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May 18, 2006

What to keep and what to sell?

It's that time in a miniature gamer's life to figure out what to get rid of (mainly for fund raising reason to buy more toys). I went back to my "taking Stock" blog entry and see what I have:

Active: These are periods that I am currently buying, building troops for-
# 28mm Darkest Africa. STATUS: Very complete. A very colorful period and a line of figures that could be my all time favorite. I am not actively doing much with them but an annual convention game of Big Trouble in Big Africa means I'll definitely keep these around.

# 10mm WW2 (for Flames of War and Blitzkrieg Commander)- STATUS: Since the WW2 bakeoff is about to start this is my "active project". A keeper.

# 15mm Napoleonics (For Grande Armee. I have a "large enough" French , Russian, and British army. Have another unpainted Prussian army sitting in a box) STATUS: Definitely a keeper since having a bunch of horse and musket armies around to play is a basic requirement for subsistence living. keeper.

# 25mm Colonial Russians (In Central Asia) STATUS: Done and we've actually played with them. Since any colonial period armies that's complete and I can actually put games on means they are keepers.

# 28mm Zulu War (A Rorke's Drift skirmish game) STATUS: Gone. Got rid of all my BlackTree Zulus and my Rorke's drift building. But that fund was spent long ago to finance my new Fantasy habit I'll have to look for funding elsewhere.

# 25mm Early Ottoman Turks - STATUS: My very first wargaming army and one where I painted almost all the figure. Definite keeper.

# 25mm Carthaginians (to fight my buddy Jeff's Romans) STATUS: THE BIG DEBATE. Since Jeff and I do not have THAT much invested in ancient other than this army, and we did not paint them ourselves, this is currently high on the redundancy list for fund raising...

There are other active period that got started which wasn't even on the list last time:

# 25mm Fantasy- Tom Meier's elves pushed me over the edge, and broke my "historical only" policy. So now I have a huge Non-GW compliant wood elve army and a growing orc army. Haven't had a game yet as the figure bases aren't terrained yet. Keeper.

# ? scale B5 Spaceships - Once you break the historical only rule where do you stop? I painted all of these so likelyhood of getting rid of them is low, and our low intensity ongoing campaign means that it'll get occasional outing. Keeper.

Inactive: These are periods that I have a lot stuff, but just haven't gamed in recently. A closer look will be made in this category for fundraising:

# 25mm Colonial (this includes about 300 Ral Partha Zulus, about 200 Dervishes, about 500 Afghans, and 400 Boxers. Oh yeah, and their counterpart in the enemy camp...) STATUS: Colonials hold a special place in the Mandarin Manor, so keepers by default. Although there are selected ranges (i.e. crappy Maori Wars figure and old minifig Boxer Reb figures that could be chopped. Due to their age and quality not likely to fetch any good $$$ though...)

# 15mm Renaissance (Italian War) STATUS: Likely candidate. A fun period that I just don't get a chance to do much. Plus it's the kind of period where a smaller scale like 10mm definitely looks better. (The funny thing is that I have sold this army before, then later bought it back. Let's hope that whatever decision I make this time sticks...)

# 15mm Dark Ages (mainly Central Asian steppe nomads) STATUS: borderline. My hand painted Tang Chinese probably gets a stay of execution, but a big collection of it's turkish and arab enemies are just sitting there gathering dust. Need to think hard on what to do about them...

# 15mm Han Chinese (An impulse buy, can be used to fight the steppe nomads). STATUS: Candidate for elimination, since its a period I never really gamed much in and did not paint myself. Probably keep the small Ch'in army which I painted and sell the rest.

# 20mm WW2 (old ww2 scale that I probably should get out of, but don't want to part with all those tanks I built by hand)

# 28mm WW2. STATUS: CHopping block. Got rid of my tanks already. now just waiting to sell my unpainted infantry figs (have tried on Bartertown but to no avail).

# 25mm Mongols (my first army) - STATUS: Keeper.

# 25mm Samurai (A small Samurai army that I can field against my Mongols). STATUS: Chopping block. Anyone want a professionally painted and mounted (DBM) Old Glory samurai army?

# 25mm Medieval (bunch of unpainted Foundry medievals that might see action when I get my Nicopolis project started.) STATUS: Keeper, since late medieval in 25mm is something I've committed to with my Turks and Mongols. Plus they can always fight orcs in my fantasy world.

# 25mm LOTR figures (Bought a bunch of plastic Gamesworkshop figs from eBay, but now I can't find any use for. Will probably go on to the sales pile. STATUS: The orcs I am keeping. Plastic Gondorians less so.

# 15mm WW2 Japanese. STATUS: This one wasn't on the list last time. A moment of weakness and sales magic from an unnamed friend means I ended up with a 3rd scale in ww2 (20mm, 28mm, 10mm). Professionally painted by some famous painter (he did many of the FoW models photoed in the rules). A definite goner, and since the expected Fow pacific release might never happen, I should get rid of it ASAP.

# 25mm Napoleonics (Foundry). STATUS: Had it all along but forgot to make the list last time. bunch of Foundry French and Russians back when they have reasonable deals to be had. Too small to do anything useful with other than skirmish games. Besides one lone Russian unit none of them are painted. Goner...

# 25mm Assyrians (Old Glory). STATUS: Had it all along but never made the list. I bought these in a giant sale so spend hardly peanuts. Great figures (probably best OG has ever done), and if I were ever to go into Biblical period I want to do it in 25mm. Keeper for now.

Conclusiuon
Definite goners are 25mm Cartheginians, 25mm Samurai, some 25mm LOTR plastics, 28mm WW2, and 25mm Napoleonics, & 15mm WW2 Japanese. Next step, figure out a fund raising plan (i.e. Bartertown).

Posted by msoong at May 18, 2006 12:19 AM

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