How Many Minis Do You Have?

How Many Minis Do You Have?



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I probably have ~200 random ones left of what was once a collection of Ral Partha, Reaper, WotC 3,x & Star Wars minis which numbered in the 1000's most likely. I ended up selling most of it, needed money, didn't use them and they were a PITA to store and organize and sometimes took forever searching for something particular. Few people I play with still buy them regularly but I just buy one or two here and there for my PCs. I prefer playing TotME these days and dont like the game to tactical where I have to meticulously count squares on a grid, I like using battle mats only for big, important encounters only.
 

Hundreds of the prepainted ones. A large collection of multiple poses and groups of like creature for gaming: goblins, giants, devils etc.

I started paying Star Wars legion minis and have lots of troops and vehicles.

It’s a second hobby with collecting bigger than painting
 

I have somewhere between 300-500 miniature sand most of them are painted. I use these for a lot of the games I play/run including D&D, Savage Worlds, Star Wars, and various others. In 2020, I took the plunge and purchased an airbrush. This model below was the very first model I ever airbrushed.

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This Cthulhu, also Reaper Bones, is one of my latest projects which I finish last month.
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This is a giant from Warhammer Age of Sigmar. No airbrush here, I bought this dude so I could practice my brushwork and skin tones.
Giant_Done.JPG
 

At present I seem to have only a dozen or so. Not sure where all the ones from my teen years went. My brother has most of what we play with in the hundreds and a few binders of cardboard ones. My son has a good collection by now with about 100.
 

I never counted, but 1000+ is the only reasonable estimate I can give, considering the starting date of my collection (sometime in 1977) and the sheer volume they occupy. I have a 6’+ tall tower of Sterlite stackable drawers full of plastic minis from a variety of makers. There’s a couple dozen grey Chessex minis boxes- as I recall, 6 at least for Chainmail minis alone. Then there’s a few tubs full in the attic.

And I’m not counting the Dwarven Forge and other support/setting stuff.
 

I har a hundred or so, but none are for RPGing. I''ve a couple sets of original Epic Scale Warhammer games, and some space hulk, bloodbowl, and necromunda ones that came in the boxes,

I far prefer pogs or cubes or meeples for RPG use.
 

I don't know. When I got back into the game I bought a bunch of minis, starting with WizKids prepainted bricks, discount bins at my FLGS, and a Bones Kickstarter. I had good intentions for painting, but didn't have the time to paint more than a few. Then COVID and a new job and travel made me to an online game. So I have hundreds of minis stuffed on shelves and in closets, many of which have not even been unpacked.

But more than minis, I had bought a Silhouette paper cutter and a bunch of slotted bases and created whole armies of color-printed, card stock 2d minis, and backed a kickstarter for plastic 2d minis and slotted based. If I count those, well over two thousand. All packed away for some future date...
 

Speaking of cardstock minis, does anyone have any recommendations for where to get them in bulk? I have a bunch of M&M cardstock minis which is starting to loom large in my what am I running queue.
 

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