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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I dread to think.

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

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

 filbert wrote:
I dread to think.

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

I demand an inventory!!!

how long have you been collecting?

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

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

Using Ebay to get bargains over the course of months.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Aerethan wrote:

 filbert wrote:
I dread to think.

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

I demand an inventory!!!

how long have you been collecting?

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

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

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

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

3 3000 point BFG fleets

A bunch of Man O War ships

A load of Warmachine Starter sets

4 Brushfire factions sets

3 Historical Wild West gangs

A load of Dark Future cars, buggies and bikes

30k points of Epic Orks

30K+ points of Epic Space Marines

30K+ points of Epic Chaos

20K Epic Eldar

20K Epic Tyranids

Assorted HeroQuest stuff

A new edition Space Hulk set

A load of Incursion miniatures

3000 point GW equivalent Mantic Dwarf army

3000 point GW equivalent Mantic Elf army

3000 point GW equivalent Mantic Chaos Dwarf army

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

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

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

Now maybe $200 worth.

Conquest
Bain Thrals
and a Dreadnought

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~2000 pts. of Imperial Guard

~1000 pts. of Orks

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

Terrain: Imperial Sector, Craters, Barricades

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

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

- A CSM battleforce and a box of ten Chaos Marines

- Dreadfleet

- The Warmachine two-player starter set

- A Republique of France fleet (Dystopian Wars)

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

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

Hmmm so much stuff

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

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

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

A vast amount of Epic Orks (£100)

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

Incursion Germans (£50ish)

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

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

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

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

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

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