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 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He who dies with the most toys, wins.

This, coupled with the fact that you die once you paint your last mini.

Immortality, here I come!

I heard it differently; as soon as your last model is painted you turn into a Brony or Furry or both!

i'd say if you start loosing your wife and your friends because of your models you have too many. Or you can just get a new wife and friends ehehehehehehe

My wife plays Orks. I just have to make sure I get her a counter to whatever new model(s) I pick up.

Storage/display space: whole different issue.

how do you find room for a 6x4 table in your kitchen?

I should lock this thread for its blasphemous title alone.

It's the Anathema to your Pokeminis, malf!

At least your paint you hoard . That's quite a step beyond most... myself currently included although that's soon to change once I get an aibrush!

Yes, when you can't get the door open. The answer then, however, is more room, not less minis.


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 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He who dies with the most toys, wins.

This, coupled with the fact that you die once you paint your last mini.

Immortality, here I come!

Unfortunatly that didn't work for Qin Shi Huang...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

Never enough. Neeevvvvaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

You can never have enough but you can have too many.

I have unpainted models over 10 years old, stuff i bought on GW Staff discount. I have more than i will probably ever paint,

Still buy more though.

I have so many fething orks to paint that it will take seven YEARS to paint them all y my math, even including painting minis in my lunch hour at work..

Then there's the DE, and the BT, and the Warmachine/Hordes stuff, and the Nurgle DOC

And then I ordered the reaper kickstsrter

I'm in no danger of runnign out of models to paint before i die,..

 Ascalam wrote:
I have so many fething orks to paint that it will take seven YEARS to paint them all y my math, even including painting minis in my lunch hour at work..

Then there's the DE, and the BT, and the Warmachine/Hordes stuff, and the Nurgle DOC

And then I ordered the reaper kickstsrter

I'm in no danger of runnign out of models to paint before i die,..

Yup i have hundreds (maybe thousands) of models already but have sedition wars coming this week and another 200 Reaper bones in march. Sucker for punishment i am.

I just told myself I had too much to paint between my Tyranids, new Dark Vengeance Box, and the Wall of martyrs that I all have in progress.

Went to the FLGS to see the new DA releases and walked out with a SM megaforce and codex. Looks like I'm starting a SM army!

Steve steveson wrote:
Yes, when you can't get the door open. The answer then, however, is more room, not less minis.


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 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He who dies with the most toys, wins.

This, coupled with the fact that you die once you paint your last mini.

Immortality, here I come!

Unfortunatly that didn't work for Qin Shi Huang...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

Obviously he didn't use his Purity Seal, otherwise they'd still have colour on them

Aqvila Invictis wrote:

 Brother SRM wrote:
If you paint every model you own, your dick falls off. Therefore, you need to buy more models, of which you can never have enough.

Listen to this man. He speaks the truth.

Spoiler:

Ask me how I know.

How do you know?

When the thought basing makes you depressed...
When the thought of painting makes feel like you are in void, alone and miserable....
When the thought of assembling makes you imagine you're in the cold dark corners of hell.....
When the thought of something as simple unboxing makes you want to end it all......

Then you must buy MOAR to cheer yourself up! So the answer is no!

I've been fighting the urge to buy more minis. Because if I buy more, then I have to paint. And I'm a slow painter - it took me a year to paint 21 marines.

 TheContortionist wrote:
how do you find room for a 6x4 table in your kitchen?

remodel the house so that one fits... or find a new house in which there is space enough for a full table (and then some) without a big remodeling project (which takes time away from miniatures painting)


In honesty though, I think that it's possible... for instance, i painted half my Nids, got bored with its scheme, changed it and now only have a quarter of my nids painted... I have since completed my guard army, started Warmachine, Malifaux and Hell Dorado... I need more HD, Malifaux and WM models, but I can't stand the sight of my bugs (or my dark elves for that matter).. so in one sense, I have too many models (because some will never be done), but in another sense I still don't have enough.

There's a apocryphal story of a British nobleman who collected lead toy soldiers. One day, it became apparent that floors in his house were bowing. He called in a team of engineers, who determines the sheer weight of the lead of his figures was causing structural integrity issues with the house.

So he did what any good British nobleman would do, and promptly bought a new house.

I have thousands a figures, but I wish I had collected a little more studiously, I have half a million armies and a bunch of half-attempted projects I'll never finish. I bought a lot of stuff on clearance, so I have a bunch of poor-quality stuff I'll never put together; Robogear, old Ral Partha lead, etc.

I'd rather one have one really nice, really big army, than a lot of stop-start half completed projects...

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He who dies with the most toys, wins.

This, coupled with the fact that you die once you paint your last mini.

Immortality, here I come!

