Bare your soul - fess up what's in your lead pile!

[FreddBloggs]

In hell, your workbench is covered with boxes of hard plastic figures in 28mm that need to be assembled and painted.

I thought hell was a 20,000 figure Perries collection, still in blisters, and no files or cutting tools.

[Count Belisarius]

Lead pile...hmmm... no idea on quantities but there are definitely piles of lead of varying proportions in the following categories

42mm Shiny C19th

28mm Shiny C19th
28mm Dark Ages (Saxons, Normans, Vikings) and a pile of resin buildings...
28mm C18th ImagiNations - still LOTS to do...
28mm WW2 French and .....more.... Fallschirmjaeger
28mm Romans...

20mm WSS

15mm SF
15mm WW2 (Brits and Poles and.....Fallschirmjaeger...)
15mm Punic Wars period and maybe some Caesarian stuff for Infamy, Infamy...
15mm Assorted Fantasy and LOTS of scenery to make...
15mm AWI - mostly done but always more to paint...
15mm ACW - still loads of old Minifigs to do and the C19th Swans...

10mm Sudan
10mm Naps for DBN

6mm Cold War...LOTS....
6mm SF... LOTS...

And that is it!!! I almost feel a failure compare to the excesses of some on here...

A

[Neanderthal]

So Chris, where’s your list?

Or do H&S forbid you to enter the warehouse until you’ve complied with all their recommendations :o

The last H+S type to take any interest is pushing up the rhubarb and making a fair job of it.
I only count in cubic measure/boxes as I have standardised on RUB 10L size :-
Nordic Bronze Age 10L
Bronze Age Hittites, Egyptians, Nubians, Trojans 10L
Dark Age Saxons and Picts 10L
Arthurian British 10L
WOSS 6mm 10L
FPW 15mm 5L
FPW 6mm 5L
BEF + Blitzkrieg Germans (inc vehicles) 10L
VBCW(various figures) 5L
VBCW vehicles 10L
Armada 1/600 4L
Napoleonic naval 1/1200 5L
Napoleonic naval 1/2400 3L
Barons War + 14th century medieval 10L (awaiting delivery of latest batch)
15mm SYW 8L
Sci Fi 28mm - 5L
Darkest Africa 10L
and then there' the plastics, resins, buildings and assorted scenery.
My priest tells me that I can't die until the last one is painted and my actuary says that's some time in the third millennium(subject to alteration due to ongoing purchases).


You did ask.

:fp:Chris

[levied troop]

You’ve undercounted, where’s the WoSS 28mm?
And I suspect that’s a misprint for 100L RUB. Time for an independent survey methinks.

[tim.w]

In summary from memory..

Buckets of 54mm

42mm shiny cavalry

28mm Dark Ages
28mm Early Roman & Numidian
28mm WWII Soviets
28mm WWII British Airborne
28mm WWII French
28mm Arabesque Medievals
28mm Seljuk Turks (not linked with above)
A few 28mm tanks

20mm modern

15mm ECW

[Shahbahraz]

In summary from memory..
28mm WWII Soviets
28mm WWII British Airborne
28mm WWII French

See, there's your problem right there, in these times of lockdown, who are they going to fight? Should go and buy some 28mm Germans immediately... best make it two lots, one for the early opponents, and one for the later ones..

[tim.w]

All done!

[Shahbahraz]

Good man. I also remember purchasing a platoon of Perry DAK mainly because, although I already had one, that was Perry 28mm plastic, and these were 28mm Perry metal... Now I am wondering about conversions to Gebirgsjager.. I mean, what can't you do with some Milliput?

[Jeremy]

I also have two boxes of unbuilt DAK to fight my 8th Army. Fortunately the 8th army are largely painted

[Shahbahraz]

I'm on my third box of Perry 8th Army, which have become 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland for Malaya. Except I may have got sidetracked... err...