Re: Unpainted Figures - was: OGRE stuff

In a message dated 6/15/99 2:41:01 AM EST, sage@millcomm.com writes:

<< 
 My fiancée (oh no not that thread again) is wonderful - sculpts a
little,
 paint fantasy figures, and plays once as often as possible.  However
even
 with her occasional "Honey it's fine that the dinning room can't be
used
 because it's filled with all the unpainted figures due to the damage
and
 ongoing work in the basement". I still feel guilty about the amount of
 figures I've amassed (and still gathering).  Luckily she's talked me
out of
 going ahead and selling a number of them off.	But it brings me back to
the
 question of "What do people consider minimum, normal hobbyist,
abnormal, to
 really disturbed?"  ;-)
  >>

Lead is after all a poison - so how much is too much. I tend to think
that 
lead is a lot more tolerable than the medics think. If you've been in
the 
hobby for 40 years as I have (almost - this July) and have unpainted
figures 
totaling more than 1 figure per day in the hobby or a weight of figures
and 
vehicles totaling more than 2 X your body mass you are probably a lead 
abuser. My suggestion is get the stuf painted - if its painted no one
can say 
its not used. Besides it is more fun to play with the lead than sit on
it 
(especially ECW pikemen with piano wire pikes OUCH!