"How many collections do you have?" Topic

I was looking at my shelves of painted armies and just jotted down the list of all my collections. This is just the period/scale for each. In general I have enough troops to run large multi-player games using just my own kit. It got me wondering: do I have more collections, fewer, or about the same as other gamers? By my count I have 21 separate collections, some larger than others. Anyway here is my list:

6mm
Napoleonics
Seven Years War
Team Yankee
WW2 (Lots)
SciFi (Lots and Lots)
American Civil War

15mm
Napoleonics (Lots)
American Civil War
Old West/Indian Wars
Dark Ages (Vikings & Saxons)
Napoleonics
Martian Empires VSF
WW2/Flames of War (Lots)'
Modern Skirmish
SciFi/Zombies/Post-Apoc

Other Scales
28mm Lord of the Rings (Lots)
28mm Dragon Rampant
28mm Chinese Fantasy
28mm Zombies Boardgame (Ancient Roman Version)
28mm Hour of Glory Boardgame with Miniatures
28mm Border Reivers (Club Build)
1/6000 WW1 Naval (Jutland, both fleets)

How about you?

15mm
Flames of War
British 8th Army
Late War British
American
Hungarian

28mm
FIW all sides
AWI British
AWI American
AWI Loyalist
AWI German
AWI French
A handful of AWI Spanish
Lots of Indians for both periods

40mm
AWI
FIW

I have one collection, it just has many armies

15mm
Union
confederate
Napoleonic French
Napoleonic Austrian
Napoleonic British
Napoleonic Spanish
Napoleonic Prussian
Napoleonic Russian
Napoleonic Dutch-Belgian
Napoleonic Brunswicker
Napoleonic Bavarian
Napoleonic Wurtemburg
FPW French
FPW Prussian
7 Weeks Austrian
SCW Nationalist
SCW Republican
WW-II German
WW-II British
WW-II American
WW-II Soviet
Cold War Soviet/Warsaw Pact
Cold War British
Cold War German (East and West)
Cold War American

Then there is the SF and Fantasy stuff

6mm
tons of risk pieces for 7 year war
WW1
WW2 (Lots)
SciFi (Lots and Lots)

10/12mm
Anciants 3 armies
Fantasy 10 armies

15mm
Colonial (lots)
WW2/Flames of War (Lots)'

28mm ACW
28mm ECW
28mm Fantasy (Lots)
28mm World war 1
28mm World war 2
28mm Pulp
28mm Cavemen
28mm Colonial (boxers/allies) Steampunk
28mm Horror Cthulhu
28mm Sci Fi 40k
28mm Superheroes
28mm Wild west

?? scale
Space (space fleet stuff)

@Saber6: That's cheating.

EC: Updated

did not list the DnD stuff either

Well let's see:

15mm
Spanish Civil War
Colonial
Border Reivers

1/72
Ancients, Romans, Celts, Egyptian and Macedonian
Medieval, Crusades & generic
Dark Age, Vikings
Orcs, lots
Lizardmen
Colonial
WW2 lots
Zombies

28mm
Fantasy
Wild West

54mm
Fantasy

1/200
Blood Red Skies

1/600
WW2 Battle of Britain, Pacific air war

An honest count? Oh, drat.
2mm
Napoleonics
ACW
WWII

5mm
Ancients*
SYW
Napoleonics
FPW
WWII
OGRE/Epic

10mm
ACW
2nd Empire

15mm
Fantasy/Medieval
SYW
1745 Jacobites*
AWI
1798 Irish
Napoleonics/War of 1812
ACW
FPW
WWII Middle East/North Africa

1/72
Wars of the Roses*
Napoleonics
WWII (1944 France)
Colonials

28mm
Late Medieval/Fantasy
Horse & Musket
SF skirmish

30mm
Napoleonics (CLS)

54mm
AWI*
Napoleonics
ACW

*Army could not be fielded in a game this weekend.

Mostly each individual army will accommodate only one or two players per side--though this requires a serious table at 30 and 54mm. I always have at least two sides.

And this mess is actually much better than it was three years ago. Footlockers full continue to depart with every flea market.

