The PILE!

[Heedless Horseman]

O.k...sorry, but been gettin' re-interested in 1/285 GHQ...can hardly SEE them, but, you know...did it a bit when I was just a kid just foolin' around...and bought some stuff a few years back...but moved on, O.K?
SO...bought some T34s and Panthers...and Chafees...as you do! (Well just look at the DETAIL! Won't they paint up just nice...drilled, pinned and magnetted on (PENDRAKEN!) bases?
But...think...I already bought some Panther G's without skirts...don't wanna duplicate...that stuff's getting costly, man!
SO... looked at THE PILE.
THE PILE lives on the spare bed...and the floor...and sort of grew into the corner. It lives. Now and again...I hear noises...and it seems to move. Yeah, I know it's just settling...or maybe it's rats.
So, wiping off dust and cobwebs, (What eats the spiders???), started to CAREFULLY excavate.
O.M.F.G!
Plastic 1/72 Naps, (Why?), and Zulu war, (OK but when?), ditto Crimea. Boxes of Victrix/Perry Naps and ACW...underneath my 10mm Nap stuff...and ACW stuff...and 6mm buildings...and 15mm stuff, (from before I found 1/144 and PENDRAKEN infantry). And Trees...good job, still bagged...if they'd rooted could be a problem! 20mm metal WOR...and ECW...well, could use for skirmish as 10mm much more useful and armies half done!
(Running out of room to put stuff...and fat ar*e knocking other stuff over...and getting fed up with finding stuff spilled from opened boxes.)
Books. Used packaging...just in case wanted to sell on...lol! Old DVD/VCR combi. Computer stuff. More resin buildings (Wow!). Hell, yeah! Some 25mm nap stuff! (When the Hell?). After shifting the unused, (so far...but have plans!), Carry Cases...reached ground and could open under-bed drawers..of books! Forgotten or dimly remembered friends...or crap just put away...past caring much by now! 1/285 tanks NOT THERE! And not in cupboard, either, now that I can open it...but already knew it was full of 1/72 planes, unbuilt tanks, teenage 1/76 plastic figs  and card buildings. Gettin' ANNOYED! Not helped by tripping over all the s**t!
Stood back and looked at the unbalanced remaining PILE!
Surgical Strike?  HIT THE BOX! Propped wounded PILE with stuff before it collapsed!
Happy ending would say,' Now Sorted'...but just had to pile stuff back again! This is where I sleep!
Good results: Found the 1/285...good job I didn't buy more...already had it...AND the stuff I have just bought! Lol. Temporarily rescued a rather squashed cuddly toy...back you go...scare the Rats, boy! And found Dumas: 'Musketeers'...been lookin' for that book...now SOMEWHERE, I have some unstarted swashbuckler figures...    

[Ithoriel]

Open pretty much any cupboard or wardrobe in my house and you risk having lead, plastic, resin (or boxed board games) falling out on you.

So many plans, so little actual painting

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I have one cupboard in the house...

And a garage!

[Sandinista]

I now have a whole room just for my hobby 

Cheers
Ian

[fsn]

I have a small house for my hobby. Sometimes I have to cook in the spray booth, guests sometimes have to sleep in the gaming room, and the paint studio is the room I often sit in.

I still don't have enough space.

Good job I live on my own!




Actually, may be why live on my own. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Not too much.

Got some 10mm WSS to finish.
Load of 6mm H&R to paint - mostly 1980's Portuguese but also T72, IS-3, Fmk6 Lightening 2 F14 and 2 Venoms

Then there is a box full of DW and Uncharted seas scenery to do for the Deeside Defenders.

IanS

[Subedai]

What I actually have in either sizeable forces or armies that need painting:

6mm Irregular armies
Medieval Eastern Europeans
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Hittites
Ancient Tibetan
Samurai (I have an army but acquired another on fleabay)
Orcs
Chaos

6mm H&R and Rapier
Ancient Byzantines
Achemenid/Sassanid Persians
More Ancient Macedonians

10mm Irregular
Ancient British to mix in with Pendraken

10mm Pendraken
Finish off the Medieval Polish -about 5 units
Same with the Mongols
Ancient British to mix in with Irregular

15mm
A mix of Irregular, Dixon and Mini Figs for Marlburian
Prussian Napoleonic Artillery (when I find them)
ACW from any number of manufacturers
Sci Fi roleplaying figures
Finish off the DBA sized Viking army
Another, larger Viking army from Two Dragons
Mongols
Chinese -only as support troops for the Mongols, not enough for an independent army.

And that's without checking!

[Ithoriel]

I have a small house for my hobby. Sometimes I have to cook in the spray booth, guests sometimes have to sleep in the gaming room, and the paint studio is the room I often sit in.

I still don't have enough space.

Good job I live on my own!




Actually, may be why live on my own. 

^^ This!

[Techno]

Good job I live on my own!

Have the cats moved out already ? 
Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

No. They're still here, but we have very clearly delineated rules.   

I tell them what's what. 


They ignore me. 


Then do what they want.   

[Techno]

Well.

You know the old saying, Nobby.
Dogs have owners....Cats have staff. 

Cheers - Phil

[Raider4]

I have the best part of my Warmaster Dogs Of War army - all Pendraken figures - neatly based and mostly painted - this is the closest I have to anything actually being finished in any scale, period or genre - and neatly stored in a couple of Cisco networking kit boxes for protection.

Can I find these boxes? Like hell I can. I can find pretty much everything else that I know I have squirrelled away in nooks & crannies all over the house. But not these.

'Tis most vexing,

Cheers, Martyn
--

[Ace of Spades]

Untill about ten years ago I had the house to myself... Did a lot of re-enacting in those days too.
Cellar was filled with ammoboxes, camouflage nets, packing cases and other, mainly US WW-2 stuff including a 1943 Harley-Davidson in parts; the kitchen was pretty clean although cupboards contained all sorts of different period cooking utensils. Living room was basically the library with a pc and television stuffed in somewhere. Upstairs I had a small bedroom that was used for painting and building models and figures, the second bedroom was where I slept and where the 20mm tanks were stored on shelves. The master bedroom was an equivalent to your average Quartermaster store; all my uniforms, accoutrements, headgear, shoes, weapons etc. of all the different periods I re-enacted (about 10 different periods I guess...) were all neatly sorted and stored. The attic was for tents, blankets and quite a collection of plastic kits still in their boxes. It was crowded in places, but I got by.

Then I met my soon to be wife and she came to live with me with two kids and, by now, four dogs... I managed to continue to live in the house and keep all the hobby-stuff but my god was it cramped... If I wanted to 'find' some odd box of figures I would either have to do all that in a weekend or take a day or two off work! Through the years I've shifted more and more from re-enacting to wargaming and even started banning everything larger than 28mm from the house and still it's not enough even though I've managed to reconquer a part of the living room again and the cellar and attic are still mine (though not uncontested!).

With the kids getting almost old enough to move out I see some chances to reconquer more of the lost kingdom... I bide my time!

Cheers,
Rob