"Are you sentimental?" Topic

I recently had to admit that my favorite detail brush had outlived its usefulness. When I threw it away, it felt like I was putting Old Yeller down.

I was wondering if members of the TMP community ever developed inordinate emotional attachments to

1) a favorite brush
2) a favorite mini
3) a favorite unit
4) lucky dice
5) some other piece of gamine paraphanalia
6) some non-gaming related item you nonetheless associate with your games or with painting

3

3

No

3 & 4

Nope. Stuff is stuff.

Slightly mental would be more accurate.

Not about objects.

1: Not so much…

2-6 YES…

I still miss some of the minis I had to shed while moving years back. But the metal's gone back to the place it originally came from,back to the earth.

I have favorite brushes, but they don't last long enough to get sentimental about them.

2-6…. uh, yes.

2 and 3 . Live for my mini's

3. All of my SYW 15mm French, even though they haven't seen the light of day in almost 10 years.

Definitely three.

frequently 2, sometimes 3. The other things are just tools, to be used and discarded when no longer useful. But if I painted and based it, I feel an attachment. Some, more than others.

I recently dug ot some 25mm napoleonic Minifigs I bought when I was 16 (1987) and have stripped them and am reconstituting them.

More worryingly I have found my prince august moulds and am building a regular Netherlands contingent from 1815 (converted from flank companies with a knife).

I have a load of 28mm plastics for this period but have concluded that 1) I can paint better ( not sure if this is true) and the 2) I dont care about the scale difference (actually I probably dont) 3) I am tight- I have the metal and old minis and I can melt them and recast.

My 8 year old son has been helping with the moulds and casting so I also think this counts as a non electronic "activity" in my Wife's eyes. Result?

No. I don't own a single thing, gaming-related or otherwise, that I couldn't toss out right now and never miss it.

LT

My first Airfix ACW Regiments. I got them for a Bday back in early 70s. I painted and painted and painted some more. Then I patched their clothes with different colors till they looked like my version of camoflauge.

Then I thought I outgrew them. Sentimentle? Quien sabe?

I have my favorite brush that I've been using for over three decades now. I've only replaced the bristles twice and the handle once.

I'm sentimental; but not about gaming stuff.

I too am sentimental about my old minifigs…Hopelessley outclassed by 28mm plastics, and not really compatible, but I just can't bring myself to toss them….maybe its the thought of all those days of my youth I spent painting them, when I could have been hanging around street corners or joyriding…

We definetly need to get out more

My first thought was no, I'm not sentimental about any of my gaming staff. Then I remember that I have " a lucky tape measure ", I purchased back in the mid seventies when I started gaming. It is just a plastic and metal tape measure, nothing spectacular, however I am very protective of it and keep an eye on it when gammaing so no one walks off with "my precious".

So yes I am sentimental about some of my gamming stuff.

1 no, but yes to the rest. There are many things I remember fondly and miss. Most can be replaced, but there are some things that can't.