40mm
Musketeers

15mm
SYW
Rome vs Carthage
ACW
WWI
AQMF

20mm
- SCW
- BEF
- Latewar WWII

28mm
WWI Africa
Napoleonics
WSS
Zulu War
Jacobite Rebellion
AWI
FIW
Renaissance
Samurai vs Koreans
Aztecs vs Conquistadors
Game of Thrones
Barony Medieval
Hundred Years war
– French
– English
– Scots
Dark AGe
– Normans
– Vikings
– Saxons
– Irish

Fantasy – armies based around Otherworld figures
Frostgrave
Warmachine/Hordes
– Khador
– Cygnar
– Menoth
– Orboros
– Trollbloods
Gates of Antares
– Concord
– Ghar
– Freeborn
– Varai
Hydra Miniatures
Lots of Quar
Bushido – 3 factions
A number of one-off sci fi collections such as Drantakhs
28mm Alternative Armies Sci Fi
Cowboys
28mm Cavemen
GW/Sigmar Ogre, Skaven and Imperial armies

1/300
– Galleons
– Napoleonic
– Great Lakes
– Cruel Seas
1/600
– Falklands
– Yalu
– predreads
– ACW and Eurpoean Ironclads including fleets for Lissa
– Cod wars
1/700
– about 500 ships – 1880s through modern
1/1200
– WWII – Britain, Germany, France – many neverweres
– WWI Dogger Bank
– Anglo Dutch wars – 80+ ships
1/2500 Star trek – TOS through TNG
several miscellaneous starship collections
– Ravenstar Daisho and retro
– Shapeways Belters and a couple others
– stardate 3000 ships
– Monday Knight Products two factions

1/144 WWI, WWII aircraft
1/200 WWII, Modern aircraft, 6 day war, Falklands, Soccer War

28mm Roller Derby
28mm Martian skiff racing

Oh lord . . .

40mm
Three Musketeers

28mm
Hundred Years War-Lion Rampant
Hundred Years War--Cousin Kevin's Big Battle Rules
Flint and Feather
AWI
Northwest Indian Wars/War With Spain/Lewis and Clark
War of 1812
ACW
Philippine-American War
Irish Civil War
Fantasy-Orcs-Rohan-Hawkmoon
Martians and British colonials
Maxmillian in Mexico

15mm
Spanish Civil War
Fantasy-Middle Earth

1/300 Air-Malta-Cuban Missile Crisis-Falklands and zillions of loose ends

1/600
ACW Naval
WWII Coastal

1/700
Modern Coastal

1/1250
Sky Galleons of Mars

I have a headache

Lots – too many to type out.
Example, Colonial period I have 14 complete armies alone.

Sheesh… that was embarrassing

28MM War of the roses both sides
15mm War of the roses both sides
15mm Renaissance multiple contingents
15mm WW2, Germans, British, Americans and Russians Too many to count with all the vehicles
15mm Great Northern War Russian and Swedish
28mm Great Northern War all Russian
15mm SYW, Russians, French, British, Russian, Prussian, Austrian
28mm Back of Beyond / Pulp
28MM Napoleonic French
28mm WWI German and British
15mm Marlburian multiple contingents
28mm Marlburian multiple contingents
15mm Martians
15mm 100 Years war, French and English
28mm Thirty Years War multiple contingents
28mm Vikings
28mm Saxons
20mm Modern Afghanistan
28mm African Mercenaries
15mm AK47 3 armies

Terrain is not included and it's a pile of stuff for each period.

Fantasy 28mm
Ancients 20mm
Dark Ages 28mm
Medieval 28mm
ECW 15mm
Napoleonics 20mm
ACW 6mm
Cowboys 28mm
WW2 20mm
WW2 planes 1/300
SciFi 15mm

10mm Napoleonic (French, British)
15mm Ancient (assorted)
25mm old D&D figs
32mm Lord of the Rings
54mm knights (only 5)

I know, I'm just a wannabe collector. :-)

1/2400 WWI Naval – Jutland Fleets
1/2400 WWII Naval – Med and Denmark Straights
1/600 – ACW Riverine and others
1/285-300 WWII – this is really more than one collection covering Europe and the Pacific with multiple periods from 1939-1945
1/285-300 WWII Air as above
10mm Napoleonic
10mm ACW
10mm MAW
28mm F&IW
28mm AWI
28mm Napoleonic (1805 and 1812 Russians)
28mm ACW
28mm MAW
28mm War of 1812
28mm Great War

Most are huge collections to which I occasionally still add.
All have accompanying terrain, markers, miscellany.

