Quote from: chirine ba kal;870937Well over 6,000 miniatures,

Wow, are they painted?

Quote from: TristramEvans;870965Wow, are they painted?

Check out his blog. He has pictures.

Quote from: Bren;870966Check out his blog. He has pictures.

Ah, didnt recognize the name at first. Been to his blog before. Still....6000. Holy crap. I paint at a rate of like 1 mini per week.

Quote from: TristramEvans;870968Ah, didnt recognize the name at first. Been to his blog before. Still....6000. Holy crap. I paint at a rate of like 1 mini per week.

At the risk of derailing the thread, I am actually way, way down from what I used to have. There used to be some 32,000 miniatures in my collection, covering all sorts of historical, fantasy, and science-fiction topics. My log books tell me that I've painted over 64,000 miniatures, again of all types, since I started seriously getting into gaming in about 1974.

The key is acrylic paints, and simply getting on with it. It's like with writing; do a little every day, and pretty soon one is up to 110,000 words and a basement full of little metal (and plastic and resin) people.

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Quote from: chirine ba kal;870970At the risk of derailing the thread, I am actually way, way down from what I used to have. There used to be some 32,000 miniatures in my collection, covering all sorts of historical, fantasy, and science-fiction topics. My log books tell me that I've painted over 64,000 miniatures, again of all types, since I started seriously getting into gaming in about 1974.

The key is acrylic paints, and simply getting on with it. It's like with writing; do a little every day, and pretty soon one is up to 110,000 words and a basement full of little metal (and plastic and resin) people.

Back to our regular programming!

Well, to be fair you've got 40 years on me; I just got back into painting minis a few years ago.

Quote from: TristramEvans;870975Well, to be fair you've got 40 years on me; I just got back into painting minis a few years ago.

And there you are!

Quote from: chirine ba kal;870970The key is acrylic paints, and simply getting on with it. It's like with writing; do a little every day, and pretty soon one is up to 110,000 words and a basement full of little metal (and plastic and resin) people.

Sadly for my academic career I'm not much cop at doing either regularly, hence my low pay grade & my vaults of unpainted Mantic armies...

I own a couple of dozens minis for RPGs -- mostly for PCS, although I have a couple of dragons that a friend painted and gave me years ago.

Minis are only used so show matching order in my games, and lately, due to lack of space, they aren't used at all.

I used to own several armies worth of ancients minis. If I want a minis game, I'll play one. I just have no interest in having a minis game for combat in RPGs.

Friends gave me their HeroScape starters. Five of them.
That is 30 minis each and at least 80 tiles each. ooog!

I don't own as many as I did a couple of years ago, before I sold a bunch dirt cheap. But still too many to count; I could weigh them, I guess, if I had a handy scale.

Haven't used any in the last 3 months. What miniatures gaming I've done has been with figures others provided.

I used to use chess pieces. For 5e I use standard playing cards and approximate distances now.

4e D&D GW came with a bunch of pogs. Did those start in 4e? Or did they start in 3e?

Personally I like tri-fold standups as quick minis. Like the ones MSH came with.

Maybe 75 - 100 painted lead/pewter figs from back in the day and mostly used back then as placemarkers.

Over the past few years, I've been making extensive use of D&D pogs and Paizo "pawns."

But a year or two ago, I invested in a few Reaper Bones minis as a cheap plastic alternative and then got a little "addicted." I don't have the time, patience or skill to paint them, and the storage of painted figures, even plastic ones, would be a pain in the ass, so I just toss 'em in a box. Counting these, I suppose the number has grown by at least 100.

As for "game pieces" ... the fact is that a number of boardgames over the past couple of years have produced some fantastic plastic minis in "heroic" 28 mm scale that are entirely compatible with Reaper and such. This would include figures from the D&D boardgame line. Also Cthulhu Wars, Blood Rage, Zombicide Black Plague (Core just sent to KS backers in the past week) and the upcoming Conan.  Several similar offerings are on tap for 2016.

Counting those, it's a golden age for plastic minis, and I absolutely intend to use those in D&D games.

... and yet, I'd still say that about 50% of our gaming is and always will be "theatre of the mind" rather than "dudes on a board."

If you have a decent printer and some cardstock those TSR Marvel sets can be found online (Legally even, I believe).

My "Miniatures" collection includes a mad assortment of traditional metal figures, pre-painted plastic figures, Mage Knight & HeroClix figures pried off their original bases and re-mounted on 1" bases (Sometimes re-painted, sometimes just touched up, sometimes left as is), old toys found in thrift store bins and dollar stores, scratch-built custom figures Frankensteined out of green putty and bits of other figures, broken figures I bought just for Frankensteining...

So, hundreds at least.

I've got a few somewhere, but I've almost never used them for play.

Cardboard counters work so much better for the tactical combat I play. Miniatures tend not to play well when they fall down and make body piles, for example, it's not always clear what their facing is, etc.