OK, prepare for an onslaught of imagery...
I have a problem doing things by halves, so... here goes.
This is the view of my room in the basement. There's some more stuff in there now than I'd like, but we're currently redecorating parts of the house so a lot of stuff ended up here. The only out of place thing that is actually put there by me is the exercise bike. I spend 3-4 evenings on it, doing 30 minutes of rather sweaty things. Oh well... in the two cabinets straight ahead, my entire gaming collection is collecting dust. The four upper parts are reserved for scenery. Next row, from the left is old GW books, rules, white dwarf etc in two units. The other two units hold WIP and completed models. More on that later. Then there's a row of boardgames, followed by two units of more boradgames and finally, two units containing my lead pile. Next to that is my painting table, which is currently a lot more messy than I'd like. Also, I've been cleaning that corner out to put up a few shelves. All in due time, dear...
To the right, just outside of the frame of the last photo you can see this. It's my cigar collection. To the left is my humidor, containing the "back log" to smoke. To the right is my storage "plastidor" where I keep boxes of cigars for maturing. A lot of good stuff there! Crown of my collection are a few cubans from the 70s! Otherwise, I'm not collecting high profile (or high value) smokes, I collect what I enjoy smoking. Utilitarian, like. Mostly cuban, with a smattering of dominicans.
Never mind the plant parts... This is what you're here for. My workbench as it looks now. The painted manticore in the foreground is a model I bought ages ago, painted. I just got around to rebase it. Spread around the table are various ongoing projects: a bunch of things for the "I've never" club, in the middle an ongoing commission dwarf and a few space lizards.
Close-up of the dwarf.
Here's the cupboard of unfinished things (except for the scifi stuff to the bottom left). This is what I'm going to work on (mainly) this year.
Here's the painted stuff on display. Most of it painted by me, some of it painted by others. A few, not painted at all... they're there to spur me on to actually get them painted.
So, onto the lead mountain then... Starting in the bottom right cupboard unit, there's a large tub of monopose plastics.
In the same cupboard, my favourit box. There's so much good stuff in here! It's my Metal Magic Fantasy collection. I have it fairly well organized, as you can tell. In addition I have checklists on the computer, of course. =) This box weighs quite a bit.
Apart from these two large boxes, there's also a cardboard box of Reaper Bones I forgot to take photos of and a few foam lined cardboard storage boxes for unpainted but primed and based lead. Currently inhabited by a regiment of Red Redemptionists and Grom's Goblin Guard (v1, pre-slotta).
Alright, this is my scifi stuff. In the centre, an allsorts pile. Organized by purpose. Mostly Citadel, but a bunch of Metal Magic Spacelords too... and a few other tidbits. In bags, there are two squads of 90s imperial guards (valhallan and tallarn + heavy weapons), a few warbands of Spacelords, a squad of metal Squats and a space adventurer fellow with retinue. Also, a large box of robotics from Oathsworn + Mega Miniatures.
Now we're talking! Greenskins to the left. The whole box, actually. Organized after the 1988 catalogue. Each compartment corresponds to a page. Lots of greenskins, but not a single duplicate. =) To the right is my fantasy mix box... mostly goody two shoes types of characters, with a complete set of C10 half orcs and an almost complete set of Talisman models. Pretty sure that swashbuckler is a recast... :/ This box used to be more stuffed, but as it contains mostly random citizens, warrior types and so on I culled it a bit as I have those bases covered (and then some) by Metal Magic minis...
Two smaller boxes, one with the recent plastic chaos cultists from the 40k box. The other, with early space orks.
Another rather heavy box... Bottom layer (to the left) is mostly Citadel ROC stuff. There's one tub of demons, one tub of beastmen and skave, one tub of warriors, one tub of foul critters, one tub of big guys (trolls, ogres, minotaurs) and a final brimming tub of Bob Olley mix from various manufacturers. Top layer (to the right) is even more mixed. A few ROR, a tub of mixed undead, a few war machines and a big bag of Grenadier barbarians and more.
Final shot, couldn't be arsed pulling these out too... They're mostly Blood Bowl (2nd edition) Each brown box containing two teams (unpainted), the blue and black boxes below contain one team each and there are six of them. In the front a plastic Cthulhu propping up a small box of painted monopose plastics. On top of that, in the striped boxes, Star Wars Miniatures (prepainted plastics) and a box of "random crap".
I haven't covered everything, but with a quick photo session and a rather lengthy documenting session I have at least shared a small part of my life with you guys. =)
of course, I am envious of your space and goodies.