Hmmmmmmm…

28mm
Marvel Superheroes/villains/civvies/etc.
DC Superheroes/villains/civvies/etc.
2000AD/Judge Dredd figs
Hellboy/BPRD & genre monsters
Other Superheroes/villains/civvies/etc. (Sorry, each publisher and separate universe of homemade ones do not get their own collection.)
Film Noir Pulp (including all the B&W figures)
Daring Adventurers in Strange Lands Pulp
Misc pulp (hillbillies, 50's gangs, rum runners, etc.)
Cthulu thangs
Kaiju/Ultraman & Ultramanesque Good Guys
Mechas
Steampunk & Steambots
50's Giant Movie Monsters
Modern Warlords/TCO/Terrorists
Generic Modern/Near Future National Armies
VSF
Slobovian and Jerkwadistani Imaginations
Royal Kanadian Mutant Police
Mage Knights
Fantasy Dudes and Monsters
Orcs (like, lots, so they get their own collection)
Retro SciFi
GW Space Marines (+Chaos, +Necron, +Tau, +Eldar)
Cinematic Cowboys
US War of Northern Aggression Blues and Greys
Aquatic Terrors and Aquatic Good Guys (i.e., snacks)
Dr. Who
Cinematic Kung Fu Fighters (incl KF School Girls)
Blaxploitation Characters + 70's Others
Modern Yakuza
Trolls! Trolls! Trolls!
Beastmens
Constructionbots
Chibi Robots
Gnome Wars Austrians, Kurbistruppen, Oni, Gnomelactic Empire, and Battle of the Alagnome
Robed Cultists
Barsoooooooooooooooom!
AT-43 Karmans (and some few others, but lots of monkeys in power armour)
Undead
Various Random Monsters
Modern Civilians
Weird War I/II/III
Star Trek
Star Wars
Wookies (coz' I got a lot of wookies) (and I like wookies) (and I look like a wookie)
Giant Spiders
Monkeys!
Cavemen

Romans/Auxillaries
Greeks/Spartans/etc.
NK Egyptians
Medieval Teutonic, British Isle, and Vikings
American/Canadian Pioneers & Frontiersmen
Generic Great Lakes and Plains Tribes
Cowboys
Boxer Rebellion
Meji Era Japanese
18th Century Continental Armies
Battle of Puebla (both sides, including civilians)
Modern Arabs
Medieval Arabs
Mongolians
Police
Seleucids
Proper Victorians
18th Century Pirates
19th Century Pirates
20th/21st Century Pirates
Near Future Pirates
Far Future Pirates
(Crap, I have a lot of pirate armies…)
Animals (wild, farm, pets, etc.)
WWI British and Germans

15mm
Aliens
Dr. Who
Cowboys
Modern Militaries
SciFi Weirdness

6mm?
MechWarrior

Probably other stuff since I didn't feel like going to look … inlgames.com/free-arch.htm

Ancient Greeks
Early Imperial Romans
Barbarians
Generic Medievals
English Civil War
SYW – Russians, British, Austrians, French, Russians, Native Americans
Napoleonics – French, Austrian, Prussians
ACW – Union, Confederate (both in 4 sizes)
British Colonial
French Colonial
Interwar Chinese/Japanese
WWII British/Commonwealth, Americans, Soviet, Russians
Moderns SWAT/Terrorists
Fantasy Amazons, Empire, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins
40K Marines, Guard, Tauy, Orks

That's 'bout it

This is about half painted, I am sure I am missing some stuff.

