friends, but honestly I would rather trade what I do, to paints to paint my stuff as I have a hard time wanting to pick up the brush. This would normally be cool, but I just don't feel like the effort I put into a model is comparable to what a painter has to do. Is this common?

I've got models from DUST, 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Malifaux, some Japanese themed game, Infinity, Anima, Cool Mini or Not.

Kickstarter has made it even worse. I've got models coming in from Kingdom Death, Relic Knights, and Toughest Girls in the Galaxy. This makes it almost impossible to save money.

Someone save me.

I've relapsed several times over the last 20 years.

This time it has me BAD.

I haven't played a PC game in over 6 months. It was the ONLY way I'd spend my spare time.

I don't neglect my wife or son or responsibilities but my time to sleep is a slowly dwindling window of opportunity that I do not miss. *slugs down remaining mouthful of cold coffee in his 4th cup today*

I am still to play my first game since 2nd edition but have been painting up a storm.

I've chosen this weekend to take my first 1000 points of painted Nidz to a local club and get a game.

I've blown my IT/gaming/hobby budget for about the next 2 years in the last 3 months (gaddamned kickstarter >.< and have sooooo much to paint.

I love this hobby and I'm so lucky (?) to have a wife who supports what I do and is really good at pretending to be interested.

Internet forums such as this really make this hobby more enjoyable as I can still hobby it up at work.

Thanks for listening.

Hi everyone, my name is Jordan and I'm an addict and dealer.
My family and friends say I've changed in the last 7 years, ever since I started doing warhammer. I have no money, and I spend my free time doing plastic and painting. I've addicted 6 other people to warhammer, including my own fiancee.
I have a room in my house dedicated to the plastic god, and if I stopped buying new models I would still have enough built to paint a model a day for at least a year.
If that isn't bad enough, I play all the 40k games, listen to all the audiobooks, and own all the imperial armor. Sometimes I try not to let 40k rule my life, but the feeling never lasts.
I play apocalypse size tau, dark angels and imperial guard, and there is currently a half chapter of marines, 200 grey knights, and a sizable ork mob in my apartment.

My name is Jordan, and I have a problem

...so...there really is no cake?....

Hi Everyone, I'm tom

I've been modeling figs for 2 years.

I have a problem.
It started with orks, I wanted to kit out AOBR boys.
Then I wanted to save money, so I scratchbuilt Stuff.
Then I noticed that it helped calm down my Mood swings(I have Bipolar Depression), So I kept building.
Then I got a stompa, and kept going.

For unrelated reasons My wife of 8 years left me, It was hard.
I had a breakdown, and my doctor suggests that I build because it keeps me calm. So I have this problem where I build stuff and am in a good mood all the time.

It's a problem I enjoy too much.