Quote from: robert on 29 February 2012, 09:32:22 PM
My wife has noticed the growing mountain of toys waiting to be painted and has come up with the ultimate in motivation - you can buy some more WHEN you have finished that lot!  They are in a corner in the den and she is quite capable of inspecting them!

Presumably you explained that a wargamer's lead mountain is a fountain of youth, and that we only actually die when we've painted our last figure and the lead mountain is gone?

Buying more unpainted lead (and plastic) is vital for our long-term health...



My wife tends to be very tolerant (bless 'er) of the teetering masses groaning off the shelves in our spare room...not to mention to tower of box files containing the finished articles...WHY is the box you want always at the bottom of the pile?

Luddite

So true. So true.

Chad

Have you all noticed as well that when you go looking for something, you tend to uncover a bag containing a whole unpainted army that you forgot you'd bought?

Quote from: Luddite on 01 March 2012, 10:50:15 AM
Have you all noticed as well that when you go looking for something, you tend to uncover a bag containing a whole unpainted army that you forgot you'd bought?

Yup

Had a weeks leave this week and decided it was hightime to do a stocktake of the wargames inventry. Found a 10mm Rolish renaissance Army which I only purchased about six months ago...

It's a nice surprise to receive though

Chad,

Well spotted, my experience was actually with the original Piquet, so I am delighted if FoB has corrected this problem. I think my psychological scarring was as much caused by my excessive expectations for Piquet, as the actual massacre! Still, I am in a happier place now, secure in TTLGB heaven, at least until Age of Valor arrives.

Mollinary

Quote from: Chad on 01 March 2012, 08:54:57 AM
Blimey Nik how do you manage that quantity in that time??



Chad

I blame it on rock n' roll decadence, good single malts, an appreciation of the finest totty - and complete & utter contempt and disregard for that over-rated commodity known as 'sleep' 

Oh - and I can paint fast too...so that helps 

Quote from: nikharwood on 01 March 2012, 07:54:51 PM
I blame it on rock n' roll decadence, good single malts, an appreciation of the finest totty - and complete & utter contempt and disregard for that over-rated commodity known as 'sleep' 

Oh - and I can paint fast too...so that helps 

It catches up on you eventually, Nik. And watch out for the RSI - seriously. 

Ray

RSI is now known as Work Related Upper Limb Disorder, so watch out for that Nik as it sounds even worse. Also a report I heard on Radio 4 this week said that too much sleep, 8 hours or more and too little sleep, less than 4 hours IIRC, leads to a shortened life expectancy.
So with all of the above, things are not looking too rosy Amigo .

Thanks for your concern compadres - but fear not...I reckon on getting around 3-4ish hours per night & have been doing this since I was about 11 - which is 30 years ago...so by some basic calculations, that's around 49,000 extra hours I've had over an average 8-hour sleeper...

49k hours = 2053 days = 5.6 years

So if I've had five extra years now, with life expectancy of about 72-80, I'll give up those ones & shuffle off this mortal coil at 67-75. And if I live longer, I don't mind.



As for the RSI / WRULD I'm really not worried...considering the years of using laptops, playing guitar, video games, shooting things, driving, bowling, batting and other assorted activities, painting 10mm figures for short periods of time is a doddle