6mm
Napoleonics (setup for large battles)
Cold War

10mm
Franco-Prussian
WW1
WW2 (European only)

15mm
Ancients (most classical/Alexandrian era armies)
100 YW
Burgundian Wars
Italian Wars
ECW
SYW (Austrian, French, Prussian, Russian)
AWI (all sides)
Napoleonics (all sides for peninsular and 100 days)
Mexican American (both sides, enough for any battle at RF&F scale)
ACW (both sides, enough for any major battle at F&F level)
FFL
Vietnam

20mm
SCW skirmish and larger battles
WW1 skirmish
WW2 (early war in France, Pacific, Crete)
Bush Wars

28mm This is pretty much all skirmish
Romans
Greeks(These will be two Impetus armies)
Dark Age (Saxon, Viking, Spanish, Andalusian, Norman)
Medieval (Teutonic, Crusader, Russian, Mongol, Byzantine)
Samurai (with some fantasy and Chinese thrown in)
ECW
FIW (All sides)
Pirates
Colonial (AZ only)
WW2 (US, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese)

1/300
Air War in Korea

1/600
Ancient Gallies

1/1200
Napoleonic Naval
Ironclads

20mm
WW2 Germans x 2 (early and late)
WW2 Russians
WW2 British

28mm
ACW both sides
Anglo-Saxons
Vikings

C'est tout.

6mm
Epic 40K – 4 forces
Battletech – 2 forces

15mm
World War II US and Germans
Pirates And British
Zombies
Sci-Fi
Fantasy: Orcs, Dwarfs, vampire, undead

20mm
Gladiators
WWII US and Germans

28mm
Lord of the Rings
Fantasy armies for Elfs, Dwarfs, orcs, goblins, good humans, evil humans, demon forces

Pirates
Zombies

22 Blood Bowl teams

Sci-Fi: humans, space marines, chaos space marines, space dwarfs, space rats, orks, bugs, Mantic Plague,

8 Dreadball teams

Also Battlefleet Gothic: five fleets

WOW!

Those are some HUGE collections!

At one time I had…
1/72-1/76 WWII (East front, West front, and North Africa)
1/72-1/76 WWII air-to-air
Airfix and Thomas Miniatures ACW
Minifigs Ancients (Carthaginians and Romans)
1/285 GHQ WWII (East front, West front, and North Africa)
15mm Napoleonics
6mm Napoleonics
3mm Napoleonics

Dabbled in…
15mm and 10mm WWII (East front, West front, and North Africa)
10mm Napoleonics

Regret selling most of it off over time

Still have a decent size boardgames collection

I'm clearly a slacker compared to most here:
28mm ancients: Republican Roman, Seleucid
28mm 7YW: Prussians, Austrians, Russians
15mm Napoleonic: Russians, Austrians, British
28mm Napoleonic: British, Brunswick, Dutch-Belgians, Nassau, Austria
28mm ACW: Union
15mm FPW: French, Prussian, Bavarian
28mm Colonial: British, Sudanese
15mm WW1: British, Turkish
15mm WW2: Russian. (Japanese and US Marines on order)
28mm WW2: British, American
1/2400 WW2 Naval: Japan, USA, Germany, Italy, England, France
1:300 Modern: Soviet, America

Collections….. since 1975

French Republican wars and Imperial era Napoleonic 25/28mm collections up first. Painted at 1:90 miniature ratio with battalions, cavalry regiments,artillery batteries and trains. Diorama pieces too. These collections total 24,970 painted miniatures per inventory spreadsheet.

French Republican wars era:
Republican French
Austrian 1790-1799
Prussian 1790-1796
Reicharmee 1790-1796
Spanish 1790-1793
Italian states 1790-96
Piedmont/Sardinia 1790-1797
Polish Legions
Batavian
Russian
British 1790-1796
Vendee
Naval Landing parties for all nations.

Imperial era collections includes:
French (biggest at 4300 miniatures painted alone, 1805 and 1812)
Austrian (1800, 1808, 1813)
Prussian (1806/7 and 1813-14)
Russian (1805 and 1812)
Spanish (1808 and 1813)
Ottoman and Islamic states (almost 2,800 miniatures for these armies)
USA
Duchy of Warsaw (Polish) and some Lithuanians too
Holland
Berg
Hesse Kassel (1806 and 1814)
Hesse Darmstadt (1806 and 1812)
Nassau
Rhine States
Bavaria
Swiss
Northern Italy
Naples
Denmark
Sweden (Finnish)
Portugal
South America
British (Peninsular and Waterloo) plus the HEIC too
Hanover
Wuttemburg
Saxony (1806 and 1810)
Dutch Belgian (1815)
Indian Princes
and lots of trains and misc. equipment.

