PurityThruFire Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I suffer from the see them in a store (or online), think they are so cool I must have them to paint, bring them home, oogle at them, come up with brilliant color and basing schemes, put them on the shelf because "I just don't feel like doing anything right now" and forget about them for eons. I justify it to my girlfriend by telling her I am simply stocking up so when I have the urge to paint I can choose form many. Needless to say, she doesn't buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwyn1st Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share Posted July 4, 2007 Well, duplicates of Reaper minis always have a home with me... I'm Black Lightning, after all. Can't tell you how many Shelf of Shame denizens have gone off to Paint and Take, never to return. Duplicate paints... oy. Now THERE'S a whole other thread for you. Really embarassing to get back from Gen Con with a color you were SURE you didn't have and find you have two of them. If there's a color of ink that you MUST have and you can't find it, it will show up as soon as you buy another... SWAG at Gen Con... I'm sure I'll use that bottle of Vallejo Glaze Medium eventually.... get home and you've already got about five... BAD is Eric Louchard giving you the evil eye as you dig through a pile of paint and going, "Don't you have most of that already?" "Yeah but Eric, these are the colors everyone wants. I can always use dupes in P&T..." Paint junkie, that's me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheprera Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Nope, since both my husband and I both paint minis, and I've been collecting them since the early 80's, those words are never uttered in this house. Now, I *do* tend to groan when he wants to buy more instruments... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHorde Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 When the wife says... you arn't buying another mini till you paint the ones you got!! My wife never says that. Hinted, once, before we were married. I responded by opening the other, larger box full of minis I had at the time. From that point forward, we have reached an understanding: 118 more years is an unreasonable length of time to expect me to go without buying new minis. She's not the family CFO; it's a shared office. Her sister tried that, once, in a sarcastic stage whisper so I'd be sure to hear it. "Why don't you make him...?" I replied, "Sure, I'd like to have them all painted. But let's be fair about it, lay the cards out, here. No more cars, vacations, furniture, clothes or shoes for you until you've paid off the previous ones. Or, keep it simple: no more DVDs until you've watched all you've got. No more novels for her (my wife) until she has read the ones she has. No more beads, material, paper, art or craft supplies until she's used up what she has. Now, shall we discuss total dollars spent, or relative percentage of income? Debt to income ratio?" It almost worked. I learned: Never attempt to use logic or fairness on those two, or at least not when they're together. Individually, my wife is fine. Her sister is nutty enough for at least two people. She has her money pits and obsessions, and I have mine. Never the twain shall meet, but we keep control on them. Resistance is futile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutebutpsycho Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 We have a LOVELY financial and hobby agreement in my house. It goes a little something like this: I have a job-the money that I earn at that job is mine to do with as I choose. The same goes for Pete. We have an agreement about how bills are paid, anything else goes to whatever we feel like. If I want thousands of minis and hundreds of bottles of paint, so be it. The same goes for him. Neither one of us EVER questions the other. As far as storage space, the deal goes-I get as many minis as I can fit in the living room, he gets as many motorcycles as he can fit in the garage. If he chooses to move his car-that's his choice. And as for my quantity of minis, I figure it this way. Today I'm making money and can afford them. Some day, I'll retire, and hopefully I'll still want to paint. At that point, I'm SET! Or, if I ever get laid off and don't have a job, I can still afford to paint, because I have a stash. Then there's the remote possibility that EVERY mini I like will be simultaneously discontinued-so I'm avoiding that too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helltown Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I don't think I have any unintentional duplicates yet... but I'm sure I'll find a couple when I really start to look. The one thing that I offer my customers who buy miniatures from my store is that I'll exchange an unopened mini for one of equal value in stock if they get home and find it's a duplicate. If they can't find one for the same price, for lower I give 'em a credit slip and for higher I'll take the difference in cash. In the unlikely event they can't find one they like at all, a credit slip for their next order of minis. A little extra paperwork for me to keep track of but it keeps people happy and occasionally I'll end up with a piece that's on someone else's order list. As for not getting more until I've painted what I've got... I know the priorities quite well: 1. Rent 2. Bills (Electric, Gas for the truck, etc..) 3. Food 4. Fun (minis, DVDs, books) 4 might jump ahead of 3 occasionally, but I know one truth in my life... My business partner always makes enough food for an army and I'm always invited over for dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 So, the title of this thread is "You know you've got too many minis when. . . " Personally, I don't understand the premise. I mean, too many? I suppose when the foundation of the house cracks or something, I'll consider the possibility, but I'd probably assume a mild earthquake or structural decay was a more likely culprit than the thousands of figs I have sitting around. (I do sell off figs from time to time. . . to raise the money to buy more figs.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fieldarchy Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 As long as you have a hold on the obsession then everything is fine! As long as you know the priorities and your able to pay your bills, spend your "play money" on whatever you want! That's how I look at it. Besides, I can justify taking $20 every two weeks to the game store to buy more minis. That's about 6-8 new minis a month! YAY! That's a decent enough flow. Considering I paint about 4 a month or so . . . As long as you do the number crunching and make the statistics read ok then you're good! It's all about manipulating the numbers though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versutus Vulpes Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Further to what Meg said - In terms of entertainment budget for dollars spent vs time occupied - it is second only to reading IMHO. So if my wife asks - be sure to tell her that m'kay? I still have room on my shelf so I know I don't have too many yet. Just don't look in any of the boxes I have around here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beowulfthehunter Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I must either be poor, have no life, or the willpower of a Christ. I have no unpainted shelf, closet, or house of shame. If I buy a mini I make sure that it will see paint within a few months or weeks. If not, I don't buy it. In fact only one mini has ever stayed uncompleted for more than a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helltown Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I don't think it's the lack of life or willpower... I think that maybe your attention span is a lot longer than most. I'll start a mini, put it aside so I can think some more about the colors and then three minis or more later, I might come back to it if it still interests me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurityThruFire Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I must either be poor, have no life, or the willpower of a Christ. I have no unpainted shelf, closet, or house of shame. If I buy a mini I make sure that it will see paint within a few months or weeks. If not, I don't buy it. In fact only one mini has ever stayed uncompleted for more than a year. I wish I could say that. One of the bookshelves in the "office/hobby room" of the house is being overtaken by unpainted minis. Everytime I see a mini I like, if I have the money, I but it and place it oh so lovingly on the shelf and promise it that one day it will be painted. That's on top of all the pieces I buy for my Warmachine Protectorate army and say "this time I really am going to paint you before I allow myself to field you". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastl Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I wasn't doing toooooo bad on my painted to unpainted ratio. And then I got this whole load of necro minis in May and now I'm just trying to remember where I put all my stuff. Step by step, inch by inch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaintByNumbers Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 >>> I must either be poor, have no life, or the willpower of a Christ. I have no unpainted shelf, closet, or house of shame. If I buy a mini I make sure that it will see paint within a few months or weeks. If not, I don't buy it. In fact only one mini has ever stayed uncompleted for more than a year. >>> Witchcraft! WIIIIIII--TCH CRAFT !!!!! BURN HIM !!! BURRRRNN HIM !!! I've got 3000 unpainted figures cataloged; 1000 more lying around is not unreasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwyn1st Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 Holy crap, PBN, how long have you been painting to aquire that much stuff? Anyway, I blame it on ADD. You look in a catalog or go to the game store, see something new, say "oh, shiny" and next thing you know, it's more stuff in your unpainted/partially painted/??? of shame. That, and if you PLAY with the models you almost can't help but have unpainted lead. If you are working on an army, you get most of them in one whack and then crank them out until the army is done. And hope you don't get distracted by some new offering in the mean time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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