Rationalising

 

Not managed to paint or assemble anything in this last week.  Made a start on painting some Space 1889 Martians for a friend but only got the flesh done.

I spent some time trying to work out how to fit all the WW2 stuff I am currently basing and the associated vehicles in the storage space I have for painted figures and realised that I needed more space and even then where will the Marlburians, AWI and Epic TYW go when I have them done?  Painted stuff takes up so much more space than neatly packed away bags of figures that fit into drawers and small boxes.

So, I finally made a tough decision and decided to sell my GW LOTR collection.  I started collecting the figures in 2002 when they came out and have amassed quite a few for playing Kings of War now - mostly picked up second hand at Bring and Buys when the figures dropped out of fashion before The Hobbit films with a few purchases on Ebay and a number painted up from new when I first started (and GW prices were merely eye watering rather than eye-gouging).

Sadly, my main opponent for KoW and LOTR at the club, Pat, died last March and I haven't played a game since.  There doesn't seem to be a lot of interest amongst the rest of Guildford to play anything bigger than Lion Rampant or particularly play fantasy.

I have come to the conclusion that it is more sensible to concentrate on Frostgrave for my Fantasy itch as it requires far fewer figures, gives me an excuse to get the Reaper bones figures I have painted up and I have already made a lot of scenery for it.

The LOTR take up 12 boxes, so quite a lot of space on the shelves - maybe 500-600 figures I thought.

Having photographed them all and listed them on Facebook there are 908!  which includes counting mounted, trolls, etc as 1 figure (I have 32 Warg Riders! and lots of Rohan, etc).  

It may have got out of hand  (is 170 goblins too many?).

Anyway, sales are starting to come through - I've sold 73 figures so far and cleared a fair amount of money already with some other pending sales and I managed to clear out two bisley cabinet drawers of 20mm ACW and move them into 2 of  the empty boxes which frees up the drawers for French WW2 vehicles.

What doesn't sell on Facebook after a few weeks will go on ebay priced for a fairly quick sale and hopefully most of it will be gone by the end of Feb.