Other Horse & Musket era collection include:
Seven Years War 25mm collections, about 1200 painted miniatures:
Prussian
Hanover
Austrian
French
Reicharmee
British

War of Spanish Succession 25mm collections (Estimated at 900 miniatures pending spreadsheet inventory done):
French
British
Austrian
Prussian, Danes, Germanic states etc.

Blood and Plunder 28mm collection (a new collection group this year):
English basic faction
Spanish basic faction

The other collections:

WWII 20mm collections…. huge with 1978 painted and based vehicles alone painted, plus the platoons of infantry teams. All based with larger bases for Flames of War Ver3.0 MRB gaming and supplement book organization.

German (Eastern, Western ETO, North Africa, and Italian Fronts)
Russian (Early and late war)
Finnish
American (Italy and Western ETO)
British (North Africa, Italian, Western ETO)
French (1940 and colonies)
Italian (North Africa, Sicily, and Eastern front)
Hungarian
Romanian
Japanese
Some Chinese

Unpainted yet but sometime will see the paint brush are WWI 20mm collections of German, British, French, Allies based, all for the FOW Great War rules and organization.

Ancients to the Medieval era collections of 25/28mm miniatures. At recent miniature count approaching 12.450 painted figures, elephants, and chariots:

Chinese
Indian
Sumerian
Biblical
Egyptian
Assyrian
Persian
Greek
Macedonian
Sucessor states
Carthage
Early Rome and Italian states
Republican Rome
Late Republican Rome
Imperial Rome with allies
Late Imperial Rome
Gaulish
Germanic
Parthian
Nomad Steppes
Mongol
Huns
Eastern hordes like Goths, Visigoths, Ostogoths etc

Dark Ages…. Anglo Saxon and Frank
Lombard
Norman
Pict
Some Irish
Early Medieval with scattered Crusades
WOTR
Samurai (1500AD)

For 15mm miniatures the collections include:

TYW and some Spanish Tercios
English Civil War Royalist
English Civil War Parliament
New Model army
American Civil War Union
American Civil War Confederate

Aerial gaming:
Wings of War and Wings of Glory collections of first five series WWI complete plus extra models. German, France, British etc aircraft model at 1/100 scale.
Additional collection of 1/200 WWII model planes for same rules.

Modern naval gaming (YR1960 to YR1990) with 1/3000 scale ship miniatures. Russian, British, American, and allies.

WWII naval gaming with 1/700 collections of Japanese, German, American, and British ship models. Still seeking a rules set for these collections.

Terrain collections: For the above periods storage in seven five drawer filing cabinets and purpose apple boxes. Large gaming table 20x6 to play almost any miniature battle desired fully decked out with terrain.

Then there is the bedroom sized library of history, uniforms, campaigns, organization books, plus filed historical or wargaming magazines since the 1960's.

Mention old SPI board games?

This is another one of those ‘how old are you?' questions, isn't it?
I tend to gather all the forces and more to host multi-player games, and they certianly accumulate over the years!

Sliding Scale (1/2200-ish–1/9300-ish)
Star Wars Armada (some, may them sell off)

1/2400
Ironclads & Etherflyers (full forces for the Spanish-American War campaign)

1/1200
Imperial Skies (some, expect lots more!)

1/900-ish
Man O War (heaps)

1/300
Ancients (a few DBA armies)

1/285
WWI aircraft (heaps)
WW2 (just a small DAK force for club use)
BattleTech (heaps)
Ogre (heaps)
Sci-Fi (many others, heaps)
Kaiju (squishies from Sci-Fi mix above; 4" monsters, heaps)

1/270-ish (with a bit of sliding scale)
X-Wing (heaps)

1/250-ish
Star Wars Podracers (full set)

1/144
Battledroids (a very nice amount)

1/100
Girls und Panzer (heaps)

15mm
Fantasy (HotT, Hyborea some)
Anc/Med DBA, sliding into early DB-RRR (heaps, about 50 painted armies covering every year in the DBA book, several periods in depth, about 50 more in various stages of not done yet!)
Napoleonics (primarily 100 Days, heaps)
ECW (some Confederate Irish, as yet unpainted)

1/87
WW2 (heaps)

1/72
Modern Scuba (Thunderball, lots)
Super Heroes (some)

20mm
Zombies (heaps)
Dark Future (some)

25mm
Fantasy (heaps)

28mm
Border Reivers (some, as yet unpainted)
FIW/Horror (heaps)
WW2 (Bolt Action, some, expect more)
Super Heroes (heaps)
Chibi Fantasy (heaps)
Blood Bowl (heaps)
VSF (some, as yet unpainted)
Anime Sci-Fi (some)
Sci-Fi (Rogue Trader, some; Space Hulk, lots)
Dr. Who (some)

I'm afraid to even guess.

