"At what?"
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| "Oh! Rebasing! What a mess!" |
I'm not sure if its something cosmic or just the looming shadow of the end of my 7th decade and the signs that my body and mind are starting to slow down, but over the last month or so, I've been reconsidering my hobby plans and aims and what will someone have to handle if when the inevitable happens. Over the last 15 years, I've re-homed several thousand mini's in 6 scales but since I haven't stopped adding, there's still a few thousand painted and unpainted miniatures for someone to dispose of some day.
But that's a longer term issue, in the short term, I've revised my plans with an eye to reducing the number of my active collections again so that I concentrate on pinning down my rules and running some mini-campaigns of one sort or another.
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More on my revised plans later, for now, I'll finish rebasing enough units to get a game on the table midweek.
Splendid as ever Ross. 40mm are they not?
ReplyDeleteYes, 40mm, 1830's. The redcoats are mostly modified Zinnbrigade French, the Grey coats are partly my original figures mixed in with some Historifig Scruby figures.
DeleteAhh, I have a few of the Scrby 40s. I always love your larger figures. I remember our refight of Gettysburg a long while back with affection.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I'm led down a rabbit-hole.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for the Mad Hatter :)
DeleteIn ways I can't elaborate-on, with my limited language skills, that second image is an almost perfect image Ross, it should be in a book somewhere!
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Agreed! It's a fine picture. The 8 figure units look great Ross.
DeleteI totally agree! It cried out to be included in a book!
DeleteAll the best,
Bob
I'm afraid it'll have to settle for being on the Web.
DeleteRoss -
ReplyDeleteThe big seven-O has a way of reminding one of one's mortality. This quite apart from niggles and naggles that plague one, but a sense that what time remains is limited, and certain considerations will very soon require ... erm ... consideration. It helps, I guess, if one has a programme. You seem to have developed one. As 70 is a long vanished speck in my rearview mirror, I daresay I ought to follow your example!
Keep on keeping on!
Cheers,
Ion
To the end!
DeleteI do like these 40mm fellows a great deal. It is an excellent scale with all the benefits of 28mm when it comes to battlefield size etc plus the look of 54mm.
ReplyDeleteAlthough only 63 l am coming round to thinking l must sort things, downsize hobby wise but l don’t, I expand , never use stuff etc. Most is stored unlabelled in the storage shed( which began life as a wee storage area in a summerhouse with work area, now one cannot hardly enter at all) and the only way to sort it is to take the shed contents out and put them on the slabs nearby. Near daily rain makes such a plan untenable!
Alan Tradgardland
Been there! I've been downsizing for 20 years but it's like bailing a boat without plugging the holes.
DeleteAlso reaching 70 soon - been slowly getting rid of stuff I don't see me using , my eyes like the bigger scales nowadays !
ReplyDeleteI still have a few 15mm command groups that I hung onto and I wonder how I managed to paint them.
DeleteRoss Mac,
ReplyDeleteMy problem is not just a mortality-related thing, its also a possible 'moving house' thing.
Over that past couple of weeks I have given away quite a lot on things like models I'm never going to make to people who have a use for them. All I have asked is for them to pay a donation of their choice to one of a number of cancer charities. I am going to continue to do this and concentrate on just three main collections: my 15mm imagi-nations Belle Époque collection (which includes my Colonials), my 20mm Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War collection, and my 25/28mm Napoleonic collection ... although the latter might well be downsized as it is larger than I will ever need.
Whatever you do, just keep on fighting your tabletop battles and blogging your wonderful battle/campaign reports.
All the best,
Bob
Bob, I don't intend to leave this home until I'm carried out. But reducing the temptations and distractions seems like a good thing.
DeleteKeep Revising and keep on your writing focus.
ReplyDeleteGet a 'core position', then perhaps some options to it and PUBLISH.
The creation of 'new' urge will always remain, the trick is getting things on the tabletop, more than once per year.
Campaigning is certainly the best way to go - though if you can get a rules-set you can work with stable, then running a series of scenarios from other publishers may be a way to 'prove' the rules set and really 'go deep' into that era.
I'm past that. I have had 4 sets published in magazines, some credits in others' books and have shared many others online. That's enough for me. I'm in this for my own entertainment now, and for the social aspects.
DeleteThe eight-figure bases look really good. I'm tempted to copy them, but with my smaller toy soldiers. Looking forward to seeing them in a game.
ReplyDeleteThey have the same use as a stand of 4 or 2 or a cardboard counter etc but it looks better to me. I'm planning to use the grid for these guys and the tight, shoulder to shoulder, formation not only looks right, it lets me put a 16 figure 40mm battalion in one square.
DeleteRebasing has to be one of the worst tasks, but occasionally necessary. The rebased units certainly look the part.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be an ordeal when I had mini diorama stands. I've had enough practice at rebasing shiny toy soldiers now, that I have developed techniques that allow me to rebase quickly and easily.
DeleteWhile still some way behind you in years I have been looking at a "rationalisation" of my collections. Your new basing system does look very good so it will be worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteI started letting things go about 20 years ago, sometimes due to a move etc, later to make room for new collections. Now I'm largely trying to focus in on fewer things, .......and so they don't end up being binned by someone.
DeleteHaving turned 67 recently I should probably start looking at organizing stuff and getting rid of things I will probably never get around to. But no, I'm still in the acquisition stage. ha ha (I mean, I could still have another 30+ years to go) :D
ReplyDeleteAs for basing/rebasing, my minis are mostly individually based, but not on consistent sizes or materials. I did stick some of them onto larger bases with multiple figures, but mostly without removing them from the bases they were individually affixed to. That was for a few that I thought I might try some battles with (as opposed to skirmishes and RPG kinds of uses).
Everyone should have a hobby. Rebasing isn't one I would have chosen for myself, but it harms no one and obviously gives you pleasure. Good luck with it, and have you thought about the rebasing to follow this one?
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