Reply To: Future figure purchases

[irishserb]

Some years ago, after the aquisition of family and house, I realized that my gaming group was inadvertantly pushing a greater proportion of my hobby time away from primary interests, and more towards secondary interests.  I also started to become aware that I had infinite interests and finite time to pursue them in.  So, I began selling off figures for secondary projects, and focussing more on the core interests.  Since that time, I’ve stayed on that path and made a number of changes in my gaming, selling off a large number of miniatures in the process.  The result is that I still buy figs to expand or add nations, armies, units, and faction to existing projects, but tend to avoid starting new periods, conflicts, etc, unless they were what I call a “core” interest, which is generally something that captivated me since childhood.

In the end,  over the last five years I tend to buy about 1/3 of the figs that I bought 15-20 years ago, and about half of what I did around 10 years ago.  I expect that as I close in on those core projects, I will buy fewer and fewer miniatures, though I don’t really expect that I’ll ever be done buying figs.  I also suspect that sometime over the next ten years, I may drop a couple of the smaller scales, as I expect that my visiion will eventually become a problem.