And when I fall asleep tonight, Tyler Durden be back online ordering some more.

Just the two:
15mm ECW – Parliamentarian, Royalist and Covenanters
15mm Napoleonic – British, French, Austria, Duchy of Warsaw, Prussia, Russia, Bavaria, Sweden, Confederation of the Rhine, Wurttemberg, Brunswick

Okay, I'll play.

All 15mm, about 17,600 figures/vehicles in all.

ANCIENTS (6)
New Kingdom Egyptians
Assyrians
Hoplite Greeks
Macedonians
Sassanid Persians
HYW English

FANTASY (7)
Fantasy Assyrian
Fantasy Greek
Fantasy Egyptians
Jotun (Frost Giant)
Lizardman
Dwarf
Undead

19TH CENTURY (16)
Austrian
British – Crimean
British – Colonial (Red)
British – Colonial (Khaki)
Chinese
Confederate
French – Crimean
French – Maximillian
Indian Mutineer
Mahdist
Mexican
Prussian
Russian
Spanish
US
Zulu

WW2 (18)
British – BEF
British – Early Far East
British – Early Desert
British – Late Armoured
British – Paratroops
French
German – Early
German – Mid
German – Late
German – Fallschirmjager
German – Gebirgsjager
Italian – Desert
Japanese
Polish
Russian – Early
Russian – Late
USA – Europe
USA – Airborne

KOREAN WAR (1)
Chinese

VIETNAM (2)
USA
NVA

ARAB/ISRAELI '67-'73 (2)
Israeli
UAR

SCI-FI (18)
Aphid
Astagar
Chewk
Chuhuac
Dwarves
Garn
Gitungi
Harook
Hive
Hura
"The Invaders"/Martians
Pelagic Dominion
Protolene Khanate
Quar
Tah-Sig
Ursid
Vornid
Xar

Hmmm…still not enough, methinks!

6mm
FPW
WW2
German, British, Russian, US 43 onwards
Cold War
UK
US
Russian
Belgian
FRG

10mm SYW
Prussian
Austrian
Russian

15mm
Feudal
Saxon, Norman, Viking

15th C
Polish
German

TYW/ECW
Protestant
Catholic
Swedish
Eastern Renaissance
Polish
Muscovite
Ottoman

Late 17th Century
Imperial/German
Louis XIV

Napoleonic
Every army except Danes, Swedes and Ottoman for the period including both early and late based for Napoleon's Battle.

Sci/Fi

Fantasy
Dwarfs and Orcs

20mm

ACW both sides
WW1
German and British incl aircraft

WW2
French Early
BEF
German Early
Russian Early

British 44-45
German 44-45
US 44-45
Russian 44-45

Cold War
UK
Russian
German
Belgian
US

Airfix Astronaut

28mm
Ancient
Greek
Persian
Carthage
Early Rep Roman
Caesarian Roman
Gallic
Macedonian

Feudal
Saxon
Viking

El Cid
Spanish
Moors

WOTR both sides

Italian Wars
French
Imperial
Swiss

ECW
Both sides
Coventier

TYW
Danes
Protestant
Catholic
Swedish

Eastern Renaissance
Polish
Muscovite
Ottoman

Late 17th C
Imperial Austrian
Minor German
Dutch
Ottoman
Louis XIV

Napoleonic
French & Allies 1809 -14
Austrian 1809 -14
Russians 1812 – 14
Prussians 1812-15

FPW both sides
Victorian Sci Fi
British Colonial

Warhammer
Good Empire/Bretonnian
Evil Orcs/Goblins
Chaos
Dwarf
LOTR
Gondor
Mordor
White Hand
Rohan

Space Hulk

Tally Ho!

