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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9766152" data-attributes="member: 11">As I have undoubtedly said before, I am definitely a "table-ready" guy and the goal I am trying to hit when painting minis is, looks decent when in use on the table. I have painted a ton of minis with this ethos, starting in 2020 (but I already had a collection of a couple of hundred mostly unpainted minis that I started in the 90s). I still buy minis fairly regularly, but generally what I have a coming need for. For example, despite having a full case of just goblins, I realized I have basically no warg riders, so I will be hunting for some (there is an old ral partha set I used to have I'd ideally love to have again - but these days I mostly buy on Etsy). So that couple of hundred is now over 1000. Yeah, efficient storage is an issue.I am the same way about terrain. It only needs to look good on the table. I prefer function over form and try to use as much recycled packaging and the like as possible (though I have bought a substantial amount of XPS foam in the last 4 years). I am currently in the midst of what I have dubbed #scapfest2025, where rather than buying or acquiring more crafting materials, I have to find uses for what I do have in making stuff.This is because space is getting to be an issue. In addition to several hard cases of minis, I have several display cases for easy access, two big mini storage travel bags, a lamp with shelves, and a few other boxes of minis, and more terrain/scenery stuff than I can easily enumerate, much of it in and atop a three-drawer dresser in the game room, but also in plastic containers under tables, in a back corner of the basement by the sump pump and water heater, propped up atop a metal cabinet full of board games.I have built several "one-time" use pieces that are too big to keep storing efficiently and too specific to use more than a couple of times with the same folks - that I still find hard to part with.And I have a ton of junk I've collected that has looked cool and kept around for future possible use. I try to purge that stuff regularly, but it can get overwhelming.  I have never had a pile of shame when it comes to minis once I decided to paint, because I tend to paint whatever I get right away.  But when it comes to collecting foam packaging, boxes and other cardboard, spools, poopbag cardboard cores, pipecleaners, coffee cans, etc. . . I have more than I will ever reasonably use to build and am working to only keep something when I have a specific and immediate use for it and pushing myself to build modular generic things rather than big specific things.I am addressing some storage issue by redoing my game room (there is one wall that is more like a plywood divider put up by a previous owner that is warped and useless) to make one wall into shelves/cubes for storing my gaming stuff.I am not ready to get rid of stuff yet, but my hope is that when that time comes I will find other gamers to pass at least some of it on to - like donating my scatter terrain grassy hills to the local game shop to use on their wargaming tables.  But what I'd really love, while I am still actively making this stuff, is to find folks to swap with and give things to now. Unfortunately, while my home group appreciates all this stuff, none of them run games or have the hobby crafting bug.</blockquote>

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