Black Cavalier | 22 Jan 2016 11:48 a.m. PST |
I'm sure we all have "someday" projects gather dust in the corners of our wargaming collections. What is the oldest that you have? I think mine is 10 years old. I was inspired by the Too Fat Lardies WW2 East African supplement for I Ain't Been Shot Mum. I rushed out to buy all the figures I could possibly need for the 23 scenarios, including all the random reinforcement options. & I even Tom Sawyered some of my friends into painting about half of the ~800 figures necessary to do all possibly options. Luckily I'd decided to try to be as economical as possible, so this was all in 6mm. But once I got the figures back that they painted, I put them in a box that they've stayed in for now almost 10 years. I never painted any of the other figures. And haven't tried basing any of the figures they painted for me. Excuse me while I go apologize to my friends again. |
Pictors Studio | 22 Jan 2016 11:59 a.m. PST |
Mine is my Ultramarines. I started them when I got into 40K and then got absorbed into the Tyranid hive mind before being permanently seduced to the Ruinous Powers. They are more than 20 years old now, as a mater of fact they will be coming up on their 21st birthday this summer. They will be old enough to consume alcohol legally in the United States of America. |
Tommy20 | 22 Jan 2016 12:00 p.m. PST |
I'm still sporadically collecting figures for an Operation Sealion: 1889 game I've been planning off and on since Soldier's Companion was released in, what, 1990? So, roughly 26 years. |
pogoame | 22 Jan 2016 12:05 p.m. PST |
1974, 60 Hastatie from Minifigs bought for WRG 4th edition still waiting to get finished, have moved house twice already If I wait a little longer, maybe they will be worth something as antiek ? Alex |
Winston Smith | 22 Jan 2016 12:32 p.m. PST |
25/28mm Jacobite Highlanders. That's bad enough but I also have the redcoats to do. These days back to the previous century. I did have 15mm resin triremes at least 30 years old, but a friend got tired of hearing me saying "One day…" And bought them off me. We played with them a month later. |
GarrisonMiniatures | 22 Jan 2016 12:33 p.m. PST |
Got 30 'S' Range Assyrian spearmen in about 1970 -1971, currently painting up some chariots for that army now… though to be fair it's only a couple of years since I was able to start getting the figures to do it. |
rmaker | 22 Jan 2016 12:35 p.m. PST |
Nearly 50 years old. Some half-done Minifigs (I think) medievals. |
Tgerritsen | 22 Jan 2016 12:42 p.m. PST |
I bought a box of Warhammer goblins in plastic in 1985. I still have them unpainted (though I did use some of the extra shields!). |
mad monkey 1 | 22 Jan 2016 12:44 p.m. PST |
15mm samurai. About 15 years old now. |
imdone | 22 Jan 2016 12:53 p.m. PST |
I don't want to talk about it |
Saber6 | 22 Jan 2016 12:57 p.m. PST |
I have a couple from the mid 90's. There is enough to run games, but not "Complete". Getting ready for another cull this spring |
53Punisher | 22 Jan 2016 1:01 p.m. PST |
Well over 20 years now, a Space Wolves and Grey Knights project has sat patiently waiting for me. |
cfielitz | 22 Jan 2016 1:38 p.m. PST |
I would say that nothing I do is really complete, but the project that has never gotten to the "play-a-game" stage would be 28mm zombies. Some figures are painted, but most are either primed at most, or still in the packaging. |
Rick Priestley | 22 Jan 2016 2:06 p.m. PST |
You mean to tell me it's possible to finish..! Rats… I've been doing it wrong all these years! |
TMPWargamerabbit | 22 Jan 2016 2:13 p.m. PST |
Does a old Vauban fortress generic model finally completed last year count if started back in 1989? Otherwise just fall back on painting the napoleonic 25/28mm collection… since 1975…. still painting with several thousands left to paint. But 22,300 have been completed…. its a start. ;-)) |
Green Tiger | 22 Jan 2016 2:27 p.m. PST |
I'm with Rick Priestley… None of my projects are really finished and they go back over 40 years in some cases… |
tmason | 22 Jan 2016 2:30 p.m. PST |
a box of 25mm samurai from 1984 are the oldest (metal) figures I know I still have unpainted, if you don't count thousands of 20mm plastics that must go back to the mid-70s. But I'm with Rick and others, what is this "finished" term you use? |
vdal1812 | 22 Jan 2016 2:37 p.m. PST |
1984. Prussians for the Napoleonic Wars purchased from RAFM. They were the old 15mm figures that Ral Partha used to produce. Still waiting to be painted and they never will be. |
arngrimson | 22 Jan 2016 2:57 p.m. PST |
37?years 15mm originally TTG's (now 15mm.co.uk) laserburn/Imperal Commander about 200+ figures. |
Rich Bliss | 22 Jan 2016 2:57 p.m. PST |
Pavia. Started before my son was born. He turned 12 in September. Only 102 more Landskechts to go. And 60 Swiss and a few Stradiots. Curse those large units. |