Not as many collections as those listed here, but more than I can play with.

I've really narrowed it down, having gotten rid of more than I still have over the last 20 years.

6mm
Cold War
WWII

15mm
Modern
Cold War
WWII

20mm
Vietnam

1/72
WWII Air

28mm
Sci-fi
Colonial/Victorian Adventure
Fantasy
Ancient

1/2400
Cold war Naval

1/3788(?, or there abouts)
Star Trek

Now for extra points, how many on your lists have you played in the last year? 5 years? 10 years? Ever?

All of the painted ones have been played over the years, some puled out years later for more use. While many have not been played in the last 10 years, all have a chance of being played again.

Epic 40K Chaos, Imperial, and Orks
6mm South American Wars of Liberation
1/285 NATO/WarPac
10/12mm 1920s Imaginations
15mm AWI
15mm Napoleonics (Russian, Anglo-Dutch, French, Austrian organized for various sets of rules0
15mm Renaissance (Russian and Imperial)
15mm Ancients (an assortment of small forces)
15mm War of the Triple Alliance (including naval)
15mm Austro- Prussian War
15mm Colonials
15mm WWII (Italian and British, and a small selection of Rumanians and Germans)
15mm AK47 Republic
1/72 AK47 Republic
25mm Ancients (Mithridatic)
25mm French and Indian War
25/28mm Fantasy (HotT)
25/28mm SF Skirmish
1/72 WWI
25mm WWI Skirmish
28mm WWII (British Paras)
1/72- 25mm Vietnam Skirmish
1/2400 Modern Naval (NATO and WarPac)
1/2400 WWII Naval
1/1200 Age of Sail Naval
1/3000 Pre-dreadnought Naval (Mainly French)
1/300 WWII Air (French)
SF Space War (f/Red Chicken Rising)
Crimson Skies Aircraft

Continuing works-in-progress; someday all of it might get painted.

28mm Arthurians and Picts
28mm ACW armies and buildings and terrain
28mm Battlore dwarves, goblins, English and French
15mm Napoleonic
unknown scale sailing ships (2" long)
28mm WWII USMC

28mm
New Kingdom Egyptians
Hittites
Assyrians
Greeks
Early Persians
Macedonians & Successors
Late Persians
Republican Romans
Carthaginians
Parthians
Gauls
Gladiators
Dark Age Vikings
Dark Age Saxons
Dark Age Normans
Pirates
Spanish Militia to oppose Pirates
Royal Naval landing parties to oppose Pirate + Spanish
French & Indian Wars British
French & Indian Wars French
Napoleonic British & Portuguese
Napoleonic French
Napoleonic Spanish
Darkest Africa White Men
Darkest Africa Zanzibaris
Darkest Africa African Kingdoms
Darkest Africa Forest Tribes
Wild West

20mm
English Civil War Royalists
English Civil War Parliament
American Civil War Union
American Civil War Confederate
Zulu War British
Zulu War Zulus
WW2 British
WW2 Germans
WW2 Russians
WW2 Americans
WW2 Japanese
WW2 Italians
WW2 French

1:72
WW1 planes

1:200
WW2 planes

1:600
British Napoleonic Ships
French Napoleonic Ships
WW2 German planes
WW2 British planes

1:2400
British Napoleonic Ships
French Napoleonic Ships

1:3000
WW1 German Ships
WW1 British Ships
WW2 German Ships
WW2 Italian Ships
WW2 British Ships

I think that's about it. All the above fully painted, but with so many periods to choose from, they often go a long while without a game!

For what it's worth, I'm working the collections/games ratio problem from both ends--trying to ensnare additional opponents or get used to solo play, while selling off troops. The idea is to eventually get rid of all the 15mm and most of the 10mm, leaving me with (a) portable, storeable armies and (b) visible armies. Going to take a while, though.

If I am counting only painted armies, then:

15mm
Arab Conquest
Thematic Byzantine
Norman
Frankish Crusaders
Seljuk Turk
Fatimid Egyptian
Ayybbid Egyptian
Comnenan Byzantine
Nikephorian Byzantine
Mongol
Jin Chinese
Steppe Peoples
Ghaznavid
Napoleonic French
ACW – both sides
FPW French, Prussian, and Bavarian

28mm
Byzantine Armies (Multiple periods)
Seljuk Turk
Fatimid Egyptian
Frankish Crusaders
Bulgar

Unpainted = too numerous to list here

This is really refreshing.

