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

[grizzlymc]

1944 NWE Brit Arm'd div + air support;
1944 NWE Hun Pz div + air support;
Division of French in greatcoats;
25% of Chilean and Royalist armies for CWI

[Vintage Wargaming]

Do plastics belong in the lead pile?

[goat major]

yes because - under the extreme pressures caused by their weight - over a number of millennia (or 2 games turns of Newbury Fast Play) the plastic will eventually transform into lead.

[grizzlymc]

How did you get Newbury to play so slick and smooth?

[Etranger]

LT's list makes me feel a little better....

This is what's in the 'to do' stash. Fortunately the terrain is reasonably complete & can be used for multiple periods. after all jungle is jungle, be it Vietnamese, South West Pacific or Venusian. I don't get the 'luxury' of lockdown so time is the limiting factor in finishing this stuff.

I've only got a bit of stuff that predates the invention of gunpowder:
15mm Vikings & Saxons although they're more for fantasy then anything else. Around 100 all up & probably 50 fantasy figures.
28mm Saxons for the same reason. 40 odd & the same number for fantasy (Frostgrave).

Pike and Shot:
15mm ECW, enough done to put both sides together for a small battle but plenty unfinished, including a Scottish army that's been patiently waiting it's turn. 50% done. About to be compounded by buying a batch of Eureka's new figures.
28mm ECW. A Montrose Scottish army, bought & mostly undercoated.
28mm Pirates. More for fun than anything else. After all Teedy Bear and Skeleton pirates are hardly historical.
40mm Three Musketeers. Slowly painting them up when inspiration strikes.

Lace Wars:
15mm SYW. Austrian army around 1/2 finished, 3 brigades worth and a couple of regiments worth of horse. About the same unpainted. Then there's their opponents....

WWI:
A whole lot of the PSC plastic British, Germans and French. Technically 'done' since they're nominally just playing pieces for their 'The Great War' game but the intention is to turn them into 'proper' figures for the table top.

WWII: all 15 =mm except the Cruel Seas stuff. Where to start?
1940: French, nominally for a DLM but individual units to allow for 'mix and match' formations. Germans, nominally 7th PzD (lots of Pz 38Ts) but again mix and match for other formations. A smattering of British.
1941: East Africa. Askaris in paint queue but awaiting Italians and British.
1942: Malaya. Japanese awaiting completion, need to get British (who will double up for East Africa.
1944-45 CBI and the Pacific. Japanese as above, Gurkhas, Australians and 14th Army somewhere in the queue.
1944 NWE. large chunks of nominally 11th AD and 21st PzD awaiting assembly. I took advantage of the Battlefront sale a year ago to buy a lot of beutepanzers & British stuff, knowing it would be a while until I could get to them.
Cruel Seas. Stalled due to other non-hobby commitments but I've purposely kept this one small

Modern:
French Indochina. French mostly done, although there are always more oddities to add. VM partially done.

Pulp:
A smattering of figures in 28mm & 15mm, although the latter blurs into the sci-fi stuff.

Sci-Fi:
15mm: Lots done, still lots to do. Worked on intermittently.

I'd better get on with it!

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

LT - It took a while before I realised that the number at the start of each line was the year of relevance and not the number of figures you have!

[Shahbahraz]

Not a lot then. No I mean that seriously, that is about half to a third of mine.

Not sure if it is 1/2 to a 1/3 of mine, but I will qualify mine by saying my leadpile has almost exclusively been accrued in the 4 years since i moved from Oz, and there is another leadpile in Canberra.

I just don't want to audit mine.

[Ilkley Old School]

But what has been in your lead pile the longest ?

Mine are some Barry Minot 1806 Prussians I bought to paint up as SYW Jager types in 1975 ish.

[Jeremy]

In broad terms:
15mm Macedonians.
28mm Gauls, Carthaginians and Romans.
28mm Gangs of Rome
28mm Early Saxons, Arthurians, Later Saxons and Vikings
28mm WoTR
28mm ECW
28mm French Napoleonics
28mm Pirates
28mm ACW Union
28mm AZW British and Zulus
28mm WW2: Early German, Afrikaans Korp, 8th Army, Winter Germans, Russians, Dads Army, Falschirmjager
28mm Fantasy: Wood Elves, Orcs and Goblins, Undead.
40K: Space Marines and Chaos
Every box from the Zombicide Series. Probably close on 500 figures. If not more
Various Dreadball factions.
Space Hulk

[Shahbahraz]

6mm
FPW - Prussian French and Bavarian Army packs
ECW - Scots ECW
Ancients - Late Romans
WSS - French & Imperial Army Packs
Napoleonic British (30% done) & French Army packs
Future War Commander armies & Terrain - 2 Army packs

15mm DBMM armies
Chin Chinese
Normans in Sicily/1st Crusade
Picts
Late Romans
Vikings (25% done)

15mm Cold War
Soviets

15mm WW2
Late War Germans
US Paratroopers

28mm Ancients & Medieval
Carthaginian (Victrix)
Republican Romans (Victrix)
Immortal Minis Greeks
Celts (Northstar, Newline & Foundry)
Medieval Scots (Perry)
Dark Age 'Hairies' (Gripping Beast, Fireforge etc)

28mm ECW
More plastic sprues than I can easily count (Warlord)

28mm 1745
Sharp Practice sized Jacobite & Hanoverian forces

28mm AWI
2-3 hundred British & loyalists mixed manufacturers
2-3 hundred colonists mixed manufacturers

28mm Napoleonics
160 Prussian Landwehr (plastic)
couple of hundred British peninsular forces (mixed manufacturers)
couple of hundred French peninsular forces (mixed manufacturers)

28mm WW2 (Chain of Command)
Platoons (and supports)for
US Airborne
Italians
Fallschirmjaeger
US Army
British Airborne
Japanese (10%)
British in Malaya (50%)
USMC

Other stuff
Renaissance Galleys
Pre-dreadnoughts
ACW ships
Napoleonic naval
30 or so 1/72 WW2 plastic armour kits

there's probably more that I can't remember right now.