McKinstry | 22 Jan 2016 3:21 p.m. PST |
My 1/2400, 1/3000 and 1/6000 fleets are in a perpetual state of construction and revision and have been since the middle 80's. Technically my 15mm colonials have been under construction since the middle 70's. |
zippyfusenet | 22 Jan 2016 3:21 p.m. PST |
500 nations, in 25mm scale. Started about 1986. One little, two little, three little Indians… |
Micman | 22 Jan 2016 5:08 p.m. PST |
Well my oldest would be Star Fleet Battles ships. I started collecting them in 78. They are off getting finished by a friend. After that my minifig 15mm ACW. They are purchased over a period of time in the early 80's. I have some Iron Brigade and dismounted Virginia Cavalry left to finish someday. |
Razor78 | 22 Jan 2016 6:22 p.m. PST |
My very first figures!! In 1982 I was living in Dayton Ohio and only played boardgames. Then I walked into the Tin Soldier and they were playing The Sword and the Flame, and they let me join in. I was immediately hooked and bought a bunch of Zulus and Brits. Painted the Brits but never painted the Zulus. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 22 Jan 2016 6:25 p.m. PST |
Kriegspieler Napoleonettes,partially painted since 1975! |
20thmaine | 22 Jan 2016 6:43 p.m. PST |
I'm not saying. |
Mute Bystander | 22 Jan 2016 7:03 p.m. PST |
Jack Scruby medieval figures for TSRs Chainmail rules. Worst looking figures ever. |
gamertom | 22 Jan 2016 8:25 p.m. PST |
Minifig 25 mm Napoleonic Brunswick figures for the Peninsula. Bought from a hobby shop in DC around 1975 or 1976. Found the only difference between them and the 1815 figures was the backpacks had wavy lines on them indicating the hair had not been removed from the hide (I guess). They are still sitting in their little cardboard boxes with most of them wrapped in the tissue paper that was in the box. I'd have to find them and open one to see how many figures were in a box, but I bought it to meet the Column, Line, Square 1/20 full strength unit so popular when I started into miniature wargaming. I started with Brunswickers because, in my naive 20's, I thought i could just spray paint them black and paint the faces and trim and them be done with them. If I had only known what it woudl lead to… |
GarrisonMiniatures | 23 Jan 2016 4:31 a.m. PST |
I've always struggled with black uniforms – never look right. |
waaslandwarrior | 23 Jan 2016 5:40 a.m. PST |
Foundry's SYW range. I jumped in when they started releasing them, around 20 years ago I guess. 80 foot and 10 mounted got painted. The other few hunderds of figs are still in the shelves. Through the years I also bought a SYW Autrian army (Crusader Mins). I painted 20 figs, but have round 3 to 400 more waiting for a lick of paint. Some day… |
Martin Rapier | 23 Jan 2016 6:00 a.m. PST |
As noted above, some periods are never 'finished', I've been adding to my WW2 collection for 40+ years now. However, it we accept the premise of a defined wargaming project (and much of my stuff falls into that category – enough stuff to do any conceivable battle of the period at a level I'm interested), then probably my 1/6000th scale naval stuff. Had them for ten years, but I just can't face filing off the horrible cast on bases on the destroyer, nor can I live with them staying on, so they languish unloved in their box, while more exciting and easier projects come and go. I am generally pretty task oriented, so don't have a lot of half done projects and that one annoys me. |
Roderick Robertson | 23 Jan 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
I still have some unpainted Ral Partha Colonials from back when they were $4 USD for a pack of 10. I have a 3/4 built paddle-wheel steamer that dates back three houses ago… Something like 30 years. |
Jeff Caruso | 24 Jan 2016 1:31 p.m. PST |
Scruby Carthaginians from the 60's along with Greek Hoplites. Painted one elephant which I regret having sold in the 80's. |
Mooseworks8 | 26 Jan 2016 7:46 p.m. PST |
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piper909 | 27 Jan 2016 8:00 p.m. PST |
The Greek-Persian Wars; started buying figures for this in the 70s, have complete armies (in the hundreds of figures, possibly near 2000) since the 90s, but have yet to organize or paint anything beyond a few token hoplites. That's my oldest, but I have others that are almost as embarrassing. |
Old Contemptibles | 28 Jan 2016 10:26 a.m. PST |
1914-15 WWI Western Front. I keep starting and stopping, changing rules and scales. On about ten years now. Napoleonics, which I do play a lot and I don't really need any figs as everyone here has all we need. But I want my own project and just can't find the right rules. Very frustrating! It's been about twelve years now. |