I thought that I was the only lunatic!

Some day the second hand market for used painted miniatures will drop through the floor and head for the center of the earth. The earth's spin balance maybe getting wobbly if one side has lead and the other plastic.

Erp … forgot

15th/6th Century Wallachians and Ottomans
Oni
Mouslings
Redwall

prolly … others … too …

Now for extra points, how many on your lists have you played in the last year? 5 years? 10 years? Ever?

Year? 75% plus
Five Years +? All

'Course this gets at what is a collection and what does it mean to play a collection. F'r'ex, Yakuza, Blaxploitation, Kung Fu, Police, Modern Civilians, and Modern Generic Armies might all get on the table for a game (well, they did last week). But not 200+ of each. So the collection gets on the board, if not all the figures.

I'm staggered at how much some of you have. How did you ever get it all painted?

15 mm Ancients : Greeks Romans Persians Celts Germans Spanish Numidians Indians Carthaginians
15mm Medieval-Saxons Vikings Carolingians Normans Crusaders Arabs Turks Mongols Byzantines Russians Mongols HYW WotR and early Renaissance.
15mm Napoleonic enogh to do Waterloo Austerlitz or Brodino at Napoleon's Battles scale
15mm AWIAlamo and Mexican War ACW British French colonial Dervish Taureg Zulu. Boxer Rebellion
25 mm Minifig Hinchcliff and Heritage ancient and Medieval
Many Games Workshop warhammer and Lord of the Rings figures

Oh and thousands of Airfix and other plastic!

15mm
Prussian 1813
Russian 1812
British 1814
Bavarian 1812
28mm D&D

I have kept focused

Timmo wrote "I'm staggered at how much some of you have. How did you ever get it all painted?"

Time, Timmo. Time. Next September, my first casting will be 50 years old. (He's part of a 30mm French Napoleonic horse artillery battery, and he was on the table in November.) Paint an hour a day for fifty years and see what you've done by the end of it.

It helps not to have a life, of course.

"I'm staggered at how much some of you have. How did you ever get it all painted?"

Painted? Of course not-- that's the REAL challenge.

Painted….. yes. Almost all the mentioned collections above. Only the largest powers still have unpainted miniatures but all are presentable for tabletop action. Started back in 1975….. still painting and modeling after 43 years.

25/28 mm Napoleonic – nearly 8,000
French, Austrian, Russian, Prussian, British, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Bavarian, Wurttemburger, Saxon, Duchy of Warsaw, Baden, CoR "zweig" states, Portuguese, Brunswick, Tyrolean rebels)

25/28 mm Ancients- about 2500
Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Macedon, Mauryan Indian, Republican Rome, Carthage, Palmyra, Sassanid Persian, Early Imperial Roman, Byzantine

25/28 mm Late Medieval/Renaissance ? about 2,000 ?
Hussites, HYW English, Teutonic Knights, Italian Wars French – Italian -Imperialist- Spanish

25/28 English Civil War – about 650
Royalist and Parliamentarians

1:1200 Napoleonic Naval – 24 ships
British, French, Dutch, Spanish

15mm Renaissance Galleys- about 16 ships and 150 crew

Superior Starfleet Wars/Galactic Knights – about 150 ships
Terran, Avarian, Carnivioran, Entomalian

Timmo UK,

good time management, not forgetting the first of my fantasy stuff was painted in the 70s!

Oh I forgot,
15mm AK-47!

Tally Ho!

How did you ever get it all painted?

Something about an old lady and an ocean …

I rarely watch TV as a sole activity. My wife knits and crosstitches, so we both spend time "together" doing different things. Talking, crafting, drinking. I paint at the dining room table, where the kids would also do homework. I take minis with me when I travel for work … not a lot of painting, but you can get a lot of stuff converted, based, prepped, and even primed, so the gruntwork is out of the way.

Same as etotheipi, with the long haired General doing the same sort of stuff with wool and things! I have me panzer painting trolly that sits before me on the sofa and I have stuff painted whilst deployed/ working all over the world!

Tally Ho!