"Have you ever...." Topic

This post (and recent poll)
TMP link led me to realize I have on at least a few occasions purchased miniatures that I've "intended to purchase for some time." Only to realize (sometimes much later) that I already had purchased them.

Just for the sake of clarity, I am not referring to situations where an existing unit is being expanded. Rather I am referring to situations where, for one reason or another, you only want a certain number of models and you purchase more than you need because you forgot you already owned and for whatever reason do not want more of (for example unique personality figures).

For example lets suppose I want to do a wild west skirmish game, where all figures are unique. I start the project and think, "wow Foundry's Old West Range is fantastic. Once I get done these figures I already have I want to pick up pack OW1/1." A week later I purchase them. Life and gaming being what they are, the wild west game gets pushed aside as some other project suddenly seems more interesting. When they arrive in the mail, they are quickly put into the portion of the unpainted pile reserved for things that are low on the list of priorities.

Years go by and I see Foundry's OW1/1 on sale on eBay. I buy them and suddenly remember how I was so looking forward to the wild west before sci-fi gnomes suddenly seemed more fascinating. I decide to restart the project, and find that I already own Foundry OW1/1. They figures are personality figures, and have a very unique look, so I cannot use them as filler in a unit. So I decide to put them up on eBay and/or trade them.

Still similar situations could occur because a given set of rules only allow X number of Y model, or 1 unit of Prince Archibald-Rupert Hexen-Sechtsen's Very Own Imperial Coldstream Irish Highland Mounted Fusiliers (maybe because only one unit existed in reality…) etc.

As one project forces another to the sidelines I imagine we all forget we own certain things, although I would hope most people are not so forgetful as I.

Still, I wonder, have you ever purchased miniatures because you forgot you already had them?

Yep.

Nope

Conversely I have certainly had the experience of wanting to buy minis, waiting and then discovering that they were no longer being manufactured

Yes.

nope I only buy minis as I need something to paint or play a game with. Shortage of gaming money will do that to you.

Lots of times.

I'm old.

I forget everything.

Yup. When I go making a new purchase now I have to go through the old figs to make sure I don't have the stuff already.

Rarely but it has happened a few rimes since the 1970s.

"… Conversely I have certainly had the experience of wanting to buy minis, waiting and then discovering that they were no longer being manufactured…"

Way too often between 1970s and 1990. No longer let that happen.

Havent had that issue – yet

The bigger issue I have is seeing a new line and purchasing the figures before I have a set of rules – consequently having to go back and try and find the extras I need or add to the lead pile – those I dont need…

Yes, but rarely. I try to keep good records.
Grelber

Yep – books too – especially if they give them new covers!

Mostly books…a few figures

Yes, and Ospreys too.

I have 3 VHS copies of The Wind and the Lion.

On a wargaming note I bought several packs of Orc Pirates. Each time I saw painted samples and thought I needed them. When I got the second batch home I went to put them away in the "I'll get to this real soon" box and right there was the first batch.

Nope….

I called three different FLGS just this past Friday desperately looking for a figure. Nobody had it. Except me. It was sitting in my "Pending" box.

Yes, bought 2 regiments of Foundry Austrian Cuirassiers, some time ago. Then bought 2 more last year.
Try and find many battles with more than 2 Austrian Regiments of Cuirassiers.

No, but have headed to beach vacations with detective novels purchased in the airport that seemed mighty familiar by page 50 or so.

Nope. I don't usually have a large leadpile in which things could be forgotten. I have one now because of a hiatus during moving and I don't like it.

More books than figs, lotsa books.