Ooh that does sound exciting doesn't it. It probably conjures up images of a weaselly looking bloke with a flat cap, a pencil moustache, a clipboard and a slew of coloured pens! Sorry, it's not that exciting, but it does include a spreadsheet (if that helps) not that you get to see it though. Instead its my annual calculation of the replacement value of my toys, you know the one I deflate by around 15% when Mrs E asks how much did that little lot cost then?
It was a bigger task when I first did the count a few years back, but since then it has only been a case of adding new figures to the totals and updating the replacement costs for the figures, bases, painting service (I paint my own but if I lost the lot I wouldn't feel up to redoing them) etc. Each year I add a new section, this year for example it was painted 6mm ECW. I still need to add values for painted World War One aeroplanes and World War Two tanks etc though. Anal moi? No! Meglomaniac....well maybe a bit!
So what is the actual damage?
6mm Ancients to ECW
Painted and based - 3,647 figures with an estimated like for like replacement cost of £3,600
Unpainted - 900 figures, I haven't done an estimated replacement cost yet
6mm 1915 - 1945
I haven't done a count of the painted stuff yet, or valued these. A job for 2025 I think.
Unpainted - 329 castings foot armour and aircraft - again no replacement value calculated, another 2025 job then.
2- 3mm ECW, ACW and Cold War
These are not fully counted but the numbers are a bit scary if I count individual soldiers, not that I would as it's castings or maybe bases which are the way to value them. For example the ACW infantry alone would number 13,392 figures or 93 bases of 144 each. But those are matchstick based, home made troops with a negligible value other than the MDF bases.
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Summing it all up
All in all I think the full replacement cost would be over £4,500 and probably approaching £6,000 if I include terrain items, tables and boards (or rules or associated reference books) and the like.
So toodle loo, or in my case it better be too da painting table!
That’s a scary sum of money Dave. What about your warpac and nato stuff you used to have?
ReplyDeleteThose are not yet in the totals (gulp) and I really should at least try to get a value on odd ball things like the 25mm Marvin the Paranoid Android or the original Citadel space farers I bought to play Traveller with, or ...or...
DeleteDamn I have been doing this hobby for way too long!