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So it Begins

Two months later than scheduled, the battle for Stalingrad will commence. My hobby room will be done this weekend. Currently, it looks like :

Yes a bit overwhelming, more than a bit really. But I have all day Saturday and Sunday; with nothing scheduled; I am going to fix it. It will be glorious.

How did I get Here?

A great question. As we were moving things, I was counting the thousands of items I had forgotten I even owned let alone ever used. Those have been going away. I started my TCG store (Red Desert Wargaming), and selling 90% of the magic collection. This seems like a lot by 10% of 140,000 cards is still 14,000 cards. I am keeping my reserved list items, all the dual lands, fetch lands, various staples, and building about 10 decks give or take 2 to 3 in every format. The rest buh by. Do I really need a playset of every modern playable card? Do I really need 88 copies of negate? No. I will most likely sell the bulk to my FLGS, while anything over .25 will get listed on my TCG Player Account. I should easily clear $40,000 total after everything is sold. If not a little more. In two weeks of sales, just duplicates I had in the office or laying around I have already moved $18,000. I still have to sort the colorless, lands, and multicolored cards, but I am comfortable with where I stand now.

Other items that I have moving on from, 3d printed buildings are moving to the attic. I have a really cool Mos Eisley/ Desert Town setup for 28mm. But it’s 3 big boxes. It will work great in the attic. Ditto my Tyranid terrain. I also have 15 ish generic buildings, a church, some brick houses, those will stay downstairs for use in the campaign. Many of the fancy building ruins, trees, roads, will stay as those get used on a monthly basis at least. Although I have like 3 boxes of trees, pine trees, jungle trees, normal trees, colorful trees, big trees small trees, palm trees, too many.

I do need to come up with a better solution for 8,000 15mm Napoleonics. Currently they are stored in white Ikea letter holders, you can see one to the right of the picture on top of the lone shelf. The entire left line of the room shelves is lined with the Nappys. It is too many. I have one of my bun racks set up in the attic to move them, iffffff, I can’t keep them. I would say they are my favorite period to play and favorite armies to paint, but space.

I have two big challenges facing me. DND Figures, 1000’s of them, and game pieces for other games. I keep a drawer for dice and tape measures and other basic wargame needs. It fits nicely in a small drawer. But games like Legion, Armada, MCP, XWing, Blood Bowl, that require special rulers or dice and especially tokens do take up a ton of space. Each one has a toolkit filled with things, Xwing and Armada have three each. I am going to put up a wire shelf in the attic for said pieces, but my attic is getting very full. So is the attic at the office. It might be time to admit I am hoarding.

As far as DND figures. It has been over a year since I last DM’d. I don’t have much desire to DM right now. My creative bug for DND just isn’t there. I love playing and I really love DMing, but the last group just burned me out. I may have to migrate the smaller figures to sheet pan trays to clean out drawer space, but the larger figures are legion. We own a storage facility, I just hate the idea of renting a unit.

Moving Forward

Goals for the weekend, a place for everything and everything it its place. Start with cleaning off the 8×4 table in the middle, and all walk paths. Use my label maker to label drawers. Items like a map shelf, bins for rollout battlemats, specific shelf sections for terrain. If I don’t know when I have used it, it can go away. Magic down to one wire shelf. Dnd down to 3 sections, drawers for each game system. I think it will take 2 or three passes to be good, but I am close.

Get all Warhammer Figures to the Warhammer storage area, its the attic office, literally every. single. army. I am a big fan and love to play and paint. They can all be in one place though. Have the hobby desk clean and ready for work. This means if its not used for painting or building its in a drawer or something. Not on my desk. This is a non-negotiable. I am fine with some projects under the table, but get the hobby space clear. I have already sorted all the paints.

It will be a ton of work. I have a good book on tape, the ear buds are charged. I’ll see you all on Monday.

Another Remodeling Delay

I was ready to start. The flooring was complete. My wife and I started putting items away and preparing the game room. Then she grabbed a tape measure. She put on her thinking face. Then she put on her I’m sorry face.

Short story. I have a lot more work to do, long story below.

My hobby room has been a sore spot for her. Items I own consistently drift into the game room and every other room in the house. She looked at my hobby room. Where I keep most models, I do my painting, the magic collection is in there. Then she looked at the game room. A much larger room, but it does not have a door. “What if we put the books from the game room into your hobby room, made it a reading room and all your shit can go into the game room?”

I have a lot of shit. 42 lf of floor to ceiling shelves, plus a few piles and stacks of boxes and the like. We have worked about 14 hours on emptying my hobby room, and we are still incomplete. Four more hours to go. Then we have to organize and put about 10,000 volumes of books into the new reading room. Then, I have to restructure the hobby/game room. Build a new painting station. Put everything back on shelves in the game room. Finish the front den area where most board games are kept, requiring all new Billy Shelves from Ikea. Add a new entertainment center. Then, finally, I have to finish the guest bedroom. Building the new bed frame, etc. All before the first of March. Two weekends away, one of which we will be out of town for. Bleh.

I am very pleased to have the new space. It will work better for everything. It is just a lot of work. The campaign is delayed. I won’t have much time to hobby and paint, but it will begin. It will be awesome. Plan on updates.