Same here, looking forward to living forever!

I've been saying since I bought my Space Marines that once I finished them I'd be transferring from Army Building (tm) to hobby painting.


Then the Necrons began to wink at me coquettishly and whisper seductive thoughts about cleansing the universe of organic life... and my buddy offered to give me 10 of the old metal immortals for free....

See? Welcome to the addiction, you'll never be free.

Howevah. I do think there is such a thing as "too many". Obviously the limits of convenient storage space matter, but if you have a couple thousand points worth unpainted or unassembled models in the house spread across two or three simultaneous projects... you really need to reorganize yourself and suspend purchasing so you can get down to some serious painting.




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 chris_valera wrote:
There's a apocryphal story of a British nobleman who collected lead toy soldiers. One day, it became apparent that floors in his house were bowing. He called in a team of engineers, who determines the sheer weight of the lead of his figures was causing structural integrity issues with the house.

So he did what any good British nobleman would do, and promptly bought a new house.

I have thousands a figures, but I wish I had collected a little more studiously, I have half a million armies and a bunch of half-attempted projects I'll never finish. I bought a lot of stuff on clearance, so I have a bunch of poor-quality stuff I'll never put together; Robogear, old Ral Partha lead, etc.

I'd rather one have one really nice, really big army, than a lot of stop-start half completed projects...

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

What Chris said as well, I like to collect by "complete" force" to one point value or another. Usually around 2000 points is my target, sometimes like with my SoB project that gets refined down in process to a simpler, more playable and usually rather fluffy list. It gives me a full force to toss in the display case and show off, I can play it and have fun with it, and there's my favorite rush in the war gaming hobby, the pride of finishing a project.

Sig'd this thread.

I have over 18,000 points of Eldar, little of which is painted, and even less by me.

I have about 10,000 points of Marines, little of which is painted...

I have about 2500 points of Orks, little of which is painted...

I have several thousand points of of Warriors of Chaos, none of which is painted, nor even a viable army. I just love the old Chaos Champion models.

I have a couple of thousand points of assorted WFB models, none of which are painted. I just have them from when I was a kid.

I have all of the Specialist Games released before 1993, few of which are painted...

I have a fair few non-GW figures, a tiny portion of which are painted.

That is probably too many.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He who dies with the most toys, wins.

This, coupled with the fact that you die once you paint your last mini.

Immortality, here I come!

Same here, looking forward to living forever!

I've been saying since I bought my Space Marines that once I finished them I'd be transferring from Army Building (tm) to hobby painting.


Then the Necrons began to wink at me coquettishly and whisper seductive thoughts about cleansing the universe of organic life... and my buddy offered to give me 10 of the old metal immortals for free....

See? Welcome to the addiction, you'll never be free.

Howevah. I do think there is such a thing as "too many". Obviously the limits of convenient storage space matter, but if you have a couple thousand points worth unpainted or unassembled models in the house spread across two or three simultaneous projects... you really need to reorganize yourself and suspend purchasing so you can get down to some serious painting.




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 chris_valera wrote:
There's a apocryphal story of a British nobleman who collected lead toy soldiers. One day, it became apparent that floors in his house were bowing. He called in a team of engineers, who determines the sheer weight of the lead of his figures was causing structural integrity issues with the house.

So he did what any good British nobleman would do, and promptly bought a new house.

I have thousands a figures, but I wish I had collected a little more studiously, I have half a million armies and a bunch of half-attempted projects I'll never finish. I bought a lot of stuff on clearance, so I have a bunch of poor-quality stuff I'll never put together; Robogear, old Ral Partha lead, etc.

I'd rather one have one really nice, really big army, than a lot of stop-start half completed projects...

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

What Chris said as well, I like to collect by "complete" force" to one point value or another. Usually around 2000 points is my target, sometimes like with my SoB project that gets refined down in process to a simpler, more playable and usually rather fluffy list. It gives me a full force to toss in the display case and show off, I can play it and have fun with it, and there's my favorite rush in the war gaming hobby, the pride of finishing a project.

Looks like i dont have to worry about dieing before ive done everything i want to including exp[loreing the galaxy then


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 notprop wrote:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He who dies with the most toys, wins.

This, coupled with the fact that you die once you paint your last mini.

Immortality, here I come!

I heard it differently; as soon as your last model is painted you turn into a Brony or Furry or both!

Dear sweet feth NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Must. Buy. More. Minis!!!!

This thread is full of WIN.

I've started painting 40K since 4 months ago and so far I've got:

The Entire DA Army from Dark Vengeance (from eBay);
The Entire DA Army from Dark Vengeance (boxed set);
16x Generic Space Marines
5x Assault Marines (eBay!)
5x Marine Combat Squad (eBay again!)

