Anyone fancy a lucky dip?

[Jeremy]

Purps will be handing out bags of Foundry Prussians and receiving Mantic Zombies in return

[Purple]

No way! I paint what I buy!
Wargamers are insane, it must be the only hobby where people buy stuff they’ll never use and then consider swapping it for something they’ve never seen!

‘Just bought some new golf clubs dear’
‘Oh and you going to play with them?’
‘No I’m going to leave in a cupboard in the garage for 2 years then swap them for a tennis racket’

[Essex Boy]

You are all insane!

What's your point?

[Essex Boy]

No way! I paint what I buy!
Wargamers are insane, it must be the only hobby where people buy stuff they’ll never use and then consider swapping it for something they’ve never seen!

‘Just bought some new golf clubs dear’
‘Oh and you going to play with them?’
‘No I’m going to leave in a cupboard in the garage for 2 years then swap them for a tennis racket’

What's wrong with that?

[Essex Boy]

ok - and to rephrase my question to make it easier - will the idea be to put totally random and eclectic things into a bag as a true lucky dip or will i be encouraged to specially select 40K Orks as soon as i know its you....

Just moving this to the new page for you Simon.

[goat major]

Thanks. you're getting the Orks whatever the answer.

[Paul]

‘Just bought some new golf clubs dear’
‘Oh and you going to play with them?’
‘No I’m going to leave in a cupboard in the garage for 2 years then swap them for a tennis racket’

You say this like it's never happened...although as I used to be quite serious about both that might have something to do with it sounding reasonable!
Surely the lucky dip idea won't actually reduce your leadpile?

[Jeremy]

I see how this works. I end up being given a bunch of figures for a period I don’t play, but not enough to actually play a game. So I rush out and buy more figures. But I never actually paint them. And my leadpile is now bigger than when I started. Financially, this makes zero sense

[goat major]

Surely the lucky dip idea won't actually reduce your leadpile?

No and in fact is likely to replace something that you once thought might be useful with something that will never be useful. It'll be fun though. I think i'll definitely decide to paint at least one figure that my mystery benefactor decides to bestow on me no matter what .......

[World2dave]

Unusually, I'm with Purps on this one.

I know I have too much stuff to get it all done, but at least I know I originally bought it for a reason. Receiving someone else's badly thought through crap in a blind game of pass-the-unwanted-parcel appeals about as much as having testicular surgery... carried out by a man with a hammer.