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

[Count Belisarius]

It took me a while to realise those were dates in LTs post and not quantities... Probably...

[Essex Boy]

You're all a bunch of amateurs when it comes to lead and plastic piles.

[FreddBloggs]

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.

Do you have the fantasy and space hulk type Zombicides, if so, how do they replay?

[Etranger]

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.

I have a couple of c1975 Minifigs or Hinchcliffe fantasy figures in the collection but they did mostly get painted last millennium. There might be a couple unpainted in the dark recesses of the shed.

[goat major]

But what has been in your lead pile the longest ?

Garrison Greeks for me c 1977/78. And finally getting repainted !

btw if anyone has any Garrison (only Garrison, not minifies or Hinchliffe) Greek Cavalry (Heavy or Light) or the Greek Slingers then I'd be interested in relieving you of them !

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

After a recent "restructuring" of our garage/my storage and painting area, I have the following*:

40mm
- About 20 British AWI light infantry

25/28mm (1:50)
- Enough Foundry AWI to refight Bunker Hill at 1:1 (all metal)
- Enough Perry AWI to refight the Saratoga campaign at 1:1 (metal and plastic - the latter about 8 boxes)
- Enough Perry and Eureka AWI to refight the Gloucester Point action at Yorktown at 1:1
- More Perry/Redoubt/Conquest/Crusader/Miscellaneous AWI-era Indians than the Indian Department had
- Quite a lot of King's Mountain, Fife & Drum, Westfalia/Black Hussar AWI products
- Two small armies of Perry WotR plastics and afew boxes of metal commanders
- Three substantial Perry Napoleonic SP2 forces - Bavarian and Austrian (both 1809), Brunswick/KGL (1811)
- Some Perry and Warlord French infantry in greatcoats
- Two SAGA armies - Norman (Perry) and Irish Shieldmaiden (Bad Squiddo)
- Warlord/TAG/Brigade Japanese CoC force for Malaya, with all supports and WaT French tanks
- Eureka Western Gunfight teddy bears

These eight items are currently being used for painting practice, prior to sale
- Assorted H&M groups (eg Dixon/Front Rank F&IW rangers, Foundry SYW horse grenadiers and Nap landing party)
- Some Gladiators
- Three packs of Foundry landsknechts to do up as Early Henrician
- Lots of Front Rank AWI
- Five boxes of Victrix French Old Guard Grenadiers
- Garrison SYW Prussians
- Minifigs Napoleonics (French, Austrian, Brunswick, Nassau)
- Around 1,000 LotR figures (metal and plastic)

15/18mm (1:100)
- Literally thousands of 2nd Generation Minifigs for ECW/TYW and other Renaissance armies (1500-1700)
- Several hundred 3rd Generation Minifigs (Gustavus Swedes)
- AB Napoleonics, Austrians and Bavarians

These five items are for sale if anyone is interested:
- Several hundred AB (and a few Warmodelling) Napoleonics, mainly French and British
- About 200 Donnington ECW infantry
- Several hundred 2nd Generation Minifigs SYW French and Hanoverians
- Couple of thousand Dixon/Roundway/Hallmark Marlburians
- Some early Jacobites (Matchlock, I think)

5/6mm (1:300)
- Six British MTBs and six German E-Boats, with 2 British MTBs on their way (yes, I finally managed to buy them!)

2/3mm (1:600)
- Two smallish flotillas (flotillae?) for a Coastal Patrol game of the Slapton Sands debacle

* I'm not sure even this list is exhaustive, but I would point out that quite a lot of this stuff was given to me by grateful clients/generous fellow gamers, after I had written articles for them, or given historical advice on new ranges/projects they were planning. The oldest items, in terms of my ownership, are the 25mm Minifigs Napoleonics and 15mm WSS Dixons who date back to the early-/mid-1970s.

[Jeremy]

No I don’t Fred. Only the modern setting one. And the first edition at that.

Heard very positive things about the Black Plague version from friends but never played it. Don’t know anyone with the Space Hulk version.

[Shahbahraz]

What rules are you using for AWI Baron? (At the moment, my painted forces are enough for a smallish SP2 game, but there's enough in the lead pile to expand this considerably.)

[FreddBloggs]

Let me see. Shit tons are imperial, buttloads are metric.

GW 28mm
Orks (as Treen, allies and enemies of Mekon) Shit ton
Imperial Guard (converted to BAOV) buttload
Space Marines, Buttload
Elder, shit ton
Chaos marines, about 30
Catachans (50) to be rogue troopers

Other 28mm
French napoleonic, foundry metals and victrix and perry plastics
FN era British for BAOV. 3 centurions 30 infantry 5 saladins, 3 saracens to stalwarts.
Carnevale about 50
Fantasy cats and dogs about 60
Other fantasy including orcs, elves, dwarfs, men etc.etc.etc 2 shit tons
Macedonians, 48 pikemen, 24 hypapstists, 20 companion cavalry, 18 thessalians and 24 thracian peltasts. Newline
Greek hoplites, about 50 foundry.
Cowboys foundry, buttload
Pirates, mostly foundry but with additions, buttload
Strontuim Dog game about 40
17th C poles about 150
1672 sun king, about 250
WSS about 100.

Actually not as bad as I feared.

20mm
3 cromwells
3 shermans
2 panthers

15mm psc russians and skytrex gernans with a few peter pig, 200 or so of each, and about 50 tanks etc.
15 essex austrians about 250

6mm
Epic, multiple buttloads.
Fantasy, about 1000
Macedonians, gauls, romans etc, about a 1000 total

2 full sets of gw's battle of 5 armies game.

[levied troop]

It took me a while to realise those were dates in LTs post and not quantities... Probably...

On the plus side, I am now immoral.

Immortal, I meant immortal.