Sadly, this is too true......

I'm a bit of an oddball when it comes to grey armies,as i don't really have one,but i've got quite a few that i've started and went off them and stuck them back in the box.I usually punt them, as out of site out of mind.If i'm painting away quite nicely and another figure gets delivered,my mind keeps drifting to the new one that's just arrived ,which to me is a bit off putting
I know what the answer to the problem is,but i just love hearing the postman shoving a package in my front door.Since i've retired i've been buying many,many figures.
In the above message there's a lead in for Derek to have a go at me with one of his caustic remarks.I've left it in to see if he's slipping in his old age

I don't think he should have any difficulty Brian, in fact I might have spotted two.

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Thank goodness Marc...for a moment then I was going to report that post and complain to the moderators about your 'attitude'.


Paul.

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Well...it reminded me to get me a bigger boat sorry cabinet.

Paul

I may as well confess my stash which was not supposed to increase this year has increased by another 12 large scale figures in the last few months, with more to come thanks to Valiant and Tecumseh!

My Stash is about 150 kits unmade and sadly about the same started and not finished.
I have to admit it's not very good mental discipline to begin something new with so many already started, but I am totally loving my hobby right now

As a kid, there were many I couldn't afford from my pocket money, then when in the forces I couldn't build/take a collection around, so just made airfix figures and left them behind a bar somewhere, then a family and tight budget stopped me.
Now I am finding treasures from the past that are still the most wonderful timeless kits and they have become available and seem more affordable .

We are not even in the same league as some IPMS modellers.
A good friend of mine had to clear his house because he had only the living room and kitche ledt to live in of a 4 bedroom house, even the stairs were stacked with plastic kits.
He had bought up to 6 of some kits for no reason.
It has taken 2 years to get the collection down to just 1 room !
We then met a guy who has a full sized shipping container and two storage units full of kits, he worked out at one point he would have to build one every 38 minutes to get them done before he croaks it, and unlike the rest of us he has to sneak his missus into the house past the models!

Paul

To be fair Roger, I always believed that painted or not, flats are so wonderful.
I would totally respect someone with drawers full of them they could open and simply admire.
Laid out on a black background they would look spectacular and I would love to have as many as you.
They would look like, but appear far better than a collection of butterflies or birds eggs that the Victorians used to collect.

Paul.

Bloody hell, some one else like me and I thought I was an oddball (the wife know's I am) but I try to catch the postman before the wife.

Hoarding?

Childhood deprivation? Fear of loss ? I don't have any answers, but I feel there's something of an unhappy soul at the bottom of it all.

Im sitting in around the 250 to 300 mark. Tried to keep up with all that Bruno Liebowitz produced for a while, but I layed down and that feeling went away .

Paul

Haven't really counted them but I guess 200+ all figures(no plastic planes etc the only plastic being historex and ICM figures).

Oda.

........... Oh so tempting, so many options ...........is that the doorbell you can hear?..... there it goes again!

I keep the gate shut to prevent anything being shoved in the back door.

I do that Paul but only when I am alone and prying eyes can't see the enormity of my addiction.

Something similar in my drawers Roger ...............what???????