"How much unpainted lead do you have?" Topic

How much weight in unpainted metal miniatures (a.k.a. 'lead') do you have on hand?

a. I'm lead-free at the moment.
b. not much, below 1 lb.
b. 1 lb. to 5 lbs. (a shoe box)
c. 5 lbs. to 9.9 lbs. (two or three shoe boxes)
d. 10 lbs. to 19.9 lbs. (several shoe boxes)
d. 20 lbs. to 29.9 lbs. (a stack of shoe boxes)
e. 30 lbs. or above

one of the d's, maybe an e. I don't like to think about it.

c or d but I'm not going to check just in case.

Less than I did before.
Can't afford frivolous "shiny" spending anymore and am culling the pile.

There is still enough that I wouldn't want to go swimming with it any more.

Not nearly enough. I'll go work on that…

Yeah, I'm in the d to maybe e range. I'm working on it! That's my goal for this year – paint more than I buy. So far, it's working, but it's only Janua – oooooo, shiny!

Too much.

Best guess, c.
However that does not include plastic and resin.

Including those, it would be the first d.

You do realize some of our wives read these pages, don't you?

B.

I'm pretty good at finishing my projects, so most of what I have is just odds and ends.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

e

Enough to see me to my grave

B

Z

C

In metric or long tons?

E Plus

Probably in the "C" or maybe "D" range… Likely more "D" than not

Most periods have case E+ for weight….. Ancients, Medieval, WSS, Napoleonic, ACW, Naval, WWII. Hundredweight may be a better measuring unit of measure, especially for total weight.

House cannot blow away in windstorm… too heavy as commented by friends.

D1 – I have more than I can ever get painted and yet I can't stop buying more…

I have a problem…

If I put everything from all the unfinished projects, "don't those look neat" purchases, and all different scales – e without a doubt.

Enough

D

Easily E. I bet I have more than 30 lbs of just unpainted Games Workshop stuff.

I have at least 8 lbs of unpainted Foundry Macedonians alone.

Waaaaaaaay too much…. I don't like to think about it…. Nor do I let my girlfriend know about it….

E:since buying a "fixer upper" house, almost 3 years ago now, all my painting has been done with a 9 inch roller and 1 1/4 inch cut in brush. Since then I've received two unpainted piles from other collectors, my late father and a coworkers husband. I've got unpainted lead from early Julie Guthrie Fantasy to newer 28mm scifi that I haven't quite figured out who made them. There's at least 4 "paper" boxes (standard 5000 sheet office type boxes) full of blisters and boxes of minis, not including what I already had before the additions. Hell, the war elephant alone is probably close to 10 lbs.

A little less than a pound of lead. Plastic that is another story my plastic outweighs my lead by several times. It would be equivilent to D or E in volume.

E++

Not much, I am generally fairly organised about what I buy and paint. Probably b by weight, but by volume more like several shoe boxes as much of it is plastic.

D – maybe E but since I took "the pledge" and bought no minis last year the pile has shrunk

c – and thanks for reminding me, hid them away so werent in my face all the time :(

E not including plastics

More than you can imagine!

B I pretty much only buy what I will paint right away.

Feels like too much. Couldn't tell you the weight, but it amounts to about to a couple of hundred 28mm figures.

Probaly E in just Front Rank never mind the rest…..

E though it's mostly pewter, plastic and resin as opposed to lead these days.

B;hopefully enough to keep me alive a bit longer. ;^)

E+

The second D.
It is that much due primarily to 15mm Naps. I already have about 6000 painted Naps.

Tom

D(2) , but mine ain't shoe boxes, they are stackable plastic things from the DIY store.

E+. Including the crapload of Dust mini's I got from FFG big sale.

Which period? If you mean all I have then let's just say I wouldn't need to get a gym membership as I would have plenty to lift so easily E. Albeit in the past couple years I have been getting a little better in snap buys, but still plenty of room for improvement.

Christopher

E+

F+

LT

E+, especially in old Citadel minis I can't seem to bear to part with.

It occurred to me the other day that I don't consider "non-tabletop ready" plastics as part of Lead Mountain. They are just "bits". I am a metal minis elitist!

e^e

I have to admit I'm in the 'heavy metal' category, and I am not referring to musical tastes.

e