Slitherine

So I am now the owner of my first 28mm hard plastic Ancients figures. A box of the gorgeous Perry Brother WotR figures. Now I need to get sticking and painting then add at least another similar box and a box of the new set that is on the way. Then I might even have a playable army.

In the last month I have started on two new scales :O 6mm on 15mm bases for FoG:R and now 28mm FoG:AM

All this when I have no time to paint. I must be mad.

Are you expecting disagreement...?

However this is the one place where you will find sympathy and understanding - you can never have too many toys and (almost) all of us have more lead (or hard plastic in your case) than we can paint if we live to be 100.

Regards
Tim

hammy wrote:So I am now the owner of my first 28mm hard plastic Ancients figures. A box of the gorgeous Perry Brother WotR figures. Now I need to get sticking and painting then add at least another similar box and a box of the new set that is on the way. Then I might even have a playable army.

In the last month I have started on two new scales :O 6mm on 15mm bases for FoG:R and now 28mm FoG:AM

All this when I have no time to paint. I must be mad.

You have mentioned the Baccus minis before. I think you will find they paint up quickly, and splendidly. If all my minis were suddenly lost, tt would be a coin toss as to whether I ever replaced them with anything but 6mm.

Working on 72 25mm for a friend right now as a single unit . . . NOT enjoying them one bit. They are all uniform too, which should help but does not.

Two points:
You are not a true wargamer unless you have your own body weight in unpainted figures!
and
You do not have to think of "Need" when purchasing new figures.

Martin

hammy wrote:So I am now the owner of my first 28mm hard plastic Ancients figures. A box of the gorgeous Perry Brother WotR figures. Now I need to get sticking and painting then add at least another similar box and a box of the new set that is on the way. Then I might even have a playable army.

In the last month I have started on two new scales :O 6mm on 15mm bases for FoG:R and now 28mm FoG:AM

All this when I have no time to paint. I must be mad.

Yes, you are mad, but it is a nuanced madness since you must already be mad to play with toy soldiers. OR...think of the buy-paint-buy-paint.... cycle as your own personal existential Sisyphean journey through life. It is what gives your life meaning in an otherwise meaningless universe.

I notice james has just gone through the Have Job/Lose job/cut hair/gain job/grow hair/buy figures cycle

Hammy
Yes YOU are MAD

We say crazy on this side of the pond

I say - screw it - sanity is way over rated and any 12 step program is for sissys and rehab is for quitters

I like to look at toy soldiers as a kind on debt control scheme. I buy lead, I need to paint lead, I want to buy more lead but feel disheartened by the amount of lead I have to paint and time required to paint it, i decide not to buy more lead and resolve to paint and use current lead stocks before buying more. Resolve lasts approx 2 weeks to 2 months then start cycle again. Lead stock does seem to increase despite this, but not alarmingly.

Brilliant thread!

I, like the rest of us tend to always have 500-1000 unpainted figures sat about but at this point I buy another 200 but find that I actually start to paint the old backlog and then the new ones become part of the 1000 on the shelf.

I can`t work it out!!!!! But somehow it all comes together eventually---apart from the 28mm Arthurians I bought some 3 years ago--Lovely figs but too damn big!! Perhaps I am too tight to put that sort of value of paint on one figure

After a year of little gaming and way less painting than I have purchased I have decided to make this year my Wargaming Neutral Year! I cannot buy lead unless I've painted the equivalent, and even if I buy I can only use funds generated by selling wargame related surplus!

Full details and my progress is monitored on my blog here: http://blog.belisarius.org.uk/p/2011-wa ... -year.html

As life, kids and funds are impacting this year I decided I had to do something.

I do have a rather substantial lead pile though so I should cope!

Andy