 x42brown  | 27 Apr 2015 2:32 a.m. PST |
I have made up well with my backlog of metal figures since retirement (12 years now). Trouble is it has been replaced with a backlog of resin and plastic. x42 |
| Yesthatphil | 27 Apr 2015 2:42 a.m. PST |
Tricky question as I've never weighed my reserves, they aren't all metal, I think in metric and I don't use shoeboxes. It'll be closer to thousands than hundreds although many are sorted into waiting projects and the total comes down year on year as I now always paint what I buy (so the reserves never get added to) and do occasionally bring forward and complete one of those delayed projects. So high end but not our of control  Phil |
| langobard | 27 Apr 2015 3:35 a.m. PST |
Indeed, while I have just retired and am making good progress on my reserves of metal, I just keep acquiring more plastic to take its place! |
 20thmaine | 27 Apr 2015 4:44 a.m. PST |
I'm guessing it's the top number – at least the vast mountain of unpainted soft plastic(20mm) doesn't weigh as much. |
| Who asked this joker | 27 Apr 2015 5:01 a.m. PST |
Glad he gave us volume equivalent too. Mine is probably in the 2-3 shoe box range. |
| Frederick | 27 Apr 2015 5:36 a.m. PST |
Probably 3 (tightly packed) shoeboxes I see I am closer to the middle of the pack than I thought |
| Winston Smith | 27 Apr 2015 5:44 a.m. PST |
Don't know and don't want to.
Less than in previous years. |
 McKinstry  | 27 Apr 2015 6:07 a.m. PST |
Weight is a poor measure. I have a large pile of unpainted resin and some unpainted plastic as well to go with the unpainted metal. |
 etotheipi  | 27 Apr 2015 8:36 a.m. PST |
Weight is a poor measure. I have a large pile of unpainted resin and some unpainted plastic as well to go with the unpainted metal. I generally keep up with my purchases, having a one month float (so at the end of April, I should have painted everything I bought up to the beginning). I took a three and a half month hiatus while I moved and am about just under two months behind now, but it only represents volume, not chronology -- I have some more recent things painted and older things unpainted, but still about an extra two months volume. |
| TunnelRat | 27 Apr 2015 8:40 a.m. PST |
It is simply a guess, but as I have so much unpainted lead it could be wildly off the mark. I am a reluctant painter so need to find friends who are willing to paint for me (for a fee of course). |
| J Womack 94 | 27 Apr 2015 8:43 a.m. PST |
Mine is tracked by my wife, a structural engineer. She fears for the load bearing capacity of the upstairs room in which I keep it all. That's only sort of a joke. I have been forbidden to install more bookshelves in certain areas of the upstairs (as there is a 12' span underneath it). I keep the lead along a load bearing exterior wall, and she has actually figured the load. I am well within safety margins. I would guess probably in the fifty pound range, not including resin and plastics. |
| Mute Bystander | 27 Apr 2015 10:43 a.m. PST |
Ten pounds of 15/6/3 mm figures is more figures numerically than ten pounds of 25+mm figures. Just saying. Not sure because they are in K R Multicase cardboard boxes and foam trays (28 cases of them) plus shelves/trays of 25+ mm excess figures waiting to be sold on Ebay… |
| Toronto48 | 27 Apr 2015 12:26 p.m. PST |
Weight and lade can be misleading as plastic figures weigh less then metal. I have a lot of moving boxes full of plastic figures in various scales and spread across several periods Metal equivalents would be a way over 100 pounds and would put a lot of stress on floors |
| Syrinx0 | 27 Apr 2015 5:53 p.m. PST |
No idea of the weight but I have about 150L of storage for the various periods of unpainted plastic and lead. |
 miniMo | 27 Apr 2015 7:11 p.m. PST |
I think the bureau of weights and measures was using pretty small shoe-boxes when they assigned these weight classifications. |
 piper909 | 28 Apr 2015 10:55 a.m. PST |
How can the weight of minis possibly put more stress on floors than the weight of furniture or people? |
| Terrement | 28 Apr 2015 2:09 p.m. PST |
How can the weight of minis possibly put more stress on floors than the weight of furniture or people? Easy. A piece of furniture typically is speard over a larger area with multiple legs to distribute the weight. Picture a box of xerox paper. Remove the paper and fill with lead figures. Repeat and stack on top. And again. And again. Pretty sure that will outweigh most of the folks here…and I have stacks that high in some places. |
| Rebelyell2006 | 28 Apr 2015 6:49 p.m. PST |
I engage in spree purchases of plastic, and only buy metal when I need one specific command-type figure. So I have a few pounds of unpainted plastic but no more than a pound of unpainted lead. |
| Alfred Adler does the Hobby | 01 May 2015 2:32 a.m. PST |
This one has to have been recycled many times before? |
| Light Horseman | 01 May 2015 3:41 a.m. PST |
The bench marks for this poll are way too low. The question should have been, how many TONS of unpainted lead do you have. :) |
| Texas Grognard | 01 May 2015 8:54 p.m. PST |
How much unpainted lead do I own? How about a small mountain. As far as unpainted pewter goes a smaller mountain. Salut y'all! Bruce the texas Grognard |
