Quote from: fred. on 04 March 2016, 05:29:37 PM

This is a really great thing to have done Jim. Doublely so as it is for charity.

Certainly the board of Hollybush House (Combat Stress in Scotland) were very happy.

I'll say 'well done' again.

You may not want the publicity, but Henry Hyde the editor of Miniature Wargames has been collecting for Combat Stress for some time (through the magazine) your total would add about 50% to the total the magazine has collected! A really generous use of your time, and a great way to turn your friend's stuff into a legacy.

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 04 March 2016, 03:31:39 PM
Over the last couple of years I have been selling a forty plus years collection belonging to my deceased best mate.

This took 14 car journeys just to move it all, dusted and cleaned the painted bits, painted the unpainted bits, built the unstarted bits, painted them, sold them at two years worth of shows, direct personal sales and eBay. All of his chums got something from the collection as a personal memento.

I raised over £10,000 for charity, heaven knows how much it cost to buy new, never mind the inflation component.

Some prices I got were 2-3 times the bare metal cost, some just a bit more, some at face value and some at less.

It's all painted now and hopefully on someone's table being pushed about.

As others have said, an amazing effort Jim, particularly when you compare it to our progress on our own lead mountains

A great contribution to worthy charities

and

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 04 March 2016, 03:31:39 PM
It's all painted now and hopefully on someone's table being pushed about.

Quote from: paulr on 04 March 2016, 07:23:16 PM

A great contribution to worthy charities

Some other charities also benefitted from the grand total raised; SSAFA for one, MacMillan Cancer for another, Diabetes Research to name another.

I also understand that the family of my chum have sold his house and have made a 'substantial donation' to the Scottish Wildlife Trust for a piece of new woodland to be created in his name.

Can we please lock  down this thread under a seal our respective "She who must be obeyed" partners cannot possibly penetrate. N.B. I'm typing this on a bit of kit that runs under GCHQ Protocols so I can risk saying it. I've been gaming for nearly 50 years and have never parted with anything I bought and painted in that time. My son also had a spell of GW 40 K and Epic so we've got loads of that. (Squats anyone?) Or Tallarn with "spice blue" eyes.

As for books, well my Access database says there's over 1600 of them. Many are paperbacks but many not so figure £5 a volume on average. You can do the math, I'm tired and emotional.

I am not even getting into this debate. 

Remember I have convinced Mrs Orcs that figures are "Thruppence" a pack. so I do not want to undo all my good work.

Whlie I won't mention cost , I have a Den with built in cupboard and my very own loft to store stuff.  Yes both are pretty full,

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 05 March 2016, 08:38:10 AM
I am not even getting into this debate. 

Remember I have convinced Mrs Orcs that figures are "Thruppence" a pack. so I do not want to undo all my good work.

Whlie I won't mention cost , I have a Den with built in cupboard and my very own loft to store stuff.  Yes both are pretty full,

I use the entire house 

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ow!

No ... ow!

I'll be OK ... but OW! OW! OwwwWWWwwww!

I've just added up my Pendraken purchases. £4,691 since 22/07/12. 

Add in another £201 for 1:600 aircraft, £180 for 1:600 ships, plus about £250 on scenery, ?? on paints & brushes, about £160 on storage boxes, oh and there's the pittance at Doms Decals and £679 on Amazon on war/wargames related items ... but there's those unaccounted trip to Waterstones ...

That's about £6,500 in less than four years! 

To be fair, 2012 that was a Year 0 with me starting again from scratch. Getting rid of everything when I found the one true scale. Let's ignore the costs of that, and all those books I've bought since the 1970s.



I'm going to a darkened room to lie down.

Lightweight!

I'm not even going to look into this one.

The way I justify the expense of converting everything to 10mm is, that since retiring, I no longer need clothes.

 

Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 March 2016, 11:10:12 AM

I'm not even going to look into this one.

It's cheaper than playing golf.

Thought that you could only play 1 round, after that you died of the utter tedium involved. Gofff is lmost as bad a teniiis or darts.

IanS

When shipping my wargames stuff to NZ last year I insured it separately for £25,000 this was based on replacement cost as painted & based etc.

I have since found out that contents insurance here counts it all as one collection limited to a max payout of $2000, so I have taken out separate insurance which includes theft/damage at club days, car parks etc

cheers
Ian