So far I've painted:

2 Full Tactical Squads
5 Deathwing
5 Assault Marines (half-painted)

I'm starting on my HQ next!

I guess this means I don't have enough minis?

Not hardly..

Keep buying

That's a good idea for GW. They should give out a starter set for free with some paints and a few cool mini's, that way when people are hooked they have them over a barrel and can charge them what they like. That's sort of how I got hooked.

I'm sure there is a rehab centre some where for my plastic addiction.

I think going to Tibet and becoming a monk on a hill top, 200 miles from nearest shop maybe. But you would probably end up sculpting space marines out of your own earwax even then...

 dominiquekee wrote:
This thread is full of WIN.

I've started painting 40K since 4 months ago and so far I've got:

The Entire DA Army from Dark Vengeance (from eBay);
The Entire DA Army from Dark Vengeance (boxed set);
16x Generic Space Marines
5x Assault Marines (eBay!)
5x Marine Combat Squad (eBay again!)

So far I've painted:

2 Full Tactical Squads
5 Deathwing
5 Assault Marines (half-painted)

I'm starting on my HQ next!

I guess this means I don't have enough minis?

Wait until the lure of other armies kicks in. I've got a good 1000pts of Tyranids still to paint, a 3500pt (and growing) Vampire Counts army that wants some paint, and a Haqqislam army for Infinity slowly getting done.

 -Loki- wrote:

 dominiquekee wrote:
This thread is full of WIN.

I've started painting 40K since 4 months ago and so far I've got:

The Entire DA Army from Dark Vengeance (from eBay);
The Entire DA Army from Dark Vengeance (boxed set);
16x Generic Space Marines
5x Assault Marines (eBay!)
5x Marine Combat Squad (eBay again!)

So far I've painted:

2 Full Tactical Squads
5 Deathwing
5 Assault Marines (half-painted)

I'm starting on my HQ next!

I guess this means I don't have enough minis?

Wait until the lure of other armies kicks in. I've got a good 1000pts of Tyranids still to paint, a 3500pt (and growing) Vampire Counts army that wants some paint, and a Haqqislam army for Infinity slowly getting done.

Yeah. I thought I'd be done when I finished acquiring my Space Marines... then well. Necrons

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Holy fething gak! 20,000! Did you buy all of them recently?

Yes mate, everything has been bought in the past 4 and half months, now around 25k points I reckon, I have 4 shelves and am now needing more.

You definitely can, I have too many, and I don't buy that often. I dread to think what some of you lots houses look like!

Like I always said, the fact that the models don't actually get shot and blown up or decompose is what makes me think that despite the outwardly high prices, its not a dear hobby, and clearly it isn't.

If you spend a mere £50 a month, at the end of a year you will have a feth load of minis.

I don't buy that much stuff, but I have been back into the hobby for 3 years, and now I have far too many minis, to the point where I am struggling to store them.

Despite my low amount of buying, as a result of three years I have.. chronologically, and off the top of my head (so way more no doubt)

SM from AOBR x 2 (Swapped Orks with a good mate)
Ebayed assault marines x 10
5 SG
5 VV
Thunderfire Cannon
Land Speeder Storm
Ebayed Predator, Landraider, X2 LS, X 10 scouts, X 10 devastators, Venerable Dred... and several more.
DA from DV.

Dwarves from BOSP
AOW beserkers box.
AOW dragonslayer

gak load of Goblins from Mantic $225 kickstarter.
gak load of (still unopened!) Sedition Wars Kickstarter.

And others I forget from back in my youth... a smattering of old lead Tallarns, some rogue trader SM from the old days. gak like that.

As a result, I reckon Ive only got about... 3-4k in Space Marines, 1k of dwarves and maybe 200 minis from other companies, but my house is toppers, half of them are in the loft, some are stashed in cupboards, and I've got about 6 boxes full and a carry case in my bed room.

Maybe I'm a neat freak, But id like to have everything on a couple of shelves.







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Oh yeah, and I bought Space Hulk as well when that was released!

I have 3 methods of collecting models:

1. Standard size game w/ balanced list. This is how I start any new army. I write a balanced list that I like for the standard sized game in my area(2k for 40k and 2500 for WFB). I then collect only the models that are in those lists.

2. Once the above is done, I gradually add units for experimental lists and to round out a complete collection of at least 1 of each choice in the army.

3. Collectors models. These are models that I buy just to paint up because I think they look cool. My current list of GW/FW models that are in this category retails for more than any of my armies by far. This is usually single characters and OOP pieces. I haven't yet branched out from GW models as I already have a good backlog of models in the package waiting to be painted.


Short answer: Never too many, only not enough time in a day.