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goat major wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:15 am You can’t have finished dwarves Gary, it’s only 42 more stunty days to Dwarfcember

Unfortunately not going to happen. I have no idea why I bought 15mm Dwarves in the first place (or Elves, for that matter).

To fight your goblins, of course!

My initial response to this question was to just write hahahahahahahahahahahahahah etc.

But then I thought, no, it's a serious question. So, My "normal" ACW 28mm collection is technically finished, once I have painted up the three regiments worth of figures I have left. (I could just not bother, but I have them and might as well add them) but I now have all of those I am ever going to want to paint.
My Shiny ACW 28-30 mm project that EB and I cooked up needs me to just paint two small regiments of cavalry and some command figures and that is complete. We wisely set a fixed limit to collection size and that has helped enormously. Apart from a handful of German infantry and some tanks (4) my 1/72 WWII collection is done.
I now have got all the British troops I want for my 42 mm Shiny army, the last 4 infantry regiments and 2 cavalry units are assembled and awaiting priming, then I shall sign off on them. One more cavalry unit waiting paint for the small Germanic army, and plans for 2 more French Infantry and another 2 French cavalry units and a handful of skirmishers which I'll get next year, and then I can sign off on that project.
Released from the stress of painting deadlines and having time on my hands courtesy of the apocalypse, has meant a lot of painting being done, I am even catching up on older projects, working through the lead/plastic pile, and selling off half started and surplus figures.

Sadly none of this is being played with to any extent, and occasionally I am hit by melancholy bouts of "this is all pointless, why I am I bothering?" And then something goes right and I am reinvigorated. So soldiering on, and looking forward to the restoration of normality.

I think the only 'period' I've absolutely finished 100% is the Fishguard 1797 project and we even added some 'what if' units on top of what was historically there.

In terms of 15mm Wellingtonics, I've got a few armies that are complete for my needs - i.e. I have enough troops of the right type to fill the order of battle of every single battle from the period where the army was present: Brunswick, Nassau, Netherlands, Hanover, Sweden, Duchy of Warsaw, Hessen-Darmstadt, Baden, Wurttemberg & Italy.

There are then a few armies that are NEARLY complete: The British only need 12 heavy dragoons for when an extra brigade turns up at Vittoria, while the Prussians, French, Bavarians, Westphalians, Berg & Neapolitans just need a few odds and sods. I've got a lot of Russians and Austrians done, but still a long way to go to completion, while the Spanish and 1806 Prussians are barely started. I will never bother getting Ottomans (I did once make a start, but sold them to Eclaireur).

For the 28mm AWI I've got enough troops to do most of the battles, though could always use more.

I've got enough 15mm SYW Prussians and Austrians to do the biggest battles, so they could be classed as 'complete', though I might eventually be tempted to get some Freikorps one day.

I DID have a magnificently complete Macedonian Successor army, but a former friend sold it while my back was turned...

I'd like an Ottoman, I could rest my stump on it.

You wouldn't prefer a pouffe?

Not into pouffes, but a well upholstered Ottoman is irresistible.

I think you'll find a pouf (or pouffe) is a cushioned footstool.

The difference between the two is minor: "they differ in appearance. Ottomans are almost always firmer and less pillowy, whereas some poufs are more like oversized pillows than anything else. Some ottomans have legs that raise them slightly, while most poufs sit flat on the ground. Larger ottomans can easily work as coffee tables, but most poufs are slightly too small to do so" (from some internet site).

Interestingly (???), our family only ever used the term "footstool" which is more or less interchangeable with the two terms we are discussing. No prissy foreign words in strictly Presbyterian Scotland!

donald

Clearly, an Ottoman is more useful than a pouffe.

garyp wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:19 pm .....(or Elves, for that matter).

Just make sure he hasn't left the building.....