"How do YOU decide to part with a project?" Topic

By that I mean, when you find you are mired in tons of books, figures and terrain that will never be touched.

Me? I can choose the price easily enough. I sell it here for half price. If it is an old set of rules, the price is usually set at about $5 USD-$8…depending on what it is.

What to get rid of is sometimes perplexing. Some things are easy. Others? Not so much.

How about you?

How do you decide what to get rid of?

How do you decide the price?

Hmmm, just what is this parting with a project of which you speak???

You can. . . sell . . . unpainted miniatures and books? Oh, the horror!

I drop a project when my interest and motivation is low enough to begin approaching non existent. This happened to me with 15mm WW2. I bought about a company of infantry and about a platoon of armor and guns for two teams and sat down to work. A few days in I realized I didn't like them, so they are sitting in a box waiting for the HAVOC flea market. I switched to 28 mm and haven't had that problem yet.

This also happened with my SAGA Normans. I only play maybe once a month if that, but still bought an extra team. Haven't touched them as I'm not interested in another team for a game I barely play.

Quitting in the face of adversity has never been my thing. I find buying a house with a bigger garage or basement solves my problems

I usually only part with a project through the facilities of fate. I did sell most of my gaming stuff once some twenty five years ago due to a radical life change.
I handed my D&D stuff off to my son. But he lives with us so that's not really getting rid of it.
I recently gave a friend my micro scale Arab-Israeli war stuff. But that was because I can't see such small stuff well enough anymore. And because he'd done me a good turn.
I don't tend to start a project unless I'm really interested in the subject and have been for some time.

I gave away all my 15mm stuff for the same reason as Rrobbyrobot. With 28mm I usually don't acquire to much before I decide whether I want to get rid of it.
Books tend to go to the library

When I really want to play a period I haven't touched in years I sell it off. Invariably someone will move into the area for whom it is the bees knees and I'll waste my budget buying and painting the force for a second time.

I had sold off French and Austrian Napoleonic armies, A large AWI collection,Russians and Prussians for the SYW, F&I war figures, as well as my Plains Indians war collections. At the time I was unemployed and needed the money to pay bills……Never again.
Now I am rebuilding, starting with my AWI and some Peninsular British.
I have given things away when I found a lack of interest, and I gladly pass things on to others if they can use it.
So for me it was more financial than lack of interest.
On the plus side, I am now rebuilding my collections using the best figures available :)

Lack of opponents is the biggest project killer.
I will keep some models that can cross over and sell the rest for half price or less normally on E-bay.

I'm with Texas Jack.

Get rid of a project? You mean sell it? Toss it out? What an odd question!

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Get rid of a project? Huh?

The only time I have got rid of a project was when some scumbag stole it from me…

I like the concept of a bigger house, but I had to sell my houses to move back to my parents when under threat of losing employment..

And in the UK, you struggle to put up a garden shed without planning permission in triplicate from your liege-lord and the local magistracy.

I tend to get rid of projects that sit for years without sparking an interest. I thought I would like to paint 28mm Napoleonic but after 18 years of them still in the box they were shipped to me in, I sold them.

I also found that I get sucked into the hype of a project at times. Sometimes for only one side, then the group dissolves and I am stuck with have of a set up. So those get sold off.

I like WW2 as a period to game the most. I grew up on the old war movies. I sold off my 28mm collection because I already had 20mm and 60mm armies.

Space can be a problem at times, so that can motivate me to sell. Again, it would be stuff that I know I will never get to. Plains Indian wars is the next one on my chopping block.

I've been going through a major clean out; stuff I know I will never paint and game with, as well as painted stuff that has been sitting in boxes for decades. I'm in the process of selling off a collection that has probably only been on the table once in the last thirty years.

Usually if I've had no interest in the project for several years or so, i get rid of it.

I'm about to sell off my 28mm Iraqis for just that reason.

I get rid of projects based pretty much on aesthetics. I have been painting and modeling for about 30 years. I could not stand looking at something I painted 30 years ago, so I sell a lot of old projects, and repaint new stuff. The better I get, the less satisfied I am with my old stuff, so sell it and start anew.

Never happened yet…

I have done it some over the years. It use to be just because of lack of interest from the group I play with. Solo wargaming is not as much fun. Of late I have sold things off for the money.

I'm honest enough to know that a project has petered out and I won't go back. So I sell.

Frankly if for some reason it reawakened I'd just buy the stuff again.

But very little of my collection has just one use besides the figures. So a dead end project rarely takes up much space.

Oh and I just donated 62 file boxes of books – so I am now pretty much all e-book at this point anyway.

I have arrived at the decision to get rid of 10-12mm WW2,AWI and Mexican War figures. Also, rules sets and other books as well. I know that I won't be playing them any more so why not get rid of them to free up space and hopefully get a little money as well.

If I don't play with it for two years, it goes on probation. If I can't be bothered for another year, I'm clearly not interested and out it goes..

I get rid of projects based pretty much on aesthetics. I have been painting and modeling for about 30 years. I could not stand looking at something I painted 30 years ago, so I sell a lot of old projects, and repaint new stuff. The better I get, the less satisfied I am with my old stuff, so sell it and start anew.

I get that. I also have a certain amount of nostalgia attached to some of my collection. I still have my minifigs Napoleonic army I started when I was 12…perhaps 1977-1978 and built upon until the end of high school. It is a decent block paint job and I went back and fixed the color choices about 7 years ago but it is otherwise the same painting style. I can't get rid of that!

I have not played a D&D game in over 20 years. I painted up some dwarves early this year and then bought a dungeon last month. I planning a game for sometime later this year.

I did sell off my 1/72 plastic ACW armies about a year ago and turned the cash into metal 20mm ACW armies.

I've never had to sell a project for the money, but it's often space which is an issue. Particularly when you have games you haven't played in years. If you have the room to store your things for that "someday" you will come around to playing it again, then great! I have come to appreciate that while I love painting and wargaming, it is an exercise in futility to paint and collect everything under the sun, when many timesbI have painted figures which went straight into its storage box, used in a game only once, if ever.

I am seriously considering a minimalst approach to the hobby, and paring down to only five key games/periods. Individually mounted figures (28mm) or basing which can be used in more than one game is what I'm pusuing now.

I've found some plastic storage bins (made for scrap booking) that hold between 100-150 based 1/72 figures. Keeps them safe, clean and stack and store nicely in a fairly small foot print.

I guess that means I will never dump a force I've generated. Hope the Mrs doesn't see this…. :-)

We don't have to stand for this sort of dirty talk, you know!

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Why hasn't my net-nanny filtered out this smut?!